The whole X-Wing Collectior series only plays CD Audio when inserted in the first CD-ROM drive, not the drive the CD is really inserted in. It's really too bad they haven't kept the midi soundtrack 🙁

Thanks for trying to help, gulikoza...

But the thing is that I don't have problems using the CD to play with soundtrack. The problem only happens when I load the CD image (as described above)... Only then I can't hear the soundtrack.

I do have 2 other virtual (CD) drives (besides HD partitions)...

So are you trying to say if I change the virtual drive letter to be the first CD/DVD letter available it should work fine? I'm pretty sure I have a virtual drive before my real drive, but I'll check that later today, when I get home from work.

Oh, and I really like the audio soundtrack 😀 ! It only plays during flight, though, but the rest is all MIDI music...

I'm not sure if the game uses driver letters, it might go directly to the first CD device it finds...I know audio only works in one of my drives 😀
MIDI soundtrack was great because it was dynamic, CD Audio quickly becomes boring 😉

gulikoza wrote:

The whole X-Wing Collectior series only plays CD Audio when inserted in the first CD-ROM drive, not the drive the CD is really inserted in. It's really too bad they haven't kept the midi soundtrack 🙁

Does the X-Wing Collector series play any audio CD inserted in the first CD-ROM drive, like this game?

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

Does the X-Wing Collector series play any audio CD inserted in the first CD-ROM drive, like this game?

Well, I don't know about that game (Warlords III: Darklords Rising), but I can confirm that (at least) Tie Fighter 95 (Collector series) only plays the audio tracks inflight if the CD/DVD drive letter is the first one (after any HD partitions).

It's quite strange that by changing the actual DVD drive letter (so that it's not the first one, the audio tracks don't play after that change). And by changing the drive letter of the virtual CD/DVD to be the first one, not even then (with the loaded image) do the audio tracks play at all... Really strange!

I can't stand the Collectors' Series X-Wing and TIE Fighter. Without the MIDI music the games are almost boring. I really never liked redbook audio; way too non-interactive. The original scores of the games were way more fun, and a break from the overly-used John Williams stuff.

If they'd gotten IMUSE working in those Win95 releases, they'd probably be the best editions of the games ever released. But they couldn't be bothered to and it said something about how much they cared about them. IMUSE MIDI was a major part of those games. Same with Dark Forces and other Lucasarts games from those days.

BTW, I also disliked X-Wing Alliance a bit for its use of the tired John William soundtracks. It did use a new digital audio form of IMUSE, but no original score.

I've also never had great luck with mounted CD images and redbook audio playback. It's sort of voodoo magic as to under which circumstances it will actually work.

Your input is much appreciated, swaaye! 😎

Regarding the X-Wing and TIE Fighter Collectors' Series, I have to admit that I was enjoying it mostly for the enhanced graphics (and speeched briefings), as the rest seems pretty much the same, besides the redbook audio, which obviously lacks those dynamic changes. Why on earth didn't they release it with some compressed format like mp3 is beyond me...

Guess I should hunt down the Collector Series for DOS then.

About X-Wing Alliance, I must say it's one the best in the series, despite not always following the movie storyline. Sound, gameplay, graphics, nice story... Has pretty much captured my interest from beginning to end. 😀

As for the mounted CD images and redbook audio playback, I thought it could be the way the image was created (like requiring a specific software or something), but it appears I'm not the only one with the problem, so... Go figure! 😖