Uh, X-wing and TIE Fighter?

- Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII. Both use MIDI, and both include a soft synth (in case you don't want to use FM synth). Also, FF7 have special music for general MIDI, XG and Sound Blaster AWE (includes some soundfonts). Note that Steam versions of that games use digital audio.
- Heroes of Might and Magic II. Although it uses CD music, it has an option to play with MIDI music.

DOS:
Battle Arena Toshinden
Super Street Fighter II Turbo
Stellar 7
CyClones
Hexen
Whiplash/ Fat Al Racing
Extreme Assault
Descent II (though, the soundtracks are completely different)

Windows:
Fire Fight
Hexen II
Return of the Incredible Machines: Contraptions (rare post-Y2K example)

aren't there countless ones?
Many that were initially on floppies but later were released on CD as well play Midi music. For example Ultima VII, Ultima VIII, Ultima Underworld I+II. You could count Ultima I-VIII since it was released as Ultima Collection on a CD-Rom...
King's Quest as well.... 😀

I'm listing titles that have CD dependent redbook/Digital music that also have a choice for a MIDI option, having both.

A few DOS games spring to mind:

WarCraft II / Beyond the Dark Portal
Die Höhlenwelt Saga
Inherit the Earth (later versions)
Settlers II
TFX
EF2000
Secret of Monkey Island

^^ also: 'Fat Al Racing'? 😜

edit: by the way, I have both Dune and Lands of Lore on CD, and while Dune has the complementary Exxos 'Spice Opera' soundtrack CD, neither have redbook audio for in-game use. Or do you mean Adlib vs. MIDI? Because there are probably quite a few of these as well (though none spring to mind).

Blood (midi is better than the CDDA)

Shadow Warrior full version only has CD music, while the shareware release has MIDI versions of five of the CD songs.

That's only partially true. Look into D:\goodies\midi

Yeah but they are the same MIDIs from the shareware release, and to my knowledge there's no way to get them to play in the registered version.

I'd say that's where "partially" comes into play. The same is also true for the Carmageddon CD; it's got a couple of midi's I believe, but they're not used in the game (and for a very good reason)

All of the Sierra SCI CD games up to SCI3 used MIDI. But of course that is a little after when some of them started to be Windows only games.

sndwv wrote:

Secret of Monkey Island

Only the floppy versions, which infact counts, as the vga version was available on countless magazine CDs and also on some compilation CDs.
However, the enhanced CD has no midi music. Yet, it has the midi drivers intact, since it uses them for a few sound effects like the fire played through opl.

Monkey Island 2 on the other hand has no enhanced CD. Thus, all CD versions are exactly the same as the floppy versions.

Sam and Max hit the Road: The CD has some audio tracks, but the game is still midi, and the sampled song is merely of 8 bit mono quality.

Dark Forces. There is no floppy version of the game, yet it has a full midi soundtrack. Even the videos have midi music.

Wargods

Wing Commander 3 - Four cds if I recall correctly and still midi music. I had a great time with it and an AWE64 back in the day (I got to it quite late).

Duke Nukem 3d - Cd release only and MIDI soundtrack all the way.

Most of these came from the 1995 transition period to red book audio - I was quite sad to see MIDI go. A good example was Mechwarrior 2 which has one midi track for the menu screens and mech setup, but uses redbook ingame (and it has a great music).

Mech2's midi had valid reasons though. Constant disc access (for the 2d frontend animations and minimum installations) and Redbook streaming isn't something very mixable.

Davis wrote:

I was quite sad to see MIDI go.

Yeah considering that midi with the proper soundfont can give amazing results.

Cyberwar has a few MIDI tracks, used in the menu, and digital audio music for the game parts.
Time Commando music is in MIDI format.

leileilol wrote:

Mech2's midi had valid reasons though. Constant disc access (for the 2d frontend animations and minimum installations) and Redbook streaming isn't something very mixable.

Does anyone know what Mech2 was composed/synthesized with?