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Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 5:47 am
by Sir MMPD Radick
if you are not seeing music tracks on the disc in windows media player(or some other player) then it is not the Pentium edition or it was burned without the music tracks.
Secondarily the pentium edition is not the recommended version on the forum.. it is like the last resort version because it only has 95 on it.
Since you have DOS on it then it cannot be the Pentium edition unless it is a non retail version. If it is something other than the Megamedia bundle edition there is no guarantee that there are music tracks.
Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 2:52 pm
by macflav
Managed to get it running with Ubuntu 12.04 + DOSBox + ".cue" from my original MW2 CD.
Funny (actually annoying) thing: whenever I'm in combat, I hear this loud background white-noise. My guess is, due to a sort of bug somewhere (DOSBox?), the game "tries" to play track #1 (which we know is data, not audio).
My workaround (to make the game "playable") was turning the system volume down, but then I can hardly hear the sound effects. Tried tweaking the in-game menu "SET AUDIO VOLUME", no luck: nothing happens when I slide the "Music" bar, even setting it to miminum, the white noise is still there; when I move to the other bars ("SoundEffects" or "Voice"), the white noise disappears (thus my conclusion that the annoying loud noise is indeed "music", or supposed to be). Unfortunately, exiting the menu back into combat makes the undesired sound start over.
I'll end up making an ".iso" image instead of the buggy ".cue".
[OFF-TOPIC]: Another funny (?) side effect I noticed: when I have the "original CD" (image) mounted, NetMech doesn't work: it tells me to insert the MW2 CD! Hopefully it works fine when nothing is mounted...
Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 3:25 pm
by macflav
Regarding my last post: I managed to create an ".iso" image that's only 115.1 MB in size (obviously, it contains only the data track from the original CD). Game's working like a charm now -- no music, but I don't miss the background noise at all!
Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2012 4:30 pm
by Sir MMPD Radick
well sorry to hear about the noise but i am glad to hear you have it running at the least. That is a relief to hear
Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Sun Sep 06, 2015 6:34 pm
by Havokq3
Hello,
I am having a similar problem with music in 31stcc and GBL. I have tried mounting the .cue file as instructed, though this only results in the game quitting and a message that reads: "Error: MechWarrior 2 CD-ROM not found." The game runs fine when I mount the .bin image, with the exception of music, which doesn't play. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Re: No music in dosbox
Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2015 6:32 pm
by Chickenegg01
Havokq3 wrote:Hello,
I am having a similar problem with music in 31stcc and GBL. I have tried mounting the .cue file as instructed, though this only results in the game quitting and a message that reads: "Error: MechWarrior 2 CD-ROM not found." The game runs fine when I mount the .bin image, with the exception of music, which doesn't play. Any ideas on how to fix this?
Maybe you can make more use of this than me.