Topic: Does Anyone Still Have the Music from SFC 1 in Today's Playable Formats? (Read 6820 times)

E_Look · « **on:** October 12, 2020, 12:49:34 pm »

They used to be on Fileplanet, I think, but I suspect that site has been kaput for a long time.
If anyone can help, thanks much!

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #1 on:** October 12, 2020, 04:29:37 pm »

Dark Drone would be able to help you with that.

E_Look · « **Reply #2 on:** October 12, 2020, 05:29:10 pm »

Ah.
And how could I contact him these days?

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #3 on:** October 12, 2020, 06:23:09 pm »

Quote from: E_Look on October 12, 2020, 05:29:10 pm

Ah.
And how could I contact him these days?

https://hotandspicyforums.com/sfc-modeling-f11/

3dot14 · « **Reply #4 on:** October 12, 2020, 07:50:28 pm »

I am fortunate enough to be in possession of the SFC1 and SFC2EAW's bonus material discs. They have audio sound tracks on them. (see screenshots).

I honestly cannot say how I got these discs ~20 years ago. I think some kind person snail-mailed them to me. So I am certainly up for sharing.

Just wondering if there is any efficient way to host these relevant files (SFC1 MP3 is about 30 MB, the whole bonus disc is about 400 MB; SFC2EAW MP3 is about 50 MB, the whole disc is about 280 MB). Do the admin's here host download files? (i.e. does this: http://www.dynaverse.net/repository_upload.php still work, and can it handle 30 ~ 400 MB?)

p.s. Thanks to E_Look for reminding about this game, and how good it was. I might boot up old copies and try them out again when I have a bit more time.

Javora · « **Reply #5 on:** October 12, 2020, 09:30:48 pm »

Hey 3.14 if you get a chance head over to Punishers place. There has been a lot of fixes and even managed to get Dynaverse up and running again. You can find it here:

https://hotandspicyforums.com/starfleet-command-f3/

Hope this helps and good to see you again.

E_Look · « **Reply #6 on:** October 13, 2020, 01:04:34 am »

Aw, Three-Dot!
Come on, you forgot how good it was?!
I only played standalone and I still love it (even though several weeks ago was really the first time in many years)!

E_Look · « **Reply #7 on:** October 13, 2020, 01:18:29 am »

Hey, wait a minute...

I have the bonus disc, too !

And I am willing to upload too, if you guys have a site or a link!

Well, 3dot14, thank YOU for reminding me that I got the disc way back when too!
I think you had to send away for it shortly after you buy the game or something like that.

Or if it's easier, with my fresh newly built computer, I made sure I bought also a CD/DVD reader-writer; (I'm old fashioned; so what?) if you have a mailing address, I could send you guys a copy of the disc and you can host the files on whatever server or drive you want.

So, let me know what you guys think.

E_Look · « **Reply #8 on:** October 13, 2020, 02:11:30 am »

Gentlemen,

I just poked around the Bonus Disc. It full of stuff I've never seen before and some things I've seen elsewhere. (SFB was around probably when I was in high school, but I never heard of it! I was probably trying to solve integrals and bummed about the Mets.)

Much of it, I took a quick peek or listen at, and aside from the music, my reaction was, "Meh." Maybe that's just 'cuz it's been so long and I ain't young no more... I sorta recall that back in the day, I tried that SFC desktop background for my computer... deleted it and took it down the next day. A screenshot from a .rec file is much cooler.

But the music... there are 38 .mp3's under CONCEPT>AUDIO>SOUNDTRACK.
However, if you look in the music subdirectory in the SFC directory on the hard drive, there's lots of .i4x music files. Some of them are short, so I wonder if they are "nuggets" or "kernels" the programmers used to "string together" the pieces of music we hear when we play the game or run a "film".

I'd LOVE to be able to convert somehow those .i4x files directly to .mp3 or .wav or whatever can be played on our PCs today. Where's Scotty or Spock (or Geordi or Data or O'Brien) when you need 'em?? Pffft... probably off kicking the pylons of a spaceship on some Ferengi used car asteroid.

Now, I'm wondering, what I have I totally forgotten about that's on the SFCOP Bonus Disc.
Boy, talk about discovering treasure in your old toy chest!

TAnimaL · « **Reply #9 on:** October 25, 2020, 02:20:39 pm »

If Dark Drone doesn't answer, and anyone wants the SFC 1 music, just let me know, I have it on a Drive folder. I have the music to Stafleet Academy too, which was also by Ron Jones (& Brian Luzietta)

I forgot about the bonus disc for EAW as well, it's been several computers since I installed that, I'm going to load that to see what's what

E_Look · « **Reply #10 on:** October 25, 2020, 02:28:24 pm »

Again, thanks a lot for doing this!
And as I mentioned, I did find my own old bonus disc.

But you know, the music you hear in the middle of playing a skirmish mission isn't there, unless the game strings together snippets to make it up...

TAnimaL · « **Reply #11 on:** October 26, 2020, 01:41:09 pm »

I know that that's how it's done in OP (& maybe EAW) - there's a bunch of short tracks that can bridge from one to another, starting with what race you're using (Fed, Klink, etc) and connecting to tracks based on the opponent, location, etc.

I've replaced a lot of the music in my OP since they're just WAV files. Pretty easy to do

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #12 on:** October 27, 2020, 04:34:53 pm »

Anybody have access to the old SFC1 missions? I am looking for The Quantum Factor; a monster mission where you investigate a FDD and a starbase that are without power due to a monster attack....

E_Look · « **Reply #13 on:** October 27, 2020, 09:38:04 pm »

It sounds familiar.
I may still have it; I can check my old SFC materials.
Do you remember the name of the mission or file?

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #14 on:** October 28, 2020, 04:19:50 pm »

Quote from: E_Look on October 27, 2020, 09:38:04 pm

It sounds familiar.
I may still have it; I can check my old SFC materials.
Do you remember the name of the mission or file?

The Quantum Factor - its a fan made custom mission.

E_Look · « **Reply #15 on:** October 28, 2020, 11:58:29 pm »

Yes!
I do have it!

And here it is attached.
Enjoy!

Klingon Fanatic · « **Reply #16 on:** October 29, 2020, 11:45:02 am »

Thank you!

This was my favorite custom mission I'd love to see ported to SFC:OP followed by the SFC1 Skirmish mission: Repair Roundevous.

I will try this afterwork.

E_Look · « **Reply #17 on:** October 29, 2020, 05:07:06 pm »

Yeah, I love playing Repair Rendezvous.

I only get a little annoyed if and when I see that I have the Klingon marauder on the ropes, and I want to capture it, but that little police ship or frigate never obeys the capture command and proceeds to blast the Klingon D7 into smithereens. Otherwise, it's great. Besides, just the vistas with the small planet and the different types of ships are rather nice.

Back when I had a whole TOS mode setup, with TOS ships for all races, it looked even cooler. I'm going to wait until I know I have a block of somewhat open time before I even try to set that up again. I even forgot how to spell sfbspc13! I'm going to have a bit of refreshing to catch up on about how to redo all that.

Over the years I also lost missions I wrote myself, and am fearful of the time involved in doing such things again. These days, some nights, I rather watch a SFC .rec recording than actually play; yeah, I got lazy.

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