Re: Roland GS gamelist (timeline) + driver fix links

Posted on 2013-05-31, 02:12

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T: If I saw this post 3 years ago, I'd think it'd be okay to use the GM driver for EcoQuest 1. I was playing MT-32 games using the MS GM device. That's not good. Well, just because the music is designed for the MT-32 doesn't mean it sounds horrible on a Sound Canvas or wavetable GM with Sierra's …

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Re: Duke Nukem II wont run

Posted on 2013-05-29, 12:45

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Mouse unplugged affect Duke 2?

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Re: Roland GS gamelist (timeline) + driver fix links

Posted on 2013-05-29, 12:44

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For purely academic trivia purposes. I did put a mild disclaimer that it's meant for the MT-32 device. And they can be used with a GM driver, with not-great results. Another World did allow a LAPC-I. Then again, I -can- see how people will get confused by it. And how they shouldn't be there... and …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-05-29, 02:28

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NRS: Intro sounds completely different in 5.wav on the CD than in the Making of video. The latter almost sounds as if it had been recorded from the first Wave Blaster daughterboard (CT1900). Oh, OK. It's been a LONG time since I saw that video.. I'll ask RH and see if he remembers. Wow, it's just …

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Re: Roland GS gamelist (timeline) + driver fix links

Posted on 2013-05-29, 01:51

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Do you know the reason why certain games that use GS don't send a reset? To paraphrase Rudy Helm (since I lost the quote from a personal email), who composed Sierra's Quest for Glory III, Sierra got the SC-55 sound module in ~1992 and composers were chomping at the bit to use GS and the full …

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Re: Duke Nukem II wont run

Posted on 2013-05-29, 01:44

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I would surely delete some things in that autoexec.bat! I seem to remember mine having less than 10 lines.. For fun, you might unplug the sound card, or backup autoexec and delete references to SBPRO, and see if it's a sound card issue, that often seems to be the thing. Question: Can you run other …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2013-05-27, 15:10

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Great to see this topic up and running again! Thanks to the guy who told me. Thanks to tikalat for the drivers and NRS for a lot of the legwork and info. If there was a position for 'guy who knows the most about Sierra coding', it would be you. OK, some info from various posts. Also: If the "Making …

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Re: Extract Sierra resource files.

Posted on 2013-02-13, 03:29

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Marooned, if there's a soundtrack or files you want, just hit me up with a PM and I'll send you what I have. I have extensive libraries of extracted music, some edited to loop properly and have metadata, some not.

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Extract from Tsunami games (Also Blue Force savegame request)

Posted on 2013-02-13, 03:24

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Hey folks, Wondering if there's anyone who's been able to extract from Tsunami games, e.g. Blue Force's RLB custom file format. On a different yet related note, does anyone have any Blue Force save games? I need them for a project. I'm also looking for the MIDI music from Blue Force, if anyone has …

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Re: A question about General Midi in PC games

Posted on 2012-08-08, 12:43

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This thread is a little old, and not sure about Indy, but Willy Beamish is a MT-32 game, not a GM game.. so with that setup (AWE64) you should use the Sound Blaster/Adlib option in the installer. In MT-32 setting you will hear all the instruments (other than drums) played incorrectly, and all the …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-08-01, 21:07

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Tika, Awesome!!! Thanks so much. Do you need the files in a few days or are you saying you need to test things over a few days? Finally, do you have a way of getting the SysEx from WB disk or CD (or both) as a .Pat file? 1.pat or MT-32.pat I think they're called?

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-08-01, 15:46

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Nope, it crashed your dumper ;) Remember, the music files are no longer stored in SX files, this is a bastardised SCI offshoot or something, it's not Dynamix resources any more, as evidenced by that TXT file I uploaded, the resources are views, scripts, sounds, etc. Anyway, when you get a chance, …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-08-01, 03:35

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Awesome! Extracted Willy tonight. NRS had sent me the files some time ago, but it's neat to be able to do it myself :) Question: Willy CD is in a completely different format; it has a resource.001 and resource.map; but none of the Sierra decoding programs will work, i.e. SCI Studio, SCI Viewer, …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-07-24, 12:47

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Question: why did Sierra keep 'Survivor' for 'Vadis' replacement (Dragon King boss)? Yeah, it's because in the localization Sierra dropped all the 'Romancia' tracks other than Castle Romancia, so that's why you have Bloody River playing again, Evil Shaman playing again, Survivor playing again. …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-07-24, 01:26

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Tikalat, can you make a tool that extracts images or anything else from Dynamix games? SCi Viewer and Studio and others don't work for Dynamix games. Do you still need the Sorc info? You seem to have beaten me to it.. I guess you figured out by now that Survivor plays when Beautiful Day should, and …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-07-18, 02:02

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Tika, Track 54 is unused. Don't have an answer for it, it sounds familiar, but it doesn't match any of the 58 Japanese music pieces in any real way. I don't think it plays in game, but if I hear it, I'll let you know. SS099 is played in-game, it's a fanfare which is played every time you slay a …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-07-10, 00:57

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Some info is here, on the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerian Of course this doesn't tell you resource numbers. I will get back to you. I know this is wrong because the game is Japanese and Sierra's has the music correct for most tracks but from one point in the game onwards, all the music …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-07-08, 23:32

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Other than possible buggy PQ1 installer, on Sorcerian, how does the game play sound effects? Is it always PC Speaker? Also, is it possible to fix the problem (also in Sorc) where the music resources are misaligned by 1 in the latter half of the game (from a certain point where a music resource is …

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-06-24, 16:26

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Whew! Dynamix! 😁 Thanks NRS, you're on fire this week. Now.. what else can we get you to do.. 😉 Hey, doesn't PQ1VGA have some broken sound driver in a weird install program?

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Re: Sierra/Dynamix sound driver hacking

Posted on 2012-06-23, 03:16

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Don't tell me you've never heard of this blockbuster game, which has the added benefit of being completely silent with the "General MIDI" selection Doesn't one of the Dynamix TIM games have the same problem? Tim 1 or EM maybe? Thanks for all the patches, NRS. As usual, you've been a real pantload. …

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