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[BelgarathMTH]

Omg. Omg, omg, omg! I was just playing the vanilla gog.com version of BG2, and I, for some strange reason, got a snippet of lost music while traveling to the temple district! It wasn't even played completely! But, it was enough to remind me, that long, long ago, almost thirteen years ago, this little snippet of music used to play almost every time you made a map transition into a civilized city area! Omg, I had completely forgotten it! For some reason, it's been lost from all versions of BG2 beyond the original release!

Please, please, fellow musicians, help me recover this!

Here is the best I can recreate it in notation without notation. Please use your piano keyboards. Fractions are note values:

A                   A      D      A         C          A          Bb   A      G           A/F#/ D
dotted 1/4    1/8   1/4    1/4      1/2        1/2       1/4  1/4    1/2         whole (fermata)

Please, my fellow musicians, help me recover this lost motif. If you know what I'm talking about, and know a link, please, please, post it here! It is such a wonderful "you have arrived successfully at your new city destination despite great danger from the alleys, Suna, Renfield's poisoners, orogs" motif!

And it had been lost in all the modding frenzy and all! Wow! I don't know why gog.com BG2 just played a fragment of it for a brief second, but wow! Fellow musicians, help?

Modifié par BelgarathMTH, 01 août 2012 - 01:45 .

[Mr Spidey]

Have you checked if you can find it with Near Infinity? I believe it has access to all the music in the game. If it's in your vanilla BG installation, NI *should* be able to see it and play it for you.

[BelgarathMTH]

I don't know what "Near Infnity" is. I had a look through my gog.com install directory and didn't see anything that said that. Do you know a path to where it should be?

[Mr Spidey]

I realise this is perhaps a bit much to just jump into. I merely figured that the most proactive kind of research would be to look through the files in your game. It's at least one way to search, in case nobody else have any good ideas as to what piece of music you're referring to.

Near Infinity is an Infinity Engine editor. It doesn't come with the game but you can get some info about it, including download links, here:
http://www.shsforums...8-nearinfinity/

To actually play the music, you also need a file called acm2wav.exe and the above forum post also contains info on where to get it.

Installation is quite easy. Just place NearInfinity.jar (newest version is called NearInfinity-w1.0.4.jar but you get the drift) and acm2wav.exe in your BG2 directory. If everything works (fingers crossed), you should be able to start the application by double clicking on NearInfinity.jar.

Then a window appears with a bunch of folders on the left and a content window on the right. Find the folder named music and there you go, all the files related to the music in BG should be shown there.

There's also an InfinityAmp utility in the top menu "tools". It does what WinAmp does, except with BG music. Obviously, it may be rather slow to go through all the music tracks, but if all other solutions fail...

Anyway, I'm sorry I can't give you a better answer but I cannot recall any such "transition without incident" tune and I'm not a musician either.

[BelgarathMTH]

That's okay, Mr. Spidey, thanks for your help. You're very kind.

I was really just putting it out there in case anyone around actually does know music. It was a four measure tune, and it used to play on the installation screen when you would first put the discs in the drive, and, in the first release of the game before the patch, it would play if you stayed in your inventory screen for more than thirty seconds or so. It would play every time you went to a different area of the city, and it would repeat itself about every thirty seconds while you were exploring a city area. I think it was meant to be an Athkatla motif.

I remember this because I remember getting irritated by it eventually because it played so much. It could have been the patch that took it out, or any number of things in the gog.com adaptation, and in mods. I know that none of my Tutu or BGT installations played it, and I used those for so many years, that's why I forgot the motif.

Oh well, though, it's no big deal. Again, thanks.

[goblinsly1]

I know what you are talking about.



Here at 0:50 you hear this music in the background. And all my baldurs gate 2 installations till now had this music when i put in the cd or when i remain idle in the town, it indeed is a great music if i can call it that since its that short....it gives a feeling of being in a great story.

[Amnasty]

I am also playing GOG version. I think track no '28. Romance II - Michael Hoenig' in GOG BG2 Soundtrack Folder also plays the similar  music to what the above video shows. Well, at least it sounds the same though it's a romance track.

Modifié par Amnasty, 01 août 2012 - 06:23 .

[Mr Spidey]

The part 50 seconds into the video sounds like a variant of the Temple District tune, doesn't it? It plays whenever you jump into the Temple District, IIRC. At it plays whenever I put in the disc as well.

[BelgarathMTH]

Thanks, Goblin, you got it. That is indeed the motif at :50 in the video, although you have to be concentrating really carefully on the music to hear it over the narration and sound effects.

It's only a fragment, though. The beginning of it was a trumpet solo - which I heard in the snippet I almost got last night when I entered the temple district, before the game program cut it off suddenly. I had forgotten it had a choir in it by the end. Come to think of it, maybe it was exclusively a temple district thing.