Tyrian music and soundtrack

Tyrian's soundtrack has 41 tracks, composed by Alexander Brandon with Andras Molnar as co-composer. Each level of Tyrian 2000 names the track it plays in its episode script; the table below lists them all, with the title screen, shops and message screens (story texts, warnings, episode endings) that use the others.

Composer and releases

Alexander Brandon wrote the music and Andras Molnar co-composed it (see Tyrian history). The tracks were made for AdLib sound cards: the game stores them in music.mus, in the Loudness format (game data formats). The CD version of Tyrian 2000 also carried an audio soundtrack, and in August 2010 Alexander Brandon made the soundtrack available for free.

Listening in the Enhanced Edition

• Music Engine (Setup, Sound): Classic plays the original AdLib soundtrack through DOSBox's OPL emulation (the default), Authentic through the Nuked OPL3 emulator, and Enhanced plays General MIDI arrangements with the bundled SoundFont.
• Jukebox (Setup): plays any track over the starfield; G keeps the current track in every level. See Options and display.

Track list

Track numbers follow the order of the game's music file. Levels are named as on this wiki; a level that exists in two versions (one per difficulty) is listed once per version.

Read from the episode scripts (levelsN.dat) and the music code of OpenTyrian2000 Enhanced. The MIDI arrangements of the Enhanced engine come from third parties (see Sources and credits).