Is it possible to do this? My first thought was that Resedit might be able to
I've not used resedit before but I have managed to locate the music files. I can copy them and paste them into a different resource, however thats about it. Im not too sure what format it all is or if there is a way to get them recognised by any other program
If anyone in the know has any tips or pointers, i would very much appreciate them
Thanks in advance
there was a specialized app, i can remember: http://www.riccisoft.com/soundextractor/
Aye, that and Agent Audio are good for sounds
But for this example, the music is not a sound file. resedit has the music files in a bit called mdat. Not sure what that is or what it means. Anyone know?
Sound Leech was the other top tool for extracting sound, in whatever format, into a Mac OS 7 sound resource. It was quite incredible, and the only trouble it eve had for me was when it would very rarely extract sound at twice the speed expected. A rinse through another sound app would fix this.
I know I still have it, I'll dig it out in the next 30 mins, it's only 60K uncompressed.
It is here: http://www.4shared.com/get/DueFvXHO/Sound_Leech.html
It comes with an old Word document from the author about how to use it.
Edit: Replaced 'xxx 7' by 'Mac OS 7' - IIGS User
sometimes a dev will copy the resource out of a midi(or whatever) file and paste it into the resources of their app. I've had success copying the resource out of an app and pasting it back inside a real midi(or whatever) file.
You just have to determine what type of audio resource it is. Sometimes it's mentioned cryptically within the first few bytes of the resource.
To follow your example, a midi file should start with 'MThd'.
However, embedded data is often customized over the standard on old games : shrunk, preprocessed or the like.
For example we were used to remove the header of each png file we embedded in our old games, and to keep only one centralized palette, just because we known they were all png files with the same palette... the generated files could only be read by us event if it was plain png data chunks inside !
Has anyone figured out a way to do this? I want to extract the tracks for SimCity2000. I opened up ResEdit and I could see the different midi files and the samples they play, but I can't copy them outside or able to make a new file and paste the hex values. Besides, I wouldn't even know how to make those midi files play the specific samples. So if anyone is able to help me I'd greatly appreciate it ^^
You can copy/paste the midi file into a newly created file, then change the type/creator to midi, and it has a good chance of working (maybe). Can Opener may be able to get at those pesky files...
Also, Resorcerer 2.x is IMHO better than ResEdit for these sort of things.
Find out the correct type/creator for MIDI and samples (snd?) files -- and you are halfway there.
Best of luck!
Thanks for the quick reply. This might show my inexperience with MacOS, but how exactly can I create a new file? Also I forgot to specify I run MacOS 7.5.5 it through BasiliskII
SimCity 2000 for Mac not only uses its own samples, but a proprietary music engine. There was a project underway to hand-convert the tracks for other MIDI players, but to hear it you need an app that can read "soundfont" .sf2 files containing the samples (and it still won't sound identical to the game).
You're right, it doesn't sound at all like the music on the Macintosh. The only reason I need to do this is because I cannot get to record all the songs in-game. As it starts the tracks randomly I cannot get it to play the specific tracks I need and I end up hearing the same songs over and over again XD
But thanks for the link, it was quite interesting listening =)
