Play Midtown Madness's soundtrack without the need to insert its disc or mount an iso of the game?

[tetration]

In the original executable, the game's engine only plays the game's songs if the Midtown Madness 1 CD is in the driver or a backup iso file is mounted. Would it be possible to code this reversed-engineered version of the game to play the game's soundtrack without needing to insert the CD every time we want to play it?

What are the functions of the game responsible for this restriction? Are they hard-coded in the game's engine?

[0x1F9F1]

The music is stored on the CD just like a regular audio CD, and played using https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/multimedia/mci. Most of the code to do this has already been reverse engineered at https://github.com/0x1F9F1/Open1560/blob/master/code/midtown/mmaudio/cd.cpp.

While adding support for playing the music from disk is on my TODO list, it's not high priority.

[Guspr181]

@tetration

Well actually is possible to play the game without using any dvd, for that you must do this three things:

1. Use this line argument: "-cdid"

2. Rip all the tracks from the cd in .ogg format using an external program and do it with the following names (track02.ogg,track03.ogg,etc) (skip track01.ogg because that is the data partition) and move them in a folder called "music" inside the root folder of the game.

3. Move the following files from this portable program called "DxWnd" to the root folder of your game:
   vcda/winmm.dll
   vcda/winmm.ini
   dxwplay.dll
   libogg.dll
   libvorbis.dll
   libvorbisfile.dll

DxWnd Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

I hope that this was helpful :D

[tetration]

@tetration

Well actually is possible to play the game without using any dvd, for that you must do this three things:

1. Use this line argument: "-cdid"
2. Rip all the tracks from the cd in .ogg format using an external program and do it with the following names (track02.ogg,track03.ogg,etc) (skip track01.ogg because that is the data partition) and move them in a folder called "music" inside the root folder of the game.
3. Move the following files from this portable program called "DxWnd" to the root folder of your game:
   vcda/winmm.dll
   vcda/winmm.ini
   dxwplay.dll
   libogg.dll
   libvorbis.dll
   libvorbisfile.dll

DxWnd Link: https://sourceforge.net/projects/dxwnd/

I hope that this was helpful :D

Thank you @Guspr181 ! I didn't know about the existence of dxwnd. Being able to play this game and other games of my childhood that rely on the CD in order to play the soundtrack will be a truly nostalgic experience. I'm going to try it out this weekend.

[ks202005]

   vcda/winmm.dll
   vcda/winmm.ini

This wasn't working for me, because I had them as \Midtown Madness\vcda\winmm.*
Placing them in the root as \Midtown madness\vinmm.* worked for me. That should have obvious to me since I know what DLL injection is but I know I won't be the only one who will make this mistake and tons of people unfamiliar with DLL injection will have no idea why it doesn't work so hopefully this helps someone.