scummvm might be of interest:
http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/SCUMM/Techn … ence/iMuse_data
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/maste … nes/scumm/imuse
https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/tree/maste … cumm/imuse_digi

Wait a minute... I just realized...are .IMS and .MDR files drivers instead of containers?

...i'm an idiot. I think what I meant to be looking for is tools for .LFD format.

edit: and as it turns out, SLADE supports LFD for replacing files... and it turns out that the ROLAND.LFD files are identical. So once again we look at the drivers. It appears that ROLAND.MDR ignores the ROLAND.LFD file and instead converts the GMIDI.LFD music from general midi to mt-32 compatible in real time or something. So... back to square one. Any way to modify the driver to actually use the Roland format instead of back converting it from General Midi?

edit: I tried renaming ROLAND.LFD to RLAND.LFD and then hex editing BWING.EXE to look for that instead of GMIDI.LFD...no difference in sound. I then tried the original EXE but renamed ROLAND.LFD to GMIDI.LFD...again no difference.

Bump. Anybody have any suggestions whatsoever?

Did you ever find a solution for this? I'm looking to do exactly the same thing. I'm sure it's possible for someone with the interest and technical ability.

Bump. This would be great.. I have an MT32 and both versions of the game. Would love to hear the MT32 compositions on the CD version.

The Windows version should be fairly easy.... Record the MT-32 music from the floppy version and replace the recorded files in the Windows version.

No clue about replacing the DOS CD version music.

I am actually looking for similar moddings. The Collector's CD ROM version of both X-Wing and TIE Fighter runs on Windows 9x, has texture mapped graphics (which I like so much), but replaces the game's dynamic MIDI music with looping Red Book audio recordings of the Star Wars score. 😵

Is there any way to modify the Collector's CD ROM version to use dynamic MIDI music during flight? I always want to re-play TIE Fighter with texture mapped graphics, but with General MIDI music using the best sound font for the game's music.

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-13, 06:03:

The Windows version should be fairly easy.... Record the MT-32 music from the floppy version and replace the recorded files in the Windows version.

Not a big deal.

The point is that X-Wing and Tie Fighter use a kind of dynamic music. Imagine that you are patrolling a friendly empty spot in space... you have a calm music, but at the moment that some hostile ships jump out of hyperspace you'll get an accelerated "get into the action" music. When you shot down (down? in space?) the last hostile or when the ship you escort is safe, the music will step down. Obviously, a pre-recorded soundtrack won't do this things.

It's a shame that Lucas Arts made CD-ROM audio mandatory for CD-ROM versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter. DOS CD-ROM versions ran at 640x480 (high-res!), and Windows 95 added better models, shaded surfaces and hardware acceleration to the game. A version that had the graphics of Windows 95 and the music of floppy versions would have been the definitive edition (although pre-recorded music sounded better, a wavesynth sound card with dynamic music is way more immersive).

Zup wrote on 2020-12-13, 11:27:

It's a shame that Lucas Arts made CD-ROM audio mandatory for CD-ROM versions of X-Wing and Tie Fighter. DOS CD-ROM versions ran at 640x480 (high-res!), and Windows 95 added better models, shaded surfaces and hardware acceleration to the game. A version that had the graphics of Windows 95 and the music of floppy versions would have been the definitive edition (although pre-recorded music sounded better, a wavesynth sound card with dynamic music is way more immersive).

Precisely.

How difficult it is to modify the Windows 95 version to play dynamic MIDI music like the floppy version does?

Ah, ok. I didn't realize that. It has been years since I played those games.