Searching For the Enemy

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Searching For the Enemy
Composer Bobby Prince
Released 1992-05-05
Title Origin Official
Loops Yes

Searching For the Enemy is a song from the Wolfenstein 3D series. It was composed by Bobby Prince using Sequencer Plus Gold. The title comes from a music archive released by the composer.

Games

Wolfenstein 3D (DOS)

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Wolfenstein 3D (DOS)
Output - OPL2.svg
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1992-05-05
Length 1:05
Format IMF

Searching For the Enemy is played in E1M2, E1M6, E4M2, and E4M6 of Wolfenstein 3D (DOS).

The song is the 12th music file in the AudioT.WL6 file, and its title in the IMF meta data is simply "SEARCHN", and in-game jukebox name is "Searching". Because of this, some sites still list the title as simply "Searchin'" or "Searching".

Spear of Destiny (DOS)

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Spear of Destiny (DOS)
Output - OPL2.svg
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1992-09-18
Length 1:05
Format IMF

Searching For the Enemy is played in level 14 of Spear of Destiny (DOS).

The song is the 12th music file in the AudioT.SOD file, and its title in the IMF meta data is simply "SEARCHN". This track is not included in the demo release of Spear of Destiny.

Wolfenstein 3D (JAG)

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Wolfenstein 3D (JAG)
Output - Jerry.svg
Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 1994-??-??
Length 1:05
Format MIDI

The song's internal name is "0SEARCHF".

Wolfenstein 3D (GBA)

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Wolfenstein 3D (GBA)
Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 2002-04-02
Format GSF

Like the other tunes, this does not play in the game. Probably it was meant for the same levels as it was in original version.

Despite of the superiorsound generator, this is of lower quality. The result is mostly based on the original MIDI version, not OPL3 used in MS-DOS original.


Voxelstein 3D (W32)

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Voxelstein 3D (W32)
Output - PCM.svg
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 2008-04-19
Length 1:05
Format IMF

Due to the usage of shareware DOS Wolfenstein 3D files for music and sound, this version has the same sound with the original. However, it plays in the first and the only level in the whole game. Despite this, and the fact it's a pretty short tune, it most probably won't become annoying for listeners, since it perfectly fit the game.

Metadata is still "SEARCHN".


Wolfenstein 3D (A8)

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Wolfenstein 3D (A8)
Output - POKEY.svg
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Arranger Miker
Released 2010-??-??
Length 0:30
Format SAP

Unlike the other versions, this one appears on title screen. It also contains only the main part of the song, so the length was halved.


Wolfenstein 3D (WEB)

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Wolfenstein 3D (WEB)
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Arranger Bobby Prince
Released 2012-05-05
Format UNK


Wolfram (W32)


Wolfenstein 3D (GEN)


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