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Luke004 / zulu-assault

Trying to revive an old classic game of 1998 that I used to play a lot as a kid.
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Ripped music from a copy of game & converted to OGG #8

Closed mminnick closed 4 years ago

mminnick commented 4 years ago

I stumbled across this project and was shocked to find that someone else actually remembered this game. A few years back I had found a copy and extracted the music because I thought it was pretty good. The original music is actually tracker music (XM to be specific) and I extracted it via a hex editor. I pulled down your version and noticed your music seemed to be either a recording from a play session or something similar and I thought I'd take the opportunity to convert the XM files I have to OGG and put in this pull request.

The music "intros" are slightly different from your current ones, but the exact loop points in the tracker were different than what you had. It shouldn't affect anything though, it should play the intro once and then loop the main file indefinitely. Debriefing only plays once.

I also have a "you_died.ogg" that I'm pretty sure played once you died in the game. I don't know if I got that from the version I had, or from a DIFFERENT version like the demo or something. I literally don't remember because it's been years, but it's definitely from some iteration of the game.

mminnick commented 4 years ago

One other thing: I did not master these tracks or anything, so some of them are pretty loud. The instruments also sound slightly different.. Whatever engine Dallas used in the original game to play the trackers was not as accurate as tracker libraries are today, it seems.

Luke004 commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the music files :) I tested the audio and it is much better quality. Thanks a lot. Reason should be that i recorded all audio directly during a play session, as you guessed correctly. And since my Windows 10 PC can't handle the game very well, it sounds slightly different. I am glad that - not the sound effects - but at least the music sounds very accurate and high quality now. Regarding the "you_died.ogg" music file: I already had that in the game, but in the "sounds" folder; so, I was aware, that it exists and it was also already in the game. But, you are right - it should be in the "music" folder. I have moved it there now.

Thanks for your contribution!