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General Discussion / An actual FF9 mod for FF8PC.......is anyone interested?

« on: 2001-09-18 16:58:00 »

Ok.  In this case, since I can just click on the e-mail icon to get an address, do you mind if I send a copy of it now??  A bit of a warning though: The Overdrive guitar is more appearant in how it'll sound then the way it sounds in the real game.  But it's still cool  .  

I've taken out the XG files, though, because they keep playing with too much reverb on my system.

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General Discussion / An actual FF9 mod for FF8PC.......is anyone interested?

« on: 2001-09-17 06:05:00 »

  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).]

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General Discussion / An actual FF9 mod for FF8PC.......is anyone interested?

« on: 2001-09-16 06:18:00 »

Hi.  I'm new here, so I don't know if anyone's done something like this before.

Anyway, about a month ago I got this crazy idea to replace the regular battle theme and world map theme from FF8 with the ones from FF9.  After a few days of instrument tweaking, comparing it to what the real theme from FF9 PSX sounds, and going back and tweaking some more, I got it right.

Or so I thought.  After discovering the existence of Samuel's DLS (by the way, excellent job on version 1.35, Samuel!), I tested my mod on his DLS.  The Overdrive Guitar in the battle theme is not there, like it's supposed to be; so currently this mod is designed for the Original DLS that came with the game.  It still sounds pretty good, and hopefully within the next few days I will attempt to create a version that works with Samuel's DLS.

I mainly created this mod for fun, and unfortunately, I don't exactly have anywhere to post it yet.  Right now I simply want to know if anyone is interested in trying this out.