I'm dumb... Of course I could have simply hex edited earpds.dll to point to something else than winmm.dll. For example winm2.dll and then use a stand alone ogg-winmm wrapper renamed to match. I believe the _inmm thingy works in a similar way though I have never used it. SpeedySPCFan did you try _ …

Recent development in Dxwnd Virtual audio CD emulation have made HG2Launcher obsolete. With Dxwnd you can now restore the original functionality of music playback in Heavy Gear 2. see this discussion for more info: https://sourceforge.net/p/dxwnd/discussion/general/thread/d5d0fc08ae/?page=3&limit=25 …

Here is the source code for those who are interested. It is written in C language and can be compiled with MinGW or Visual C++.

I dropped support for cdaudio since there were so many issues. So just mp3 or wav playback supported. I also changed the music pause key to "Scroll lock". Since this is a simple console application and by default a console application is paused with the Pause/Break key this caused a problem if the …

Status update: Here are the changes I have made: The Launcher now looks for .mp3 tracks first and then switches to .wav tracks. Maybe useless to have wave file support but I figured it was easy to add and maybe someone wants 100% lossless audio quality. FLAC format would be better but that would …

Do you mean that the Heavy Gear 2 music works on your modern PC or are you just referencing to these old documents? These originate from 1999 and are really of no help today. They do tell that even back in the day the game could have issues on some systems.

Hello! First of all sorry to post on a year old topic but I think this might still be relevant. I have been looking into enabling music playback in Heavy Gear 2 and have made a small program that plays mp3 files while the game is running. The program works by monitoring the loaded DLL files and I …