BENEATH A STEEL SKY CD VERSION DOSBOX DRIVER
One is the fact that it requires an EMS (Expanded Memory) driver to be loaded, and quite a number of games require XMS (Extended Memory). SoftMPU is fantastic, but does have some limitations.
BENEATH A STEEL SKY CD VERSION DOSBOX SOFTWARE
This utility, written by Peter De Wachter and maintained by bjt and elianda on GitHub, emulates the MPU-401 interface in software - bear in mind you still need a physical MT-32 or MT-100! If you don't have a true MPU-401 physical interface, you can try using SoftMPU if you have a compatible sound card. If you're lucky enough to own a proper MPU-401 interface and possibly the related breakout box, these provide this "Normal" mode, so *all* games will work but bear in mind the Old/New clause above about the sound being different between MT-32 old and MT-32 new. This is because almost all sound cards that support MIDI on their game port only support the much more limited "UART" mode, not the more comprehensive "Normal" (aka "Intelligent") mode. If you're connecting your MT-32 to your PC's sound card game port using what's often called a 'game port MIDI cable', you will only hear MT-32 sounds from the games where I've said "Yes" to "Works in UART Mode:" in the list below. *For owners of the MT-100, you basically have an MT-32 "new". The MT-32 "new" has left and right jacks plus a separate Phono output jack which conveniently mixes the 2 other outputs together on a single stereo jack socket. You can tell if you have an MT-32 "old" because it doesn't have a Phono jack on the rear - only the left and right jacks separately. Due to different firmware in the "new" model, any games trying to exploit these bugs fail to play the sound correctly, play with the wrong instrument, or don't play at all, so where known I have also stated on which of these devices the game sounds "right". There were known bugs in the "old" model's firmware that were deliberately exploited by the game authors to get the best sounds. Sometimes a game was originally designed to work with the MT-32 (old) or MT-32 (new)*. This page provides you with details of what hardware or MIDI configuration each supporting game expects, since actual physical MPU-401 interfaces are rare, and a lot of the more recent purchasers of the Roland MT-32, myself included, have struggled to get our favourite games working 100% accurately.
If you've not yet read the MIDI page, I'd recommend you do so first if you are new to the Roland MT-32 or General MIDI game audio.
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