Download:Different Music for Anchorhead and the Ebon Hawk

[Kexikus 994]

 

File Name: Different Music for Anchorhead and the Ebon Hawk

File Submitter: Kexikus

File Submitted: 15 Jan 2017

File Category: Mods

K1R Compatible: Yes

 

 

In the first Knights of the Old Republic game Anchorhead and the Ebon Hawk share the same background music. This mod allows you to change this.

 

There are four options available that replace either the Anchorhead or the Ebon Hawk music (see below for prieviews of the music):

 

1) Czerka music for Anchorhead:
This replaces the Anchorhead music with the Czerka theme music also heard in the Czerka offices.

 

2) Dune Sea music for Anchorhead:
This replaces the Anchorhead music with the Dune Sea music.

 

3) Custom music for Anchorhead (FOLLOW THE ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS BELOW!):
This replaces the Anchorhead music with a custom music file of your choice. A possible option here would be the Tatooine theme from Star Wars: The Old Republic but you can use whatever you want.

 

4) Custom music for the Ebon Hawk (FOLLOW THE ADDITIONAL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS BELOW!):
This replaces the Ebon Hawk music with a custom music file of your choice. A possible option here would be the Ebon Hawk theme from KotOR 2: The Sith Lords but you can use any music of your choice.

 

Options 1) to 3) are mutually exclusive but you can combine option 4) with any of the others.

 

Also note that you need a save from before going to Tatooine to get the new Anchorhead music and a save from before leaving Taris to get the new Ebon Hawk music.

 

INSTALLATION:
Run TSLPatcher.exe and choose the option you want to install. Then follow the instructions given. If you chose option 1) or 2) you're done at this point. Otherwise follow the instructions for the custom music files below.

 

INSTALLING THE CUSTOM MUSIC FILE:
If you chose option 3) or 4) you need to get your custom music file into the game. Most of the work here was done with the installer but one last step remains.
First of all, choose the music you want to use. It needs to be a stereo .mp3 file for the game to recognize it. If your file is no .mp3 yet, choose any audio file converter and convert it.
Then rename that .mp3-file to "mus_area_anch.mp3" if you chose option 3) or to "mus_area_hawk.mp3) if you chose option 4).
Finally take your renamed .mp3-file and place it into the "streammusic" folder in your Knights of the Old Republic installation.
That's it. Your custom music will now play ingame.

 

Uninstallation:
Take the all the .mod-files from the "backup" folder created during the installation of this mod and copy them to the "Modules" folder of your KotOR installation. If it exists, also copy ambientmusic.2da from the "backup" folder to the "Override" folder of your KotOR installation.
Note that if any other mod installed after this one also altered one of these .mod files you will uninstall those changes as well!

 

Compabilitiy:
Thanks to TSLPatcher this mod is compatible with everything that does not change the track name of the music played in Anchorhead or the Ebon Hawk. It is compatible with mods that replace the actual music file (although you might no longer hear those if you install this mod).

 

Music previews:

 

Czerka Theme:

 

Dune Sea:

 

SWTOR Tatooine Theme:

 

TSL Ebon Hawk Theme:

 

Credits:
Mod by Kexikus
TSL Patcher by stoffe

 

THIS MOD IS NOT SUPPORTED BY LUCASARTS OR BIOWARE. USE THIS FILE AT YOUR OWN RISK. NEITHER THE AUTHOR OF THIS MOD NOR THE COMPANIES MENTIONED ABOVE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER WHEN USING THIS FILE.

 

 

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[milestails 264]

Thanks Kexikus!

[Kexikus 994]

You're welcome

[Rinku 22]

Thanks for this! A great tweak to increase immersion

[L0ki194 82]

Thanks very much!

[LDR 234]

This is beautiful.

[N-DReW25 1,332]

How exactly is this mod done? I see SWTOR Music and Kotor TSL videos but there no MP3's in the mod so what was the point mentioning them?

[Haveayap 127]

How exactly is this mod done? I see SWTOR Music and Kotor TSL videos but there no MP3's in the mod so what was the point mentioning them?

You pretty much download your own .mp3 file than once you have done tsl patcher, rename the .mp3 file you downloaded into the one instructed... its in the READ ME file and the TSL Patcher clearly tells you what to do

[superSzym 155]

How exactly is this mod done? I see SWTOR Music and Kotor TSL videos but there no MP3's in the mod so what was the point mentioning them?

There aren't included because porting is not allowed. You have to download the desired MP3 on your own, rename it properly as mentioned in the readme and drop it to TSLPatcher directory. The point mentioning them was to suggest people the custom track they want, but they don't necessarily have to be those ones.

[N-DReW25 1,332]

You pretty much download your own .mp3 file than once you have done tsl patcher, rename the .mp3 file you downloaded into the one instructed... its in the READ ME file and the TSL Patcher clearly tells you what to do

There aren't included because porting is not allowed. You have to download the desired MP3 on your own, rename it properly as mentioned in the readme and drop it to TSLPatcher directory. The point mentioning them was to suggest people the custom track they want, but they don't necessarily have to be those ones.

Oh, a porting loop hole. Sounds fun i might try it sometime in the future

[Kexikus 994]

The point in mentioning them is that those were suggestions in the thread where this mod idea was originally discussed so I figured that I'd give those as possible options for people who'd like a new track but don't know which one to choose.

 

And while your questions on how it's done has been answered I would like to mention that there are instructions in the description, the read-me and TSLPatcher will also tell you what to do. Reading one of those before asking wouldn't have been too hard, would it?

[superSzym 155]

A great mod which gives us a choice. I'd actually change soundtrack for half of TSL, but as Sith Holocron suggested, I'm going to move it to blog not to spam.

[Sith Holocron 2,477]

Write your propositions for TSL soundtrack, too, but on another topic. It's just a support topic for another mod. Sorry, if you started writing your wishlist here, Sith Holocron would say that anyway. And my really long post was just a way of thanking Kexikus for producing such an interesting idea for improvement and pointing out how many possibilities of improvement of the second game would a similar solution give us.

Do you know what these threads are for? They're for commenting on the mod.

 

If you want to ponder what would make a good soundtrack, you ought to make a Deadly Stream blog.

[superSzym 155]

Do you know what these threads are for? They're for commenting on the mod.If you want to ponder what would make a good soundtrack, you ought to make a Deadly Stream blog.

Yes, maybe I went off-topic a bit. I speak too much. As you suggested, I'll move my ponders to a blog. I sincerely apologize for driving you nad.