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Posted on 01-27-12 11:52:39 PM Link | Quote
I recently discovered a copy of Busytown, a DOS game I used to play as a child, on a 2-gig hard drive I bought.

After going through the files, it appears that the audio files in the game (MIDI files) also have .WAV counterparts, which are low-quality vocal snippets of maybe 10 seconds each. I've tried the game on two computers, and on both, the computer plays the audio through the internal speaker.

Does anyone know a way to make the game use the WAV files instead of the MIDIs? I can't really tell if the WAVs are unused or not.
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Posted on 01-28-12 12:17:40 AM Link | Quote
Here are the WAV files in question:
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G0-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G1-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G2-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G3-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G4-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G5-MUSIC.WAV
(There was a sixth file, but I put the MIDI file in the same directory into GXSCC and accidentally overwrote it...)
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G7-MUSIC.WAV
(See #6.)
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G9-MUSIC.WAV
http://harvestmanman.webs.com/G10MUSIC.WAV

As you can see, they're quite short, very low-quality, and rather badly edited.
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Posted on 01-28-12 03:16:24 AM (last edited by HarvestmanMan at 01-28-12 12:17 AM) Link | Quote
THE BELOW STATEMENT IS A LIE

...and according to this series of videos...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6WzfD_k7UU
...the WAV files are used, but in a later version of the game. Can anyone speculate on why they were included with an earlier version but not used?

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Posted on 01-28-12 05:23:38 AM Link | Quote
This being a DOS game, I'd guess it defaults to the internal speaker when it isn't configured properly for anything better. You'll probably have to edit its configuration and run it in DOSBox.

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Posted on 01-28-12 06:11:36 PM Link | Quote
And I'm completely wrong...the music playing through the speaker is neither a MIDI file nor a WAV file. I think it's an MNT file, which I can't open.

I can't seem to find configuration settings anywhere in the game's various directories either.

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Posted on 06-03-12 12:05:34 AM Link | Quote
I thought I'd mention that I found out what the WAV files were for. When installing the game, there's an option to install "bonus music" (which is a series of 5- to 10-second-long WAV files). Kind of shitty bonus music if you ask me!

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