List of games that support AWE synth
This is a list of games that natively support the built-in MIDI synth (EMU8000) of the Creative Sound Blaster AWE32/AWE64 family of cards. For these games, selecting AWE32 as the music device provides wavetable-quality MIDI output, utilizing the built-in ROM bank of the EMU8000 (or sound fonts loaded into the AWE RAM).
This mode does not require any external MIDI devices connected via MPU-401 and does not require the General MIDI emulation capability of the AWE cards (AWEUTIL /EM). However, the EMU8000 must first be initialized using the AWEUTIL /S command.
Many games allow selecting AWE32/AWE64 as the digital audio device (sometimes as "Sound Blaster 16 / AWE-32"). However, this does not utilize any special capabilities of the AWE cards, as their digital audio portion is identical to the SB16. Therefore, these games should not be mentioned here; the list should include only games where the AWE32 mode plays different music than the FM/OPL3 mode used for SB/SBPro/SB16 devices.
| Title | Year | Developer/Publisher | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aces of the Deep | 1994 | Sierra / Dynamix | |
| Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse | 1994 | Cyberlore / Stormfront | |
| Blood | 1997 | Monolith Productions | |
| Descent | 1994 | Interplay / Parallax | |
| Descent II | 1996 | Interplay / Parallax | |
| DOOM | 1993 | id Software | Including Ultimate DOOM (1995) |
| DOOM II | 1994 | id Software | Including Final DOOM (1996) |
| Duke Nukem 3D | 1996 | 3D Realms | |
| Heretic | 1994 | Raven Software / id Software | |
| Heroes of Might and Magic II: The Succession Wars | 1996 | New World Computing | Including "Price of Loyalty" expansion (1997) |
| Hexen: Beyond Heretic | 1995 | Raven Software / id Software | |
| I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream | 1995 | Cyberdreams | |
| Mortal Kombat II | 1994 | Acclaim / Midway Entertainment | |
| Rise of the Triad | 1994 | Apogee / 3D Realms | Manual configuration may be required [1] |
| Simon the Sorcerer II | 1995 | Adventure Soft | |
| Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers | 1995 | Capcom | |
| Super Street Fighter II Turbo | 1995 | Eurocom / Capcom | |
| Warcraft: Orcs and Humans | 1994 | Blizzard Entertainment | |
| Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness | 1995 | Blizzard Entertainment | Including "Beyond the Dark Portal" expansion (1996) |
