FF7 Music & my system

[darthseph23]

HI.  I recently re-installed FF7 and started playing it again.  I came across this web page and the patches Ficedula has made.  After a few hours of trying to figure out why my FF7.exe crashes after installing FF7Music.  I had patched to 1.02 with no issues in game and run it under Win98 Compatibility.  The game attempts to load itself and goes to a black screen before coming with a undesecribed error.  It worked fine before and really all I want is to have the music the way it is supposed to be from the PSX days.  I downloaded the set from FSFF and did what that readme said.  I also installed the older versions of Ficedula's dll that i read about in another thread.  Everything is configured correctly and all, I would really like any advice people could give me.  TYIA!


My System:
2.78 Ghz Pentium
512 Ram
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200
Soundblaster Live 5.1 Soundcard

I've followed everything I can.  Any help would be much appreciated!


Edit #1: Okay, the game is running after I reset.  However, it is still playing the MIDI music and not playing the PSF-format songs.  I'm very confused because I can play them through WinAMP regularly and all.  The program setup is the exact same as the readme says but the path dir is obviously changed to where my directory for the music is.  Does it require a "/" at the end of the path name or no (right now, there is none)?  Pls help someone, I have no ideas what to do!  I'm using Cetra 0.20 and FF7Music 1.1.0 build 2.  Everything is located (root wise) in this directory except the Ficedula.dll and FF7music.dll file:
   F:\Program Files\Square Soft, Inc\Final Fantasy VII\ff7psf

FF7 Music shows everything okay in the Information window.  I am throughly confused about why it isn't working.  Pls help...TYIA!

Edit #2:  Can't anyone help me?  I mean I've seen a few threads but none have any suggestions....pls help...I'm going crazy!

[darthseph23]

So no one knows why some of us WinXP people can't seem to get FF7Music to work on FF7.  I've done everything I can, and to no avail.  PLS some1 help me!

[Hybir]

FF7Music does work with Windows XP. Use the Sound Panel and muting the MIDI section to see if it is actually playing the PSF.Wait a minute, the directory is supposed to be "Final Fantasy VII\Ficedula" and the psfs are usually in "Final Fantasy VII\Ficedula\FF7PSF".

I think that is your problem

[darthseph23]

Why would the directory matter?  I mean its just a points to a directory.  I changed all the settings to run off that but I'll try what you are saying.  I tried making it use MP3's as well and it didn't work.  I get an error now that says: "Runtime error 216 at 002CA3C."  Didn't get it before.  If that helps anyone let me know.

[Hybir]

Changing the directory name to 'Ficedula' and placing it in the FF7 Main directory is vital to get FF7Music to play the music!

Also, it plays the Mp3s but doesnt loop them so you'll get silence after the song is finished even though the quality is nearly the same.

[darthseph23]

OK...I changed your directory and repatched the FF7 program via Cetra and all...now FF7 Music says it can't locate both the FF7music.dll and FF7 can't be located....how did that happen...

Edit#1:  I even re-extracted the zip file and no error now but FF7Music still reports it can't find the 2 parts it needs...OMG!

[darthseph23]

OKAY....I got it to work.  When you said to put it in the directory called Ficedula/ff7psf it doesn't work.  Word to the wise everyone...just put it all in a folder called ficedula and don't include an FF7PSF folder inside it...that's how I got that one to work!

TY for your time...Peace!