Monster Bash music in IMF?

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Tue Oct 21, 2008 21:29

Ok guys, here's my dilemma...

I saw the thread on this board that has the Monster Bash music in MIDI format, but I was wondering if anyone knows how I can get it in IMF format. I used an extraction program on the .dat file for episode 1 to get its music, but for some reason it wouldn't work on episodes 2 or 3. Can anyone help me out?

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Wed Oct 22, 2008 22:11

What extraction program did you use? Wombat should work for all episodes, otherwise I can upload my Bash IMFs if you'd like.

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Fri Oct 24, 2008 19:08

Malvineous wrote:What extraction program did you use? Wombat should work for all episodes, otherwise I can upload my Bash IMFs if you'd like.

I used Wombat 0.4a. It extracts the first episode just fine, but I get an error message whenever I click on the .dat files for 2 or 3. Is there a newer version of Wombat?

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 3:14

People have mentioned errors when extracting, I tested 0.4a on my copies of Eps 2+3 and it works fine, but there probably differences in the file formats between versions or somesuch. Unfortunately, without access to your copies I don't know what I have to fix; I can PM you a link to my current non-public build with only Monster Bash support left in (cause I broke something at some point and a lot of other games are crashing), and see if it works there.

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Sat Oct 25, 2008 16:21

szevvy wrote:People have mentioned errors when extracting, I tested 0.4a on my copies of Eps 2+3 and it works fine, but there probably differences in the file formats between versions or somesuch. Unfortunately, without access to your copies I don't know what I have to fix; I can PM you a link to my current non-public build with only Monster Bash support left in (cause I broke something at some point and a lot of other games are crashing), and see if it works there.

Sure, let's try that.

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Tue Oct 28, 2008 22:29

Link sent.

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 3:40

Ok, I downloaded it, but all of the menu options just say "!!ERROR!!" and I can't figure out how to do anything.

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 10:39

Did you extract everything in the zip file? !!ERROR!! means it can't find language\english.txt

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 14:35

Ok, got it unzipped correctly. I had "use folder names" turned off for some reason and it's not displaying the error message anymore. It's still not letting me open the .dat files though, but I can open the .exe files.

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 1:33

What happens when you try to open the dat files?

edit: open viewers\Monster Bash.viewer.txt (make sure you unset read-only on it) and replace

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file name = "*.dat" is (
	files [all] (
			unsigned16 type
			unsigned16 compressedSize
			FixedString(31) name
			unsigned16 uncompressedSize					
			
			data(compressedSize) file
			
			size: compressedSize
			
			if type = 1 then (
				set name: name + ".lvbkg"
			)
			
			if type = 2 then (
				set name: name + ".lvfg"
			)
			
			if type = 3 then (
				set name: name + ".bg"
			)
			
			if type = 4 then (
				set name: name + ".fg"				
			)
			
			if type = 5 then (
				set name: name + ".bonus"
			)

			if type = 7 then (
				set name: name + ".lvact"
			)

			compressed MonsterBash
	)
		
)

with

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file name = "*.dat" is (
	files [all] (
			unsigned16 type
			unsigned16 compressedSize
			FixedString(31) name
			unsigned16 uncompressedSize	
			log name + ", " + type + ", " + compressedSize + ", " + uncompressedSize

			data(compressedSize) file
			
			size: compressedSize
			
			if type = 1 then (
				set name: name + ".lvbkg"
			)
			
			if type = 2 then (
				set name: name + ".lvfg"
			)
			
			if type = 3 then (
				set name: name + ".bg"
			)
			
			if type = 4 then (
				set name: name + ".fg"				
			)
			
			if type = 5 then (
				set name: name + ".bonus"
			)

			if type = 7 then (
				set name: name + ".lvact"
			)

			compressed MonsterBash
	)
		
)

then try to open the dat, and post the contents of wombat.log

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Thu Oct 30, 2008 21:26

Okay, it's saying "Wombat.exe has generated errors and will be closed by Windows. You will need to restart the program. An error log is being created" whenever I try to open a .dat file. I replaced the code in the Monster Bash.viewer.txt and it's still not working. Wombat.log had a message saying something like "Viewer opened successfully" earlier, but when I open it now, it's blank.

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 8:30

Crap. You might have to grab them from Malvineous, without from copy of MB there's no way I track down what going on.

Swamper · Post by **Swamper** » Sat Nov 01, 2008 15:35

Ok, I'll do that. Thanks for trying to help though.

Malvineous · Post by **Malvineous** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 0:54

Here's a zip of the IMFs. If you could e-mail me one of the broken .dat files (malvineous@shikadi.net) that'd be good, because you might have a different version so it'd be nice to figure out why Wombat (and probably my extractor too) doesn't like them.

szevvy · Post by **szevvy** » Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:43

Yeah, I'd like that too