In its current form, which also includes fixes for the original song set that came with the game, is roughly 372 kb. One thing I forgot to mention is that the I've got the battle theme part set on FF9's timing; meaning that you'll first hear and see FF8's
WHOOSH battle effect stuff, and then the theme starts to play. It's pretty nice how the synchronizing turned out!
Like i said earlier, this is to be used with the Original DLS file. The fixes will be most noticable when using the microsoft synthesizer, because it fixes the drum set assignments, and SBLive! cards appearently pick the correct drums thru some sort of SysEx messaging without the fixes.
If you're expecting it to be in an addon pack form (the type that version 2.0 of the FFSF project's midi config program can auto- install), it's not, because I haven't got around to downloading the addon pack creation program yet. Besides, since (in my opinion, and probably anyone else who try's them out as well) these fixes make the music sound like what SquareSoft-E.A. should have released with the game if they ABSOLUTELY had to package the original DLS with the game; then these (with the exception of the FF9 songs, obviously,)should be a permanent overwritting of the musice set without the need for an alternate set.
Hopefully, you'll see a mod version compatible with version 1.35 of Samuel's DLS on the FFSF page soon, depending on stuff like how much time school and homework will take. Until then, the only way to get it is via emailing me.
Oh, yeah, I forgot. It's in winzip form currently.
[This message has been edited by Goku7 (edited September 17, 2001).]