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    OpenTTD is an open source simulation game based upon Transport Tycoon Deluxe

    (www.openttd.org)
    302 points doener | 11 comments | 04 Dec 24 05:29 UTC | HN request time: 1.897s | source | bottom
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    haunter ◴[04 Dec 24 06:57 UTC] No.42315057[source]▶
    What made OpenTTD a great success that it's playable out of the box. Most open source game remakes [0] are engine-only and you still need the graphics, arts, sound, and music assets to make it a 100%, and actual playable experience. OpenTTD started like that too but from the very beginning it was a goal to "detach" the game from the original as quickly as possible. It was released in 2004, the actual graphics replacement project started in 2007 and by 2009 100% of the sprites were finished so the original game files were not needed anymore [1]

    And actually there are now 5 different basesets on top of the original TTD one [2]

    It also made possible things like releasing the game on Steam and GOG.

    0, https://github.com/radek-sprta/awesome-game-remakes

    1, https://wiki.openttd.org/en/Archive/Community/Graphics%20Rep...

    2, https://bananas.openttd.org/package/base-graphics

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    1. DanielHB ◴[04 Dec 24 08:30 UTC] No.42315560[source]▶
    But the original soundtrack is still a banger.
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    2. Slartie ◴[04 Dec 24 08:52 UTC] No.42315674[source]▶
    Dab-dab-daaadab-dab-dadadab-dadab-dab-dab-dadab-dadadadaaaab....
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    3. Rygian ◴[04 Dec 24 09:16 UTC] No.42315797[source]▶
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSFsrmLhC00

    Original soundtrack recorded with live instruments. Grooviest thing I've heard in years.

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    4. AnthonBerg ◴[04 Dec 24 09:21 UTC] No.42315833[source]▶
    I grew up on AdLibs and Soundblasters and I love FM synthesis. For a while I thought that I had just imprinted on the sound signature of the OPL3 chip. Now after crises and tragedies I see the core truth at the inside of reality: FM synthesis is just so good.

    The OPL3 modulates frequencies really well!

    Here’s the Transport Tycoon soundtrack as performed by an OPL3 chip. This is objectively the original-original soundtrack. Because this is what I grew up on.

    https://www.tt-forums.net/viewtopic.php?t=56778

    (It’s cool how it was captured through the S/PDIF port of a SoundBlaster AWE32. It’s a nice little turn of commodity entertainment device market events that gave us that possibility, isn’t it?)

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    5. corobo ◴[04 Dec 24 09:34 UTC] No.42315902[source]▶
    I don't remember this being on the transport tycoon soundtrack

    https://youtu.be/l_bTTUihfx0?t=20

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    6. RUnconcerned ◴[04 Dec 24 10:01 UTC] No.42316025[source]▶
    It is! Whenever I play OpenTTD, I make sure to fetch the original soundtrack instead of the new one.
    7. hnlmorg ◴[04 Dec 24 11:48 UTC] No.42316578[source]▶
    That’s genuinely the first time I’ve heard it. Unfortunately I could never get TT midi working with my sound card. Sound effects played just fine, but I just couldn’t get midi audio working on TT.

    I really don’t miss those days of trying dozens of different autoexec.bat / config.sys configurations for each and every game just to get the basics working.

    8. Gormo ◴[04 Dec 24 12:48 UTC] No.42316921[source]▶
    There are open-source libraries like AdPlug (https://adplug.github.io/) that offer really good OPL3 emulation. If you have the MIDI assets from the original game, it might be possible to get the original AdLib soundtrack working with OpenTTD!
    9. DanielHB ◴[04 Dec 24 12:59 UTC] No.42317006[source]▶
    Man, TTD music was the only management game that made me HYPE to get down to managing.

    Like I vividly remember Sim City 3000 music as well, but that game was more chill, like a sunny winter day.

    TTD was like a spring day where you plan you call the pinkertons to bust some unions while smoking a cigar.

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    10. corobo ◴[04 Dec 24 14:34 UTC] No.42317787{3}[source]▶
    Downvotes are fair, in my defence I was tired haha

    Dumbass comment lmao

    11. schlauerfox ◴[04 Dec 24 16:35 UTC] No.42319138{3}[source]▶
    My mother's favorite game was Sim City 3000, and that soundtrack is still one of the best and my favorites. Such a groovy Jazz with variety. I'd love to find other artists like Jerry Martin did that soundtrack, most smooth jazz is too cheesy for me.