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First post, by Mismatch2

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Hello again, and because I'm feeling lucky, i'd like to ask another couple of questions..

I have a 99% stock IBM Aptiva 2168, P75, 8MB ram with an S3trio64+ PCI graphics card thrown in... Running MS-DOS 6.22. (it has a CT2800 SB16VIBRA sound card as standard)

I've Installed XMEN CotA 8MB ver...

I've finally got XMEN - children of the ATOM VER.1.0 to read the damn CD... (I guess thats a starting point),I have set sound as a Creative labs soundblaster or 100% compatible, and the device is successfully detected. Then I launch the game... uvconfig finds my graphics card, then the game launches... At this point I only get FX sound.... I can F10 to set everything up,joypad, etc... but finally, when it comes to playing the game, I have no BGM or sound track... is this normal for this game or is something setup wrong?

Cheers...

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Reply 1 of 2, by gaffa2002

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If I'm not mistaken this game uses CDDA audio (audio tracks, you can play the game music into any CD player starting from track 2). So to have music you:
-Need to have the CD drivers loaded correctly (assuming you are running in pure DOS)
-In some systems, you need to have a 4 pin cable connecting your CD drive to your sound card
-Must have the game CD in the disc tray

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My DOS/ Win98 PC specs

EP-7KXA Motherboard
Athlon Thunderbird 750mhz
256Mb PC100 RAM
Geforce 4 MX440 64MB AGP (128 bit)
Sound Blaster AWE 64 CT4500 (ISA)
32GB HDD

Reply 2 of 2, by bjwil1991

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Some CD-ROM drives have a headphone jack on there and that might give you the BGM/soundtrack playback, but, I can be mistaken. I haven't used the CD audio on any of my computers in a long time, except my Ultimate Windows 98SE machine has the Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Platinum installed and the CD-RW has the analog cable plugged in for games and music, and the DVD-ROM has the digital cable plugged in for movies. My Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus has a CD-ROM drive that has a headphone jack, however, I need to find the appropriate MPC2 audio cable to connect between the CR-563-B and the SB16 CT2740 card.

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