CMMOS Uploads tonight

MikeT · May 2, 2004

For CMBO fans and Pacific theater fans, tonight I am uploading some special "housekeeping" files, 3 in total, that are absolute requirements to allow several mods to work.

In order for any wav file, either speech or the music files, to work the contents of this zip must be unzipped into the wav folder of CMBO.

I learned real quick, to my saddness, that CMMOS does not treat wav files in the same way as it does bmp files. The preview feature of a wav mod permits playing that plays the wav mod so you know what it sounds like. Very useful but the file must be in the wav folder of the game. That means you must install the mod as well has have it in a zip file. Not desireabe to me. So I decided to create a dummy file with the same name as the mod, the preview plays that file.

So what happens here is that the contents of file "SPEECH_FILES_TO_WAV_1_CMBO.zip" must be unzip into the wav folder of CMBO. You install the music or speech files you wish. When you install your file it takes the place of the file that is in "Speech_Files_to_Wav_Folder_CMBO.zip".

This is the only way I could get wav files to function within CMMOS/CMBO.

There is a second issue that must be address. I am going to start posting some mods that have "_MP3" the title. I had to convert the wav files in that mod to MP3 format to save space, up to 90%. You will need to unzip that file, convert the MP3 file to a wav format.

I have researched this matter and found the following sites where you can download a share MP3 to wav converter, if you need one:

http://www.americanshareware.com/ (30 day free use)

http://www.share2.com/

http://www.audioi.com/audio-converter.htm

http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/481/

Now someone did post on the CM Mod Database such a converter but I cannot find it.

Now, once these are done, I will post the Pacific theater mod along with some other unique mods.

MikeT