GUIDE: Changing in-game music

[vulcan4d]

Argh! I put everything on my ISP's webspace (had it upgraded), worked fine yesterday but after I requested an address change everything is messed up again . Please wait while I resolve this with my ISP.

Originally posted by Vairu
Nice !

How did you make the clip? What app did you use?

I want that battle song!

The clip was made using Fraps from http://www.fraps.com/ . It's shareware but there is a demo.

[Vairu]

sweet, i need this
only 15 seconds, that sucks

[tazirai]

i fyou want a great and epic battle theme try and find a copy of soukagi labyrinth. its a AWESOME theme for all fights, and fights invery well.

I replace music101.bgw with it.


I tried to post it for those interested if anyone has a site I can post to let me know , so i can upload it and then hyperlink it.

[vulcan4d]

Originally posted by Vairu
sweet, i need this
only 15 seconds, that sucks

Hey Vairu you should clean out all your PM messages and maybe you would get a nice suprise *wink* *wink*

Originally posted by tazirai
i fyou want a great and epic battle theme try and find a copy of soukagi labyrinth. its a AWESOME theme for all fights, and fights invery well.

I replace music101.bgw with it.


I tried to post it for those interested if anyone has a site I can post to let me know , so i can upload it and then hyperlink it.

soukaigi labyrinth you say? Hmm think I heard that name somewhere but doesn't ring a bell. Is it an Anime or Game?

[tazirai]

soukaigi is the name of the game its a lil known square game.
the song is called labyrinth,
i found it earlier tonight on winmx
I have the soundtrack myself, its very good.

http://www.rpgfan.com/soundtracks/soukaigi/index.html

http://www.altpop.com/stc/reviews/soukaiost.htm

[Vairu]

crap, thanks for letting me know

bout the PM

[CloudFFVII]

Ahh see there is a difference you are actually trying to reedit aportion of the game, When I turn down the volume and kick up my MP3's I just have my playlist going which has like 200+ songs randomly going. I am not worried about mixing and matching, although when you are in a dungeon fighting ghouls or skeletons or goblins, AC/DC Hells Bells adds a nice mix lol, or a NM with Disturbed - Liberate works well...

[Night Stalker]

Take any music, whether it's CD, mp3 or whatever and convert it to wav. I'll let you figure that one out yourself

why must you make things so hard lol but ya could you tell me how to do it i found a good song to put in it is just i done in how to chang it from mp3 to bgw so if some one could post how too that would be really nice

[Vairu]

ahh

press the mp3>bgw button

then browse to the mp3 your converting

then go back into the directory using explorer and rename the file to the one you want to replace it with, like mus182 or something.

then drag that file and overwrite the one your replacing in the FFXI/music directory(it's on the first page).

and of course, back up that music dir first

[BobMeisterLlama]

Hmmm...I know this i probably my fault but when I go to play the clip in windows media player it just shows the color effects that it normally shows while playing music.

[Night Stalker]

where would this button be under is there like a software i need to do this cuz i founf some good song i would like to have as my battle music if you could temm me that would be great

[Night Stalker]

so does any one know how or could tell me how to change the files from mp3 to bgw like where do i go to do it

[Alucath]

Anyone who's seen those videos on this site by Ping, he's got some awesome techno remixes of FF music.. anyone know where I can get these and put them into my game?

[vulcan4d]

Night Stalker, to convert mp3->wav->bgw do this:

mp3->wav
There are a number of mp3<->wav converters out there. My favorite is Acoustica MP3 converter but it costs money. There are a number of freeware converters. Note that I havn't tried these but I quickly "researched" these using google. Try that next time, you'll get your answer quicker . If you need help in these read the included instructions but they usually are straight forward.

LamedropXPd

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/files/lamedropXPd-1.3.3.zip

dBpowerAMP Music Converter

http://www.dbpoweramp.com/dmc.htm

(can rip CD's aswell)

wav->bgw
Once the software has converted your mp3 to wav, use the BGW converter. Select which game track you would like to replace and press the button under WAV->BGW. Select your file and press open. Wait a bit and it should be done. The converter places the bgw file in the same directory as your wav, so if you had your wav in your FF11 directory then the converter would replace the origonal bgw file. It does not ask whethere to overwrite or not so be carefull. If the converted file is in another directory then just move it to
"X:\Program Files\PlayOnline\SquareEnix\FINAL FANTASY XI\sound\win\music\data" and overwrite the origonal youself.



Alright it can't get any more simpler then this. If no one is able to do this now then maybe it's best to leave it alone hehe.

[illicit]

nice! when i get time ima put all the ff7 songs in yay!! :D