Music not working

[bigbadbogie]

I am presently trying to get the music working in BZ1 again.

About a year ago my CD snapped, and I have since had to play BZ off an ISO file which I burned, luckily.

Unfortunately, the music no longer plays. I can still play the game fine, BUT I NEED THE MUSIC BACK!!

Does anyone know why it wont work? It may have something to do with the CD not having audio tracks.

I have already tried a bin/cue file with the audio tracks on it, but they still wont play.

[Nielk1]

Perhaps BZ1 is looking specifically for your first disk drive. If you want, burn a new bz1 disk, or burn one with a blank track 1 and the other tracks on (music disk) and have that in when you play. It should restore the function.

[bigbadbogie]

Perhaps BZ1 is looking specifically for your first disk drive.

Bugger. That is what I feared.

or burn one with a blank track 1 and the other tracks on (music disk) and have that in when you play. It should restore the function.

What?

[Nielk1]

What?

The BZ1 disk has several tracks, a data track, and then the audio tracks. You can either burn the BZ1 disk again, or burn an audio disk with the tracks. Be warned, if you forget to put something in track 1 to be ignored, all tracks played will be off by 1.

Perhaps there is a setting in some BZ1 config file about disk drive?

[General BlackDragon]

BZ1 plays whatever music disk is in the drive.

My windows media player thinks my BZ1 disk is a Slayer Album

[AHadley]

Mine thinks BZ2 is some obscure death metal band... Lazarus or something...

Maybe play the music in media player (or winamp, or iTunes, or whatever you use) in the background. Media player stops after one track if you're using a full-screen program, running it in skin mode fixes this. The music from all the original games can be found on bzcomplex.

[bigbadbogie]

BZ1 plays whatever music disk is in the drive.

My windows media player thinks my BZ1 disk is a Slayer Album

Only if the CD is in the drive when you boot up the game.

But you need to have the BZ CD in there to get the game open in the first place.

[General BlackDragon]

yes, but my point is, it plays any music in game from cd, so just burn the bz1 sound track to a CD.

[bigbadbogie]

It wont work. It only reads 1 CD, either the audio or the actual bz1 CD.

Since I only have the ISO file with no audio tracks, it only reads that. I load the ISO with daemon tools.

Even if I minimise the game and swap the bz1 ISO for an audio disk image (bin/cue), it still doesn't work.

[bigbadbogie]

It is an unmodded v1.4 of battlezone.

The music used to work with the same install when I had the original CD.

[General BlackDragon]

DX missed the problem.

You can remake an ISO with the music files in there, or unmount it once the game has launched.

[bigbadbogie]

I tried unmounting after the game had launched. It didn't work.

How can I remake the ISO with the BZ files plus the audio tracks? I have tried everything I could find.

[bigbadbogie]

I made it myself.

[bigbadbogie]

325 mbs. Pretty huge for only a few songs that are only a total of 15 mbs.

The bin/cue works as a regular audio CD when mounted.

[Nielk1]

325 mbs. Pretty huge for only a few songs that are only a total of 15 mbs.

The bin/cue works as a regular audio CD when mounted.

Not big at all, note how the audio is encoded in a very inefficient way.