Encode an MP3 at 60 kbps and you'll get the exact same sound.

KQ2VGA+ is the best fangame I've ever played.


Amen to that.

I'll let you know if I find anythnig more on it. And actually I've been to that page and got it bookmarked but I couldn't find any IMF's or RAWs there.

Well I found a site that hosted adlib soundtracks. I downloaded the Goblins 2 and 3 soundtracks in RAW format and got an adlib plugin for winamp so I can play adlib tracks (raw, imf ,etc) so I'm good yey! I suspect all I'd need to do for other adlib games it to extract their music files which should be in one of the many adlib music formats that my new winamp plugin will read. Next goal is to turn these in midi files.

EDIT: I did a big search and now I know that it's possible to convert IMF to MIDI but is it possible to convert RAW to MIDI? Or RAW to IMF? I haven't found anything so probably not.

I'll do a search for those, then. Thanks.

Oh well that doesn't help me with an Audigy 2 ZS .

How did you change the music drivers?

I wasn't saying that...I merely wanted to listen to them.

I did a search a long while ago and found these. Ripper 5 is the most popular and gets the most results. Here you go:

http://smc.sq7.org/miscfile/brandon/file_extractors.zip

You may have to do a search for some converter programs ie- 'RMI2MID.exe' etc etc.

I realize that the instrument mapping would be very...very different. But if that information went through the MIDI output of a soundcard into the MIDI input of another in a second computer that is set to record MIDI information from it's sound card's MIDI input, then you could deal with the instrument mapping after it's recorded.

And I know DK1 has no music support at all, but DK2 might actually now that I think of it..I'm not sure, but I'm not sure. I do know for a fact Duke3D has GM support, though.

All I mean by MPU-401 is the ability to have the midi information sent to your soundcard's midi output instead of adlib even though the game only has an adlib/soundblaster driver.


I don't know. I don't know much about it, which is partly why I asked.


I was thinking of games like Goblins 3 and the first few Lemmings games and Bio Menace and Duke Nukem 2 and Commander Keen and all those (basically games that only support adlib/sound blaster and maybe pc speaker for midi music). I suppose you can get programs to extract the midi files from some of those games (mostly the apogee ones probably) and then convert the file format to regular midi format, which I've done before and have a bunch of programs to do that, but specifically for Goblins 3 I haven't figured out any way to play the music other than through adlib. I'd really love to hear the music through general midi and see what it sounds like. Although I haven't tried extracting any files from that...maybe I should try. Anyways, there you have it.

Here's something I've been wondering for a while. Is it possible to change the output of adlib to midi output with dosbox or vdmsound or anything at all without the drivers in the game? so that games that only support adlib/sound blaster can be transfered to play out of you're mpu-401 instead of adlib? Can you trick it like that since it's all just midi data anyway somehow? Or does it depend on the game actually having a general midi or the like driver?

Anyone ever hear of Star Trekn TNG A Final Unity? That was a great game. But it's practically non-existant.

Here's an idea. Alistair, why don't you host them on Sierra Music Central? Would be a great addition to the site.

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If I had somewhere to host them I would. I'd love to get a hold of them, too.

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"A guitar can be as expressive and beautiful - if not more beautiful - than a violin or viola, if it's used properly. It doesn't have to be rock and mad screaming, it can be very beautiful." -Mike Oldfield

I have the disk versions of 2 and 3. 3 was my favourite and there's no way I can play the soundtrack without playing the game! I didn't know all 3 games were available on cd rom....I'll have to find them. Or maybe someone else can record them for us? There's no way that I can record the midis either from the games which lack an mpu-401 output driver.

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"A guitar can be as experssive and beautiful - if not more beautiful - than a violin or viola, if it's used properly. It doesn't have to be rock and mad screaming, it can be very beautiful." -Mike Oldfield

Yes, I had the full COC MT-32 soundtrack completed, but it was mono and there was a bit of hissing and other unreasonable sounds in the whole thing because my line input blew on the sound card I had at the time and I could only use the mic input. So I later removed it off the site before I left. There was some things I didn't like about it anyway. Some things that bugged me that I felt were not very professional about it. Like noticeable reverb setting changes. I'm not sure if it's still on the server somewhere or not.

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"A guitar can be as expressive and beautiful - if not more beautiful - than a violin or viola, if it's used properly. It doesn't have to be rock and mad screaming, it can be very beautiful." -Mike Oldfield

[This message has been edited by MusicallyInspired (edited March 26, 2004).]

I have an MT-200. I don't know what CM-32L sounds are, but it has the Roland GS instrument mapping and also has the MT-32 instrument mapping. I don't know if that's what you mean or if you're talking about the sounds themselves.

And it's LCD.

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[This message has been edited by MusicallyInspired (edited April 10, 2004).]

Yes, that's what I'm doing. I'm going to ebay.ca but searching worldwide so I can see the prices in CAD. But is there anywhere else other than ebay where the 8850 might be sold?

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I can't find it anywhere on ebay right now. Just wondering if there are other such sites where I can get a hold of it. I don't have the money right now anyway and it'll probably show up on ebay again down the road. Just wondering. I'm very intrigued about this module. And I'm sick of only just over 300 sonuds on my MT-200  .

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"Requires MCGA, CGA, VGA, PGA, or TA-RA-RA-BOOMGA!" -Gary Owens, SQ4