Anyway to extract the MIDI files used in Arena?

Post » Sat May 28, 2011 12:53 pm

I always loved the music of Arena, it was so damn catchy, I was wondering if there was anyway to extract the MIDI files? or if someone has already done that, any links?
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John Moore
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 9:02 pm

Ooh! Another fan of the Arena music. We can all mostly agree that Daggerfall has some amazing compositions, but the music from the first game typically goes unloved.

What you want to check out is an old utility, http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=8516. It was an effort to decipher Arena's file formats and rebuild the engine around it, and ultimately become a source port for the game akin to DaggerXL. Like all cool internet projects, it failed, but this early release is capable of extracting sprites, wall graphics, sounds, and the MIDI tracks from the game. Just to let you know, you have to use it with the floppy (free release) version of Arena, not the CD version if by any chance you have that. Have fun! :)
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katsomaya Sanchez
 
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Post » Sun May 29, 2011 12:06 am

How does one extract the MIDI tracks?
All I got in the cache folder were the wav sounds.

But this is awesome, thanks for the link.
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Rusty Billiot
 
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Post » Sun May 29, 2011 2:25 am

Why extract 'em? A little creative Googling ought to do the trick. The files were there in the past; they must be there, somewhere, today...

I used to run a site, hosted on m0use.net (with Bethesda's blessing), that had all of them available for download, as well as the Battlespire and Redguard soundtracks. Alas, m0use is no longer with us.

Also, nice to see a fellow VT'er 'round these parts.
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Robert Garcia
 
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Post » Sat May 28, 2011 6:27 pm

Yeah I gotta get my Google-fu back in action. I'll try that again, got nothing better to do.
EDIT I see, I was playing WinArena in Fullscreen before, didnt see the dump option /facepalm.
I got the MIDIs now, thanks for the help everyone.
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