#7252 closed feature request (duplicate)
Secondary data file path
| Reported by: | SF/ghoost | Owned by: | SF/ender |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | --Other-- |
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Description
i think it would be nice if i can set a path for a dir extra dir wich includes the mp3audio tracks. so you need the mp3 files only one for the same game in diferent languages. e.g. monkey installed in german and english and in a different dir the audio files.
Ticket imported from: #650677. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/68.
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comment:1 by , 21 years ago
comment:2 by , 21 years ago
The idea is nice, but it doesn't seem to work with Windows. ScummVM then says: File track17.mp3 not found File track17.ogg not found Track 17 not available in compressed format
Though I have created a link called track17.ogg A dir in a command line window lists it as track17.ogg.lnk Is there a way ScummVM could read such files? It would be nice indeed. I thing this has to be implemented explicitely since the stupid DOS doesn't it automatically the way Linux does it.
Besides mp3/ogg from CD tracks, the same usefull thing could be done with the comi.la0, comi.la1, musdisk1.bun etc. with CMI since they also are the same between different language versions.
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
| Summary: | path configuration for mp3files → Secondary data file path |
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comment:4 by , 21 years ago
We definitely are not going to add a "MP3 file path" or anything like that - it's a far too limited concept.
*Maybe* we can add a more generic "secondary data path" feature. That is, in addition to the normal path to the game, one could specify a second path; if a given file is not found in the primary path, the secondary path would be searched. That would essentially solve your problem, but would be flexible enough to cover other cases, too (e.g. Vorbis files; or you could have multiple language versions of COMI, where you only have to duplicate LANGUAGE.BND).
comment:5 by , 21 years ago
It could also help with Indy 4 FM-Towns, where the indy4.sou audio file is located at the root of the CD but used by both English and Japanese data files.
Although for that specific game, the clean solution would be to point the path argument to the root of the CD and let ScummVM choose the appropriate language folder (I4E or I4K) according to the language argument. For now, it's possible to run the game -- but without speech, except by copying everything onto the HD which is a big no-no for me.
comment:7 by , 20 years ago
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comment:8 by , 20 years ago
The extrapath does this partially, but really only "partially". That's so because we currently only use "extrapath" in a few places, and only "explicitly".
On my local box, I modified base/main.cpp to add the "extrapath" to the end of the list of default pathes we search. This covers both the current purpose of extrapath (storage location for videos), as well as all the others requested here.
Attached you'll find the simple patch doing that.
by , 20 years ago
| Attachment: | extrapath.patch added |
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Patch which makes extrapath used by all file operations
comment:11 by , 20 years ago
| Resolution: | → duplicate |
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| Status: | new → closed |
comment:12 by , 5 years ago
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Why not just use symlinks / aliasa / shortcuts (depending on what OS you are on) ?