A Few Questions about P99 on Green

[Kaa]

There's a Dragoon who spawns in the Ocean of Tears named Dragoon d'Artellin or something like that, on one of the islands. He either drops or is related to a note to or from Dragoon d'Artellin which you can get and read. I'm not sure exactly beyond that, it's been a while. Everything suggests this is an unsolved quest (unless it's been solved and is on Allakhazam or something), I discovered it on EQMac I believe.

I was excited to see that there's a fix for the MIDI music being out of key but alas, one of the downloads necessary to implement the fix outlined in the first post in that thread no longer sends you to a working link (broken link). Think anyone will mind if I thread necro?? (Or could you send me your download of bassmididrv.exe? Was that the fix you used?)

Thanks.

Also are drop rates/spawn rates about right to your knowledge? I got a Polished Granite Tomahawk from Highpass a couple nights ago and my suspicion was always that it was an ultra rare drop, maybe I was just lucky this time.

Edit: Apparently that thread on the EQ MIDIs remains active, no thread necro needed! I'll keep following it until someone posts another fix which appears to be in the offing

[BlackBellamy]

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

Edit: Apparently that thread on the EQ MIDIs remains active, no thread necro needed! I'll keep following it until someone posts another fix which appears to be in the offing

Actually I remember having issues with that first solution I found something later in the thread which actually helped me:

Originally Posted by ir0nfist [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bassmidi won't work with anything after Win 7 as far as I know because midi mapper has been removed. I linked to VirtualMidiSynth a couple years ago a few pages back. That will work and still does. I just decided to maybe play a little bit and it works. I'm using a different soundfont though than most others as well. You have to disable "Increase Process Priority to REALTIME" in virtualmidisynth options or it won't work from my experience.
VirtualMidiSynth
Soundfont I use: FluidR3_GM.sfArk
Needed to decompress that font: sfark

[Kaa]

Right, I got that note from the Prophet on EQMac or one of the TLP servers and figured it was for an unsolved quest. Could just be flavor as you say, but I wouldn't rule out it being an unsolved quest. If the Prophet doesn't drop the note on EQMac, maybe it was added later (I think that's kind of unlikely that they'd add flavor text for Classic-era lore post-Luclin but I could be wrong, they finished the Gnoll Slayer quest during the Luclin era for example).

As far as the music goes, I'm not sure how to do the fix. I think they're going to post a guide soon on that other thread or on the wiki, but, thank you at any rate for mentioning what worked for you.

I guess my primary concerns at this point relate to music (for example, there is no underwater music -- there was in Classic) and sound effects (are the sound effects properly classic/complete i.e. is everything that was in the game in 1999 in the game on the green server?). But there are people working on this who know far more about it than I do, so I'll keep my eyes peeled there.

Cheers