There seems to be no background music in game, but at the title menu, or when I access the option menu in game, there IS beautiful music. I wonder what happens? Is it that there’s just no bgm for the very first section of the game? I haven’t reach the first checkpoint yet (got killed by the moving platform stupidly...)

Is that the case? Thank you!

But it's kinda weird that I watched a review video and it appeared that it had some bgm even in the prison, the volume was quite low though...

Thank you! I was distracted by some other games these days. I will try to see how things go after citadel according to your advice when I have the time.

Hmm, even if I have been further into the game, there doesn’t seem to be normal music playing. Every time I enter a new area, there’s a piece of chime-like music for 3~5 secs, and that’s it. I wonder if somehow the BGMs get truncated due to some of my audio settings...

Edit: it seems that I was just being too impatient. Some new areas do have normal BGMs.

Another question though: does the game auto-save at each changing of areas, or...? I’m probably a save-game maniac (over 1000 saves for one whole playthrough for Tomb Raider 1), and I think I should at least figure out some details of this checkpoint style.

The game should auto save each time you enter a new area. But I'm actually not sure. I'm a save game maniac myself. :P There are time when I got game over and had to use an older save game

Nice to see a fellow maniac ;)

If you want to save your game where ever you like, I've written a LBA trainer and that's one of the features.

https://forum.magicball.net/showthread.php?p=458758#post458758

Screenshots attached.

Phreak

You are SO cool! But I guess I will try to respect the design of the classic (at least for a little longer ;), for now.

Hmm, it seems that it’s not that there’s NO BGMs, but that they stop, or maybe they don’t loop as BGMs normally should. But if I open up options and resume the game (or when I entering a new area, of course), the music will be back, for another loop. Before the music stop, there’s a piece of chime that seems to happen wherever there’s no BGM, the same as that plays right at the beginning of the asylum area, but truncated within 5 seconds.

This’s probably a thing about the audio setting of DosBox, I guess? The default setting of cpu cycles also causes problem on my notebook, in that the movies lag a lot. But changing the default “80000” cycles to “auto” solves the problem. Now maybe changing one of the audio settings can solve this, but I just know too little about those to figure out how by myself...

Even if there could be issues with the CD audio (which LBA 2 does not have, but 1 does) or DOSBox settings, the way the music plays is exactly as designed. It only plays once to its end, after entering a new area (this is also true for LBA2).

What?! Oh...what a pity, they are not bad at all...but at least I can F6 and resume whenever I want to enjoy another loop so it’s still manageable I guess ;)

That's not true at all. The music is minimalist, but you should definitely hear something, even before you escape your cell.