Marathon Infinity Sounds & Sources

A reference to the sounds for Bungie’s first-person shooters Marathon 2: Durandal (1995) and Marathon Infinity (1996), with limited information on the sounds from its earlier games Pathways into Darkness (1993) and Marathon (1994). For further context, please refer to my Marathon / Aleph One content creation guide (or my beginners’ guide). Please contact me if you notice any errors or omissions.

Introduction
Table of Contents
Vanilla Infinity Sound ID List
Sound Sources
Acknowledgements
Endnotes

Vanilla Infinity Sound ID List

Sounds have two different numbers associated with them: sound ID and sound number. Sound IDs can be anything from 130 to 32760, must be multiples of 5, and must be unique within the sound file. If the ID is -1, the game won’t play them. Unfortunately, they’re in no logical order in the vanilla sound file, so I’ve listed them all below. The vanilla Infinity sounds only use IDs between 10,000 and 19,210 (inclusive).
You can use up to 256 classes (sound numbers 0-255); Aleph One’s developers advise against using more.
‘Volume’ affects not the sound’s decibel level in-game but how far away it’s audible.
I’ve used the Lua mnemonics for these unless I had a reason not to, which I usually note in tooltips (also reproduced at the bottom of this document as endnotes). Parenthetical names are alternate names prominently used elsewhere (e.g., Anvil/ShapeFusion or Forge/Weland).
Sounds in bold below have all of their sources definitively identified (see Sound Sources below for these). Sounds in italics have some of them definitively identified.

(Click a category in the table header to sort by that category. Click it again to reverse the sort direction.)

ID	#	Sound
10000	1	Teleport In
10010	2	Teleport Out
10020	3	Crushed
10030	5	Absorbed
10040	7	Oxygen Warning
10050	8	Suffocation
10060	9	Energy Refuel
10070	10	Oxygen Refuel
10080	11	Can’t Toggle Switch
10090	12	Switch On
10100	13	Switch Off
10110	14	Puzzle Switch
10120	15	Chip Insertion
10130	16	Pattern Buffer
10150	18	Adjust Volume
10160	19	Got Powerup⁽¹⁾
10170	20	Get Item⁽¹⁾
11000	21	Bullet Ricochet
11010	22	Metallic Ricochet
11020	23	Empty Gun
11030	34	Fist Hitting
11040	35	Magnum Firing
11050	36	Magnum Reloading
11060	37	Assault Rifle Firing
11070	38	Grenade Launcher Firing
11080	39	Grenade Exploding⁽²⁾
11090	40	Grenade Flyby
11100	41	Fusion Pistol Firing
11110	42	Fusion Exploding
11120	43	Fusion Flyby
11130	44	Fusion Charging
11140	45	Rocket Exploding⁽³⁾
11150	46	Rocket Flyby
11160	47	Rocket Firing
11170	48	Flamethrower
11180	49	Body Falling
11190	50	Body Exploding
11200	51	Bullet Hit Flesh
11210	134	Assault Rifle Reloading
11220	136	Shotgun Firing
11230	137	Shotgun Reloading
11240	141	Computer Login
11250	142	Computer Logout
11260	143	Computer Page
11270	135	Assault Rifle Shell Casings
11280	17	Destroy Control Panel
11290	132	Fusion Pistol Firing Charged
11300	138	Ball Bounce
11310	139	You Are It
11320	140	Got Ball
11330	133	Major Fusion Charged
12000	24	S’pht Door Closing⁽⁴⁾
12010	25	S’pht Door Opening⁽⁴⁾
12020	26	S’pht Door Obstructed
12030	27	S’pht Platform Starting
12040	28	S’pht Platform Stopping
12080	32	Heavy S’pht Platform Starting
12090	33	Heavy S’pht Platform Stopping
13000	144	Heavy S’pht Door
13010	145	Heavy S’pht Door Opening
13020	146	Heavy S’pht Door Closing
13030	147	Heavy S’pht Door Open
13040	148	Heavy S’pht Door Closed
13050	149	Heavy S’pht Door Obstructed
14000	90	Water
14010	91	Sewage
14020	92	Lava
14030	93	Goo
14040	94	Underwater
14050	95	Wind
14060	96	Waterfall
14070	97	Siren
14080	98	Fan
14100	100	S’pht Platform
14120	101	Alien Harmonics (Jjaro Ship)
14130	102	Heavy S’pht Platform
14140	103	Light Machinery
14150	104	Heavy Machinery
14160	105	Transformer
14170	106	Sparking Transformer
14180	169	Machine Binder
14190	170	Machine Bookpress
14200	171	Machine Puncher
14210	172	Electric Hum
14220	173	Alarm
14230	174	Night Wind
14240	201	Alien Noise 1 (Pfhor Ship #1)
14250	202	Alien Noise 2 (Pfhor Ship #2)
14260	4	Jjaro Ship Creak⁽⁵⁾
14500	107	Water Drip
14510	175	Surface Explosion (Thunder)
14520	176	Underground Explosion
14530	186	Lamp Exploding
14540	29	Loon
14545	187	Pfhor Platform Starting
14550	188	Pfhor Platform Stopping
14560	189	Pfhor Platform
14570	190	Pfhor Door Closing⁽⁶⁾
14580	191	Pfhor Door Opening⁽⁶⁾
14590	192	Pfhor Door Obstructed
14600	193	Pfhor Door
14610	194	Pfhor Switch On
14620	195	Pfhor Switch Off
14630	196	Juggernaut Firing
14640	197	Juggernaut Warning
14650	198	Juggernaut Exploding
14660	199	Juggernaut Start Attack
14670	200	Enforcer Exploding
15000	71	Drone Activate
15010	72	Drone Start Attack
15020	73	Drone Attack
15030	74	Drone Dying
15040	75	Drone Death
15050	76	Drone Projectile Hit
15060	77	Drone Projectile Flyby
15100	64	Cyborg Moving
15110	65	Cyborg Attack
15120	66	Cyborg Hit
15130	67	Cyborg Death
15140	68	Cyborg Projectile Bounce
15150	69⁽⁷⁾	Cyborg Projectile Hit
15200	59	S’pht Attack
15210	60	S’pht Death
15220	61	S’pht Hit
15230	62	S’pht Projectile Flyby
15240	63	S’pht Projectile Hit
15300	52	Fighter Activate
15310	53	Fighter Wail
15320	54	Fighter Scream
15330	55	Fighter Chatter
15340	56	Fighter Attack
15350	57	Fighter Projectile Hit
15360	58	Fighter Projectile Flyby
15400	78	Bob Wail
15410	79	Bob Scream
15420	80	Bob Hit
15430	81	Bob Chatter
15440	82	Assimilated Bob Chatter
15450	83	Bob Trash Talk
15460	84	Bob Apology
15470	85	Bob Activation
15480	86	Bob Clear
15490	87	Bob Angry (Stop Shooting Me You Bastard)
15500	88	Bob Secure
15510	89	Bob Kill the Player
15610	151	Hunter Attack
15630	153	Hunter Landing
15640	154	Hunter Exploding
15650	155	Hunter Projectile Hit
15660	156	Hunter Projectile Flyby
15700	157	Enforcer Activate
15710	158	Enforcer Attack
15720	159	Enforcer Projectile Hit
15730	160	Enforcer Projectile Flyby
15800	161	F’lickta Melee Attack
15810	162	F’lickta Melee Hit
15820	163	F’lickta Projectile Attack
15830	166	F’lickta Projectile Lava Hit
15840	167	F’lickta Projectile Lava Flyby
15850	168	F’lickta Dying
15860	164	F’lickta Projectile Sewage Hit
16000	177	S’pht’Kr Attack
16010	178	S’pht’Kr Projectile Hit
16020	179	S’pht’Kr Projectile Flyby
16030	180	S’pht’Kr Being Hit
16040	181	S’pht’Kr Exploding
17000	182	Tick Chatter
17020	184	Tick Flapping
18000	30	SMG Firing
18010	31	SMG Reloading
18100	203	VacBob Wail
18110	204	VacBob Scream
18120	205	VacBob Hit
18130	206	VacBob Chatter
18140	207	Assimilated VacBob Chatter
18150	208	VacBob Trash Talk
18160	209	VacBob Apology
18170	210	VacBob Activation
18180	211	VacBob Clear
18190	212	VacBob Angry (Stop Shooting Me You Bastard)
18200	213	VacBob Secure
18210	214	VacBob Kill the Player
19000	108	Walking in Water
19010	109	Exiting Water⁽⁸⁾
19020	110	Entering Water⁽⁸⁾
19060	115	Entering Lava⁽⁸⁾
19070	116	Exiting Lava⁽⁸⁾
19100	111	Small Water Splash
19120	113	Large Water Splash
19130	118	Small Lava Splash
19150	120	Large Lava Splash
19170	122	Entering Sewage⁽⁸⁾
19180	121	Exiting Sewage⁽⁸⁾
19190	123	Small Sewage Splash
19210	125	Large Sewage Splash

The following classes are empty and have ID -1:

(Click a category in the table header to sort by that category. Click it again to reverse the sort direction.)

ID	#	Sound
-1	0	Startup
-1	6	Breathing
-1	70	Cyborg Projectile Flyby
-1	99	S’pht Door
-1	112	Medium Water Splash
-1	114	Walking in Lava
-1	118	Medium Lava Splash
-1	120	Walking in Sewage
-1	124	Medium Sewage Splash
-1	126	Walking in Goo
-1	127	Exiting Goo⁽⁸⁾
-1	128	Entering Goo⁽⁸⁾
-1	129	Small Goo Splash
-1	130	Medium Goo Splash
-1	131	Large Goo Splash
-1	150	Hunter Activate
-1	152	Hunter Dying
-1	165	F’lickta Projectile Sewage Flyby
-1	183	Tick Falling
-1	185	Tick Exploding

You’ll thus need to change their IDs if you add sounds to them; likewise with all new classes you create.

Sound Sources

I’ve been able to locate the sources of many vanilla Marathon Infinity sounds; others remain elusive. Nearly all the ones I’ve found are from the General Series 6000, a 40-disc collection by the Canadian company Sound Ideas. (Alternatively, see here for a bundle of the General Series 6000 with, as of this writing, ten extensions, all of which are too recent to be sources for Marathon.) The one exception I’ve been able to locate, Fist Hitting, comes from the Series 4000 Hollywood collection. The Series 6000 sounds are ubiquitous not just in games (Doom also used many, for example) but across all types of media, so while you may be hearing shout-outs to Marathon when someone uses one of these sounds, it’s likelier that they just used an industry-standard stock sound library.

I’ve remixed or remastered the entire Infinity sound file, using the original sources when I’d found them and various audio tricks I’ve learned over the years when I hadn’t; a recent revision is available here. As of 2024-04-12, this should be the current revision. An ‘extended’ version with longer versions of some samples and more samples for some sounds is also available here.

The sources I’ve been able to locate are, in order by disc/track/index:

Fist Landing: Face Punch, Arm Swing and Jaw Sock (4003 track 50, index 2 – this is the one from Series 4000)
Lh’owon Loon: Common Loon (6003 track 19, indices 1, 2, and 4; 4 was sped up) with echo removed
Tick Chatter, Fighter Scream, and F’lickta Death are all taken from Porcupine (6003 track 94). Fighter Scream is shifted down an octave (twelve semitones) and slowed from about 100 to about 77 bpm. F’lickta Death is shifted down an octave and a half (nineteen semitones) and slowed from 100 to 60 bpm.
F’lickta Lava Impact and S’pht’Kr Being Hit: Small Burst of Flames in Wood Stove (6015 track 20, index 3, excerpt). The latter is reversed and twice as fast (but the same pitch).
Flamethrower: Flamethrower Long Burst (6015 track 23, index 1, excerpt)
F’lickta Lava Flyby: Short, Large Burst of Flame (6015 track 26. I can’t recall the index, but it’s sped up)
S’pht’Kr Attack: Fireball Impact and Large Fire Burst (6015 track 28, excerpt)
Transformer: Electric Transformer Hum (6018 track 39, index 2)
S’pht Platform: Passenger elevator (6018 track 42, index 4). The Marathon Platform is a different edit of the same sound. Bungie also mined a later part of the same sample for the Energy Recharger.
Bullet Hitting Flesh: Horror Axe Chop, Human (6018 track 80, indices 1, 2, and 3, excerpts)
Body Falling: probably Horror Blood Splat, Human (6018 track 82, index 1, excerpt), pitch-shifted down about three semitones
F’lickta Melee Hit: Horror Head Crunch, Human (6018 track 87, indices 1 and 2)
Crushed Under Platform: probably Horror Head Crunch, Human (6018 track 87, either index 3 or 4, possibly pitch-shifted or slowed down)
Wasp Glob Impact: probably Horror Head Crunch, Human (6018 track 88, index 1, maybe pitch-shifted)
Switch On/Off: Small Breaker Switch (6021 track 44, indices 1/2)
Machine Binder: Binder (6022 track 3)
Light Machinery: Compressor (6022 track 5)
Heavy Machinery: Wahlenberg cutter (6022 track 11)
Heavy S’pht Platform: Electric Hydraulic Machine (6022 track 18)
Machine Bookpress: Book Press (6022 track 25)
Machine Puncher: Auto Plant Punch Press (6022 track 36)
Pfhor Door: Clothes Cleaning Plant Steam Release (6023 track 5). They reversed one of these to get the opening sound (mislabeled as the closing sound in most lists of sounds)
Pfhor Platform: Clothes Cleaning Plant Steam Supply Generator (6023 track 6; the Oxygen Recharger may also come from this track, but it’s such a short sample that it’s hard to be sure)
Magnum Firing: .44 Magnum (6025 track 6; index 2 is definitely one source, if not both; they may have used each channel for one of the sounds, or may have excerpted a later index to make the other sound)
Grenade Launcher Firing: Anti-tank 20mm (6025 track 25, probably index 1 or 2)
Bullet Ricochet: Gun Ricochet, Single Shot, Bullet (6025 track 28, probably indices 1 and 2)
Rocket Exploding: Tank Howitzer (6025 track 31, index 2)
Shotgun Firing: Tank Howitzer (6025 track 31, index 4; they used each channel to make one sound)
Cyborg Firing: Small Grenade Blast (6025 track 55, index 1)
Cyborg Projectile Hit: May be a pitch-shifted version of Small Grenade Blast (6025 track 55, index 3). The game doesn’t actually use this sound; cyborgs may have used different projectiles earlier in development
Cyborg Death: Small Grenade Blast (6025 track 55, indices 1-3) & High Voltage Electricity Spark (6039 track 61, index 1)
Surface Explosions/Thunder: Mostly Large Explosions (6025 track 56, various indices, and 6040 track 24, index 2), but they supplemented the first sound with another source I haven’t yet found
You Are It: Guitar Low Note, Bend Down (6027 track 33, index 5)
Got the Ball: Human Vocal Voice, “Play Ball”, Male Baseball Umpire (6032 track 41, index 1)
Jjaro Ship Creak: One sound comes from Metal Movement and Squeaks (6032 track 58, index 2, excerpt starting about 40 seconds in). I haven’t yet found the other
Large Water Splash: Rock, Splash into Water (6032 track 92, index 3)
F’lickta Projectile Sewage Hit: Rock, Fall on Dirt (6032 track 92, index 2)
Waterfall: Small Waterfalls (6035 track 1)
Water: Water, Lake Waves Coming In, Light (6035 track 7)
Goo: Excerpts from Geyser, Underground Rumble, Water Spraying Out (6035 track 38)
Under Media: Underwater Diver Jumping into Water, Air Release, Scuba (6035 track 42)
Wind: Thunderclap and Rumble (6036 track 6) and Ghost Town Wind (6036 track 49)
Night Wind: Eerie Wind (6036 track 46)
Heavy S’pht Door: Space Door Activate (6037 track 6, index 2) and Spaceship Door (6039 track 24, indices 3 and 4). Still haven’t found the ‘Heavy S’pht Door Obstructed’ sound
Drone Dying and Cyborg Hit: Steam Single Blast (6037 track 15, index 5). Cyborg Hit isn’t actually used in the game and is a sped-up version of this sample
Electric Hum: Electricity, Various Hums from Drone Tube (6038 track 46), pitch-shifted up five semitones. The in-game excerpt may start at approximately 8.107 seconds (357519 samples); I’m not 100% sure
Pfhor Switch On/Off: Hydraulic Activator (6038 track 58, excerpted). The ‘off’ sound is slowed down and pitch-shifted down by two semitones
Enforcer Exploding: Single Firing of Tank Gun (6038 track 90, probably index 1 but might be 2)
Pfhor Ship #2/Alien Noise 2: Spaceship Control Room (6039 track 1)
Jjaro Ship/Alien Harmonics: Alien Spacecraft Interior (6039 track 9)
Pfhor Ship #1/Alien Noise 1: Spaceship Interior Rumble (6039 track 11)
Pattern Buffer: Computer Spaceship Console Beep (6039 track 27, index 2)
Drone Start Attack: slightly shortened version of Robot Servo Motor (6039 track 29, index 5)
Juggernaut Start Attack: slightly shortened version of Robot Servo Motor (6039 track 31, index 2)
Sparking Transformer: Electric Transformer Hum (6018 track 39, index 2) and High Voltage Electricity Spark (6039 track 61, various indices)
Drone Attack: partly excerpted from Electronic Magical Swish (6039 track 51, index 1); I haven’t located the sample’s other component(s)
Drone Projectile Flyby: Electronic Magical Zap (6039 track 56, index 2), possibly sped up a bit. (6039 track 57, index 1, is a close variant of the same sound)
S'pht'Kr Projectile Hit and Flyby: Archery Whoosh and Impact (6039 track 71, excerpts of indices 1 and 2)
Water Drip: Most likely excerpts from Water Dripping in Cave (6039 tracks 82 and/or 84)
Juggernaut Explosion: Large Explosion (6040 track 24, index 3)
Underground Explosion: Large Explosion (6040 track 26, index 1)

Also, at least two chapter screen sounds come from the Series 6000 General:

Marathon 2, chapter 1: Thunderclap with Rumble (6039 track 63, index 3)
Marathon 2, chapter 2 (I think): Entity Pass By (6018 track 92)

And at least a few Pathways into Darkness sounds also come from the Series 6000 General:

Nightmare Attack/Dying: Wild Cat: Hissing, Growl, Swat (6003 track 44, various indices)
Phantasm Attack/Dying: Lion, Roaring (6003 track 88, various indices)

And various mods have also mined these sounds, including:

Tempus Irae – Blue Jay: Blue Jay, Single Calls (6003 track 1, index 1… maybe?)
Tempus Irae – Owl: Owl, Calling (6003 track 21, index 2)
Tempus Irae – Horse Whinny: Horse, Interior, Whinny (6003 track 65, index 1)
Rubicon – Alarm: General Alarm on Aircraft Carrier (6025, track 66, index 1)
Eternal and Tempus Irae Redux use several as well; I’ll document them eventually.

If you’re aware of any sources of vanilla sounds not listed here, either for Marathon 1, Marathon Infinity, or even Pathways into Darkness, please let me know.

Acknowledgements

Paul S. on Stack Overflow for his table sort script, and Fla for a revision that enabled it to sort numeric values. (My knowledge of JavaScript is effectively nonexistent.)
Jason Karns and Davide Cannizzo on Stack Overflow for the CSS table of contents, which is beyond my relatively competent level of CSS ability.
Solra Bizna for an incomprehensible amount of programming help, including the CSS that makes this exact page follow your computer’s dark mode settings.
W’rkncacnter for pointing out a sound source that eluded me, namely that the Fighter Dying sound is a pitch-shift of the Porcupine sound. (I had already noticed that the Fighter and F’lickta deaths had the same source, but it never occurred to me that the Tick also had the same source.)
Bungie, for obvious reasons.

Endnotes

#	Note
1	⁽ᵃ⁾ ⁽ᵇ⁾ The Lua mnemonics have ‘Got Powerup’, but ‘Get Item’. Note the dichotomy here so you don’t get got.
2	The Lua mnemonics (but not Anvil or ShapeFusion) misspell this as ‘Grenade Expolding’. I’ve corrected it.
3	Misspelled in Anvil (and thus ShapeFusion) as ‘Rocket Expoding’. The Lua mnemonics get this one correct.
4	⁽ᵃ⁾ ⁽ᵇ⁾ In both Anvil/ShapeFusion and the Lua mnemonics, the sounds purporting to be ‘S’pht Door Opening’ (#24) and ‘S’pht Door Closing’ (#25) are labeled correctly for the 8-bit versions but incorrectly for the 16-bit versions, which are inexplicably swapped. I’ve changed them here to match the 16-bit versions, because who uses 8-bit sound in 2024?
5	Inexplicably labeled in the Lua mnemonics as ‘Nuclear Hard Death’, the physics’ name for the screen flash and sound effect made when Juggernauts die. (Worst Prince cover ever.) That sound is Juggernaut Exploding (#198, ID 14650).
6	⁽ᵃ⁾ ⁽ᵇ⁾ The default names for these (in both Anvil/ShapeFusion and in the Lua mnemonics) are just wrong, both for their 8-bit and 16-bit versions. Again, I’ve corrected them.
7	Nice.
8	⁽ᵃ⁾ ⁽ᵇ⁾ ⁽ᶜ⁾ ⁽ᵈ⁾ ⁽ᵉ⁾ ⁽ᶠ⁾ ⁽ᵍ⁾ ⁽ʰ⁾ ‘Exiting’ and ‘Entering’ are ordered inconsistently for different media types, both ID-wise and number-wise. Be careful.