Lucia Wilber Wrote:...what's the song played in town in Night Raider? Sylvan.mid?
After a bit of googling, I've discovered that song is the
intro tune, from a GameGear game called
"Sylvan Tale"Since it's a GameGear game, the MIDI version actually sounds better than the original.
Zeus Kabob Wrote:You can always convert a midi file to an mp3. I don't know which programs can do so, but they're out there.
I usually use Winamp and tell it to use WAV DiskWriter as the output plugin.
Alternatively, you can also install an MP3 encoder output plugin called "LAME"
After switching the output plugin, pressing "play" with silently start exporting an audio file. To switch back to normal playback behavior, set the output plugin to "DirectSound output"
I don't know whether current versions of Winamp support this. I personally still use
Winamp version 5.552(By the way, since older versions of Winamp can no longer connect to Shoutcast, I use XMplay for Shoutcast)I prefer to output WAV files so that I can isolate an intro and a loop.
Another advantage of starting with WAV files is that they can loop seamlessly.
MP3 files typically have a tiny area of silence at the very beginning.
If you import a WAV file into Flash, it can compress it to MP3 internally without any gap and it'll loop seamlessly.
(warning: this will increase compile times)There's a program called
mp3loop that can encode MP3 files without the gap, but these special MP3 files will crash Flash if you try to import one. But they work fine if you're streaming them as external files.
Alternatively, you can use a Free midi-editing program like
SynthFont if you want to export midi as a WAV file using improved instruments. Midi instrument packs are called "sound fonts"
I usually use the
Musica_Theoria soundfont when I want a midi file to sound really good,
but there are also soundfonts to make midi files sound like
Snes,
Sega Genesis, and
Gameboy music.