IT

Impulse Tracker
Developer:	Jeffrey Lim
Header:	Custom
Content:	Notational
Instruments:	Internal
Target Output
Released:	1995-??-??
First Game:	?
Extensions	*.it *.itz

Impulse Tracker (IT) is the native format used by Impulse Tracker, written entirely in x86 assembly by Jeffrey Lim. The format is similar to MOD with a few technical improvements and influenced by Scream Tracker 3. Like MOD, IT uses digital samples which are arranged to make music. Impulse Tracker files have an *.it extension; ModPlug software coined the *.itz extension for compressed IT files.

Players

(Category)

• DUMB Module Decoder - foobar2000
• ModPlug Player - Windows
• ModPlug Tracker - Windows
• VLC Media Player - Android, Windows
• Winamp - Android, Macintosh, Windows
• XMMS - Linux
• XMPlay - Windows

Editors

(Category)

• Impulse Tracker - DOS
• ModPlug Tracker - Windows

Converters

(Category)

IT to ?

• DUMB Module Decoder - foobar2000 - WAV
• JAM For Windows - Windows 32 - WAV
• ModPlug Player - Windows 32 - WAV
• ModPlug Tracker - Windows 32 - MIDI, MOD, MP3, S3M, WAV, XM

? to IT

• Impulse Tracker - DOS - MOD, S3M, XM
• ModPlug Tracker - Windows 32 - MIDI, MOD, S3M, XM

Games

(Category)

Released	Title	Sample
1998-05-22	Unreal (W32)
1998-0?-??	Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (W32)
1999-11-30	Unreal Tournament (W32)
1999-??-??	GLTron (W32)
2000-06-23	Deus Ex (W32)
2001-10-16	Seven Seas (W32)
2001-10-26	Pocket Tanks (W32)
2002-01-25	Dynomite! (W32)
2002-05-09	Soldat (W32)
2002-06-05	Big Money! (W32)
2002-06-21	Mummy Maze (W32)
2002-08-14	Atomica (W32)
2002-??-??	Codename: Silver (W32)
2003-11-05	The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (GBA)
2003-11-17	007: Everything or Nothing (GBA)
2003-12-16	The Sims: Bustin' Out (GBA)
2004-02-29	Machines of Destruction (W32)
2004-04-01	Digimon Racing (GBA) (デジモンレーシング)
2004-04-02	4Four (W32)
2004-05-25	Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (GBA)
2004-11-02	The Lord of the Rings: The Third Age (GBA)
2004-11-09	The Urbz: Sims in the City (GBA)
2004-11-10	Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events (GBA)
2004-11-17	The Urbz: Sims in the City (NDS)
2005-02-24	Robots (GBA/NDS)
2005-03-29	LEGO Star Wars: The Video Game (GBA)
2005-10-24	The Sims 2 (GBA/NDS)
2005-10-25	Shrek Super Slam (GBA/NDS)
2005-11-08	Sea World: Shamu's Deep Sea Adventures (GBA)
2005-11-14	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe (GBA/NDS)
2005-??-??	Racing Fever (GBA)
2006-03-09	GridWars 2 (W32)
2006-03-14	Ice Age 2: The Meltdown (GBA)
2006-06-27	Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (GBA)
2006-09-11	LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy (GBA/NDS)
2006-10-02	Princess Natasha: Student - Secret Agent - Princess (GBA)
2006-11-14	Bionicle Heroes (GBA)
2006-11-14	Eragon (GBA)
2006-11-15	Die Biene Maja: Klatschmohnwiese in Gefahr (NDS)
2006-11-22	Die Biene Maja: Klatschmohnwiese in Gefahr (GBA)
2007-02-06	M&M's Break 'Em (GBA)
2007-03-25	M&M's Break 'Em (NDS)
2007-07-10	Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix (GBA)
2007-10-02	The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night (GBA)
2007-10-04	Crash of the Titans (GBA)
2007-12-??	Word Safari: The Friendship Totems (GBA)
2010-01-26	Imagine Party Planner (NDS)
2015-11-06	Broken Circle (GBA)
Unreleased	GP-1 Racing (GBA)
Unreleased	Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (W32)
Unreleased	Mandrake the Magician: Shadow of the Vehme (GBA)
Unreleased	The Phantom: The Ghost Who Walks (GBA)

How to Obtain

IT files usually have to be extracted from a game's resource files, although they're sometimes left as is.

Links

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT_%28file_format%29 - Wikipedia.
• users.on.net/~jtlim/ImpulseTracker/ - Impulse Tracker's official page.