Lord of the Rings
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Quoted from Rarehero:There are no "issues" really - it's just Whitestar. Doesn't sound as crisp and clear as B/W DCS, WPC'95, or SAM games. That being said, it's probably the best sound package of a Whitestar game ever...all of the music compositions are well done and exciting, sound FX are awesome, and there are tons of voice clips - all well integrated for an amazing gameplay experience.
It's Whitestar + the new sound chip older Whitstar games used BSMT2000
Quoted from dzoomer:I'd say LOTR VE is definitely coming. I'd expect much better artwork (even resolution-wise) and much improved sound (it's been done before on VEs), which will get lots of people lining up. Even more could come (a full LCD rework would be awesome). The question is when; it could be soon but it could just as easily be be 5-10 years down the line.
I wouldn't wait for the VE if a good LOTR came up reasonably locally and I had the cash, but I'd also probably upgrade to a VE if I liked what I saw.
better sound can be done with them moving to a newer hardware then the old game. As long they have the source sound files. Now porting it to newer hardware can be a lot of work even with the source code.
Quoted from DngrWillRobinson:VE could be cool with upgrades like an lcd and better sound.
Maybe build in color DMD and sound at higher bit rates with they still have the source sound files. Can be done with some kind of emulation system.
Now to port that old code to a newer board set will take some work or to write up an emulation wrapper as well.
LOTR used the old CPUs with a new sound chip (needed as the BSMT2000 chips where old at the time and out of print) (SAM came later was needed as the chips getting hard to source)
The game still had midi based chip tune music. and the display had it's own board with an cpu and rom chip.
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