Thank you SO much MysteryDev for uploading this CD. Awesome indeed.
And sorry for being a thread necromancer but...
Quote Posted by ZylonBane
MysteryDev is almost certainly someone who was working at Irrational or Looking Glass when SS2 came out. Doesn't matter really. Now, as for getting these songs in-game...
If you look in SND.CRF, there's a subfolder SONGS that contains all the music files. Most of the songs are split up into chunks that are dynamically assembled at run-time as per the songs schema file. The chunks of each song are identified by a number at the beginning of each filename. These numbers correspond to the Official Soundtrack filenames as follows:
Code:
02 = Eric Brosius - 07 - Hydro 2.mp3
03 = Eric Brosius - 09 - Ops 3.mp3
04 = Eric Brosius - 05 - Ops 1.mp3
05 = Eric Brosius - 12 - Command 3.mp3
06 = Eric Brosius - 03 - Med Sci 2.mp3
07 = Eric Brosius - 13 - Rec.mp3
08 = Eric Brosius - 02 - Med Sci 1.mp3
09 = Eric Brosius - 06 - Hydro 1.mp3
10 = Eric Brosius - 08 - Ops 2.mp3
11 = Eric Brosius - 10 - Command 1.mp3
13 = Eric Brosius - 11 - Command 2.mp3
e1 = Eric Brosius - 04 - Engineering.mp3
e2 = Eric Brosius - 05 - Ops 1.mp3
Now, note that only
most of the songs are chunked up. Four of them are not. In SND\SONGS\ you can find 02ALL.WAV, 03ALL.WAV, 04ALL.WAV, and 05ALL.WAV. These precisely match the full tracks supplied by MysteryDev. So, to get these particular high-quality tracks in-game, all anyone would have to do is convert the MP3s to 44-KHz stereo PCM WAVs, then place the WAVs in the SND\SONGS\ folder of their mod-ready SS2 install. For example:
* Convert "Eric Brosius - 07 - Hydro 2.mp3" to WAV.
* Rename the WAV file to "02ALL.WAV".
* Copy 02ALL.WAV to SND\SONGS\.
I haven't had a chance to test this yet, and it's been so long since I've played with music enabled that I can't remember what tracks play where anymore, but it should work. Filesize shouldn't be a problem either, since IIRC the music tracks are tagged to stream instead of load all at once.
Note that the Ops 1 music is also present in chunked-up form under the E1 series. I have no idea which version is used where in-game, or if both are used. Also, 11ALL.WAV/11ALL2.WAV appears to just be "Command 1" split in half, omitting the stab at 01:22.
Eventually all these songs can be chopped up and substituted into SS2, but I'm not sure the difference in quality would be sufficiently noticeable to make it worth the effort (some of the songs are chopped into 11 pieces!). So I encourage everyone to try substituting the *ALL tracks described above to see if they can tell any difference.
Has anyone tried this? It would be great, because playing SS2 in widescreen with graphic and playable enhacements is nice, but enjoying it's full-quality soundtrack as well would rock the sh~t out of this world.
I would do it, if I had the time.
And sorry for my awful English.
