/vr/ - Retro Games

So what is the absolute best version of the Roland SC-55 soundfont out there? Or at least the one that sounds closer to having the real deal sitting next to your battlestation without shelling a hundred bucks?

I did a bunch of googling yesterday and found out a couple of soundfonts, but I genuinely have no idea which one's the best and most up-to-date.

I only recently found out about the beauty of the DOOM soundtrack recorded using the original hardware it was written for, and I'm definitely interested in more Roland goodness.

No matter how many times you may hear otherwise in the following months, Stealth monsters are not okay. They were never okay, and they have never been tolerated by anybody. It was a fad that died really quickly in ZDoom maps when it was implemented years ago, and once in a blue moon somebody brings one back.

Somebody even made a small mod that "un-stealths" those kind of monsters out of maps that had them way back in the day.

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Best-Ever server admin literally, and I mean literally, held hostage the service just to get a bunch of people banned from Zandronum for "not doing their job" at banning other bunch of people who he deemed undesirable for the community; the monetary issues were just an excuse to bring his frustration. Brings a bunch of old stuff that nobody outside of clans or even Zandronum in general give a shit about. Drama ensues in the forums.

First he cleared the banlist that included all hackers/spammers/weird people, this to delegate "all responsibility to server owners to ban who they wanted". In reality, this was to send a message and get people on his side of the drama. Hours later proceeds to kill all servers using IRC commands.

THEN a few hours later he proceeds to reactivate the service allowing servers using one mod only: Megaman 8Bit Deathmatch. A mod that, with all due respect, has seen better days and the sole reason it was still alive was because of BE.

His message (which was lost when he edited his post) was:
>"I recognize that the Megaman community is pretty much its own little thing and I don't want to ruin it for them because I'm unhappy about the actions of the current staff."

My ass. Out of all the Doom mods who were (momentarily) stopped thanks by his fit, he suddenly cares about the only mod who somehow survived 2016. Makes sense. Once again, another attempt at sending a message.

Hours later, he had a change of heart, and reactivated ALL servers and allowed ALL wads. His message reads:
>"I've restarted the bot and people should be able to host whatever they want (including non-megaman stuff). This isn't going to change for the foreseeable future"

Unfortunately the site is no longer unreachable. "This isn't going to change for the foreseeable future", my ass. Server admin has yet to say anything about what just happened.

tl;dr: External clan drama kills online Doom multiplayer hosting service.

It is a real shame that there's some mapsets out there that are legitimately good, but a small section of the community will never, ever give them a try because of their unjustifiable bias against a certain family of sourceports that branch from classic gameplay only by a small margin. Even if said mapsets were made by long-time members of the community who have made quality content for years.

Their loss.