Doom 2 soundtrack - AdLib / OPL2 / DOS version

[@raistakilhara]

man , this is the original sound back in the middle 90´s , sound blaster 16 was a great sound card :)

[@thelonewanderer9097]

This is literally the one grew up with and recognize immediately...it's crazy but all the other versions sound alien to me and simply don't strike the right frequencies in my head

[@solidus3168]

Yea man!!!! So freaking clear in my mind now!!!!

[@davidecapri]

@@thelonewanderer9097 I had the same issue for years when listening back the soundtrack. It's so satisfying having this version

[@thelonewanderer9097]

@@davidecapri I agree it's crazy how all the other versions on KZbin just don't hit the same frequencies as this one does

[@vizikem]

I played Doom2 23 years ago. I have been searching for this music for almost 20 years. Now I am crying. thank you so much for posting it.

[@MajorT0m]

Yeah man nostalgia :) I can never get my head around why anyone thinks old school soundtracks need to be updated... they're such an important part of the memory.

[@2025fahaddenseje]

Now, prepare for DOOM ETERNAL!

[@austrakaiser4793]

The new soundtrack imo are definitely some great music, but they didn't need to "replace" the original

[@longtallshorty5791]

You weren’t searching very hard then.

[@mattswanton3927]

​@@longtallshorty5791That's right, you tell him! Shame on him for being such a fucking casual.

[@nitroraptor5316]

Into Sandy's City sounds really creepy on OPL2 and I love it.

[@Skyhigh117_]

sounds like farts

[@Rileygreenfox]

Thank you so much for this, for the longest time, I knew in the back of my head the Doom soundtrack I remembered was way different than the official version, and now I finally found it!

[@smaptey1]

ditto

[@MajorT0m]

Yes, I quite agree good sir.

[@davidecapri]

the same for me, man!

[@dhedarkhcustard]

This is the best way to listen to this soundtrack hands down. Nostalgia is where it's at.

[@ImperatorGrausam]

Just how I remember it when I first played it. Thanks for the upload.

[@johneygd]

I remember playing doom || for the first time in 1999 on a pentium || pc with windows 98, i remember how scarred i was back then,the music is still scary 24 years later.

[@TheSoundCrafterCompany]

45:13 My favorite

[@EdgarIX]

me too

[@nitroraptor5316]

POV: you’re in the middle of nowhere and you here Shawn’s got the Shotgun.

[@MondySpartan]

Walls around you lower to reveal the Mancubi...

[@_thresh_]

Then more walls lower and reveal arachnotrons when you kill the mancubi

[@jw870206]

40:48 My favorite track in the AdLib version...and all around. 43:00 In “The Refueling Base” when you’ve laid waste to entire rooms crawling with zombies, demons, and monsters and you’re making a run through toward the exit surveying your handiwork along the way.

[@zsombor_99]

I have a "Terratec TT1816-S V1.0" sound card, and... Wow... That sounds incredibly similar to this recording!! 😱 (Sound Blaster compatibility mode.) There is a slight difference in the MIDI instruments, but it's really close to this!! 😲 👍

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

19:45 Playing basketball in a bathroom and all the stalls are full.

[@Cunnysmythe]

You may have ruined this track for me forever. What a brilliantly perverse interpretation.

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

Cunnysmythe I aim to please :)

[@granjacob8891]

This is the best version! THANKS

[@MaverickShooter9]

the courtyard and monster condo say music say a lot that those 2 maps play with your nerves,when i was a kid and played those 2 maps just the music was enough to scare the shit out of anyone

[@mattswanton3927]

Thanks so much for uploading this. It was tough to find the correct (to me) version of Map01 out of all the others which just don't sound right after the 2:30 mark. Either there are notes missing, or there are too many notes and no room to breathe. This version has that little rest in the perfect place between the measures. Exactly how it sounded when I was a teenager, deathmatching my friends after school. Good times!

[@MikeJackson690]

31:08 still sounds awesome. Absolutely timeless.

[@brandonpopp8876]

Tricks & Traps was always one of my favorite!

[@SouthwesternEagle]

This takes me straight back to my gaming days in 1994! I miss being 4 years old. I had so much fun playing games on my 486 MS-DOS PC a year before Kindergarten started in July 1995. *Crazy fact:* I first played Doom on my PC when I was just 47 months old in March 1994 while my dad was at Berkeley Systems developing the engine for After Dark Screensavers. Yes, I'm the son of the After Dark developer. :) I'll post an interview with him soon.

[@stallonsilver]

how many months old are you now lol

[@nihil7647]

damn thats cool

[@sonikku1011]

You and I are the same age then it seems lol. I was born in 1990, sounds like you were too! I didn't have a computer growing up, so my introduction to Doom 2 wasn't until I downloaded it from Xbox Live Arcade sometime in the mid 10's... I first played Doom on the 32X in 2007 and that's where my love for Doom started.

[@DionSidney]

Afterdark was next level Screensaver! Especially the looney tunes expansion!

[@SuperMrBentley]

Sounds like sega genesis music, perfect

[@kwazhims3lf]

lol sound blaster pro 16 = sega genesis thanks for the laugh

[@zzco]

lol they're very different FM operator types. OPL (used wiiiidely in the SB and clones) vs OPN (used in the YM 2612). I'm an FM synth/sound chip snob. I know my shit when it comes to sound chips, y'all.. I've never used that kinda language before, but I'm feelin'.. Slightly... Sassy.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

sounds like it but way worse

[@shigureminaduki3201]

I grew up with adlib or sound blaster in 2005 and I’m 15

[@DavidPigbody]

best version out of them all.

[@Convoluted-and-Exiled]

OMG!! this is soo appreciated and nostalgic I don't even know what to say! Tears to my eyes. THANK YOU! ♡

[@joseignaciogazzi3278]

The most scary is "In the Dark". While Sc55 delivers it like a silent calm warning dark, Soundblaster makes its like its a real bad idea to stay in the dark.

[@kwazhims3lf]

thought to myself "man, the crusher lvl 6 used to freak me out as a kid, on ms dos doom" those were sound blaster pro days thanks for putting this up

[@neildickerson9449]

Finally!!! I wanted some nostalgia, and was met with music I didn't recognize until I found this. Does check, SB16 check. Good job

[@wojak501]

i love the title music on the dos version

[@RaceBandit]

_Definitely_ remembered the missing notes from "Running from Evil". Bit disappointed I didn't see an attempt to recreate that in modern-day WADs, but ... perhaps that's for the better.

[@KWatson1984]

Running From Evil sounds awful, notes were not missing or cut off by another voice on my hardware back in the day.

[@w.a.a.m]

40:48 mi mapa favorito de Doom 2

[@joseignaciogazzi3278]

Map 10 or 16?

[@MacGyver5AF]

The only thing, which was wrong about the DOOM / DOOM II soundtrack on SB16, was the low volume of the pizzicato strings, which were almost unhearable. When modern sound cards appeared and DOOM soundtrack could be listened, the pizzicato strings sounded almost like an alien instrument in there.

[@stallonsilver]

i haven't heard this version of the music since my journey back in time using DosBox. Before that it was 1994. This is the way I remember it and my preferred choice of audio for Doom 2.

[@ugheieiemmmfmfmff]

Same

[@Linkhazpinkhair]

Into Sandy's City

[@sebastiencharlier7295]

45:13 Waiting For Romera To Play = Intro Of This Love From Pantera

[@MaverickShooter9]

Sébastien Charlier monster condo or the courtyard?? Wich was best

[@rstallworthii9830]

Man I wish my DOOM II PC game music still sounded like this.. I missed this adlib verison /soundblaster the version I use on my older windows 98 is Crystal Fusion verison but that one is fine too these verison is rare and I like how you remember the name to the songs as well by ID Software which makes it so special! :-P

[@blade_sk]

Try Chocolate Doom. They aim for 100% authentic emulation and there's an option for AdLib music which sounds just like in this video.

[@_thresh_]

@blade_sk prboom+ also has an opl2 midi setting that sounds nearly identical to this

[@Gophilio4567]

Thank you for sharing this!

[@icedlain]

53:56 Spider Mastermind v Cyberdemon

[@Rasoir983]

*clack clack* Picked up chainsaw *evil grin*

[@bareq1981]

Clack clack is my messenger notification sound 🙂

[@ylem_one]

This is how I remember it. SB16

[@carmelo08]

A mi me encanta "Waiting for Romero to play" en Adlib, el sonido que en otros sintetizadores se escucha como guitarra, aqui es tenebroso con un sonido que mas parece un órgano

[@andresouza4302]

Ahhhh....eram essas mesmo! Muito obrigado.

[@techtinkerin]

Doom2 where you actually fight the devil!!! Fkin monumental ❤️😊

[@Pidalin]

Who actually heard that music in time when Doom 2 was still relevant? Most of people didn't even have sound card. 😀

[@jamalcharles9533]

I did. I owned Doom 2 in 1996. In the original Adlib sound.

[@NA8C]

I remember this vividly.

[@theconduitstudio]

thank you so much!!!

[@sebastiencharlier7295]

45:13 is This Love from Pantera

[@thiscateatspancakes2451]

Ah, yes, the original DOOM OST

[@gasabur2934]

MAP18 soundtrack sounds a lot creepy than the original, I love it

[@TheLambdaTeam]

A chainsaw! Find some meat!

[@analanus3131]

What about Intermission and Endgame?

[@nitroraptor5316]

36:07

[@AlexeiVoronin]

Just as I remember it :)

[@Saver310]

holy fuck opening to hell doesn't sound that bad on opl2

[@TheLordshinnok]

Good video I completed 100% in Doom 2 for original Xbox & gameboy advance & Xbox 360 don't own original Xbox or gameboy advance anymore tried all guns.

[@Nate_M_PCMR]

So cute, it's rrying its best

[@Tomasm21]

Nice.DRO files sound much better than emulated here.

[@kuskus_th13]

I must say I prefer this version of Waiting For Romero To Play over the Windows synth/SC55 one

[@joseignaciogazzi3278]

The only one that can real match and beat the SC55 version, is "Getting too tense"

[@415mcfly]

Well @55:02 the track title is Bye Bye American Pie, but its clearly the same riff from Alice in Chains "Dem Bones". Who stole from who?

[@secretRBRman]

thankyou! all the others i hear on youtube dont sound right at all, the soundtrack was built for adlib in mind only really

[@DeskoDev]

Actually, the soundtrack was designed around the Roland SC55 MIDI synthesizer, not this in the least bit.

[@killermoomin]

1:03:46 nice bass

[@darkriot98]

@@UC9JJItLdl8i3wGIGDcy0gDQ I think that was intentional

[@coondogtheman]

This is 98% of what I remember, 98% because of the missing notes for example in entryway music when the bass hits the organ mutes. Is this a limitation of the hardware? All the other sounds like the cymbals are 100% accurate as I remember. You should make these into MP3 files and post a link to download. Thanks for uploading.

[@nilsquairiat4559]

Aaah this is the real deal, all the other ones are "upgraded" versions bitwise (windows 95 versions I suppose)

[@MrDerOutsider]

nope the real deal is the sc55 version which you propably mean with "upgraded". the music was composed for that card. the adlib/soundblaster soundtrack was nothing more than an afterthought.

[@msd5808]

@@MrDerOutsider but it's what people normally heard at the time

[@McSpongeCartoons]

19:45 good lord

[@KWatson1984]

So sad most of these leave out README, the music during the text screens and after you win.

[@rikomagicmk3842]

This is the way I remember it sounded back in 1994 (when I heard it for the 1st time).

[@popandopulouspupkin4496]

"Opening To Hell" it's the basis for the Doom Eternal main theme :)

[@MondySpartan]

And a bit of Dark Halls (E1M3) there.

[@sorlana]

opening to hell sounds a lot more like doom eternal's menu theme than the sc55 version does

[@k41m4r]

0:12 POV you are playing master levels for doom 2 Why the hell most of the levels have Running from Evil as their track?

[@JN-hs5xl]

because it's the default theme when you make a map, with doom2 wad at least

[@RaposaCadela]

I never realized how much the first level theme sounds like James Bond

[@doomslayer558]

the song "doom" sounds like the gba version

[@alejambicho4982]

16:12 my favourite :)

[@shigureminaduki3201]

26:49

[@mixal31]

Monster condo ❤

[@hunterkrovac]

*That moment when you have pc and steam gives you MS DOS* whatever happened to pc? Oh wait *Goes to Zandronum and downloads* It's for old time sakes.

[@marscaleb]

So is this just an adlib card playing midi music files? Or did you convert the midi files into FM synth for an adlib card to play?

[@mugsymugsyton6663]

It's a midi mixed with another midi, and then mixed another midi :)

[@VykoJust]

there are missing tones when there are more tones played. Is it limitation of Adlib?

[@aceshighdueceslow]

limitation of OPL 2/AdLib being Mono mix over OPL3/SB16 being Stereo mix I think

[@DavidPigbody]

Written by a Vietnam vet!

[@SteveMillerFan]

And a lawyer!

[@sebastiencharlier7295]

i play with this sound when i have a 486 33mhz pc

[@kevansx1000]

Sébastien Charlier same. SX or DX?

[@sebastiencharlier7295]

X Moron i486DX2-S i think but not sure, but i remember i has turbo button on the case

[@laptopstuff8886]

I played on an AMD AM486DX4-120mhz. Handled the game like a boss. Heck i even played quake on it. The FPs wasa bit low here and there but it was playable.

[@sporkstar1911]

Immediately wanted to grab my shotgun and load 8 shells into it the first second I heard this play. Im not kidding. Adlib/OPL was THE WAY to hear this music, all the synths people have made since then are trash.

[@Jarcky]

Which sounds the best tho?

[@sonic0424]

53:56 opl is the best way to hear this part. It's not nearly as good in general midi.

[@GranJacob1727]

00:00 Only opl sounds great for the entering music!! ... Other synthetizers cannot match this!!

[@Mario34091]

Soundblaster opl2 version dosbox is perfect, opl3 is bad

[@josephfrye7342]

wrong opl3 has stereo opl2 has mono

[@mrandrossguy9871]

Sounds like from a GameBoy 😅 Or a Calculator 😂

[@debozebuurman]

how did you get this soundtrack? Just a question. im sorry for my english

[@blade_sk]

Painstakingly recorded each song in realtime using DosBox and then cleaned it up using DRO Trimmer. :)

[@Mario34091]

Soundblaster opl 2 version dosbox is better