FOTAQ Music Extraction?

[Reko]

The SCUMM system has a variety of tools for viewing scenes, etc. But FOTAQ (and BaSS) are different systems, and have far less tools available.

So, I was wondering if it was possible to extract the music from FOTAQ? Someone around here managed to extract the MIDI music from BaSS, but I don't know how.

[joostp]

Sure it's possible, but you have to write your own tool to do it.
The source in ScummVM should help you with this.

[vodi]

Sorry for bumping this old topic, but I found this over search.
I am very interested in extracting the music from FOTAQ, preferably a non-midi version I found on go.to/gamemods . The new version with cdaudio offers better sound quality plus jazzy themes/instruments rather than midi sounds

Since this is an old topic, I wonder if extracted FOTAQ cd-music is available already.
Thanks

edit:
after using search and faq, I got a bit confused with the topics. Most of them seem to deal with compression of music files but not extractions.

Sorry for my bad english.

[sev]

Most of them seem to deal with compression of music files but not extractions.

Heh, but to compress the music you have to extract it first, right?


Eugene

[clem]

The new version with cdaudio offers better sound quality plus jazzy themes/instruments rather than midi sounds

Since this is an old topic, I wonder if extracted FOTAQ cd-music is available already.

I have 2 original CD versions of FOTAQ, and neither of them uses CD Audio.

[cyx]

If someone is interested in a tool to unpack the midi files and/or to get the unpacked midi files (roland and adlib versions), it's available here :

http://cyx.dnsalias.org/scummvm/fotaq/midi.zip

[vodi]

My bad questions been answered in a different thread of mine (more likely). Has to do with adlib, not cdsounds, so I accidently used the wrong term.

Thanks for the tool, cyx

[id1402]

Hello.
I compressed my original non-shareware FOTAQ (queen.1 and queen.tbl) using compress_queen. The new file queen.1c was the result. queen.1 can be deleted now, but I'm not sure if I can delete queen.tbl too. I checked the beginning of the game without queen.tbl, everything ok. So can I delete queen.tbl?

[clem]

So can I delete queen.tbl?

yes!

the original FOTAQ had the offsets where which file in the datafile starts saved in the executable. queen.tbl is a list of these offsets for the original games. compressed queen versions of course have different offsets, so the "file index" is at the beginning of the .1c files.

[id1402]

All right. Thank you for the detailed explanation.