SS2 Music Mod, thelovebat's Alternate Music Additions
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09. July 2015, 16:50:35
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Hey there everyone, not new to the forum here but finally signed up recently so I could go ahead and post about a music mod I had made for myself some time back, when I was first getting into playing System Shock 2 (I was quite excited to see it come to GOG with their big reveal).Basically I had kinda thought some of the spots in the game like the main menu and options menu seemed a bit barren with just a background sound effect playing, so I went through my music library and tried finding some things that may possibly fit. After finding a few songs I felt fit for the atmosphere and mood of the game, I did some simple editing in Audacity to try and use some different portions of the music (making the music loopable where needed), as well as adding in the original background sound (at a lower volume) to the new music loops for the two menus. As an extra song for fun I tried finding something fitting for the elevator music as well and used just a small portion of the music while doing my best to make it loopable during editing.
The Main Menu music tune is basically the full song being used (slightly shortened but most of the song being intact), while the Options Menu and Elevator music use shortened selections of the original song to cut down on uneeded length and make the included music sound most appropriate and loopable. The Options Menu music also happens to play during loading screens as well.
I'll list the song credits down below and what they're used for, with more info and sources listed in the attached txt file (txt file also included in full download link). Filenames for each music track shown in parenthesis, if you don't wish to use all the songs when manually placing them in the mod folder. Simply remove songs with the relevant filename that you don't want to include in your mod folder. There are download links for each individual song further down for those using a mod manager instead, or for those wanting to download the songs separately.
- Main Menu music (mloop1): Ambiente Dolce by Adam-Beilgard
- Options Menu music (mloop2): Meteors by Stardate
- Elevator music (elevator): Fly Me to the Moon instrumental version (from Neon Genesis Evangelion)
7/10/15 Edit: Fly Me to the Moon link changed to include correct song link, since numerous instrumental versions exist. This link contains the version of the song contained in the mod.
9/9/16 Edit: I'll return to this thread from time to time to update the one click download links for the Mediafire mirrors listed. After a certain amount of time the links seem to give a download error and the site forces you to go to the download page with ads and possibly a captcha to fill out, instead of being able to utilize the one click download.
Mirror Download Link for newly updated setup to the mod. New download mirror has OGG audio and is compressed in the proper format to use with a mod manager. Thanks Kolya.
Below are download links for each individual song, if you're using a mod manager instead of doing things manually and don't want to use all of them in your mod loadout.
Hope everyone enjoys the music. Let me know what you guys think, all sorts of criticism and comments welcome.
10. July 2015, 09:28:03
Welcome lovebat and thanks for your work. I converted your music mod from WAV files (60 MB) to OGG (6 MB) and restructured the archive a bit to comply with our standard and make it work with the mod manager. Sounds good. #1
10. July 2015, 10:59:19
SS2 Alternate music selections for main menu, options menu, and elevator music maybe?#2
10. July 2015, 12:08:14
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Quote by Kolya:
Welcome lovebat and thanks for your work. I converted your music mod from WAV files (60 MB) to OGG (6 MB) and restructured the archive a bit to comply with our standard and make it work with the mod manager. Sounds good.
Thanks for the assistance.
I hadn't realized that you could use OGG audio files for these sorts of mods or I would have likely done that instead of wav. The Options Menu music (Meteors) was sourced from FLAC audio so that track was high enough quality to begin with, while the only sources I have for the other two songs are MP3. I can go ahead and upload the updated OGG file pack to Mediafire to serve as a mirror download link in case something should happen to the site.Glad you enjoy the music.
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SS2 Alternate music selections for main menu, options menu, and elevator music maybe?
I'm fine with any of the site admins altering the topic title as needed to sound most appropriate. I just put down a general title I could think of at the time since it was for more than one song. Alternate Music Selections or Alternate Music Additions would sound fine, I wish I could think of a fancy name for it though that didn't sound plain.
10. July 2015, 12:18:35
I haven't checked out the mod (yet) but that name given really is quite long.#4
What about "Ambient Music Mod"?
Oh and I really like the NGE fly me to the moon. For me it's the loveliest version of that title.
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