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Releases / Re: NPC Reconstruction Project

« on: 2006-11-13 17:59:39 »

I absolutely love you guys, you've really made me happy!!!, I found it quite funny in the sequence with cloud and tifa in the flashback, tifa still looks normal (chocky blocky) while cloud is smaller and realistic.  She just looks bigger than him and he looks like a wee babyyyyyyyyy xD

You've really helped to enhance the game play : <3 much love

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Archive / Re: The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-11-13 17:52:27 »

no you do not have to copy the psf player to the ff directory.  You just have to have Ficedula.dll and the music in the ff directory. Ficedula basically locates winamp/the dll itself as far as I know for psf's but I use MP3's as it's easier to change the songs/find them/create them

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Troubleshooting / Re: Final Fantasy IX savegame editor?

« on: 2006-06-06 16:22:55 »

http://www.ngemu.com/psx/epsxe.php?action=tools

Dunno if it's what you're looking for, but it is a memory card Editor.  Go down to the memory card section.

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Archive / Re: But what about ff8?

« on: 2006-06-06 16:15:18 »

I liked the whole idea of FF7Music, you can choose your own music to add onto the ff7 soundtrack during the game.  With FF8 you can't because no one has made anything similar to FF7Music.  It would be really nice to have something like that, then people wouldn't have to stick to certain soundfonts in order to play the game, we could choose our own music to go along with it.

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Archive / Re: The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-06-05 16:47:25 »

Here are some additions and corrections I've found.

Corrections

• cintro: is only the first 11 seconds of Those Chosen By The Planet. I don't know if this is important or not. Not in the PSF pack.
• comical: this is definitely not J-E-N-O-V-A. I'm not sure what it is (I can't recall ever hearing it before), possibly part of the honeybee sidequest? Not included on the OST nor the PSF pack.
• tb: this is actually only the second half of ta. On the tracks I ripped from my OST, it begins about 3:49 and goes until the end. It's the much more depressing part of the song, and would change the feel of your first World Map adventures.

Additions

• nointro: this is the complement to 'cintro', aka Those Chosen By The Planet without the introductory heartbeats. 904 in the PSF pack.

Missing Songs

• mogu: This is the song that plays in the Mog's House(?) minigame at the golden saucer when you succeed in teaching him to fly. It's the highwind melody, the one after you do the jet conversion. Not included in PSFs nor OST.

When I made this tutorial I listened to the PSF songs, and only put what I heard.  As for Mogu, that is the same song as Honey Bee Manor. the same song is used.  I do not know how to add songs to the Ficedula prog, and I do not know how to change the names of the original ones, I only know how to match them up with the song you want to use.

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-03-15 17:05:09 »

Right, after having to do a clean install with FF7PC the music didn't work for me.  So if I'm going to do an update cause it's complicated. ;S

I first downloaded FF7-originalmusicpatch, and installed that to see if the PSF files would work.  They did which was a good sign.

Once I did that I downloaded Ficedula.dll 1.10, deleted FF7Music.dll, and downloaded the newest FF7Music 1.51a.

I then tried to see if the PSF's worked with this still and they did.  This is when I started to change the music to the MP3's.  In order to get them working though you need to have the MP3 profile added with all the mp3's in order (please remember that if you're using the list from the FF7Music, Fanfare is actually Fan2 not the original Fanfare.  So in the PSF files it is wrong there too.  When the fanfare is played after each battle it only plays the cut down version which should only be played at Rufus's Welcoming Ceremony.)

Then in the Setup Section you need to make sure that the in_mp3.dll is in the input section and out_wave.dll is in the output section.

If the PSF's worked up til now then this should work perfectly.

If they did not then something else is wrong.  

I suggest you try this method Shaher.  After installing a patch yesterday I had to do a clean install because of all the problems with the music once the patch was installed.  This then caused me a lot of hassle because all I'd done with FF7Music didn't work the second time round.  I had to download the original music patch in order for it to work (you don't actually patch anything with it)..

I will include the originalmusicpatch on my site once I have it uploaded.  Which wont take too long. The only place I could find it was FilePlanet which requires waiting if you don't have a subscription.  Me putting it on my site will allow direct access to it.

EDIT:  here's the patch - http://www.ffjunction.net/ff7-originalmusicpatch.exe

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Archive / Done Everything and it's gone wrong ;S

« on: 2006-03-15 13:31:53 »

I don't have any MIDI options in my sound control or the utility for my soundcard.  The only program for my soundcard is Realtek HD Audio Manager.

The patch I downloaded was the Hi Res patch.  And it messed up the sound, it kept stopping then repeating every 2 seconds and jumping/missing bits out.  Which didn't happen before the patch. So I uninstalled FF altogether and gave it a clean install. Did what I said in my tutorial and it just wont play now.

The only way I can mute the midi files are in FF7 itself.

EDIT: Got it working now.  Took alot but heh :S

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-03-14 21:52:11 »

No spaces is definitely not the problem.

If you look though, you have two FF7Music.ini's one in the main folder and one in ficedula.  Try removing the one in the main folder and see if that works. It's probably getting confused see with all the dll's there too.

If that doesn't work get back to me and I'll see if I can help

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Archive / Done Everything and it's gone wrong ;S

« on: 2006-03-14 21:16:25 »

everything is done as it should do and there is no option in volume control to mute on here.  You can only mute with Ficedula or when you are in the game you put the Music to 0.  Which allows FF7Music to play its music.

I did everything as I said it in my Idiots guide to FF7Music. It worked perfectly til I went and put a patch on yesterday which interfered with it so I did a clean install of FF7PC and all the settings are as it should be and it just doesn't play. Regardless of the fact it says it is.

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Archive / Done Everything and it's gone wrong ;S

« on: 2006-03-14 19:01:50 »

I installed a patch yesterday which messed up my FF7Music.  I uninstalled FF7PC and reinstalled it clean and now FF7Music will not work at all regardless of how I did it yesterday with it working. Any idea's?

Entering MAIN

Exiting MAIN

-=-=[START OF WORLD MAP!!!]=-=-

stop_sound

MIDI set volume: 127

0% of 127 = 0

cross play music: 0

set music volume trans: 127->0, step=4

MIDI cross fade: 13, time: 4

MIDI set volume trans: 15->127; step=4

MIDI set volume: 127

0% of 127 = 0

MIDI play: 13

reading midi file: TA.mid

TA.mid

Midi file matched! TA
CSA6
CSR7
File counterpart ta.mp3
Resolved to ta.mp3
current volume: 127

MIDI is playing SUCCESSFULLY!!!

set music volume: 127

it says the file is playing, recognised etc, my volume is up max for mp3 including the wave but it's just not playing

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Archive / Notebook/Laptop Help.

« on: 2006-03-14 16:55:05 »

Thank you. I will try that.

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Archive / Notebook/Laptop Help.

« on: 2006-03-14 16:27:52 »

considering I didn't say anything about the controls not working in the game I believe it is.  I said "only problem is" when selecting a "character name" the up down left right buttons dont work.  I believe that only stated one section of the game and not the whole of it lol.

If I had said "none of the keyboard controls work in the game" then you could have put that back as a problem towards my end but I did state that there was only one problem and that was only during selecting character names asin naming them.

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-03-14 16:04:02 »

make sure you have Ficedula.dll in the main FF7 directory. If you don't have ficedula.dll it wont recognise that there is a library of songs.

Also make sure that you have an INI from the older ficedula/FF7Music patch because it needs this in order to recognise which songs are what.

Also if you have the FF music files in a different location, it is better and alot easier to have them all in the actual FF directory.  My FF is installed on drive D of my laptop as I prefer to have all my games on D and all main programs on C. As C is the default if you have it on a different drive, make sure the files are on the same drive as the program.

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Archive / Notebook/Laptop Help.

« on: 2006-03-14 13:55:08 »

nah you misunderstand.  I have the laptop plugin for it.

It's only when it comes to selecting the characters names that it doesn't work.  I have to put in my joypad in order for it to work.

The up down left right buttons dont work and all the others are just typed in if I try using them.

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-03-14 13:51:53 »

lol thanks, but you were wrong with one bit

Yes I did miss some out, because I had to copy from FF7 Music, click the mp3 then click on the Soundtrack mp3 to find the matching name ;p so I missed a few by accident, thank you for spotting that.  but although some mp3's are still the same name, they are supposed to be like that.

The files I missed out are completely different, where as the files such as Main theme FFVII, Jenova, and Those chose by the planet are actually used more than once in the FF7Music File listing.

but thank you for letting me know. it's all changed now

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Archive / Notebook/Laptop Help.

« on: 2006-03-13 23:43:39 »

I have got everything working perfectly on my laptop in regards to FF7, only problem is, whenever I have to select a character name the up / down / left and right doesnt work so I have to insert a joypad in order to use that one bit. Unfortunately I prefer using my keyboard.

Can anyone help me with this problem.  Is there anyway to make it work as it should use the normal up down left right, but it doesn't.  I can't carry my joypad everywhere ;(

Thanks for any help.

xX TFX Xx

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Archive / The Idiots Guide To FF7Music (JK xD)

« on: 2006-03-13 19:23:00 »

You're welcome

It really depends on what you're configuring with though.  The PSF files worked perfectly but the sound wasn't to my liking.  So I decided to look up how to use mp3 files instead.  I've been trying for 3 nights straight to get this working with only bits and pieces of what people have posted on forums etc.

So it was the majority of it I had to do myself.

Some people may have found it easy because of either having people who know how to set it all up or finding things alot easier to recognise than others.

I'm not entirely sure on how things work when it comes to game patches etc, which is why it was so hard for me.  I know there are more people like me out there, and because the majority of people who do actually get these things working, they only decide to help when someone asks and even then they only give so much information.  Which is what made me decide that I wanted to give a guide on how to do it.  

I just hope that it will be useful to the majority of people.

xX TF Xx

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Archive / FF7 Music (outdated)

« on: 2006-03-13 18:43:15 »

As of Jan 2011 this is outdated. Use Covarr's installer instead.

After recently trying to play my FF7 PC game due to the release of Advent Children, I was disappointed with the sound.  When I heard that there was a patch to fix this I was quite interested and thought I'd give it a shot.

Unfortunately, there were no specific instructions on how to get everything working correctly with FF7Music.  Even after searching numerous topics all over the web I still failed to find specific instructions on how to do it.

After finally managed to figure out how to get mp3's working within the game, I decided that I'd write this small guide to help those who were in the same situation as me.  It may also prevent many "FF7Music" problem topics.

First of all, I recommend downloading the newest version of FF7Music, and either find someone with an ini file for it or you can download the older version of FF7Music in order to get an ini file.

So:

1: Download FF7Music here: http://www.sylphds.net/f2k3/programs/ff7music/ff7music151.zip

2 install FF7Music into your FF7 Dir under FF7Music or Ficedula, put the dll's you wish to use (out_wave.dll & in_mp3.dll) in the MAIN FF7 folder, not the subfolder. I didn't know if it made a difference but I also have Ficedula.dll 1.10 as someone said this is necessary. If it isn't anyway it still works xD. Place in your FF7 directory.

3: To make it easier, put all mp3's in the FF7Music folder under MP3 or Music.  (See Notes at the end)

4: Go to setup in the FF7Music configuration and for the input plugin choose in_mp3.dll and for the output use out_wave.dll.
looping is available in the newest version of FF7Music and it does work. So tick if you wish.
Resuming should be set to Selective.

Under midi controls tick MUTE MIDI on custom playback.

I have emulate ramps ticked. use if you wish.

Stop is usually ticked. I'd suggest using it.

5: Click SAVE & EXIT.

6: Go to FF7Music Dialog again. Click Run FF7.

7: last but not least, go to your sound & volume settings and set the music volume to 0 as your mp3's should now be playing.


[NOTES]
One difficulty I had with getting the MP3's to work was having names with spaces or dashes in them.  I decided to write down the information of each Midi (the names of the files) and then looked at my mp3's in order to rename them to the specified midi file name. (eg: as you see Hurry's alternative midi file is aseri. therefore I renamed Hurry to aseri.mp3)  This made it alot easier for FF7Music to recognised.

Midi Name - Mp3 Ost list:

aseri - Hurry
aseri2 - Hurry Faster
ayasi - Lurking In The Darkness
barret - Barret's Theme
bat - Fighting
bee - Honeybee Manor
boo - The Flow Of Life / Lifestream
bokujo - Farm Boy
canyon - The Valley Of The Fallen Star - Cosmo Canyon
cannon - The Makou Cannon Is Fired (not including Shinra Explodes)
cephiros - Those Chosen By The Planet
chu - Still More Fighting
chu2 - J-E-N-O-V-A
chase - Crazy Motorcycle
cinco - Cinco De Chocobo
cintro - Those Chosen By The Planet
condor - Fortress Of The Condor
costa - Costa Del Sol
comical - J-E-N-O-V-A
corel - Mining Town
corneo - Don Of The Slums
crwin - A Great Success
crlost - Tango Of Tears
date - Interrupted By Fireworks
dokubo - Underneath The Rotting Pizza
dun2 - Chasing The Black Caped Man
earislo - Flowers Blooming In The Church
earis - Aerith's Theme - Aeris' Theme
elec - Electric De Chocobo
fanfare - Fanfare2 (this should be the second fanfare not the first as stated. This one is the shortened version only for the Parade in Junon.
fan2 - Fanfare (the normal fanfare, extended version.)
fiddle - Fiddle De Chocobo
fin - World Crisis
geki - Debut
gold1 - Gold Saucer
gun - A Full Scale Attack
guitar2 - On The Other Side Of The Mountain
hen - Who Am I
hiku - The Highwind Takes To The Skies
horror - Trail Of Blood
iseki - You Can Hear The Cries Of The Planet
jukai - The Forested Temple
junon - Off The Edge Of Dispair
jyro - Steal The Tiny Bronco
ketc - Cait Sith's Theme
kita - The Great North Cave
kurai - Anxious Heart
lb1 - Birth Of A God
lb2 - One Winged Angel ( Yayayay! <3)
ld - Judgement Day
mati - Ahead On Our Way
makoro - Makou Reactor
mekyu - Reunion
mura1 - Parochial Town
oa - Opening - Bombing Mission
ob - (JUST Bombing Mission)
odds - Chocobo Racing
over2 - Requiem
parade - Rufus' Welcoming Ceremony
pj - Jenova Absolute
pre - Prelude
red - Red XIII's Theme
rhythm - The Turk's Theme
riku - Shinra Explodes
ro - The Countdown Begins
roll - Staff Roll
rocket - Oppressed People
rukei - The Sandy Badlands
sadsid - Sending A Dream Into The Universe
sadbar - Mark Of The Traitor
seto - The Great Warrior
sea - A Secret, Sleeping In The Deep Sea
sido - It's Difficult To Walk On Both Feet Isn't It
siera - If You Open Your Heart
sinraslo - Infiltrating Shinra Tower
si - Shinra Explodes 2
sid2 - Cid's Theme
sinra - The Shinra Corporation - The Shinra Company
snow - Buried In The Snow
ta - Main FFVII Theme
tb - Main FFVII Theme
tender - Holding My Thoughts In My Heart
tifa - Tifa's Theme
tm - On That Day Five Years Ago
utai - Wutai Theme - Uutai Ruins
vincent - The Nightmare Begins - Vincent's Theme
walz - Waltz De Chocobo
weapon - Weapon Raid
yado - Good Night Until Tomorrow
yufi2 - Stolen Materia
yufi - Decendent Of The Shinobi
yume - Who Are You

I'm sorry if none of this was any help, but I thought I'd give it a shot due to the fact I can see no specific instructions on how to do this.  I did my best.  So I hope this information was useful to you

Including the OST listing, as it is very difficult to know which file belongs to which midi due to the really vague naming.

 

EDIT: Can I also add that Bombing Mission, Fanfare 2, Shinra Explodes 1 and 2 are unavailable in the normal OST's.  If you wish to have these files you must either find an MP3 Trimmer to cut part of the song out, or I can have mine up for download if allowed/requested.

x XTF Xx


Mod Edit (SB): Change thread title.

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Archive / Solving non-mp3 loop problem in Ficedula's 'FFVII Music '

« on: 2006-03-13 15:49:58 »

I can help you with this.

These files are originally from the complete mp3's from the ost.

fanfare=903 Fanfare (alternate).minipsf <== normal fanfare cut off so it only does it for the march bit.
oa=102 Opening - Bombing Mission.minipsf <-- you should have this file already but there is a different file which continues the Bombing mission. You will need this in order for it to loop.
riku=901 unknown.minipsf <=== Shinra Explodes 1
si=902 unknown.minipsf <=== Shinra Explodes2

I have only just created the single files for them from the originals, and yes they are in mp3 format.  If you would like a copy just reply and I'll see about putting them up on my site space for you.