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So I've long been interested in seeing if I could rip the MIDI/HMI files from the resources files of Prisoner of Ice. I have the CD version of the game which comes with the VGA and SVGA talkie versions. You can toggle between a lo-fi digital soundtrack and an FM soundtrack. However, I noticed today that in the CD's root directory there are files and information related to the GUS. LOADPATS.EXE is present but when you run it it says to run INSTALL and SETUPGUS which aren't included on the disc. It has no install or setup executables at all, actually (runs like a LucasArts CD game right off the disc, only saving game settings and save games on the hard drive). I was hoping to at least find a way to change the MIDI device to an external compatible driver so I could capture the MIDI information, but no such capability exists. But the presence of GUS files leads me to think that it used to. Perhaps the floppy version? I don't have this version so I can't find out. Does anyone else out there?
I've ripped the digital soundtrack from the game long ago by opening certain game files with Goldwave with the correct PCM settings and just splitting them up that way. But I see files that reference HMI as well so I have to imagine there are HMI files embedded in the resources somewhere somehow. But it's not as easy (for me anyway) to rip MIDI files as it is with the PCM hack I did years ago. Any ideas?
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