basement.it sounds garbled (silence and short bleeps)

[kode54]

basement.it sounds garbled (silence and short bleeps)

[kode54]

I have examined this file and determined it to be broken. The current version of DUMB will not even load it.

The 22nd sample, Wave.FX.4, from U_WELCOM.XM, is truncated by 3871 bytes. All of the samples following it are completely missing.

I managed to find a copy of U_WELCOM.XM to replace that sample, which was a reversed version of the sample from the original module. But the filenames and sample names of the rest of the samples do not yield enough of a clue as to their origin, so they cannot be replaced.

If you want to use it as-is, delete samples 23 and on, leave 22 truncated, and resave with Schism Tracker. The sounds will be missing, but it should load. I don't know where Schism Tracker gets the sample data for those missing samples, since the file offsets clearly go past the end of the file.

[SimonN]

Thanks for the detailed analysis!

I was merely surprised that only DUMB rejected this file, and was worried whether DUMB had a bug, or the file. But if the file is as broken as you describe, then you're good in outright rejecting it.

It's just an unrelated bonus that VLC plays it somehow, not a bug in DUMB.

[kode54]

It would be a nice effort by somebody to try contacting Alexander Brandon and locate a working copy of that file, if it still exists.

[kode54]

Hey look, I have a present for you:

https://f.losno.co/basement.it.zip

Basically, basement.it and basement2.it use the same samples, so I just pasted the truncated sample data on from basement2.it, and it works. Enjoy.

E: Sadly, it appears that basement.it is just an incomplete version of basement2.it.

[SimonN]

Hah, thanks! It's a beautiful piece.

Good to have this mystery cleared, even if it turns out that basement2 obsoletes basement1. I'll keep both your file and basement2!