Commander Keen IV: Secret of the Oracle (DOS)
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- For other games in the series see Commander Keen.
Commander Keen IV: Secret of the Oracle is a platform game for DOS where you play the role of Billy Blaze, a boy-genius with a penchant for saving the world. Your faster-than-light radio has intercepted some plans by the Shikadis to destroy the galaxy, so you hop in your Bacon-With-Beans Megarocket and head towards the planet Gnosticus IV where the Oracle will be able to answer some questions about the invasion. Unfortunately, when you arrive the Elders have been kidnapped and taken to the Shadowlands.
It is the first episode in the Goodbye, Galaxy! series and it was a major upgrade from the first Commander Keen trilogy. It has better graphics, improved sound, and many technical enhancements. The game features 8-directional smooth-scrolling EGA graphics, responsive controls, and a crisp look. It could have easily been seen on a console system, but it instead gave merit to the action PC games of the time. You can jump, pogo, shoot, climb, and swim your way through several levels in your attempts to save the Gnosticus Elders.
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Music
Commander Keen IVs music fits perfectly with the game. It's lighthearted and upbeat, just like the game itself. Bobby Prince wrote the music from ground up for the Sound Blaster FM synthesizer since the availability of true wave table synthesizers was uncommon at the time. He used Sequencer Plus Gold for the composing itself.
A couple of upgraded higher-quality MIDI files were made available on Bobby Prince's website and are included in the rip download.
The titles come directly from Bobby Prince himself. For the unreleased tracks, the titles come from the file names of an archive supplied by John Romero.
Recording
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01 | Shadows Don't Scare Commander Keen!! | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 0:51 | |
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02 | You've Got to Eat Your Vegetables!! | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 1:56 | |
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03 | Too Hot to Handle | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 0:42 | |
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04 | Tropical Ghost Oasis | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 1:40 | |
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05 | Welcome to a Kick In Yore Pants In Good Ole Hillville! | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 1:15 | |
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06 | In a Land of Wonderment and Awe | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 0:35 | |
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07 | Bullfrog | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 1:00 | |
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08 | Dopey | Bobby Prince | Jason Blochowiak | 0:31 | |
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Credits
- Ripper: Andrew Durdin
- Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
- Game Credits:
- Composer: Bobby Prince credited as Robert Prince
- Uncredited IMF Designer: Jason Blochowiak
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Game Rip
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The IMF files were ripped from the Huffman compressed Audio.CK4 file, using the look up stored in the LZ Compressed EXE file. The IMF music was played with AdPlug 1.7, and recorded with Winamp. The order of the music files matches the order in the game rip.
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Links
- mobygames.com/game/dos/commander-keen-4-secret-of-the-oracle - Moby Games.
- gamefaqs.com/pc/564721-commander-keen-episode-iv-secret-of-the-oracle - GameFAQs.
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commander_Keen_series - Wikipedia.
- commander-keen.com - Commander Keen: The Defender of Earth, fan site.
- shikadi.net/keenwiki/Main_Page - KeenWiki, a Commander Keen Wiki.
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