DOS Games Discussion

[Mekkklons]

Does anyone have the music from the first part of Master Of Orion? Or know how to extract it from the game files?

I've been trying to get it now for a long time. The best I've came up with is this page: http://www.geocities.com/ace_mcjack/MIDI/midi.html

I thought it was the end of my painfull search, but this collection obviously lacks some of the tunes. What I know for sure there are no races theme. And that would include a tune for every of the races for: negotations; negotiations that went bad; short fading out when exiting the negotians panel and returning to the "races" screen. That is what I can recall from my head, because it's been a while since I've been able to run the game with music playing

So, here are the other things that I've tried:


1] Visiting composer's website


www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,5529/ says the page is www.davidgovett.com. Maybe it is, but since at least the middle of 2007 the domain name is not working


2] Contacting the composer


There is a problem with that, [because of above and] because he is sometimes refered to as David and sometimes as Dave, thus googling him is much harder. I find only some bios, much like those on Moby Games. I've even found some science / artwork work of an astromer / publicist named Govett about astrological Orion


3] Writing e-mails to people listed in contact sections of various MOO games oriented sites


Some of the emails don't even reach out those people because the pages are like discontinued years ago so I get them returned as not delivered. [One can assume those people are either dead or have moved on with there lives]. Those few mails that are replayed say they don't have it or offer the MOO II music instead. And most of e-mails are propably lost as some sort of an antispam collateral damage- that includes the case of guy from www.geocities.com/ace_mcjack/MIDI/midi.html as I just can not get any answer from his e-mail adress


4] Using extracting software


I didn't know any so I started looking for some, knowing I would probably need one specified as capable of handling LBX files, because that's where the music is suppose to be stored

www.watto.org/extract/games.html
Should have worked [see supported games disclamer for details] but it didn't [huraayyy!]

www.volny.cz/nova-software
Shoudn't have worked at it didn't [double huraayyy!]

I'm sure there are plenty of others programs, but I just don't know / have them


5] Checking out the [normally] usefull sites


http://downloads.khinsider.com
http://gh.ffshrine.org/soundtracks.php
www.ocremix.org

No luck there [and no suprise either]. Im not aware of any other places where you could get music / soundtracks from computer games


6] Searching P2P


To my concern, not even the relatively easy acquirable music from MOO II is accessible via eMule. There is no shared a single file with "music", "score", "soundtrack" or "OST" in it's name with conjuction with "Master Of Orion" or "MOO". I'm not familiar with others PSP systems than eMule


7] Checking out the Mac version


http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=523 - If I got it right, there is no music on Mac?

Although it would be another waste of times beacaues I would be eventually stucked again with LBX files or some other old type not used in modern games


8] Going to Orion and deafeating the Guardian thus acquiring the know how


For now I lack some of the key technologies. Maybe in the year 2408, but not now [that is a joke- please laugh now]


9] Checking out forums


That's whay I'm here for. I've already asked on the biggest-old-games-oriented usenet newsgroup of my country. Now I'm seeking help in the english speaking world




And for the future-non-successful-MOO-music-seekers I will now mention what can be done as a last resort - record "what you hear" while playing the game with the sound off. I consider it as a very lame sollution with downsides:
- you have to have music in game
- you have to know what track is played when / why and force the game to play it [by stealing a technology for example]
- you have to figure out where track is starting to loop itself [in main menu]
- you have to edit out potentially interferes of diverse kinds within the self-made recordings
- you have to have time, patient and skills to do it properly

[dosraider]

Moved from GGTW to 'General', this isn't a 'get games to work' problem.

About your question, seems you've been through most possibilities.
But I think you'd better join and ask on a real MOO fan forum, great chances someone of those MOO addicts (Dogbreath?) knows a solution or has the music.
http://forums.civfanatics.com/forumdisplay.php?f=98

[Gamer_V]

Actually, he did.

[dosraider]

I know, but he didn't mentioned it in his post -(comes up in a google search for MOO music)-. Maybe he forgot he was registred over there for the same reason.... ?
So I thought I could refresh his memory .....


And it's always fun to poke Dogbreath a bit ...............

[Dogbreath]

Well, if you want it really old school, you could get a mic, go into a soundproof room, hold it close to the speaker as you're playing the clips in MOO, and then record, edit, and save these as your music files. When we were kids with tape recorders we used to tape and edit songs from the radio like that. It works pretty decently, too. I actually broke my microphone cord (jumped up fast and tore it in half), but if I get a new mic and enough free time this summer, I might try it.

And from now on, all my replies in GGTW will be "Go to VOGONS."

[dosraider]

http://vogons.zetafleet.com/viewtopic.php?t=17864

[Dogbreath]

Jeez he's fast. How many places do you think we could send him?

And I still say that, while rather low tech, just recording and processing the music in the easiest way.

[dosraider]

[Solved]
His spamming on all kind of boards finally gave him some results.
Someone on Abandonia was able to help him.

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