Hidden music in "Command and Conquer: Tiberian Dawn"
Roy Berman
While looking around in the Command And Conquer data files,
I found that there are 14 music tracks in the scores.mix file that the
game
never plays! There IS a way to hear them though. It requires MIXMAN, you
can find
it on any C&C web page. If you don't know how to use MIXMAN, then read
its docs.
Load up the scores.mix file on the game CD with mixman. You'll notice
that there
are 33 files in scores.mix, and here's what all of them are::
(The unused songs are marked with a *)
# TITLE NOTES
1 Untamed Land* -Dinosaur scenario theme music
2 Mechanical Man
3 Canyon Chase
4 Looks Like Trouble
5 Looks Like Trouble(remix)* -has some voices added
6 Great Shot!(remix)* -remix of music played on that scoring screen
7 March To Doom
8 Heartbreak*
9 Radio
10 Demolition
11 (?) Times* -By the group I Am, including Frank Klepacki, it's the
NOD credit theme
12 Rain in the Night
13 Enemies To Be Feared* -good song
14 In The Line of Fire
15 Enemies To Be Feared* -actually a 2nd version of an unused song!
16 Reaching Out* -not that great, but hear it anyway
17 Ride of the Valkyries* -famous song by Wagner, only one not by
Klepaki
18 Take 'Em Out
19 Deception
20 <no title>* -I don't think this one's finished
21 <no title>* -this one isn't done either
22 Air Strike* -GDI credit theme
23 Just Do It!
24 Industrial
25 Die!!* -the best of the unused songs
26 Act On Instinct
27 Act On Instinct(remix)* -some voices added
28 Prepare For Battle
29 On The Prowl
30 Fight, Win, Prevail
31 No Mercy
32 Warfare
33 C&C Thang
COVERT OPERATIONS SONGS AREN'T LISTED...I DON'T HAVE IT.
IF ANYONE WHO DOES HAVE COVERT OPS WOULD BE WILLING TO EXTEND THIS LIST
TO
INCLUDE IT, THEN PLEASE DO SO.
To hear one of the songs above, use MIXMAN to save it as one of the DOS
file
names below. It will actually replace the corresponding song on the CD.
For instance,
if you extracted track 22(Air Strike) and saved it as the file MAP1(main
menu), then
next time you started up the game, it would play Air Strike instead of
the standard
main menu music. This technique can be used to completely customize the
music in C&C.
The files range from 500k to 3megs, averaging about 2megs. You can
actually replace
any C&C game file by putting a file with the same DOS file name in the
C&C directory.
For example, anyone who does scenario editing with CCMAP can rename the
.map file to
.bin, and give it the same file name as any mission, and C&C will load
it without
patching the GENERAL.MIX file. Also, if you give a scenario file a
number of 20 or
higher, it will appear on the NEW MISSIONS menu where Covert Ops
missions go, even
if you don't have Covert Ops. Video files are the extension .VQA, the
file name part
is the same as what you put in the mission .INI files to play the video.
*** All of the C&C songs are highly compressed recordings, not MOD
format
as I'd thought when I first heard them. I haven't been able to
figure out what compression or file format they really are, and
would like for as many people to try to figure this out as possible,
so that we could actually replace C&C music with any songs at all. ***
TITLE DOS FILE NAME
Demolition HEAVYG.AUD
Take 'Em Out
Radio RADIO.AUD
Rain In The Night RAIN.AUD
Act On Instinct AOI.AUD
C&C Thang CCTHANG.AUD
Fight, Win, Prevail FWP.AUD
Industrial IND.AUD
Canyon Chase IND2.AUD
Just Do It! JUSTDOIT.AUD
In The Line of Fire LINEFIRE.AUD
March to Doom MARCH.AUD
Mechanical Man TARGET.AUD
No Mercy NOMERCY.AUD
On The Prowl OTP.AUD
Prepare For Battle PRP.AUD
Deception STOPTHEM.AUD
Looks Like Trouble TROUBLE.AUD
Warfare WARFARE.AUD
Main Title Music MAP1.AUD
Score Screen Music WIN1.AUD
Two final things:
ONE: If anybody has any comments or questions about this info, then you
can E-Mail me at myr...@bc.cybernex.net, or if you have any new data
about similar topics.
TWO: A slight update to the stuff above: with the release of the C&C
patch to v1.22, Untamed Land is now on the list of songs that are
normally played, bringing the total to 20, not 19.