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Getting new soundtracks and .sng files to work with XP.
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 7:26 pm
by DarkFlameWolf
Well ever since switching from a Win98 interface and into a Windows XP interface, I can no longer have 4+ midi soundtracks in my Descent 2 mission campaigns. For example, the level 5 midi for Project Mandrill or all the new midis for levels 5-24 in Lost Levels or the 4 midis for levels 5-8 in Encounter at Far Point, I can no longer hear those. It simply loops back to level 1's music for level 5, level 2's music for level 6, etc. Even though those mission sets have multiple (more than 4) level songs. Furthermore, I tried changing the descent.sng file to be able to accomodate the increased midi line-up, but it completely ignores it and keeps playing the first four. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and how to fix it?
Posted: Sun May 28, 2006 10:24 pm
by Sirius
What version of D2 are you running? If it's bog-standard descent2.exe, I'd be surprised if there was any difference in .sng handling from 98 to XP. If it's a blend of D2x, well, then there's a bug and something can be done about it...
Posted: Tue May 30, 2006 10:05 pm
by DarkFlameWolf
d2-xl I'm using as a matter of factly. So yeah, the sng file that I used for Lost Levels (which supports up to a 24 track soundtrack for a mission) don't work at the moment and its just the first 4 that are played.
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 3:40 am
by Diedel
Wrong forum area.
I will still look into this though.
Edit: The songs played for this mission should simply be the D1:FS songs, right?
This works for me. I wonder how old your D2X-XL version is. Version no.?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 6:40 am
by DarkFlameWolf
Mostly, but every four levels will be boss music from FF7 and near the end in the last 6 levels or so, it deviates from using D1:FS midis.
Your latest version, 1.6.60 or whatever version I listed in that real-time lightmap issue bug topic I made.
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 7:35 am
by Diedel
Anyway, for me it plays the midis from lostlvl.hog.
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:07 am
by DarkFlameWolf
All 24?
on a totally unrelated sidenote: descent 1 ending sequences doable in Descent 2- XL? Neato! Does this work for Descent 2 levels?
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 4:11 pm
by Diedel
D2X-XL first looks in lostlvl.hog for the midi files - for all of them.
Wouldn't \"feasible\" be preferrable over \"doable\"? Imo it sounds much better.
Posted: Wed May 31, 2006 8:32 pm
by Sirius
Or 'possible', but ... yeah, I've seen that word around a bit; not sure how correct it is. Anyway.
The entire soundtrack is working on my installation (1.6.15). Not sure what it is.