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They recorded the raw MIDI files without transmitting any of the sysex messages necessary for proper playback and reverting the panning. Whoever recorded the music for the SE version ignored all of that.

The driver also reverts the panning on-the-fly as the MT-32 had a reversed panpot compared to most other MIDI devices. They also expanded the sound map for the percussion channel by doubling up some of the percussion effects so they could have one set without reverb and one with. created several custom instruments that the original PC version of the game would program into the MT-32 on-the-fly as needed via sysex messages. The music implementation is compromised to say the least, though I'll need to tag in our resident expert Zaarin to elaborate:įor the MT-32 soundtrack, Land and co. Unfortunately, the issues there are myriad. In the case of Monkey Island 2, the overriding problem with Classic Mode is accuracy. I don’t want to get into the weeds here about the various differences between the original EGA release, the VGA floppy version, and VGA CD (such dorkdom will be happily articulated upon request on the forums), but suffice it to say new audiences had a decision made for them about what the “original game” even was, and it’s not what shipped in October 1990. “Classic Mode” in the special edition is a representation of the VGA CD version circa 1992. The latter factor weighs more heavily on The Secret of Monkey Island. But in the absence of offering legacy builds of these games, this feature only serves a preservation purpose if it stands as a faultless recreation (it does not) and if there was a single, definitive legacy version in the first place.

Well, it’s true: the toggle feature which lets you freely swap between new and old is downright brilliant, perhaps even the principal selling point of special editions, and rightly something Double Fine chose to ape when they subsequently developed "remasters" (less suggestive nomenclature, perhaps) of the Tim-led LucasArts adventures. “What about Classic Mode?” apologists well-intentioned readers might inquire. If Mixnmojo has an uneasy relationship with the Monkey Island special editions, it has less to with any creative choices made in the adaptation (though believe me, we got opinions) than with what these revamps function as in effect: replacements for the original release versions.

Though fan preservation is invaluable, why in the name of Blackbeard's dandruff* should it always come to that?

Assisting Monkey lsland fans in obtaining and running uncompromised versions of the old games can feel like presenting them with an adventure game puzzle.