Prophecy Flight Music!

Wedge009

Wedge009

Rogue Leader
Hooray! I dunno if anyone has done this already, but thanks to HCl's MGI2WAV converter and TRE Manager, the flight music from WCP can be extracted. Unfortunately, because flight music in WC is 'interactive,' the WAVs are split into hundreds of chunks of <200KB. But with a little patience, one can combine all the WAVs together to form the inflight music. Yay!

Also, I noticed the simulator music have an 'ending' section to them as well, so you can have a more 'complete' sim tune, instead of it just fading away as the ones in the music section do. The credits tune is also a lot less distorted than the one from the music section too.

Just thought I'd mention it to anyone who's interested. If I had the bandwidth, I might try uploading too.
 
COOL!!!!!!!

*maybe* the cic could upload them......(hint hint):)

then my music library for WC would be complete!!!!


HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
 
Where do you download the MGI2WAV program?
I`ll be more than happy to work on combining the files into a few big ones.

Plus, everybody knows I`m the best at editing WC music... ;)
 
SW: Orchestral of course! Besides, using MGI2WAV allows you to hear the 'ending' sequence you never hear in the simulator because of the endless repetition.

MH: MGI2WAV version 3 is from HCl's website. Darn but I've already forgotten it, I just clicked on the link LOAF posted. :)

BTW, not all the WAV's join together seamlessly, you may need to do a micro fading in and out between some WAVs or whatever tricks you have for fixing that cos otherwise you'll end up with a 'clicking' sound as the song plays.

The music.tre from CD2 puts all the files in the audio\music\ directory.

Sim music is XX.mgi where XX is 01 to 10.
Credits music is 11.mgi
CD1 music is wcp1_go.mgi
CD2 music is wcp3_go.mgi
CD3 music is wcp5_bm.mgi

I'm sure all CDs play the same music when you fight capships, once all fighters have been cleared out. I think the 'mission accomplished' tune is the same for CD1&2.
 
Originally posted by Wedge009
BTW, not all the WAV's join together seamlessly, you may need to do a micro fading in and out between some WAVs or whatever tricks you have for fixing that cos otherwise you'll end up with a 'clicking' sound as the song plays.
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Have you ever known me to post a file with clicking sounds in the middle? ;)
 
Hey Wedge, I tried extracting the music, but all I get is WAV files full of static. No music at all.
Any ideas?
Exactly what files am I supposed to extract the music from?
 
I applied the program to the music.tre file, but all I got were 4 WAVs that were all garbled up. What am I supposed to use this program on??
 
The only problem I had was not having DPMI or something like that in pure DOS, so I ran the programs in a DOS window within Win95. To extract the MGIs, I had to do it one file at a time - trying to extract all files at once didn't seem to agree with the program.

To extract the WAVs all I did was type:

MGI2WAV WCP5_BM.MGI

and the program did the rest. (I used version 3.0)

I don't know if the MGI2WAV doesn't like your comp or whatever. All the WAVs were fine to me. Stereo 16bit 22KHz.
 
Originally posted by Wedge009
The music.tre from CD2 puts all the files in the audio\music\ directory.

Sim music is XX.mgi where XX is 01 to 10.
Credits music is 11.mgi
CD1 music is wcp1_go.mgi
CD2 music is wcp3_go.mgi
CD3 music is wcp5_bm.mgi
Click to expand...

Good luck! :)
 
I`m really slow this week, wedge. ;)

Is there another program or something that I need to use to get the files extracted?

Or, could you just give me a step-by-step tutorial starting, let`s say, at the moment you turn on your computer? ;)

I type mgi2wav music.tre in the DOS box, and all I get are 4 wav files which son`t have any music in them.
 
Well, when I did pure DOS, there was no DPMI, or whatever, so I did it in a DOS window.

1. Insert WCP CD2 into CD-ROM drive. :) (and make sure you've got the TREManager and MGI2WAV3 in whatever directory you want to decompress the files into)

2. At the prompt:
C:>treman d:\music.tre

3. Select option 3 (extract 1 or more files)

4. Select option 1 (I couldn't get it to work using multiple file extraction)

5. Type audio\music\wcpX_XX.mgi (wcp1_go.mgi, wcp3_go.mgi, wcp5_bm.mgi for CD1, CD2, CD3 music respectively)

6. Press 0 to exit :)

7. (I moved the MGI from the audio\music\ directory to the same directory I had MGI2WAV in, for simplicity)

8. Type mgi2wav wcpX_XX.mgi (Only CD3 music seemed to end with an error, but that was OK, since most of the music was extracted by then. I don't like mission failure music.)

9. You should now have hundreds of WAVs labelled 00000001.wav to 000002XX.wav or something like that.

10. Combine the WAVs and do your fancy noise-reduction or whatever, and compress to MP3.
 
Thanks Wedge.
I will now go on to doing my "Combine-the-WAVs-and-do-your- fancy-noise-reduction-or-whatever-and-compress-to-MP3" thingy. :D
 
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