Add Microsoft DirectMusic support (*.sgt, *.sty, *.dls, etc.)

Malvineous / libgamemusic

Library providing a standard mechanism for playing and converting music used in DOS games.

http://www.shikadi.net/camoto/

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Add Microsoft DirectMusic support (.sgt, .sty, *.dls, etc.) #8

Open ildar opened 6 years ago

ildar commented 6 years ago

Found another very MIDI-ish format. Rumors say it's "standard" but originated from Microsoft (maybe). The FR raised while I failed to convert/play files from this site

ildar commented 6 years ago

ahh! http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php/SGT

Malvineous commented 6 years ago

I would like to add DirectMusic support as two of my favourite games - Shogo and Blood 2 - use this format. However I think the documentation is very scarce and knowing Microsoft it will be unnecessarily complicated, so I suspect it will not be worth the effort to reverse engineer. However if there is enough documentation on the format (or someone is willing to implement it) then it would be great to add support for it, as I don't think there are any non-Windows players for this format.

Malvineous commented 6 years ago

Some further investigation reveals:

Project implementing DirectMusic support (.sgt) - https://github.com/frabert/libdmusic
Shogo/Blood2 use IMA (Interactive Music Architecture; .sec instead of .sgt), the forerunner to DirectMusic.
Microsoft have some docs on DirectMusic file formats, but none for IMA.

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Add Microsoft DirectMusic support (*.sgt, *.sty, *.dls, etc.) #8

Add Microsoft DirectMusic support (.sgt, .sty, *.dls, etc.) #8