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Probe Software
Founded	1984
Headquarters	Cheltenham, England, UK
Other Names	Probe Entertainment, Iguana London, Acclaim Studios London

Probe Software was a British game developer who was known for making many movie-based video games.

Games

• Games developed by Probe Software.
• Games published by Probe Software.

Music Development

NES

The only composer to do NES music for Probe Software was Jeroen Tel, in which he wrote his own audio driver and wrote the music in hexadecimal.

SNES

Andy Brock's explanation of the SNES sound development at Probe:

GEN/32X

At first, while writing the music for Back to the Future Part III (GEN), he contracted The Bitmap Brothers to program the game's sound driver, and hired John Phillips to do the music. After that, they contracted Shaun Hollingworth of Krisalis Software to do the driver, and hired Matt Furniss to do the music. For the games, Jelly Boy (GEN), Body Count (GEN) and The Pagemaster (GEN), Probe used an unaltered version of the GEMS driver, with Steve Rockett composing the music using MIDI files. After that, composer Andy Brock made some tweaks to the driver to create the version that was used in Stargate (GEN), and its later titles. Except for FIFA Soccer 96 (32X), which used a version of Electronic Arts' sound driver, programmed by Kris Hatfield.

Audio Personnel

• Andy Brock
• Geoff Follin
• Jeroen Tel
• Nick Stroud
• Steve Rockett
• Tim Follin
• Carl Muller
• David Shea
• Edward Haynes
• John Phillips (hired under contract from The Bitmap Brothers)
• Matt Furniss (hired under contract from Krisalis Software Ltd.)
• Shaun Hollingworth - Sound driver provider. (hired under contract from Krisalis Software Ltd.)

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