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You can connect the MT-32 to the game / MIDI port of your sound card, and you will get the enhanced MT-32 music, not General MIDI anymore, however there're few things to keep in mind.

First, the quality of the sound card can slightly affect the quality of the MT-32 music which has to do with compatibility of such a General MIDI card to MT-32. With a Soundblaster 16 or AWE 64 (don't get AWE 32, trust me) the quality would be very close to perfect, with a SCC card however it would be perfect as both hardware parts are from Roland and are thus more compatible to each other.

Second, some games support the original, first-generation MT-32 which has only 15 bits of signal (sound) resolution while others support both, and yet another ones support the later chipset of MT-32 only, which has 16 bits of signal resolution. So if you use an older MT-32 chipset with a game that supports newer chipset you'll get a music which although will sound very good, won't sound completely originally as intended, same vice versa.

Generally you'll encounter almost anywhere on eBay the earlier, original MT-32, however if you'll see it, I would recommend you to get a Roland CM-500 which is a combination of MT-32 and Sound Canvas which would allow you to listen to a Roland Sound Canvas music on games which don't support MT-32 but Sound Canvas, and vice versa.