A discussion on restoring EQ's music once and for all

[Overcast]

Originally Posted by doacleric [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

http://www.xs4all.nl/~treesong/EQmp3.zip

These are about as close as we are going to get without someone running a classic client on a PC from the 1999-2000 era.
Btw, I made those mp3's about 6 years ago =)

I still have the *original* EQ CD at home - if I install it - couldn't I get all the original MIDI files?

I'll do that for giggles, but I'm not sure offhand which files or file contains the music.

[mgellan]

Originally Posted by Overcast [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I still have the *original* EQ CD at home - if I install it - couldn't I get all the original MIDI files?

I think you can hear the original MIDI just by deleting the new MP3 files so the game plays the XMI (extended MIDI) files by default, but modern MIDI support provides very poor rendition compared to original Soundblaster AWE32 with the included Soundbank file. Thats what I'm trying to recreate!

FWIW I'm still struggling with noise on my AWE64 and reluctantly attributing it to the card itself. I may end up spending the $10 to buy an actual AWE32...

Regards,
Mg

[Melias]

Originally Posted by mgellan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think you can hear the original MIDI just by deleting the new MP3 files so the game plays the XMI (extended MIDI) files by default, but modern MIDI support provides very poor rendition compared to original Soundblaster AWE32 with the included Soundbank file. Thats what I'm trying to recreate!

I believe this is correct as Cobalt Scar has no MP3 file, but it has the XMI and I still get that damn song playing when around the little bugger otters.

Incidentally, the Mayong Mistmoore fight in Demiplane of Blood has a different music for when fighting him contrary to the rest of the zone and that file is an MP3. However, it's in all likelyhood just the entire raid instance changing the regular MP3 to that one.

[Simplistik]

After 2 days of frustration trying to find all the different drivers I now have an old box Pentium 2 , with an Soundblaster 16 (isa) Windows 98SE installed on it anyone have any direction on what to do now to convert the MP3's over to midi?