MTW music for SS

**Point Blank** · April 17, 2009, 10:27 AM

I'll soon be posting a mod that adds the original MTW music into SS. Its way more epic and atmospheric. It mostly affects the battlemap music but there is some for the strat map also.

However, if you have MTW installed on your PC, you can do it manually as follows:

1) Open the The Creative Assembly\Medieval - Total War - Gold Edition\Sounds\Music folder

2) Copy all the files there into Medieval II Total War\mods\Stainless_Steel_6\data\sounds\music

3) Rename the new files by replacing the spaces in the filenames with '_'' (an underscore), eg:

Arab Battle 1.wav rename to Arab_Battle_1.wav
Euro Strat Summer 1.wav rename to Euro_Strat_Summer_1.wav

4) Install the contents of one of the attached .zip files into your Stainless_Steel_6\data folder:
-if you want the MTW music to replace the SS music on the battlemap, download descr_sounds_music_1.zip
-if you want the MTW music to complement the SS music on the battlemap, download descr_sounds_music_2.zip

5) Open the Stainless_Steel_6\data\sounds folder and delete all the .idx and .dat files

6) Run the game again and let it rebuild the sounds. This will take a while.

7) Enjoy much better ingame music

**Santiago de Pola** · April 18, 2009, 07:22 AM

I'll soon be posting a mod that adds the original MTW music into SS

Sweet..looking forward to that since I don't have the first Medieval sequel!

**cunhaBR** · April 18, 2009, 08:31 AM

It doesn't work for me, I did everything and the music stays the same.

**Point Blank** · April 18, 2009, 12:47 PM

Look at your SS6/data/sounds/music.dat. It should be about 655MB after the game rebuilds it.

If you still don't hear anything delete all the .dat and .idx in the sounds folder.

Did you use the file that complements the music or replaces it?

**cunhaBR** · April 18, 2009, 05:39 PM

I deleted the SS music folder, and the music text file, long time ago, so I could have original MTW2 music. Then I saw this, and did what you said there, I used the complement that replaces it.

**knight_12** · April 21, 2009, 02:42 PM

I have a question : can I do the same thing with the files which are from the Viking Invasion ?

**Caesar Clivus** · April 21, 2009, 06:39 PM

Awesome thanks for that PB! I have MTW installed on my PC not only for nostalgia reasons but also to give me ideas for modding. Now I can put the great music back in too!

**jan_boruta** · April 22, 2009, 03:28 AM

It's like a gift you ever wanted but never dared to ask for. Thanks for that file, memories came back with todays war against Moors (I still think that Arabic music from Medieval 1 is one of the best game soundtracks EVER)

**Caesar Clivus** · April 22, 2009, 03:51 AM

Oh I forgot to mention: instead of renaming all the music files manually, get a program such as RenameMaster and it'll replace all the spaces with underscores at the click of a button.

**Imagawa99** · April 22, 2009, 11:14 AM

Is it possible to do this by taking the music track direct off the med cd without having the game actually installed? also what about the Pertwee quotes, i would love to have some of the general flees quotes back

**spartan117** · May 02, 2009, 10:57 PM

Originally Posted by Imagawa99

Is it possible to do this by taking the music track direct off the med cd without having the game actually installed? also what about the Pertwee quotes, i would love to have some of the general flees quotes back

The installation time is very short. I had actually borrowed the game from someone else for the sole purpose of using the music and the installation had to be less than 5 minutes.

Some great music though. After so many hours of playing medieval 2, the inclusion of a wider variety of music extends the replay factor.

**Imagawa99** · April 22, 2009, 11:27 AM

I might be getting a little ahead of myself here

but now i started thinking about it i would love the screams of battle and the clash of metal sounds back aswell. Tbh the entire set of sounds from med 1... hmmm maybe best to just start with the music eh ?