Playing without the CD?

[Litcube]

Is there any way to play the game with the music without the CD?

[Fyron]

If you have lots of free hard drive space, you can get a program capable of creating a virtual CD drive (such as Nero, Daemon Tools (free), Clone CD, Alcohol 120/52, etc.). Then, make a CD image file of the SE4 CD, and mount it in the virtual drive. You will need a CD image making program such as Nero, Alcohol, Clone CD, etc. What you can do is get the trial Version of one of these programs, use it to create a CD image file, and then use Daemon Tools to create the virtual CD drive, as Daemon Tools is completely free.

[Litcube]

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[Fyron]

Why so sad? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Why so sad? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/confused.gif <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">It's a lot of work!

Plus, he probably realized why in the world would you want to spend all that energy to listen to SE4's music?

[Fyron]

Its actually very little in the way of work...

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Its actually very little in the way of work... <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">He has to find the programs, download them, install them, and then figure out how to use them.

So it's a lot of work!

[ January 24, 2004, 19:48: Message edited by: Captain Kwok ]

[Fyron]

Sure it is. Just because you do not like the music does not mean others do not like it.

[Captain Kwok]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Sure it is. Just because you do not like the music does not mean others do not like it. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">That's not a true statement. In fact, I was one of the early champions of the Space Empires music. I did however, make a generalization based on most people's opinion about the music when I said it wasn't worth the effort.

[Litcube]

Well, I don't have an opinion on the music, really. Consider me "Lawful Neutral" in that respect; doesn't matter weather or not I like the music, it's part of the game.

Why am I sad? Because I didn't want to have to use up 640 MB space / memory just for a few MB of sound tracks. I was hoping there was a way to maybe mp3 them, throw them into a directory with the game. No such luck, though.

I already have Deamon Tools running. I use it already for other purposes.

[Fyron]

Sure. Create a new virtual CD with just the music tracks (you need a blank track 1, as mixed data/audio CDs have the data as "track 1). It will be a lot smaller than the whole game CD, but certainly not a few MBs.

[Litcube]

Hm. Interesting idea. I'll try that.

Thank you.

[Fyron]

Remember that SE4 will use any audio CD in the drive as a music source. You can control which tracks are used for normal game tracks, which are combat, etc. in Settings.txt.

[General Woundwort]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Remember that SE4 will use any audio CD in the drive as a music source. You can control which tracks are used for normal game tracks, which are combat, etc. in Settings.txt. <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Indeed. My soundtrack for SEIV is a CD I made of music I "borrowed" from Freelancer. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif

[General Woundwort]

Ever forget about what CD you have in your drive?

I just loaded my PBW turn, ran the Mod Loader, and instead of spacey music...

"Aqualung". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

Yep, that's my Jethro Tull: Original Masters disc in the drive. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif