LEGO Rock Raiders Getting The Music To Work On My Budget Copy

[MrRaider]

I was digging through some of my old games and stumbled upon Rock Raiders (which I never finished as a kid) and have been trying to get it working on Vista without a disc. It's going really well (got the game going with the menu and victory screen music and managed to get the movies going) but I bought a budget edition which has the manual as a pdf rather than the ingame music. I notice you've got the music available for download in the freebies section and was just wondering if you're able to use those files to get the music going ingame (and if so how), or are they in the wrong format (e.g. do they need to be wavs?) thanks.

[TheDoctor]

Oh dear. Ingame music.

Here's the thing. We can get it to work with workarounds. Unfortunately those workarounds involve changing what mouseover sounds or other noises. But then things get awkward and then its just annoying and a pain in the butt for members to stop rambling about how they do it. Since it doesn't work like its supposed to and haven't been able to fix that, we have no straight answer for you.

I don't remember if sounds ingame had to be wav, because I think I remember some mp3 files in the folders somewhere. You can mess with it but it's more practical just to use some kind of VLC/Windows Media Player/whatever program.

[McJobless]

What is we created a building which could pump out different music items based on different menu option? It's a long shot, but based on the new research we have...it might just work.

[MrRaider]

So, it doesn't work like the other music (like the ambient music for the menu and score screen)? E.g. I can't just put files into the data folder on the hard drive and it'll work?

[McJobless]

I think you need the CD for that method, I'll try answer this if no one else has by the end of today.

[Cirevam]

The game looks at whatever is in the CD drive to play music. It doesn't care what's there as long as it's a music track. We have not found a way to tell the game to look in a folder instead of the CD drive. If you have a music CD, just put it in while playing Rock Raiders and BUH BAM, custom music.

[TheDoctor]

The game looks at whatever is in the CD drive to play music. It doesn't care what's there as long as it's a music track. We have not found a way to tell the game to look in a folder instead of the CD drive. If you have a music CD, just put it in while playing Rock Raiders and BUH BAM, custom music.

That's never worked for me.

[Cirevam]

Well it works for me, and in some of my recent walkthrough videos you can hear non-LRR background music. The disk I was using is also a Windows 98 game with music files stored in separate tracks, so that may be the deciding factor.

[McJobless]

We have not found a way to tell the game to look in a folder instead of the CD drive.

Could be a registry thing. Then again, probably not.

I'll set my next two days of social retreat on trying to find a fix.

Temp Fix: Use a Disc Emulator like MagicDisc or Deamon Tools.

[Aki Dazrold]

Or burn the tracks that we evidently have for DL here to a blank cd and ram it in the drive.

[TheDoctor]

We have not found a way to tell the game to look in a folder instead of the CD drive.

Could be a registry thing. Then again, probably not.

I'll set my next two days of social retreat on trying to find a fix.

Temp Fix: Use a Disc Emulator like MagicDisc or Deamon Tools.

No and no.

I've looked at the reg entries and there's nothing about any cd or drive.

Unless you computer didn't come with a CD drive, then it's probably already set to the D drive or E drive.

[McJobless]

Unless you computer didn't come with a CD drive, then it's probably already set to the D drive or E drive.

Actually, I removed it after it "exploded".

[Redacted]

it works fine for me on win7 , the dutch and english version