[Scummvm-tracker] [ScummVM :: Bugs] #12994: SCI: GK1 MIDI/Digital Music Selector Toggle?

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#12994: SCI: GK1 MIDI/Digital Music Selector Toggle?
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Reporter:  GermanTribun     |       Owner:  (none)
    Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
Priority:  normal           |   Component:  Engine: SCI
 Version:                   |  Resolution:
Keywords:                   |        Game:  Gabriel Knight 1
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Comment (by sluicebox):

 Yes, GK1 audio is confusing! There are several things going on here:

 99.WAV is an unused resource. No version of GK1 has ever ever touched that
 file; there is no sound resource 99. The other two WAV files you mentioned
 do play because 5 and 5400 are the resource numbers for those sounds. When
 GK1 plays a sound it plays a WAV file if one is there with the matching
 number, otherwise it uses the MIDI resource. Nightmare theme is 100. Why
 is 99.WAV on the disc at all? I don't know; there's a lot of unused stuff,
 including AVI files. That makes it sound like no one can ever hear digital
 audio for the nightmare, ''except...''

 The DOS and Windows versions are different. The Windows version plays AVI
 files for movie sequences, and those contain digital audio. You even get
 lightning sounds! DOS versions have always played MIDI for nightmare,
 Windows versions have always played digital audio via AVI. GK1CD was dual-
 platform, it came with both DOS and Windows executables, and the game
 scripts ask which one they're running under and alter their behavior quite
 a lot during movie scenes. That's why ScummVM asks which platform you want
 when adding GK1. Add it a second time as Windows or toggle the platform to
 compare the differences. ''Except...''

 Your name suggests you might be playing the German version, in which case
 DOS is your only option because only the English versions were dual-
 platform. All localized versions are DOS-only.

 Whew! In summary...

 1. ScummVM is behaving correctly; you get digital nightmare music if you
 select Windows
 2. If you want digital nightmare music and can't do Windows, just rename
 99.WAV to 100.WAV =)
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