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So I ripped those and ran them through the PGE MusPlayer app to convert it straight to WAV. I discovered there are three sets of XMI files that contain the music, but through deduction I found that the most advanced and largest set of XMI files are the ones used by the game when playing with the Sound Blaster 16 card.
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I then use Wardraft to extract the original XMI files from the original Warcraft II. It uses the cycle-accurate OP元 emulator called Nuked OP元 emulator by the developer Nukeykt (his page here: ) and the tool also includes the Warcraft II Miles Audio sound bank as well, which, as far as I can tell, was ripped straight from the game itself. Now this tool has two important pieces to make this as faithful as I could through emulation. You can find this tool and other awesome tools here: I myself don't have an original Sound Blaster 16 that had the true OP元 chip, so my next best attempt to make this faithful was a tool called PGEMusPlay by a talented developer named Wohlstand, so credits to him. So here's the process I went through to get this done, just so I'm completely transparent. Just rename this file to Install.exe and move to your War 2 BNE directory.
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This modification also works with War2 Combat or if you had cracked your original copy of Warcraft II BNE. Now copy this new Install.mpq file in to that location. To use this, first make a backup copy of your Install.MPQ file located in the root of your Warcraft 2 BNE directory, which is located here by default: here: C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Warcraft II BNE. Here is the link to the music replacement:
WARCRAFT 2 ROM PRO
Common sound cards that had could contain a true OP元 chip would be certain models of the Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro 2.0, Sound Blaster AWE32, or the Adlib Gold. So I decided to finally sit down and try to restore what the Warcraft II MIDI music sounded like if you were playing the game back in the day on your old sound card that had an OP元 FM chip (aka YMF262). I feel I'm about to open a big can of worms with this one.