I've been playing around with some "later" X-Box games these days, just trying to get the most out of my X-Box and Flatout 2 was one of them. I am completely floored. The game is unbelievable. You can tell it's pushing the X-Box to its max just by all of the physics processing, let alone the graphics.
With that said, I'm sick of listening to emo, screamo, hardcore bands while I'm driving around smashing into crap. I have a list of songs that I'd like to replace the game's music with. You know, just more competitive race music.
The game's music files are in .fsb format, and apparently the only way to replace them would be to make new fsb files with the FMOD Sample Bank Generator. The program seems cool, it's just not at all easy to use and I'm not sure it will even work for the Xbox-formatted music. I can't find a version old enough to support Xbox (and not Xbox 360), and I'm pretty sure you STILL have to be a licensed developer to have access to the Xbox version of the program. Of course, I don't want to run the program on my Xbox for any reason, I just want a version of the program that will convert songs from my computer (any format: wav, mp3, wmv, ogg, aac, doesn't matter) to an fsb file.
I used the Sample Bank Generator once to create an FSB file from an MP3 File. I was just testing it, so I named it "yup". It apparently worked, but it didn't make a file ending with .fsb. It made a yup file without an extention, a yep.h file, and a .fsbcache folder containing a yep.cache file.
I added .fsb to the end of the extentionless yep file and changed the title to 01 (making it 01.fsb) and replaced the 01.fsb file in the game's Songs 1 folder. I played it for a while and waited for it to play the song that I had converted, but once it got to the song that I replaced, it displayed the artist and title of the song, but never played any music. The game continued to run fine, and once the song was over, it played the next track normally.
Any ideas on how to edit the game's soundtrack?
That's really all I'm interested in, but it would be cool if someone could port the PC mods (all of the extra cars and stuff) over to the Xbox as well. I'd love to drive a Viper into a destruction derby some day.
I tried it again with the same result. This time I named the "project" 01 to find out if it wasn't working because of the actual name.
And again, same result with a wav file instead of an mp3.
The PC version uses ogg vorbis files, so I will try converting one of those next. But seriously, someone please help :-)
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