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Dungeon Hack

Platform: DOS Year: 1993 Developer: DreamForge Intertainment, Inc. Buy: Amazon

Dungeon Hack is a pseudo 3-D dungeon crawl that creates randomly generated mazes for you to explore. Using Advanced Dungeons & Dragon - 2nd Edition rules, the game will seem familiar to anyone who has played any AD&D SSI games before, like Eye of the Beholder (DOS). The game uses the exact same engine as Eye of the Beholder III, the AESOP engine. There are a wide assortment of monsters, items, spells, weapons, and armor, but only a basic story. All of the work in the game was placed on combat and the randomizer, which is high quality for its time, but because the game lacks a meaningful plot, you will quickly get bored with killing yet another hobgoblin. The mechanics of the game are nicely implemented, and it's a nice way to kill some time.

Screenshots

Music

The soundtrack only consists of three rather tame tracks. The music can be played on three different platforms. Songs beginning with a 1 are for the Roland MT-32/LAPC-I. Songs beginning with 2 are for the AdLib/Sound Blaster, though they have yet to be recorded. Songs beginning with a 3 are for the PC Speaker.

Recording

#	Title	Composer	Programmer	Length	Listen
101	Scene One	James McMenamy	Ralph Thomas	2:58
102	Scene Two	James McMenamy	Ralph Thomas	0:50
103	End	James McMenamy	Ralph Thomas	0:49
301	Scene One	James McMenamy	Ralph Thomas	3:18

Credits

• Ripper: TheAlmightyGuru
• Recorder: TheAlmightyGuru
• Game Credits:
  • Audio: Anthony Mollick
  • Audio: James McMenamy
  • Digital Sound Effects: Ralph Thomas credited as Cooksey

Though the credits doesn't differentiate, Anthony Mollick has said in an email that he did the sound effects for the game and James McMenamy did the music. The real name of the Digital Sound Effects designer has been revealed as Ralph Thomas, though Tony said he also worked on some of the sound effects. He said the sound effects were done by his bass player "Fuzzy" and his brother Scott, then he would use effects on the voices.

Ralph Thomas is credited for Digital Sound Effects, but he was also credited for music programming in Eye of the Beholder III: Assault on Myth Drannor (DOS), a game which uses the same game and sound engine, so he is listed as the game's sound programmer.

(Sources: 1, 2, 3)

Game Rip

The XMI files were ripped from the open.res file. There are three types of XMI files, one for the Roland MT-32, one for Adlib, and one for PC Speaker. The PC Speaker only has a single track. The file names come from the descriptions near the end of the open.res file. The Roland MT-32 soundtrack was recorded by saving the SysEx data using MIDI-OX and then playing the XMI files through Winamp to an actual Roland MT-32 and recording the output. The PC Speaker song was emulated and recorded through DOSBox.

Audio Devices

Music
Sound

(Source: Music, Sound 1, Sound 2)

Releases

USA Title: Dungeon Hack Platform: DOS Released: 1993/??/?? Publisher: Strategic Simulations, Inc.     South Africa Title: Dungeon Hack Platform: DOS Released: 1995/??/?? Publisher: Slash Corporation     Germany Title: Dungeon Hack Platform: DOS Released: 199?/??/?? Publisher: Strategic Simulations, Inc.

Links

• mobygames.com/game/dos/dungeon-hack - Moby Games.
• gamefaqs.com/pc/564794-dungeon-hack - GameFAQs.
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeon_Hack - Wikipedia.