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The old Heroes games developed by New World Computing. Please specify which game you are referring to in your post.
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Unread postby Doomweaver » 23 Jun 2006, 11:17

Hey guys I love the music to Heroes 2,3, and 4, and own all three of them. However, I have lost my Heroes 2 cd, scratched to death the heroes 3 cd (It was the version with the Lich trying to take over the world, can't remember its name), and can't work out how to get the Heroes 4 music out of the game.

Can anyone help with any of these? For Heroes 2 and 3, can someone email me the songs at yianni.mitropoulos@gmail.com? For Heroes 4, could someone either do the same, or explain how to extract the music?

Also, I know this in the wrong post category for this, but does anyone know how to get to the music from Might and Magic 7 and 8?

Thanks guys, I love those soundtracks, and it'd be especially great to hear some of the older ones after so many years.

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Unread postby Skullmane » 23 Jun 2006, 11:38

I can't help you with the H2 and 3 music, but for extracting the H4 music try the Extractor, listed in the usefull files for H4

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Unread postby Pol » 23 Jun 2006, 14:16

That's problem that you Heroes II. & III. cds are scratched to death, however you need to install the game and then look into its directory, the music files are here....

How restore badly scratched cds?

I'm usually using ddrescue, if it can it usually repairs all damaged sectores, unfortunatelly including also intentionally damaged sectors from some form of protection... hmm, it's seems to me that you will need to install linux apriori to put this command into use. * On the other hand it's standart part of rescue cds, like insert or ultimate boot cd {full} (you must install distro into ram, see install switches, mount at least one of your harddisks, see gparted to recognize the names it will be like: mount /dev/hda1 /dev/hda1, and run the command: ddrescue -v -r -l -f /dev/hdc /where/to/save/game.iso) Pretty easy, don't forget to clean your cd with cotton clout and use very good cd mechanics - LG preferably. It will be cooked after a few hours, Bon Apetit :D
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Unread postby Vlad976 » 23 Jun 2006, 15:10

Doomweaver, the Heroes III music should already be on your hard drive in mp3 format. Off the top of my head I can't remember the name of the directory, but it's there.
(It was the version with the Lich trying to take over the world...)
Sounds like Shadow of Death, and the Lich in question would then be Sandro. :)
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Unread postby Pol » 23 Jun 2006, 15:52

The fabulous directory name for music files in Heroes of Might and Magic III. game is called, of course after installation, when everything went fine, no harddisk crashes or cd's freezes, when we assume the standart unmodified version of the game and Sandro invention, exactly and with no any variations and only: "mp3" :devious:
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Unread postby Pol » 23 Jun 2006, 16:25

Could be... mm7view

:ashamed: Umm, sorry, I never had MM7 cd in hands, only knowing that mm7view can extract sounds. In this case Audiograbber or Winamp can convert audio cd tracks to mp3, but I think that you know it already.
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Unread postby Doomweaver » 23 Jun 2006, 23:32

I managed to get the H4 music extracted; thanks for that.

Also, yeah it's Shadow of Death; but the game isn't installed at will not install from the cd. But to prove I own it and once did look in that folder with the music, I can tell you this; there are four different combat mp3's. I know that because I tried to put them into a map in warcraft III to spice up the combat, but it started playing for all players whenever any unit attacked any other anywhere on the map, which was just silly.

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Unread postby Doomweaver » 23 Jun 2006, 23:52

Hey I can't find the music using mm7view can anyone help with by providing a filename?

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Unread postby Vlad976 » 24 Jun 2006, 00:19

The Might and Magic 7 music is in cd audio format. So just pop it into a cd player, skip the first track, and enjoy! That is, if you have a functioning MM7 cd...
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Unread postby Psychobabble » 24 Jun 2006, 00:21

there's links to a whole lot of H1 and H2 music a little way down this page.

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Unread postby Doomweaver » 24 Jun 2006, 05:03

For some reason those download links don't work...

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Unread postby Doomweaver » 25 Jun 2006, 00:29

Okay so far I have gotten the MM7 and 8 music, and the heroes 4 music. Can anyone send me the heroes 2 and 3 music?

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Unread postby Doomweaver » 29 Jun 2006, 11:25

No one can help?

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Unread postby Pol » 29 Jun 2006, 11:28

Ok, in this way I propose to use the back up plan and try to repair your homm3 cd :devious:
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Unread postby Doomweaver » 03 Jul 2006, 09:54

How can you repair a cd? Or is there some way to access the data even if some of it is corrupt?

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Unread postby Pol » 03 Jul 2006, 11:38

Doomweaver wrote:How can you repair a cd? Or is there some way to access the data even if some of it is corrupt?
You need good cd mechanic, LG preferabely and reread my first post in this thread :devious: Freely ask when you bump into troubles in the process...
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Unread postby Doomweaver » 11 Jul 2006, 11:27

C'mon guys please its not a huge ask! I don't want to have to pay some mechanic for music that I already own.
Hang on are you saying that there is some linux program that is a 'mechanic', or that I need to ask some mechanic from 'LG'? (Life's Good?)

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Unread postby Pol » 11 Jul 2006, 12:55

:D


Well, exactly is like this. Here is linux program which can squeeze out maximum from your mechanic, using most recovery technicques today's known. And it works only in linux :tongue:

Yeah, Life is Good, their's cd mechanics have fairly good results in reading damaged cds. Just having good mechanic is always good idea. :devious:

Try to search for ultimate boot cd or cd recovery, insert or such, this program is often found on recovery cd's.

Here exist alternatives for windows but you must always pay...
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Unread postby Doomweaver » 12 Jul 2006, 07:28

You mean hiren's ultimate boot cd? I already have that, can that do it?

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Unread postby joerginger » 12 Jul 2006, 09:40

You could also try Isobuster. It's often quite effective at reading data from damaged CDs. http://www.smart-projects.net/isobuster/


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