This is part of my OLD King's Quest V let's play from 2010! Original description below:
Just another King's Quest V LP, EXCEPT I'm using an MT-32 for music instead of Sound Blaster. I don't know of any other such LPs of this game.
In this episode, I watch the intro and make fun of the plot, dialog, and voice acting. There isn't actually much of the MT-32 to hear yet, just the logo and title (which is the same thing you can hear with the Sound Blaster, albeit in a lower quality), and the birds chirping at the end. The prologue music was pre-rendered and mixed with the dialog and sound effects which are played from the Sound Blaster. Since the game only supports the first-gen SB, it's not even in stereo.
Hope you enjoy my not-so-talented voiceovers. And let me know if you think 1080p is overkill for this.
To smooth out the picture in a nice way (in an attempt to make it look more like a contemporary CRT image), I scaled it up to 1080p using FFmpeg's SwScaler #7 (Gaussian) with parameter 4. I have no idea what the number actually means, except that 0 is very blurry and higher numbers are sharper.
A little info about my recording setup. I wanted to record all three elements separately, as opposed to the usual "output mix" recording, so I could balance them in a sound editor. The on-board audio can only capture one thing at a time (are there any chipsets that don't work that way?).
So I got myself a good quality USB headset, since it's an independent audio device. The MT-32 is plugged into the on-board line-in. And the game video and Sound Blaster audio are being recorded by DOSBox's built-in video export. I turn off the main sound system and listen to everything through the headset, with the line-in being both recorded and forwarded to the headset. Because of the headset's cup-inside-ear design, a little audio does leak through to the mic during loud passages, but it's not too bad and you can't tell in the mix.
This does present a bit of a challenge, though, since I then have three audio files, started at different times, which I have to synchronize. That's why I said the letters in "sierra" as I typed them, so at least that was easy to sync. The SB audio comes with the video, so it's already in sync. The music was the tricky part. Oops, better make cues for that in the future.
