Sam and Max - converting monster.sou on a mac

[GriffNorris]

I want to convert my monster.sou to so3, as I've been told it runs a bit more smoothly, and takes up less space on the ds card thing.

Thing is, I've downloaded both the (latest) scummvm tools for Mac OS X and PC (just for use with virtual PC, in case I'd have any more luck with that, and I didn't).

I have no clue when it comes to LAME, let alone opening the files that seem to be "terminal" files and I just can't do it. Anyone help? I've tried following PC guides with both tools, both times with no success. I'd prefer to run it on the mac, as using virtual pc is much slower.

Seriously, if you can, step by step guide with what I need to do and what i need to download. I'm not so smart as a lot of you... are. D:

Doubt I'll get a response, but you never know.

Have a nice day.

P.S. I think asking for someone to do mine/provide a converted monster so3 would be something called wares, and I don't want to do that because that's illegal.

[fingolfin]

I am not at home, so I can't write a full detailed proper guide here, but roughly these steps should get you to your goal:

1) Install lame. You can download this e.g. from <http://rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php> or install it via Fink <http://www.finkproject.org> or MacPort <http://www.macports.org/>.

2) Copy the "compress_scumm_sou" file (actually, this is a program) into the directory where your MONSTER.SOU is located in.

3) Run "Terminal.app" (can be found in /Applications/Utilities)

4) There, type in "cd " (make sure to have the whitespace after cd), do NOT type return after that; instead, drag and drop the folder in which MONSTER.SOU and "compress_scumm_sou" are now in onto the window. This should insert the path to the folder

5) Now press return. If everythin worked fine, Terminal.app now changed into the correct folder

6) You can now run the "compress_scumm_sou" tool as described in the README. The simplest form is to type
./compress_scumm_sou monster.sou
and then press return.

7) If you don't get an error about "lame" not being found, just wait some time till it's finished.

If you do get an error after step 6 or at any other point, I guess it's simplest if you just ask again here, providing details about the error (in particular, copy&paste the error message .

[GriffNorris]

It was going so well, and then it came up asking to check my parameters... D:

Last login: Tue Jul 17 17:25:47 on ttyp1
Welcome to Darwin!
[Marks-Computer:~] markgrif% cd /Users/markgrif/Desktop/Desktop/scummvmds0-5\ Folder/Sam\ and\ max/sou/
[Marks-Computer:scummvmds0-5 Folder/Sam and max/sou] markgrif% ./compress_scumm_sou monster.sou
Voice file found (pos = : Sound Data
- length = 64512
- sample rate = 22050 (d3)
- compression = 8bits (00)
sh: line 1: lame: command not found
Got error from encoder. (check your parameters)
Encoder Commandline: lame -t -r --bitwidth 8 -m m -s 22050 --vbr-new -b 24 --resample 22050 -q 2 -V 4 -B 64 "tempfile.raw" "tempfile.mp3"
[Marks-Computer:scummvmds0-5 Folder/Sam and max/sou] markgrif%

[fingolfin]

So it's not finding lame. How did you install it, precisely?

[GriffNorris]

I may have just placed it in the same directory as monster.sou.

Oh dear. D:

[GriffNorris]

Yeah I still don't know how to install LAME properly...