S3M

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Scream Tracker 3
S3M.png
Developer: Future Crew
Header: Custom
Content: Notational
Instruments: Internal
Target Output
Output - Digital Audio.png Output - MIDI - No.png Output - FM Synthesis.png Output - PSG - No.png
Released: 1994-??-??
Extensions
  • *.s3m
  • *.s3z

The Scream Tracker 3 (S3M) format created for the Scream Tracker 3 music studio which allows you to create MOD-like music using samples. Scream Tracker 3's S3M format improved upon the older STM format. The new format features four times the number of channels (16), about three times as many instruments (99), and a few special effects like stereo panning.

S3M is a versatile mod-like format supporting both digital samples and samples using FM synthesis for playback on an OPL2 chip.

Scream Tracker 3 files have an *.s3m extension; ModPlug software coined the *.s3z extension for compressed S3M files.

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S3M to ?

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Games

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Released Title Sample
1996-09-07 Death Rally (DOS)
1996-??-?? Alien Incident (DOS)
1998-05-22 Unreal (W32)
1998-0?-?? Jazz Jackrabbit 2 (W32)
1999-11-23 Unreal Tournament (W32)
1999-??-?? Dark Vengeance (W32)
2001-05-30 Bejeweled (W32)
2001-08-18 Ultimate Steroids (W32)
2001-08-29 Alchemy (W32)
2001-10-01 Uplink (W32) (Uplink: Hacker Elite)
2003-02-14 Enigma (W32)
2003-06-10 Sweet Tooth To Go (W32)
2004-04-02 4Four (W32)
2005-11-09 Pferd & Pony: Lass Uns Reiten 2 (GBA)
2005-11-14 Franklin the Turtle (GBA)
2005-??-?? Toy Golf (GIZ)
Unreleased Jazz Jackrabbit 3 (W32)

How to Obtain

S3M files usually have to be extracted from a game's resource files, although they're sometimes left as is.

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