Missing a Brian The Lion tune

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Missing a Brian The Lion tune

Post by Amiga_Ripper_MOD »

I know the tunes were converted as ProTracker but I think it's missing a tune on my list...

I record a 40 sec. vid which there you can listen the music tune missing

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Can anyone get it so I can put on my list?

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.. are you playing via WinUAE???

if yes, simply push F12 and the Pro Wizard butten... - or upload (link) to your Savestate file, and i´ll have a look...
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Post by Amiga_Ripper_MOD »

I press the ProWizard button but it rip out the Cracker/Trainer music insted of the music I wanted

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ok, can you send or link me the savestate file?? *.uss

Host/Misc/SaveState.../
Save as type: WinUAE snapshot files (*.uss)
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I have spoken to asle and heres what wee found out..

The music in the game is PHA Packer - or as the ripper describes it:

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The original format was a heavily edited Pha Packer format. The tunes have been converted to Protracker rather than back to Pha Packer format.
so:
if teres someone out there who knows hao to join the mod data, here´s a link to the memdump:
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/tld-data/BTL.rar
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Ey up!

It originally came from Hacked Amiga Music:

Brian The Lion
THE ONLY 101% RIP EVER!!!

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Composer                    Richard Ede
Copyright                   1994 Reflections and Psygnosis
Original format             HACKED Pha Packer
Rip method                  Disk rip! No data taken from memory!
Ripped and Patched by       Don Adan/Wanted Team and Amadeus/Shelter

If you have had this game, you will probably remember it for its AMAZING graphics, gameplay, and music!!! With other words; one HELL of a game!!!
I had tried to rip this music for a long time, but only to discover that the Title and End music were packed with Pha Packer. The level music wasn't to find anywhere. Not even with Action Replay.

That is why I would like to thank Don Adan/Wanted Team for ripping and patching half of the tunes, and showing me how to patch the rest!

One of the reasons why the music was so hard to rip, was due to it was spillted in two. Patterns and samples. This is a very common thing to do on the Amiga! This way the game coder can save disk space, if the music composer is using the same sample in other modules!

But if this was the only problem, the music would have been ripped without any trouble. It seamed that the coder wanted to use absolute address reference, which meant the common Pha Packer format was changed WIDELY!!

I won't describe how the music was patched in details, as it would require a great deal of writing, and I don't think it would be useful for other games! But if you have some specific questions, I will be happy to answer them.

All tunes are converted and optimized to Protracker! This gave a shrinkage of 1.2MB!
So unless it's an unsupported subsong hidden away in one of the existing modules that's playing in your snapshot, then I guess Amadeus got his maths wrong... :wink:
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Post by Amiga_Ripper_MOD »

Weird to understand...hey I just want add the tune on my Brian The Lion colection...ok?

So anything now or what?

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Post by Muerto »

hmmmm.. - så bliver der lige skåret ud i pap!!!!

The title and end music is Standard Pha Packer - witch prowizard can rip and convert to Protracker

All the other mods is also Pha Packer - but the programmers of the game has splitted them up so they cant be ripped or regonized by prowizard.

A Protracker mod is put together like this (asle correct me if im wrong)

1: Sample data, pattern list
2: Patterns
3: Samples

The problem with this is that none of these ingame mods is stored like this - the reason is to save disc space.

So, right now theres no bonuslevel mod...

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Just wrote to Don Adan...
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Post by Muerto »

Got a mail back from Don Adan - and he has ripped the last tune

grap it here:
http://home19.inet.tele.dk/tld-data/BrianTheLion50.mod

XTC: maby an updated BTL.lha?? :D
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Muerto wrote:XTC: maby an updated BTL.lha?? :D
Thanks, I'll add it the update 'to do' list...
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Ey up!

The MOD contains the text: -

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Converted with Deli-Wizard 2.20 by Gryzor!
Do you have a version that isn't converted, or is that how Don gave it to you?
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This is how Don gave it to me - in the game it´s a splitted and hacked ProPacker 1.0 mod...
Don Adan: wrote:I found only Prorunner2 module and 3 ProPacker 1.0 mods.
All 52 ProPacker mods are now ripped by me. I send to you one
tune converted to Protracker, this module has 2 subsongs.
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