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Passport.mid in unconventional places

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First post, by wbahnassi

Posted on 2024-11-01, 01:15

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If I asked you what vibes does passport.mid carry for you? Of all the possible answers, I doubt you will think of it as a stage music for a Mortal Kombat-like game.

Well, it happened that Expect No Mercy did just that.
See for yourself in this portion of the game's full playthrough:
https://youtu.be/de2_MmCG99M?t=19m13s

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Reply 1 of 3, by DracoNihil

Posted on 2024-11-01, 07:32

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There's this doom map author by the name of "nicolas monty" that uses a lot of massively unfitting MIDIs including PASSPORT.MID and CANYON.MID, (really just everything in the MEDIA directory on Windows installs) as well as MIDI covers of various "pop music" like ABBA and Micheal Jackson.

“I am the dragon without a name…”
― Κυνικός Δράκων

Reply 2 of 3, by BEEN_Nath_58

Posted on 2024-11-01, 09:02

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Gives me some kind of a "modernised world" video vibe

previously known as Discrete_BOB_058

Reply 3 of 3, by leileilol

Posted on 2024-11-01, 19:26

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Not passport.mid but still Passport Designs, sports.mid served as Sonic Schoolhouse's theme

I can't think of much passport in commercial games though. IIRC they were licensable (beyond assetflipping the windows/media folder which some games actually did *cough*Subspace*cough*Quake3*cough*). Comments in the Passport Designs midis do describe the songs like production music, so it's possible

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