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#162
07-01-2011, 03:25 PM
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Unfortunately, this project has come to its natural end.
Dead mantis was kind enough to ship me an original SB Live! card to use in the system. While it took a LOT of work to track down some drivers with full support for the card, it did happen. The problem is this. After running the EQ client with the card installed, the music sounded no different than the mp3 recordings I made over 6 years ago by simply uploading the eq soundfont into my Audigy. In other words, that seems to be how the music really did sound a decade ago. No extra instruments, no fancy reverb, nothing. I guess age has colored my memory of how the music used to sound. Though I was hoping it would sound more like those ancient recordings from the EQ website back in 1998. I will reupload the mp3 collection when I can find a place to host it. Until then, its basically the same mp3 files found here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~treesong/ If anyone has any music related questions, or wants me to test something running on a 2000 era client before I dismantle my contraption, please ask. | ||
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#164
07-02-2011, 12:05 AM
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#165
07-02-2011, 02:54 AM
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ii dont know man... ive heard differences like that from the midis played on awe32s and lives on, and the awe 32s definitely sounded more better.. i think the "good" sounding youtube ones all are through the 32s
plus back then i had a sb live and eq music was how it sounded now on this server, unfortunately never actually had a 32 | ||
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#166
08-10-2011, 10:42 PM
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I tried swapping the soundfont Xevin posted, but it made no difference in EQ.
In fact, to test, I deleted the gm.dls file from my system32 folder entirely. Still no difference in EQ. Did the gm.dls file serve any purpose at all? I downloaded some sweet Legend of Zelda midis from the internet and played them in Media Player. They didn't play at all, so apparently the gm.dls file DOES serve a purpose. I put the Windows default one back in there, and the Zelda midi played. I then swapped it out for Xevin's soundfont and the Zelda midi played differently. So in conclusion, Xevin's soundfont DOES change the way Windows renders a midi file, but EQ is doing something fishy... (And yes I tested in Kelethin, some place that didn't pull from an mp3 like Lavastorm would) | ||
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#167
08-11-2011, 09:32 PM
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sof is playing eqtheme.mp3 .... wich is a renamed mp3 from the zip.
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#168
08-14-2011, 09:20 AM
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So um, what's the latest/last bit of progress.
I don't really follow whats going on, To be more classicy then default install, is there anything I should download at this point, or did all your respective works fail? EDIT: I appreciate all your efforts so far either way. | ||
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#170
08-27-2011, 02:33 AM
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I had the music off permanently and love the ambient sounds in this game. I can't stand having music enabled, I find it even more jarring than the Luclin troll models - when that battle music started it pissed me right off. But it is out of habit for me so if you guys used to have the music, I can imagine how annoying it must feel not to be able to hear it as well as you used to!
I myself seem to have some sound issues - there is a lot of popping and cracking which is off-putting. I have an asus xonar dg so I imagine my motherboards Realtek audio would have been better for this game, but don't want to mess around with drivers for a single game =/ | ||
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