I decided to overhaul Divide and Conquer's music for myself. My goal is to give all or most factions their own unique soundtrack. I've largely succeeded in this goal. I started out this process by simply doing one faction at a time, then testing it in game to ensure it was working correctly. That method was working wonderfully...so of course, being the genius that I am, I stopped doing that when I did the last batch of songs for several factions all at once.
Needless to say, I screwed up something somewhere somehow. When I rebuilt the music file for what I assumed would be the last time the game crashed before getting to the main menu, which it usually does not do. When I rebuilt the music.dat/effects.dat pack in all my other test runs I was able to get to the main menu but unable to start a new campaign without closing and restarting the game. This time however it crashed before getting to the main menu and when I reopen the game after that no music plays anywhere and even some of the sound effects(which I didn't even touch) aren't working. This is very discouraging for me as I thought I was in the home stretch of what has proven to be the most frustrating bit of Med 2 modding I have ever done. I don't even begin to know how to go about fixing this problem without simply starting over from scratch.
My hope is that somebody here is willing to download my borked files which I will link below and point out where I messed up. I'm linking the unpacked files so that someone else can do the rebuilding process for themselves and see what happens.
Somethings I already checked for myself:
1. All the music files are in mp3 format.
2. As far as I can tell, my text file entries are all correct(though this is most likely where I screwed up)
3. I searched to see if I was hitting some kind of hard coded limit in terms of music.dat file size. But as far as I can tell there is no limit. My music file is 1.70gbs when unpacked.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm hoping one of you wizards can work a miracle for me here
http://www.mediafire.com/file/hwn7md...en%20music.rar