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Message: 5128
Author: john_elliott_uk
Date: 21/11/2005
Subject: Re: Changing tunes in JSW128 / JSW64
--- In manicminerandjetsetwilly@yahoogroups.com, "Daniel"
> I selected "Playtune.tap". I extracted the "Cannonball" tune using
[...]
> the "Blocks" "Extract" function. I extracted two pieces: piece # 7
> ("CANNON.TUN", which is described as "byt 0.2080") and piece #8
> ("Headerless", which is described as "len 2080 F:255").
> I used the "Blocks Edit" function (in ASCII) to change the
This sounds like quite an involved way of doing things. I'd have
> name "CANNON.TUN" to "title.tun".
used tapsplit to break the TAP files up, and tapcat to put them back
together. Still, whatever floats your boat.
> and then I changed the name of
This will only work if you have the same tune as both main and
> the inserted "cheat.tun" to "main.tun" using the "Blocks" "Edit"
> function (in ASCII). This also seems to have worked and if I am
> right, the cheat-mode tune has now become the regular in-game tune
> in "Mind Control".
cheat. Otherwise you're in trouble.
> However, when I loaded the
JSWED doesn't save the full length of TITLE.TUN; this is probably a
> modified "MC.tap" file into JSWED and then resaved it (as .tap), it
> got screwed in the sense that the game started with the title-screen
> already flashing with the scrolling message. So while it seems to me
> and please correct me, those of you who know, if I am wrong that
> this above-described method works fine, it must be used at the very
> last moment, as the last change made to the game file before
> releasing it, and afterwards the file cannot be modified in JSWED
> again (unless the problem can be fixed by manual editing, but I
> wouldn't know how to do it).
hangover from JSW128 when there wasn't so much room for it.
> This means that "Cannonball" is
Yes.
> NOT too big to fit, isn't that right?
> Also, what does SKY mean?
According to Ian Collier's original notes, SKY were the band who
wrote the tunes.
> And by the way, while enumerating the tunes, you say:
OK, then. The version from HL2 and later.
>
> > Danza (SKY), programmed by Ian Collier. The original JSW128 title
> > screen tune.
> However, it seems to me that it is NOT the "original" JSW128 title
> screen tune I have a file called "JSW128 Hacklevel 1.tap",
(Hacklevel 1 was released in January 1996, and was just JSW48 with
support for 256 rooms. It didn't have extended guardian tables, item
tables, 128k music, cheat mode or the pretty title screen. HL2 was
released at the end of February 1996, and had all these features.
> Also, you said, enumerating the tunes:
Now you come to mention it, yes, it is. Might have to look at that
>
> > In The Hall Of The Mountain King (Grieg), programmed by me (one
> > channel only). The current JSW128/JSW64 in-game tune.
>
> It seems to me that this is not 100% accurate, either. The current
> JSW128 in-game tune is STILL Ian Collier's "Grace", isn't it?
one of these years.
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