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[FF6] [OPEN BETA] Dancing Mad - FF6 Audio Replacement using MSU-1
extraflowers:
Hi there, love the work and I'm excited to try it out.
I'm having issues using the installer -- every time I run it it gets hung at 45% with the error "cURL Error: The requested URL returned error: 403"
I've edited the mirrors.dat to have the cloudfront server first, but I get the same error. It looks like all other mirrors no longer exist.
Would love to see this working!
And, insidious, to answer an earlier question you had, for the sake of preserving this for someone like me 5 or 10 years from now I think an offline installer would be a great idea.
Thanks!!
edale:
--- Quote from: extraflowers on 2021-01-24 20:39:23 ---Hi there, love the work and I'm excited to try it out.
I'm having issues using the installer -- every time I run it it gets hung at 45% with the error "cURL Error: The requested URL returned error: 403"
I've edited the mirrors.dat to have the cloudfront server first, but I get the same error. It looks like all other mirrors no longer exist.
Would love to see this working!
And, insidious, to answer an earlier question you had, for the sake of preserving this for someone like me 5 or 10 years from now I think an offline installer would be a great idea.
Thanks!!
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Sry for late reply, I only check here every few months. :-[
Right now, it looks like "https://bigfuckin.rocks/ff6data/" is the only working server (yes, even the cloudfront one is down), I've informed Insidious of the issue, though I'm not sure when he'll actually get the message.
*edit- Cloudfront is still up, and working as intended.
*edit2- Current mirrors.dat:
--- Code: ---https://bigfuckin.rocks/ff6data/
https://domad.science/ff6data/
https://d9z02nz0xcifk.cloudfront.net/
https://most.conspicuous.network/ff6data/
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most.conspicuous is still down, but there's hope for it to come back, so it's staying on the list at the bottom for now.
Insidious is also creating some code so any time the installer's run it grabs the latest mirrors.dat directly off the github, so a whole new hotfix isn't needed each time the servers change. Next hotfix should have this code once it's tested and verified working.
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As to a full offline installer, such a thing would be prohibitively large. We're talking 10-15+ GB. The reason being that MSU-1 format PCMs are uncompressed audio.
While ZIPing or RARing the PCMs does save some space, it's nowhere near as small as you'd have for compressed audio, such as MP3.
A 200 MB PCM will RAR down to, if you're lucky, 160 MB. The same file would be maybe 1 MB as MP3. This is for a clip of around a minute, some of the tracks for FFVI are 12+ minutes.
We have a LARGE number of audio options for this mod. A full offline installer would need to contain ALL of the tracks for ALL of the audio options.
And another difficulty when dealing with an offline installer that large... Where would we be able to host it long-term? Most sites I know that'll cloud-host files that large require a paid account to host said files, AND they require paid accounts from the people trying to download them.
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Now all that said, here's a little bonus for everyone:
https://mega.nz/file/vEQy1bqA#D8Z9zTBWA-PzOFupKYeZVARRnqx5msl-JTotIw0mjw4
This is a new version of Dancing Mad I just discovered and converted a few days ago.
Here's a Youtube video of the track, it's done by MIDI Man, and is one of the best remakes of the track I've heard to date (I LOVE his percussion sample selections, and the organ samples are the best I've heard in a Dancing Mad remake that wasn't a real organ, lol).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUNimbcuvOg
He's got some real good remakes and remasters, but only 90 subscribers atm, so go through his stuff and give him a subscription if you like it!
feldon30:
So I've been here for about 5 seconds, but I'm excited about this project of FF6 with all these music choices. If there is a need for large, long-term free storage, I can help. I have had dedicated servers for 15 years.
One idea I had though -- can the music be compressed as FLAC and then packaged with a commandline/scripted decompressor to convert FLAC->PCM? Then the music would be shrunk by 40-60% depending.
insidious611:
Unfortunately that would only be possible if we could save the loop points for each track and add them back on, as well as preserve the edits in the .PCMs.
It's doable, but it'd be a lot of extra work at this point.
Also, the artist of the one source of music that's still being actively sold (Sean Schafianski) only endorsed us using it in its current format. I have a feeling he would object to us providing the songs in an easily-listenable standard audio format like FLAC.
It still might be something worth investigating going forwards.
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Unrelatedly, I've also had some disturbing reports of issues running the installer on Linux that I am completely unable to track down. I don't use Linux everyday anymore, but on the Linux install I do have, I have no issues at all running the installer using the instructions provided on my GitHub page. So if there are any Linux users here that can provide me with more idea of what's going on and why I can't reproduce this issue, I'd appreciate it. See:
https://github.com/Insidious611/DancingMadFF6/issues/95
As well as a comment on one of our old YouTube videos mentioning a similar problem and a few reports on Discord.
Frankly, since my codebase hasn't changed, I'm kind of wanting to point the finger at Qt having changed something.
I'm looking at graduating from the CS degree that's held me back from contributing to this project for a while some time in October. At that point, I'm going to put nose to the grindstone and fix as many of the currently remaining bugs (including, hopefully, this Linux one) as I can.
Full disclosure however, after nearly 6-7 years of mostly bug-hunting I'm growing a little tired of this project and am kind of in the market for a permanent maintainer, someone with at least a passing knowledge of 65816 assembly and Python 3 and who is willing to deep-dive into the code without too much in the way of instruction.
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As a final update, all mirrors (except for the third party mirror at the bottom of mirrors.dat) should be up and working again. If you are having issues downloading PCMs please try redownloading the installer. I'm trying to get an update out to the installer that will pull mirrors.dat from GitHub so that it updates the mirror list automatically, for now the mirror list is bundled with the download.
Iunnrais:
Hello! Thank you so much for your work on this. I know you're getting tired of this project, and that's fully understandable... but it's new to me, so I have some comments and questions if you're still willing.
1) The Ted Woolsey Uncensored Edition patch is now 3.04... it looks like the most recent installer doesn't accept this version. It looks like you were previously specifically checking for TWUE to be a valid source, so I thought I'd mention it. I used your installer on a fresh US 1.0 file, and then applied the TWUE patch on top of that. It seemed to work fine! Until I got to the first fight in Narshe, at which point I get the battle music but a black screen and a softlock. Any advice? Perhaps is there some way to get your installer to view the new TWUE 3.04 as a valid file, so I can do it the other way round?
Edit: Turns out my "fresh 1.0 file"... probably wasn't. It said it was, and the installer thought it was, but when I grabbed a verified rom from archive.org and tried patching it again, it worked fine. So if you're someone in the future coming across the same problem of crashing at the first battle... check your source rom one more time!
2) Have you seen the "Orchestral Fantasy" youtube channel? ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1FpelirPgQ&list=PL23xVb3fauVXHAR8k1ery3eQZrAYDkCIZ&index=1 ) This guy does FF6 live instrument covers that are incredibly accurate to the original OST, including an English voiced cover of Aria de Mezzo Carattere that's true to the original Woolsey text. He doesn't have the full soundtrack yet, but he does have a significant portion of it available. I'd love to use his versions where possible.
3) On that note, is there any way the installer could make use of your own MP3 / FLAC files instead of downloading from your server? That would future proof the project as well, and let anyone maintain it with new music as awesome fans make new covers.
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