Looking for old aali's driver

[Lusan]

Hello 

I'd like to mod the game as I did a few years ago, if I remember correctly aali's driver used to allow these kind of modifications :


Menu overhaul is really cool but that is all I need really

Old versions links are down and the latest 8.1b doesn't do that anymore.

Any help is welcome, I really have looked the best I could but I can't find those drivers 

[Lusan]

Alright then, found driver 7.11b in Tifa's bootleg torrent, people are still seeding it and it works fine, the game is ok, but the music plugin is not.

It is set up that way :

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# plugin used to play music, the FF7Music plugin MUST be enabled for FF7Music to work.
# If no music plugin is loaded the game will play MIDI as usual but FF7Music will NOT work.
music_plugin = ff7music.fgp
.ogg here : FINAL FANTASY VII\music\ff7music



And then -> Error loading music plugin when launching the game.



It looks like the driver can't load its own plugin, how is that even possible.

[sithlord48]

Alright then, found driver 7.11b in Tifa's bootleg torrent, people are still seeding it and it works fine, the game is ok, but the music plugin is not.

It is set up that way :

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# plugin used to play music, the FF7Music plugin MUST be enabled for FF7Music to work.
# If no music plugin is loaded the game will play MIDI as usual but FF7Music will NOT work.
music_plugin = ff7music.fgp
.ogg here : FINAL FANTASY VII\music\ff7music



And then -> Error loading music plugin when launching the game.



It looks like the driver can't load its own plugin, how is that even possible.

ff7music is not the plugin for ogg its a plugin to use the program FF7Music to play the music externally of the game . this is the old and error prone solution. the plugin you want to try for ogg support in aali's driver is called vgmstream (iirc) and the songs iirc go in <FF7>/data/music/vgmstream ..

[Lusan]

Thanks for your answer ! I have good news and bad news

1st) Error at launch fixed.
I wrote this

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music_plugin = ff7music.fgpinstead of this

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music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp
2nd) Even with vgmstream, I still have no music

the end of app log :

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Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
ERROR: couldn't open music file: ‹ÿU‹ìQ¡/music/vgmstream/AYASI.ogg
.ogg are in FINAL FANTASY VII\music\vgmstream\... which seems correct.

Part of app log that shows plugin is loaded :

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INFO: VGMStream music plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127

[Lusan]

Try with ff7music.fgp
(This is FFVII steam version with FFVII converter and aali's driver 7.11b applied on top of 8.1b)

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# plugin used to play music, the FF7Music plugin MUST be enabled for FF7Music to work.
# If no music plugin is loaded the game will play MIDI as usual but FF7Music will NOT work.
music_plugin = plugins/ff7music.fgp

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INFO: FF7Music helper plugin loaded
LOCK UNLOCK TEST
MATRIX INITIALIZE
INITIALIZE DD/D3D END
initializing sound...
creating dsound primary buffer
reading audio file
loading static sounds
sound initialized
set music volume: 127
set music volume: 127
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
START OF CREDITS!!!
INFO: D:\FF VII\FINAL FANTASY VII\data\movies\eidoslogo.avi; vp8/vorbis 1280x960, 30.000000 FPS, duration: 11.133000, frames: 334
INFO: slow output format from video codec vp8; 0
ERROR: couldn't lock sound buffer
set music volume trans: 127->0, step=60
END OF CREDITS!!!
Entering MAIN
set music volume: 127
Exiting MAIN
START OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
END OF MENU SYSTEM!!!
Entering MAIN
Exiting MAIN
Field Start
WM_CLOSE
Field Quit
This gave me no music at all.

Should I move to the audio section ?

[sithlord48]

are you using the program FF7Music? If you are not then the ff7music plugin will not work it only passes the music cues to an EXTERNAL program called FF7Music.
the path for your vgmmusic looks wrong read the error again..

ERROR: couldn't open music file: ‹ÿU‹ìQ¡/music/vgmstream/AYASI.ogg

doesn't seam like a valid path  to me..  you should check that is the path ff7 is installed into .

[Lusan]

That is indeed a wrong path. It should look like D:\FF VII\FINAL FANTASY VII\music\vgmstream\...

Using 8.1b driver the music is taken from this folder and everything is ok. With 7.11b it gives you that wrong path and no music is played.


Could vgmstream plugin not be compatible with 7.11b driver ?

[Kaldarasha]

You need the program ff7 music for the 7.11 driver. The native ogg support is new since the 8.00 driver.