Monkey Island 2 - IBM-PC CM-32L (MT-32) Soundtrack [Emulated]

Composers: Michael Land, Peter McConnell, Clint Bajakian
Year: 1991
Recorded with: DOSBox CVS r3893 + MUNT GIT 11-01-2015
Tracklist:
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00a - LucasArts Logo - 00:00
00b - Intro - 00:18
00c - Story - 02:15
01 - Chapter Title - 06:54
02 - The Largo Encounter - 07:09
03 - Roaming in Woodtick - 10:20
04 - Carpenter's Hut - 13:53
05 - The Bloody Lip Bar and Grill - 17:12
06 - Wally B. Feed - 19:41
07 - Men of Low Moral Fiber - 21:46
08a - Swamp Rot Inn - 24:50
08b - Largo's Messy Room - 27:20
09 - Scabb Island Map Theme - 29:13
10 - Heading to Fortune Teller's - 33:14
11a - Cemetery - 37:51
11b - Unearthing the Bone - 41:03
12a - Intruding on Largo - 41:28
12b - Using the Voodoo Doll - 43:29
12b - Who Killed LeChuck - 45:16
13 - Aftermath - 46:18
14 - Captain Dredd's Theme - 49:50
15a - Deciding Where to Go - 53:10
15b - Long-winded Sail - 54:46
16 - Intermission - 56:14
17 - Wanted on Phatt Island - 59:22
18 - Meeting Governor Phatt - 01:02:39
19 - You're in Big Trouble Now - 01:06:09
20 - On Phatt Island's Wharf - 01:08:24
21 - Sham Lottery - 01:13:36
22 - Gambler's Club - 01:17:05
23 - Revisiting Governor Phatt's Mansion - 01:21:17
24 - Inside the Mansion - 01:23:19
25 - Sneaking Around in the Mansion - 01:27:34
26 - Sleeping Lug - 01:30:45
27 - Jojo Playing - 01:33:52
28 - Waterfall - 01:37:51
29 - Secret Tunnel - 01:41:59
30 - Hidden Beach - 01:43:53
31a - Grump's Cottage - 01:46:09
31b - Grog Drinking Contest - Failed! - 01:49:33
31c - Grog Drinking Contest - Success! - 01:50:01
31d - Grog Drinking Contest - Beat the Grump! - 01:50:17
32 - Mardi Gras, All Year Round! - 01:50:40
33 - The Booty Boutique - 01:53:17
34 - Stan's Previously Owned Coffins - 01:55:49
35 - Booty Island Map Theme - 01:59:27
36a - It's Ghost Pirate LeChuck... Er Not! - 02:03:16
36b - Nice Tutu You Have There - 02:03:33
37 - Cleaver Flapping Cook - 02:06:49
38 - Mardi Gras at Governor Marley's Mansion - 02:10:50
39a - Stealing the Map - 02:12:43
39b - Barking Mutt - 02:13:02
39c - Oh no you don't, Guybrush! - 02:14:42
40 - Bittersweet Reunion - 02:14:54
41 - Map Stealing Seagull - 02:20:46
42a - Watch Out! - 02:21:12
42b - Hallucinations - 02:21:17
42c - Dem Bones - 02:24:56
42d - Meeting LeChuck - 02:26:35
43 - Mister Roger's Basement - 02:27:16
44 - On the Cruise Ship - 02:29:12
45a - Sinking to the Bottom of the Sea - 02:31:18
45b - Found the Sunken Galleon! - 02:31:29
46a - In the Crypt - 02:35:18
46b - Am I Really Dead - 02:37:43
47 - Wally is Gone! - 02:40:07
48 - Largo the Miser - 02:40:23
49 - Roaming in LeChuck's Fortress - 02:40:35
50a - Trapped! - 02:51:22
50b - Get the Torture Machine! - 02:54:20
51 - Just Hangin' Over the Acid Pit - 02:54:39
52a - Life at the Whim of the Candle - 02:58:05
52b - You're Too Slow! - 03:01:31
53 - Escaped! - 03:01:52
54 - Dinky Island Beach - 03:02:28
55 - Jungle - 03:07:21
56 - Found the X - 03:14:08
57a - On the Pillar - 03:14:36
57b - Jumping Over - 03:17:37
57c - The Pillar Fell - 03:17:44
57d - Falling in the Cave - 03:18:02
58 - Meeting LeChuck Again - 03:18:18
59 - I'm Your Brother - 03:20:25
60 - I Thought I was a Goner - 03:22:59
61a - Ripping the Doll's Leg - 03:24:13
61b - LeChuck in Agony - 03:24:30
62 - At the Fairgrounds - 03:26:12
63 - Ending - 03:28:39
UNK - Unused - 03:32:08
Get the full soundtrack in FLAC: vengefulchip.tk/monkey-island-2-ibm-pc-cm-32l/
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[@mattilaamanen3251]

One of the greatest sound tracks in any game ever made. First I had Sound Blaster and played this game. When I got Roland SCC-1 and started up this game, I was totally blown up.. I just listened to music of this game for hours and even didn't played the game. 08x are the best

[@ivanb8126]

This sounds AMAZING. The MT-32 sound is the best when is well done! Thank you so much for uploading this. Great job :)

[@matthewbuckley7757]

This is my number one favorite in the Monkey island series , I just love the dark and atmospheric tone of this game.

[@ocno]

Since everyone has a favorite part, mine is the totally awesome and unexpected guitar part adding to the already fantastic cemetery theme at 2:37:43. If melancholy had a theme song, that would be it. RIP, Rapp.

[@zaiee]

I just love the music that starts at 2:17 makes me feel all warm inside

[@patrick-aka-patski]

this is more pirate than the real pirates were

[@MrEightThreeOne]

Man, I could just listen to Woodtick and all of its variations all day. They're really calming and their MT-32 recordings do them so much justice. In fact, this is probably objectively the best version of the soundtrack, though I do have a soft spot for the Adlib version much like a lot of people do MI1's PC speaker soundtrack.

[@esesci]

This version is great but PC speaker version has a nostalgic value to me. I think they did a great job with it too.

[@TheGhostMidget]

Woodtick and varients is the best in my opinion as well 🥳🥳

[@AndersEngerJensen]

I can't understand people who actually prefer PC Speaker instead of the MT-32 or at least the Adlib/OPL music. :P Personally I always prefer MT-32 because it usually has the best means to convey the composer's ideas. But I'm biased anyway. ^_^

[@TechToTunes]

@@AndersEngerJensen You aren't the average gamer though, and you may have just a few LA synthesis Roland's in your collection.

[@robertcarhiboux3164]

this electronic chip damn knows how to sing, so much soul and groove from those old boards.

[@albertoabate3609]

I'm stydying with! So perfect...!

[@roberttaylor7817]

The one at 0:37 Soundtrack is my fav.

[@trollero3]

Thanks for share :D

[@VengefulChip]

+jose Aleixandre You're welcome! :D

[@B0redBanana]

Does anyone have the FLACs backed up?

[@joeford940]

'waterfall' theme is the best

[@Kenji314159]

Hey VengefulChip, I have a question: How did you get _all_ the original MIDI files like that? I can find them nowhere on the net and I don't have time to extract them myself? Would be awesome if I could get the MIDI for MI1 and MI2 somewhere :D

[@VengefulChip]

Unfortunately, ripping midi files out of iMuse games is next to impossible. Your best bet would be to capture the midi commands through DOSBox, like I did.

[@Kenji314159]

Hey, thanks a lot for your explanation of how you did it. So you actually ran the game and went into all the places ingame and triggered all the songs in the game and then captured them as midi files (in realtime), which you later put through the MUNT emulator? I'm kinda baffled in 2016 it's still so hard to extract that stuff, that's very interesting. You're doing good work here. May I suggest another classic title for high quality MIDI recording? Albion by BlueByte. Its music is notoriously hard to extract because the audio engine is custom and plays some ambient sounds that belong into the music.

[@VengefulChip]

I forgot to mention that a more detailed summary of how I extracted stuff is posted on MI2's entry on vengefulchip.tk Also I forgot to mention that I also tampered with the resulting midi files when I got them out of DOSBox, as some ambiental "sounds" were getting in the way, or to modify the transitions between songs so they would sound as they should. Thanks for the compliments, and as for Albion, I'm not really looking for difficult-to-rip games to work on :P This hobby project of mine has slowed down to a halt due to changing my job and having a more precarious lifestyle, but I would really love to resume my work... I tried starting a Patreon campaign, but so far no interest have been shown.

[@sonar2033]

What version of Munt 32 you have used?High Quality/Gen1 or Gen 2?

[@VengefulChip]

Don't quite remember TBH, I think I left it on Auto and the ROM is from Gen 2 IIRC

[@placeboing]

Thank you

[@usulordo]

I Love Jojo's theme and he randomly slowing down

[@boomdangleofficial]

I hate Jojo.

[@bigblackbadger1]

I like JoJos theme and the way they made it sound like a novice pianist is playing, but now I really want an on-beat version of it

[@citizenhal]

MIDI will always have a certain charm to it. The Adlib recording sounds great as well.

[@pat3658]

Maybe I'm crazy, but i listened to this soundtrack the last 3 days straight while studying. well, i passed the final exams, thank you for uploading! my favorite is 02:06:49

[@VengefulChip]

You're very welcome, and congratiulations on passing the exam! :) Oh, and that's a good one! Love the monologue the cook spouts out trying to shoo Guybrush for whatever irrational reason, for just pushing the thrashcans :P

[@pat3658]

thanks! :) haha, as a kid that cook scared the hell out of me. I will have to replay this game when i have time and see how many of the puzzles i still remember. :D

[@CB-zs8rr]

You're right - you are CRAZY!!

[@martinmeeser8312]

0:35 just realized that sound is in my head in the background for around 30 years now! :-) DA DA DAT DAT DA DA

[@sgtunix]

I still whistle that at least once a month, 25 years later.

[@SpudChickenSaltedChips]

When I got my first ever job, it was long, exhausting, and I had to wake up extremely early to drive forever to get there. It took a long chunk of my day (and my life) from me, with very few minutes of free time before I had to go to sleep for the day. I was stressing the fuck out and started to have a crisis because I realised that I had nothing to look forward to in life. But that stress was eased greatly by the theme of Woodtick + all the variations. These songs (especially the Swamp Rot Inn variation) are my healing songs. They made my life tolerable. I got excited to hear these before sleeping.

[@Xerosch]

I love the ambivalence Phatt Island Theme at 1:08:20 so much in this version! No question, the LucasArts soundtracks are all amazing, but this track is rarely mentioned.

[@ligudinkteuf4394]

The version actually used in the Special Edition is not on YT. I'm glad to have found this version

[@danielkamers5440]

This is my personal heaven. Thank you.

[@kyoobqa]

Lots of people coming here from the fond memories of the game, but I only found out about this masterpiece thanks to Ahoy. Mad props to you for uploading all those emulated versions and even splitting them into "chapters". Quick edit: shoot, I missed the Patreon campaign.

[@nativotecnologico]

Gracias por esto. No paro de escucharlo y me lleva directo a mi infancia. Gracias, siempre fue mi melodía favorita de todas las aventuras gráficas. Absolutamente confortable, una atmósfera melódica perfecta! Una obra maestra!

[@SAMagic]

I remember playing MI2 for the first time and hearing the warm Woodtick music start up brings back all the memories of getting a huge location to interact with and explore! These days I know it's just a couple of room graphics with sprites on top ... but the magic is still there.

[@jeffzebert4982]

Wow. Just. Wow! Never having had an MT-32 sound card back in my DOS days, I'd never heard "Monkey Island 2" quite like THIS!

[@ryandavis2775]

It wasn't really a soundcard! It was a full-fledged MIDI synth, and was great for music too.

[@konni6694]

ryan davis That was essentially why my father actually bought one. However, my brother eventually heard that it doubled as a ridiculously good MIDI device and was capable of extraordinary things when the games properly supported it. So, when we finally got it hooked up properly and started - out of all games - MI2, our jaws dropped the second the main theme played.

[@DasMxD]

2:25:00 :)

[@themiraculous0447]

This is my favorite version of the soundtrack and this is the only way to hear it without playing the game. Thanks for uploading these amazing songs. I've been planning to redo these tracks in the style of Curse of Monkey island and Escape. The mt32 versions help so much with figuring out what instruments they intended to play on certain parts. Also, the unused track at the end is actually the phatt island waterfall that leads to rum rogers jr. One of my favorite tracks in the game!

[@CTFlyer7]

Interesting. I think the MT32 sounds better for this game. Fascinating though. For Fate of Atlantis, CM32 is better than MT32.

[@OMA2k]

This is great. I like it even more than the soundtrack of the Special Edition of MI2, which uses real instruments!

[@mattilaamanen3251]

It has also "classic mode" with the Roland sound track :) And yeah it's better than the default sound track..

[@gamerzlog6963]

Hey VengefulChip, do you have any backups of the FLAC soundtrack?

[@robertcarhiboux3164]

there are so many good soundtrack in video game history of the 90's, but if one had to be picked to encompass that area and be a definition of fun this would definitly be this one.

[@RazorEdge2006]

It sounds great with the Roland MT-32.

[@VengefulChip]

Better than the other ports I would say :)

[@robertcarhiboux3164]

i don't know why, it does not play every note, but it plays them differently and it sound so much more subtle and precise, like it was the most appropriate expression of the original spirit of the game.

[@astralfields1696]

If people ask me what modern art means to me... I will just send them this link with a link to the original MI2 & MUNT. The guys who invented iMuse with MT-32 are some of the most underappreciated artists I've ever seen... Played the intro today direct from emulated mt32 on my loud speakers and the cones of the speakers were dancing with the monkeys.... priceless :D Discovered the mt32 in some retro gaming videos a week ago... I was absolutely blown away... still can't believe this was possible 25 years ago... Listen to this on some higher end speakers or headphones for full effect.. the bassy warm feel of the mt32 is legendary :D

[@rickyyoung]

the only thing that lets the MT-32 down is the lack of General Midi. So if something is written for that rather than the MT-32 specifically then it doesn't sound right and some of the instraments will be wrong

[@astralfields1696]

@@rickyyoung If something is written for general MIDI then you have to use the SC-55 or 88. The MT-32 is a special instrument in its own right that is best used for MIDI specifically composed for it.

[@mattyjohnsson257]

I really love the melancholic feeling of the Scabb map theme.

[@KamiSilver]

Entering the kitchen through the window felt so gangster...

[@stefanm.884]

Midi will never die!!!!

[@guycrew728]

Personal bookmark 1:59:28

[@andreserra5004]

Amazing! I had never heard MI2 on a MT-32 soundboard! Thanks for sharing these comparisons!

[@VengefulChip]

+André Serra You're welcome, glad you've found them useful :D

[@kypello3512]

2:37:43 So, is this really it? I've reached my expiration date? (What a fate...) My weenie's cooked My shack was swallowed up in flame Reduced to ash, a perished man (Some apron, eh? That crooked Stan...) I'm dead, and yet, My soul, is not, at peace. (instrumental bridge) Was I Such a fool? To leave my oven alone, burning fuel? Well, who's to say, Now that I'm so far away. If anyone can hear my plea I beg of thee, one thing for me My final prayer Won't someone check the gas?

[@tomahzo]

Consummate compositions without a doubt. I prefer the adlib version myself (let's be real - sampled drums will always sound cheesy - at least with adlib there is no pretense that it's even close to being the "real thing" and you can focus on the compositions themselves and not get distracted by samples) but in the end I figure the compositions themselves transcend any choice of sound hardware. Absolutely perfect! And it should be noted that the iMuse system contribute in no small part to how the soundtrack is perceived in-game since the music adapt wonderfully to the changing situations of the game and blend from scene to scene. So in that sense it's hard to capture the magic that the music plays when actually playing the game. But I reckon this is the next best thing ;). Thanks for posting! :D

[@Oliver8bit]

33:16 the voodoo swamp music is one of the coolest songs of all time

[@Scripture-Man]

Thank you for uploading this. For a long time, I had grabbed the MI2 soundtrack from a KZbin walkthrough video, which only had small segments of the tunes. Now I am able to extract the full tunes from this video which is much better, thank you. But may I ask please: is there any way I could obtain these as mp3s somehow? Perhaps if I send you my email? The thing is, although KZbin is a good resource, I don't really like what it does to audio. Thanks.

[@VengefulChip]

Read the video's description carefully ;)

[@Scripture-Man]

Oh wow, that is fantastic! What a great site. And in FLAC too! Thank you very much for this, I'm really looking forward to looking at your site and listening to some of the music I'm unfamiliar with. I really wanted the Monkey Island 1 & 2 soundtrack (MT-32) and had thought for a while that I was going to have to start learning about emulators and try to get hold of the game files just so I could get high quality version of the music. You have saved me a lot of time, thanks and God bless! :)

[@Scripture-Man]

Just to say I have downloaded the tracks and I am really happy with them. Thank you so much for the great website. Just a quick question, have the Amiga tunes been stereo "blended", or are they "hard" panned (2 channels per speaker)? To my ears, some sound blended and others sound "hard panned". I'm interested in this because I sometimes like to remaster Amiga tunes for stereo, and it's generally easier to work with them when the stereo panning is 100% hard.

[@VengefulChip]

I don't quite remember, but I think they were all recorded at 70% stereo separation. The difference you're hearing is perhaps the different audio players I've been using to play Amiga sound files over the years I've worked on this project.

[@o.m.2226]

@@VengefulChip Unfortunately, the link doesn't work anymore. Will you reupload?

[@LaurianeG.]

Excuse-me, is it possible to re-upload the files? seems like the link is dead.....

[@Alianger]

Was there a cd audio version back in the day? It doesn't seem like it from what I've gathered

[@rickyyoung]

No there wasn't. Closest you'll get to CD audio is in the Special Edition. There was for Monkey Island. That, however, didn't use iMuse so it was easy to implement. Trying to get an iMuse enabled soundtrack to work from a CD Audio would have been WAY past PCs at the time the CD version was released. We didn't even have MP3 then.

[@NickShvelidze]

This and AdLib are the best versions.

[@milquetoast7618]

me and Monkey Island 2 soundtrack are literally just chilling rn

[@Isaac_Garcia_Peveri]

Great job. But there is no "Phatt Island Jail" and "Final Tunnels Creating Voodo's Lechuck doll"...

[@VengefulChip]

+Isaac García Pevery (Isacco Garcia Peveri) The first one is actually at 01:06:09. The other one I've explained why I didn't include/record it in the comments section for the AdLib version of the game's soundtrack. Thanks for the compliments though :D

[@nintendo1889x]

Impressive emulation

[@alexandergrant2420]

Isn't the soundtrack missing the music when you are walking around the tunnels near the end, getting the ingredients fro the voodoo doll? It is a sort of circular, yearning melody, I always thought it summed up the game so well....

[@weekendindkpsnrasmusmax8277]

I love this.. that easy...

[@CansecoDev]

Does anyone have the FLACs backed up?

[@jeffzebert4982]

One particularly funny set of dialogue choices with Governor Phatt: * Melting down your silverware to build an oil pipeline? * Selling your old clothes to make circus tents? * Renting yourself out to ship captains as ballast? * Selling advertising space on your stomach?

[@chronokoks]

i used to play the game like this on gravis ultrasound max.. emulation + wavetable midi

[@xl000]

Is there a place in MI2 (or even another game ??) where the variations blend with each others when we switch scene, as in Wood Tick ? It's like it's the only place where they really took advantage of iMuse. For me iMuse is synonymous for the transitions in Woodtick, but it's really not; it's a way to better integrate the events in the game with the soundtrack, but I don't really a good example

[@Bloodlyshiva]

I realise something. One thing that seems to have kinda been lost with getting full or fake orchestral and stuff is being able to turn instruments on and off for 'dynamic' music without creating an entire new track for the whole affair. I may be completely off-base, of course.

[@VengefulChip]

+Bloodlyshiva You're not off by a lot, depending on what you actually meant by "full or fake orchestral and stuff" bit.

[@iLikeTheUDK]

+Bloodlyshiva Tech is changing for that. Rise of the Tomb Raider apparently has a music system that can do something similar with pre-recorded music. Obviously this might involve recording at least some of the instruments separately and mixing them with the rest within the game engine.

[@Goddot]

The marble levels in Mario Galaxy managed that, by recording all the instruments separately and stuff- it's really impressive, and it was on the Wii in 2007, so yeah, we have the tech! It's just that not many use it, as it's not really always needed.

[@martinalbers6342]

Very lovely!!!! my fav adventure games!!

[@arithmeticum]

This music has healed my soul

[@RodConvoy1987]

Great soundtrack! Does parts of "Sham Lottery" sound a little like "All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth" to anyone else? kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXqTY5KLf5Z2bKs

[@CrispyMcAker]

Great video - the Monkey Island 2 soundtrack is great, and of the original '90s variations of it I think the MT-32 comes out tops for me. One quick question - I notice the "Story" segment (02:15) just loops and fades out; however, in-game the song has a proper ending which plays when you exit the scene just prior to the Part 1 title card. I know fixing it in the video would be too much hassle as it'd require a re-upload, but if you have any plans to revisit this set in future would it be possible to recapture the song with its ending segment and update the FLAC archive? = )

[@VengefulChip]

+CrispyMcAker About your question: Sorry, but I won't revisit the soundtrack itself in the way you proposed, because this is the format in which I post the soundtracks. Track 00c loops like that because back when, game devs made some songs like that for slower computers which took longer to process the game script (and which would cause the song to end abruptly after a while if it were not for the loop). You get that a lot in the Sierra sets I record. As for the ending segment for track 00c, you're right, I should've included that as well, and I will do when I'll do some "housekeeping" round for the soundtracks I posted, to fix mistakes and such, but I'll have that segment be added as a separate track (00d), not at the end of of track 00c. Hope that makes sense to you. I know it can be jarring to listen to the soundtrack like this, but this is the format I chose to record all of the games I worked on, and there are also countless other videos which recreate the intro of the game much more faithfully :) (or at least in the way they played on the speedier machines of that era)

[@CrispyMcAker]

***** Thanks for such a speedy reply and for clarifying a few things - glad to hear you're eventually planning on adding the segment as a separate track at some point in future. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into compiling these soundtracks - it's really great to have them available in such comprehensive collections! = )

[@VengefulChip]

+CrispyMcAker No worries, although it wasn't as speedy as I would've hoped, as I was busy in the past few days :P Also thanks for the compliments! I got tired of seeing incomplete soundtracks of games, so I decided to make this a hobby, which I ended up thoroughly enjoying :D Unfortunately as of late, I wasn't able to work on more stuff due to my day-job (which I really hate), but I hope to be able to post more stuff in the following months. Also, I'll need to edit my first reply, as I wrote it in a rush, and as such it has some inconsistencies.

[@CrispyMcAker]

+VengefulChip No problem - looking forward to any future uploads as and when you have enough time to work on more. = ) Also, one quick update: I played through the game the other day and noticed another short track that's missing in this video. Between 61a and 61b, in-game there's another series of chords which play as LeChuck falls over once his leg has been ripped off, but it's not present in this video. Presumably this missing track should be 61b, and the current 61b would become 61c. Thought I'd better mention it so that it's all listed in one place if you do get time to revisit this set in future. = )

[@salonsospain]

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[@salonsospain]

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[@gamertechkid1490]

best part at 2:40:35

[@salonsospain]

633

[@nicolaservo2113]

amazing game and music

[@salonsospain]

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[@00mcf00]

3:07:27

[@stupendor1]

Thank you.

[@Null_Experis]

It was a theme park the entire time. The entire time...

[@Harjawaldar]

Thanks! Fantastic!

[@Yevgen6R]

Thank you!

[@xDarkPlayer123]

This is amazing~@!#!@

[@JaggedMercenary]

The website is down, unfortunately!