cate1697 wrote:

OK, thanks, now I understand. Is the PSX version of all games better than the PC one? What about the other TR? Especially the latest? Should one buy PC or PSX? Do all PSX games have music you can play with Windows media player or is it specific to TR?

I own both versions and, despite the lack of the event tunes, I don't see myself playing at the PSX version ever again. It was great back then, but (re)discovering the PC version through Glidos was a real shock. Overall, this one is so much better.

As for your second question, TR2 also comes to mind. There aren't that many games that used audio CD for the music on PSX. Most of the time, the music was either generated by the console audio chipset into a custom format (from which SPU and PSF are derived) or simply streamed in PCM.

I'm coming in on this one late but isn't the lack of abient sounds (wind, secret found, rock slides..) a symptom ot TR1's insistance the CD be in the Lowest Letter Drive? I found this to be true EVEN IF THE GAME DRIVE IS VIRTUAL, as mine is. In other words physical bus location is irrelevant. Not the lowest letter drive, then no music or music file based sounds. Period. The game will play but NO music.

Try this. Put the TR1 CD in the second lowest drive letter, 'E' for example. Now put an audio CD on the LOWEST letter drive, 'D' for example.

Crank up TR1 via Glidos/VDMS. When Lara cues a sound based on a music file one of the songs (or portion thereof) on the audio CD will play. Lara is the DJ here by the way!

Fortunately WinXP, at least. allows easy drive letter re-assignment.

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Yeh, I think I've had that happen. But there again, I remember other times when it looked as though TR just decided not to play the CD audio at all. If it does still play audio with the TR CD in the second drive, I really ought to be able to direct the commands to the right drive... I've tried before though, and something went wrong; can't remember what.

Hi Glidos!

Been there, done it and have the T-shirt tattooed on my upper forehead in reverse English so I can read it in the mirror. I've been engaged in this subject in four different forums (Glidos, VDMSound TR - Stella's and Eidos.

Many have said "I should be able to...." but no one has been able to. I spent quite some time on this with both physical drive connections and a virtual drive connections.

TR1 doesn't just want it. It demands it's CD audio tracks from the lowest letter drive, don't know why but no-one has shown it to be otherwise. They all say what you and I both think (or I should say I thought..), "I should be able to ...". Well if some-one can, I'd like to know how. My advise, don't waste your time, many other people have already wasted theirs. Configure it for the lowest drive or give up the ambient sounds/music.

See:

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?s … &threadid=23873

http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?s … &threadid=23252

Hey, since your on-line tonight I may start another thread pm a different subject.

Later!

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When you use TR with Glidos under XP, the CD audio commands isssued by TR in the DOS environment are picked up by Glidos and reissued in the Windows environment. I can change Glidos so that it sends the commands to a different drive. Well I ought to be able to.

But I have tried this, and I remember something gave me the impression that TR wasn't actually issuing CD audio command if its CD wasn't in the lowest drive. Your experiment with TR and an audio CD, suggests my impression was wrong.