The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure (DOS)

The Blues Brothers: Jukebox Adventure
Developer: Titus Publisher: Titus Platform: DOS Released in EU: 1994 This game has unused music.

Another retitled port of the SNES The Blues Brothers game for a system that had previously received the original The Blues Brothers title, this time for DOS computers. Amusingly enough for a title based on characters of a music band, this version of the game suffers from some disasterous sound programming.

Broken Music

Due to technical issues, the sound engine seems to struggle with the MOD music tracks of this game, initializing them at 8khz and resulting in sound issues like crackling and popping. One of them is even played faster than it should. Uncompressing the two MOD files used by the game and playing them through a sound player able to reproduce MOD files evidence how the compositions should have sounded under normal conditions.

ALMOST.MOD. Used on the title screen. Based on "I've Got Everything I Need (Almost)" by the Downchild Blues Band, which the Blues Brothers had covered on their debut live album Briefcase Full of Blues.

EVERY.MOD. Used on all game levels. Based on the Solomon Burke song "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love", which was covered as part of the film's soundtrack.

Unused Music

Aside from the aforementioned issues with the game sound engine, there are three MOD music tracks present within the game's files which are completely unused. They seem to be based on similar sounding tracks from the SNES version, which were scattered through the different levels of that version of the game. But for some reason, the DOS version only uses a single track for all levels.

BARTENDE.MOD. According to the name file, it seems to be loosely based on the Dossie Terry/Floyd Dixon song "Hey Bartender", which was covered on Briefcase Full of Blues.

PETERGUN.MOD. Based on Henry Mancini's "Peter Gunn" theme song, which was covered as part of the film's soundtrack.

SHOOT.MOD. According to the name file, it seems to be loosely based on the Downchild Blues Band song "Shot Gun Blues", which was covered on Briefcase Full of Blues.