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06-04-2010, 06:19 AM
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I've been plugging away at this problem and here's an update.
This thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/po...opic_id=115730 reveals that someone had contact with the composer of EQ's music. At the bottom of the thread, somebody has reposted an MP3 archive which was presumably acquired straight from the composer. Inside the archive are renditions of the music which are about as good as I have ever heard. It has been suggested that one can replace EQ's .XMI (midi) files with like-named MP3s. I'm not so certain of this. The other thing revealed in the above thread - which I determined for myself prior to stumbling upon that discussion - is that many (most?) of EQ's music is literally hidden away. For example, GL.XMI is EQ's battle music. If you play this file with Winamp, you'll hear the very battle music which Project 1999 plays whenever one enters combat. However, if you skip ahead 1/3rd into the tune (and again at 2/3rds), you will also hear the other two battle themes which Project 1999 does not play. These used to play randomly when entering combat. And there are a lot of examples of this... many tunes stored in a single .XMI file. Even the opening EQ theme itself is hidden halfway into FREPORTN.XMI. For anyone who ever wanted the entire soundtrack in a reasonably accessible format, the above thread also includes a .MID pack which was created by isolating each of the parts hidden in the .XMI files and creating separate .MID files out of them. All one then needs is a midi player which does a better job than the built-in soundbank utilized by Windows. But back to the issue of getting this great music to actually play in EQ. This thread: http://forums.station.sony.com/eq/po...opic_id=146016 makes apparent something which I never personally found out, as I quit EQ for good shortly after Luclin's introduction. Evidently, when the Planes of Power got released, EQ's music was changed for good. Many MP3s were introduced, and we have clear-cut file names like EQTHEME.MP3 and FREEPORT.MP3. I happen to have discovered the complete filelist of mp3s and looked it over. As it happens, there are far fewer individual tunes than what was made available via the .XMI system with its multiple tunes per file, and this may help explain anomalies such as the no-longer-random battle music. Would Everquest Titanium play these MP3s if they were present? Who knows. I may someday decide to scratch an itch and get my old Velious installed so I can shanghai the eqgame.exe and use it to replace Titanium's eqgame.exe. Sure, there are plenty of reasons to expect this not to work, but just imagine if it would. No more "ebon crystals" in your inventory. Battle music would be properly random. Missing tunes would be back (just listen to those MP3s in the first linked thread)! | ||
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06-04-2010, 01:49 PM
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I posted about this on the bug section awhile back, but it garnered no interest from the developers. Anyway, to the OP, if you read the entirety of that post you linked, I believe someone posts a "remake" of either the Qeynos or FP bard guild music which is worth a listen. | |||
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06-04-2010, 01:55 PM
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06-04-2010, 02:13 PM
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I replaced my combattheme1.mp3 with the "Princes of the Universe" song from Highlander. Sword battles are 10x cooler. I also replaced the death theme with the chorus from "Live and Let Die". That's as much playing around with the music as I have done. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
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06-04-2010, 02:21 PM
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If you go to http://www.xs4all.nl/~treesong by itself you can see all the files he has, including EQmp3.zip ...
Regards, Mg
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06-04-2010, 02:54 PM
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Some of these .mp3s sound pretty spot on. I don't know how we can get the Titanium client to recognize these though. It's a shame the quality and quantity of music dropped after Kunark. The original EQ music was so immersive. | |||
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06-04-2010, 04:01 PM
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06-16-2010, 12:41 PM
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This thread has affirmed for me that I'm not the only nerd who's emotional bond to this blasted game is tied to the music nearly as much as the game-play and friendships that were made.
In fact, I was working in my office when I got the itch to listen to the music. I promptly pulled up the MP3's on my Blackberry and the nostalgia took hold. That inspired me to log into EQemu again, which I had not done in months and my wife came down stairs, heard the login music and said "oh no!". Additionally, you could just turn off the in-game music and cycle through the MP3 playlist at random...that works almost as good for me! Thank goodness I'm a responsible gamer now and the wife and kids won't lose daddy to evercrack...much [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] | ||
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02-28-2011, 11:24 AM
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Fun Fact- The little ditty(not the zone theme, this one kicks in near the tunnel entrance/wiz spire area) they play in north ro is alot like the beat to a classic rap song. By one Nelly on the Country Grammar album: Greed, Hate, Envy.
Nelly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEqT7iuDkxc Everquest: can't find the sound file =/ EQ Pop Culture Trivia for you and yours. | ||
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