Compress Full Throttle Audio?


OmarNawaz

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hiya

i downlaoded the tools from scummvm.org i tried using the compress_scumm_sou on the monster.sou file but it keeps saying cannot open monster.sou

what am i doing wrong?

any help would be appreciated
 
Does Full Throttle actually have monster.sou? I can't remember.

I do know that you have to crunch down a lot of other files to get it to work. Have you copied the files across to the hard drive first?

Allan.
 
yup ive got all the files on hard drive

Lucky for you I have a good memory. ;)

The commands are different now if you are using the latest scummvm tools.

First of all you must have a monster.sou file.

Do you have ogg encoder? You don't, get it here. Oggenc1.1.1 179kb.

Get yourself the Scummvm tools from here. Tools link 184kb. Choose a mirror to download from.

Extract the downloaded zip and rename it scummvmtools to wherever you want but make a note of the path i.e. c:\scummvmtools as you will be using command prompt to run the program as there is no GUI.

Okay copy the Monster.sou file to the Scummvmtools folder. Also copy the oggenc.exe to the Scummvmtools folder.

Next press your windows key or click start, click on run, type in cmd.

Type: cd c:\scummvmtools (or the path you made) to get into the folder. If you type dir you will get a list of the files in the folder, you should see your monster.sou file and a file called compress_scumm_sou.

Type: compress_scumm_sou --vorbis monster.sou (or copy and paste this into the command line).

All being well you should get a monster.sog file at the end of it, it will take a while so find something else to do like play on your GP32 B)

I am currently encoding my Full Throttle Monster.sou as I type as I couldn't remember how to do it without doing it! :rolleyes: and I wanted to make sure that the steps I have written are correct and can be followed. ;)
 
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yup ive got all the files on hard drive

Lucky for you I have a good memory. ;)

The commands are different now if you are using the latest scummvm tools.

First of all you must have a monster.sou file.

Do you have ogg encoder? You don't, get it here. Oggenc1.1.1 179kb.

Get yourself the Scummvm tools from here. Tools link 184kb. Choose a mirror to download from.

Extract the downloaded zip and rename it scummvmtools to wherever you want but make a note of the path i.e. c:\scummvmtools as you will be using command prompt to run the program as there is no GUI.

Okay copy the Monster.sou file to the Scummvmtools folder. Also copy the oggenc.exe to the Scummvmtools folder.

Next press your windows key or click start, click on run, type in cmd.

Type: cd c:\scummvmtools (or the path you made) to get into the folder. If you type dir you will get a list of the files in the folder, you should see your monster.sou file and a file called compress_scumm_sou.

Type: compress_scumm_sou --vorbis monster.sou (or copy and paste this into the command line).

All being well you should get a monster.sog file at the end of it, it will take a while so find something else to do like play on your GP32 B)

I am currently encoding my Full Throttle Monster.sou as I type as I couldn't remember how to do it without doing it! :rolleyes: and I wanted to make sure that the steps I have written are correct and can be followed. ;)

nope still no luck im sure im getting everything right it keeps saying canoot open monster.sou do you think its an access conflict like something else is using the file thats why it cant be compressed

let me try with other files like sam and max

nope still no luck i closed down explorer.exe and all other procesess still no luck i create the folder tools on root of F: drive extract the scumm tools to there

i then copy monster.sou from F:\games\lucas\ft to F:\tools i then close everything down run cmd and type in F:\tools\compress_scumm_sou.exe monster.sou and i get
Cannot open file: monster.sou

any help
 
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nope still no luck im sure im getting everything right it keeps saying canoot open monster.sou do you think its an access conflict like something else is using the file thats why it cant be compressed

let me try with other files like sam and max

nope still no luck i closed down explorer.exe and all other procesess still no luck i create the folder tools on root of F: drive extract the scumm tools to there

i then copy monster.sou from F:\games\lucas\ft to F:\tools i then close everything down run cmd and type in F:\tools\compress_scumm_sou.exe monster.sou and i get
Cannot open file: monster.sou

any help

In command prompt can you first type cd f:\tools

Then once you are in the directory f:\tools type compress_scumm_sou --vorbis monster.sou

If you are following my first post and have downloaded oggencoder and placed it in the scummtools folder, there should be no reason I can think of that it is failing.
 
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