Eschaton: Nightfall sound fix -- 02/05/99, 5:20PM EST -- Desiato|MH

Disclaimer:
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I am not affiliated with Strange Company, in any fashionable or 
unfashionable way.  This is an unofficial and unsupported fix by
"just some guy" who had nothing better to do than attend the IRC
release party for "Eschaton: Nightfall".  There's really no way
this can harm your computer, but it's not my fault if it does. :)
Run at your own risk.

Update: The authors have given me permission to distribute this
fix, however still "run at your own risk".

The problem:
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MMWave converts the mono .mp3's into stereo .wav's which Quake 2 cannot 
play, which means that the film runs silent.  There's also second 
minor problem with a filename.  "intro.wav" should be "theme.wav"
This fix solves this as well.


The solution:
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Convert them to mono. :)  It's a little tedious to do this manually, so 
I wrote this batch file.  I assumed that others might find it tedious
too, so I decided to share.

Windows instructions:

0: Make sure that you've followed Nightfall's installation instructions, 
   and converted the .mp3's to .wav's with MMWave.exe.

1: Copy sox.exe and convert.bat to your \quake2\night\sound\ directory

2: Run convert.bat (try double clicking on it. :))

3: Wait.  It should take a couple of minutes to process all of the sound 
   files.

4: That's it. :)  

Unix instructions:

0: I don't use linux for gaming, so I'm not even sure if the mp3 convesion utils
   for linux will make the same mistake as MMWave.  Should you have stereo Nightfall
   .wav's that need converting in a unix OS, here's what you do.. 

1: Download, compile and install sox: http://www.spies.com/Sox/Archive/soxgamma.tar.gz

2: Copy convert.sh to your quake2/night/sound/ dir

3: Run the script: sh convert.sh


Credits:
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Sox homepage:	http://www.spies.com/Sox/
Lame batchfile:	Desiato|MH <desiato@hotmail.com> of Mostly Harmless, 
		a qwtf clan, http://www.gibbed.com/mh/.
unix sh script:	Ursa <ac212@cam.ac.uk>
Check out:	http://qmovies.telefragged.com

Final word:
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Kudos to the people at Strange Company for their excellent film.  


Absolute final word:
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Why can't I get no tang 'round here?