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#1 2010-10-22 22:17:07

PW132
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This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Maybe 3 years back, I loved the game TRON 2.0. I still would if THE COMPUTER THAT IT RAN ON WENT BUST AND MY DAD NEVER FIXES ANYTH-*cough* 'Scuse me. Anyway, I loved the music and wanted it. I couldn't find any MP3's, so I decided to extract the music on my lonesome.

I looked through the installed files, the disc, no nothing. I looked for a tutorial, and I found one! YAY! Or not, because how I needed to get it was the most backwards way to get a MP3 out of a game ever. Mostly because how it was stored was the most backwards way to store music ever.

So I had to get a program called "WINREZ" to get the files. Cool, another program I won't ever need ever! Anyway, once you use the program, you're all set right? WRONG. The music NOT stored in one file, it's a bunch of bits of the track split up that is formed BY the game when you play it! To get the files, you need to put everything into Audacity, play the game and listen to the music a bunch, and piece it together by ear.

At that point I said "Screw it" and gave up.

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#2 2010-10-22 22:18:39

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

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#3 2010-10-22 22:19:58

PW132
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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Me neither.

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#4 2010-10-22 22:20:14

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Lol XD

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#5 2010-10-22 22:20:40

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

PW132 wrote:

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Me neither.

=.= I c wut u did thar.

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#6 2010-10-22 22:23:27

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Here's the annoying tutorial: http://www.scratch.mit.edu/ext/youtube/?v=nin2najSWQQ

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#7 2010-10-22 22:24:29

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Aidan wrote:

PW132 wrote:

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Me neither.

=.= I c wut u did thar.

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#8 2010-10-22 22:25:26

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

helltank wrote:

Aidan wrote:

PW132 wrote:


Me neither.

=.= I c wut u did thar.

Moderator cat dissapprovs off ur submissionz.

ORLY

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#9 2010-10-22 22:26:52

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

They didn't do that just to screw you up - that's the way it needs to be for the game to function properly. It happens all the time in the gaming biz.  smile

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#10 2010-10-22 22:27:08

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

That makes no sense at all. And I mean the way the music is played, not your explanation.

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#11 2010-10-22 22:33:42

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Dude, that's cheap  tongue

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#12 2010-10-22 22:34:54

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Same here.

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#13 2010-10-22 22:36:33

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Aidan wrote:

PW132 wrote:

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Me neither.

=.= I c wut u did thar.

Me too.

Also:

littletonkslover wrote:

Dude, that's cheap

This

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#14 2010-10-22 22:51:06

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

PW132 wrote:

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Me neither.

LOL.
xD

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#15 2010-10-23 00:10:10

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

So...they just broke up the music into loops, then, and compressed them in some way which I'm assuming the WINREZ program undoes?

It makes perfect sense for saving space, especially if you have songs which repeat certain sections or parts of sections over (most if not all videogame music does). Modular music is built around the same principles, except to an even smaller extent (using just plain instrument samples).

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#16 2010-10-23 00:15:58

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

coolstuff wrote:

They didn't do that just to screw you up - that's the way it needs to be for the game to function properly. It happens all the time in the gaming biz.  smile

^This. It's no surprise that some games require some unusual extraction to obtain the music files.

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#17 2010-10-23 06:37:29

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

i love tron20.

Yeah, I don't use autotune. I don't sing either, but that's irrelevant.

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#18 2010-10-23 18:58:06

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

bump

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#19 2010-10-23 19:01:41

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Nice story.

So after 3 years, you decided to bring it up on the Scratch forums?  hmm

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#20 2010-10-23 19:04:28

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

antimonyarsenide wrote:

Nice story.

So after 3 years, you decided to bring it up on the Scratch forums?  hmm

No, you must have misread it.
He liked the game three years ago, and just recently decided to do whatever he described in this thread and post about it.
I couldn't follow what he said at all, though. Something about extracting files from something and something about the files being broken up or something.

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#21 2010-10-23 21:36:18

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Aidan wrote:

Cool story bro

Seriously, I didn't get any of that.

Er, I understood it perfectly?  tongue

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#22 2010-10-24 10:35:07

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Never give up!  mad

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#23 2010-10-24 10:42:28

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

sanddude wrote:

Never give up!  mad

Yes, but putting in weeks of piecing together bits of sound by ear and having to toggle between levels, thus rendering my save being started over? I don't think so. Also THE COMPUTER BROKE ANYWAY.

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#24 2010-10-24 11:07:15

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Re: This has got to be the most stupid way to store music in a game ever.

Haha, lol
I have found some strange ways of doing things on the net, but this wins!  big_smile

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