How I Replaced the Music in LEGO Island
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ส.ค. 2019
- LEGO Island's music is great. The music quality, not so much. Join me as I try to navigate this obscure antique codebase and try to force it to play higher quality music than it was ever intended to!
Coupled with one of the HD mods for this game, LEGO Island can really feel... okay, it'll never feel "modern", but it'll give you a whole new perspective on a game we all know and love.
Anyways thank you for your patience between this video and the last! Sorry about the long delay, but I'm back in action and have TONS of new ideas ready to go. Stay tuned for some new Hot Stuff!
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When I saw the title I just assumed you put the recovered tracks into the game by just drag and dropping them... the amount of dedication and effort is commendable, this is amazing!
Jameskii we need more Arma 3...
shut up
j
Hello radal. When new video?
Hellow obvious Russian man who pretends not to be
11:28 “I figured since it’s 2019 and I’m running the game off an SSD it might just work”
Yeah ok there Todd Howard
I literally pause the vid a few seconds before he said that to check the comments, went back to the video and got scared
It just works.
11:27
At least Matt had the integrity to fix it immediately rather than making us watch another ad after it.
why's this is a big deal, i run my pc on an ssd
16:17 why do I actually like this skipping? It makes a cool transition.
I like the skip transition too but I understand it’s not faithful to the original
It sounds like "I-I-I I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole!"
@@TheBcoolGuy diggy diggy hole im digging a hole
same
I dont get this. I just watched out of boringness
Matt: runs game off ssd
Game: *"WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN THE COMPUTER!"*
Me : Installs the iso file
@@yablock7346 you, also chooses "install game to harddrive"
Dameon tools: allow us to introduce ourselves
Also me with a laptop (doesn't have CD drive):
Am I the only one who knows the phrase "WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD UP YOUR AS-"?
5:00 "ok! That's not music!" I think we have different tastes in music because THAT IS MY JAMMMM
you sure you arent 8 bit?
@@MacBack123 He probably is.
i think that is the start of that song that plays at the final scene of breaking bad
exactly
It's not Trout Mask Replica, I'll say that much.
(That's not a dig at TMR, more of a joke.)
You should insert the GTA 3 radio into the lego one.
Fuck yeah slap on Rise FM
MSX FM
Have you ever wanted a giraffe
*MOOO*
Okay LEGO ISLAND, this is Chatterbox...
F l a s h b a c k. FM
20:25 I only just now noticed that the tools in the background spell out Toy :D It's always fantastic how much things go unnoticed when playing something.
I just noticed that after seeing your comment, it truly is a subtle thing
How could MattKC insert HD music
@@satamsonic4026 Did you not watch the video?
@@mysticaxolotl8215 it’s a sonic fan they’re stupid
where is the :D
Every once in a while I have to come back and rewatch this video. It never gets old.
Same, idk why but it's still interesting even though I watched it often enough
@@NikoHD203 ikr
yeah same
I dont get this. I just watched out of boringness
Same
*I quickly whipped up a C# Script*
[*Shows Many Lines of Code*]
thats not that many lines of code for me
good for you
@Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji where so you learn about hex?
those hands arent only usefull when moms coming up the stairs
vincent castro ok
i can't just lurk on a video as brilliant as this. Freaking breathtaking & great job!
no.
@@shovel_salesman no
Ayy it's AS!
@@shovel_salesman nyos
@@LorenzJahn maybe
"this game is officially old enough to drink now"
*germans laughing in 16 year old*
Actually, Germans are allowed to drink as young as 14 years old as long as it's in a private setting under parental supervision.
You only need to be 16 years old to buy "weak" alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine.
you'd think Germans would, y'know, laugh in German.
@@Mysteri0usChannel I know, I'm german
Laugh in 18
*Danish people laughing in newborn*
6:55 Windows 10 bg, Windows vista taskbar, and Windows 8 window... What a scene.
And a MacOS cursor
@@tzipirigu25I know it's a year late, but that's one of windows many default cursors. It helps when looking for it because it looks like a fly landed on my monitor.
1:41 calm music while A LEGO MAN JUST LOST THEIR HEAD AND DIED mmmmmm so calm music
He repairs himself. They do this in the game sometimes
He ♦§☺•lo!↑-σ├ƒ±R
BowserLover Ummmm.... You okay dude?
@@spongechair r/ihaveastroke
@@l0f1_problems65 wow you have reddit
Druaga1 just did a video on this game, it's nice to see more about it.
I saw that, what a coincidence! I'm glad there are people still out there helping keep this wonderful game alive
I was wondering why everyones talking about it
@@urielc918 Seems like nostalgia, but then looking at the same games from an adult point of view. You can also find modding communities for other LEGO games like LEGO Rock Raiders and LEGO Racers. I did some tinkering with the former and there are already mod loaders, level editors, texture replacing, custom cave themes, sound replacing and such. I wonder if by now new models and animations are working.
I love all this sudden new Lego Island content, some dude also made a video where he interviewed Lorin Nelson who made the music!
Video+game = videogame
8:33
"Helllo-*chkk-SHH-A A A A A-brrr*-oo! hol-*WHOSHH-RRRR*-a! Wilcom-(more earrape cut by Matt)
11:35 That timing how it crashed and became silent was perfect at that short amount of time.
"whoops you have to put the cd in your computer"
WhooOoOOps*
69 likes. Nice
This will blow up in the coming months, just let the algorithm do its thing...
TH-cam algorithm sent me this way
it just did
its already doin
can confirm
reporting for duty, sir
This was over 3 YEARS before you even decompiled the game? God, you're good at this
why didn’t the Lego island developers just save the music as 44.1kh 2-bit? Smh my head..
4:59 I completely lost it when I heard the distorted audio
Good to see my sense of humor is still as immature as ever.
Fewúretweetedreyo
Same
@@Mrdab3st1085 dat was funny
5:00
We need a rom that is just the version that plays Africa
Honestly it fit SO well
@@TracksWithDax Africa makes EVERYTHING better
@@p3chv0gel22 fart
hell|ejfghhsdd|o welc|ufadsgifvds|ome to|dhushgkfaiusgf| lego isl|lidsewfhid|and
tod Roger's thinking ok
@@TheDerric good job
"rom"
9:10 I too quickly build 700 lines of code that simulates 1990 CD drivers. I too am an average coder.
3:37 "who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
"plea charging" - my ripoff headphones
I've watched a few videos about people messing with old video game music files (my favorite being one about two songs in StarTropics having audio errors), but honestly, this video is the only one I've seen that made me somewhat understand how old music was stored and played. Every other video has me rather confused. I want to thank you for your visuals and explanations to help a novice like me understand.
omg how does this have so few views, so entertaining!
Because of the cursor
Merlin Dienst no
Merlin Dienst I downloaded the exact same cursor the other day, it’s great.
It has over a million views now
5:52
My favorite thing about this is-as you said- the songs technically take the same amount of storage due to lower bit-depth vs the higher quality; but the fact that they had an 8 bit 22khz version of all the songs left ingame easily means the music could've taken the same amount of storage as if they had just used 16 bit 22khz in the first place.
Maybe it's another one of those "temp things to be fixed later" that never actually ended up being changed due to Mindscape firing everyone.
well no because theres still the limit of the drive read speed, you wouldnt have enough bandwidth to load other assets if the music was taking up half of the bandwidth of a 4x drive and not just 1/4 of the bandwidth
@@aprilnya Oh yeah, I forgot to consider they needed to support the slowest of CD drives. Still makes it weird that they kept the higher quality versions in the files though if they didn't seem to have any intention of using them for the final game.
3:17 _Disney Lawyers_ : We actually ... own the *whole video*
Oh my gosh... it has happened! Thank you SO much. I tried figuring this out long ago but with a much different idea and approach. Now looking back, it would have never worked. Anyways, I love this video a lot. Your humor adds a nice touch to the entire presentation. Subscriber earned! Keep up the good work. -Henry
wgat was the idea
why the -henry ?
This video is amazing. I love Lego Island and I love in-depth breakdowns like this. I'm definitely going to check out that link to more technical info about the game and I'll probably spend part of this weekend reinstalling the game and giving Lego Island Rebuilder a shot.
At least now you can say that you’ve done this BIT BY BIT
"OOH who lives in a pineapple under the sea", "Lego Island master tapes"
If I heard any of these songs in isolation, it would drive me crazy being unable to figure out where they were from, or why they'd be so utterly familiar and nostalgic to me.
Never shat myself harder that I have at 5:00
Never maxing out earphone volume again
Imagine this: Someone putting into a copy of Lego Island a high quality rip of Africa but the lyrics are replaced with that of Never Gonna Give You Up.
The (B)Rick(ster's) Revenge.
Bster's
The Rick Revenge
@@Iristallite rickvenge
The BRickster's Revenge
brick astley
This video pops up so much for me that it's become my comfort video
I thought this was a Druaga1 video, still great tho
same
Was expecting weed, 7/10 I guess
It's Not Druaga1 Or AkBkUkU, It's MattKC.
@@titmouse-distribution sorry I think you mean Druaga3
AkBkUkU, Druaga3, Same Thing!
A lot of respect for all the work you've done to create this (awesome) video! Kind of genius how the developers coped with this technical limitation of that era.
“Dude come here! I got LEGO island!”
“Woah! It looks like 88 miles per hour!”
Ngl I think it looks like 89 miles per hour
Marty?
@@icantpretend726 yes?
@@malanao 90. MPH.
@@gmdking 99 MPH
young Markiplier
Facts
From Upside Down Land
5:45 His lego body was flat for a few seconds
12:13 music.exe has stoped working
3:08 WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
@@Luigi_bros4321 real 😱😱
@@Dorriedude wdym?
WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
0:18 **88 MILES PER HOUR**
This was for some reason the most interesting, fun, and enjoyable video that i have watched all f***ing day, and although i know my way around a .wav file, watching you just casually stroll threw hexadecimal information and spewing straight fire knowledge blew my mind!, i know it does matter but you got another sub under you belt and bravo! that was really really amazing, and now im off to add all-star to LEGO Island
I tend to come back to this video every once in a while and it truly never fails to cheer me up. It's weird, but whenever I feel unmotivated for work, I enjoy watching you work out the file format of Lego Island :D Thank you so much for this video!
Slowly but surely you are remastering one of my favorite childhood games...please continue this work it is appreciated.
This is incredible stuff. I feel like I've learned more about efficient programming from this than I did from my C class in high school that was run by a guy whose job used to be all about rewriting other people's code to be more efficient. He often had size and length limits on the code we could turn in and he wouldn't accept the assignment if it was a single byte over the limit. Now I think I understand why.
The interleaved animation and audio reminds me of the CD-i format.
I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!
16:30 You can see the trees change models
Level of Detail(?)
@@dragonivanrussiayeah, so it doesn’t crash the game. it’s also been used in SM64.
I don't even play this game but this is really cool, I love seeing old games being picked apart and modded.
This is awesome! I remember hearing that the original code and music were lost in the houseboat sinking incident. Cool to hear that the part about the music being lost was at least fortunately wrong. Thanks for your dedication to this absolutely quirky gem of mid-late 90's computer gaming history!
What a journey that was. Thank you Matt, very cool
we need a hd remaster of the textures now.
and raytracing
or make it look more like them newer lego games
Yes!
@@vlc-cosplayer nah we need a port to unreal engine
@@x3n0n77 ew bloatware
I remember downloading this game a few years back on an abandonware site and given my complete lack of technical prowess I was never able to get it to run on a modern machine. So my question is.. does a modern, working, fixed/patched version of this game exist in full somewhere that I can download and play? Or are we all left to do the tinkering ourselves? I have a lot of nostalgia for this game and it would be really neat to play it again.
Theres a really good guide easily found online now, if you're still interested I'll try find it for you as I've forgotten to hand where I got it from. But I have it working perfectly right now!
@@bunkaaa8726 I'd be down to try it
13:46 the "Eureka Effect" in action
Imagine *”mother love me long time”* as the music in this game..
I've watched this too many times but 3:37 still makes me laugh every time. On a serious note, this is a really interesting project, great work.
My God, after seeing all your effort and resourcefulness, I dare not call myself a developer anymore
I'm glad people are still making videos on Lego Island, that game was my childhood. Very interesting to see how music was used in games back in the day. Great video!
9:22 - It seems that LEGO Island also blesses the rains down on Africa. XD
Thank's ! ; th-cam.com/video/KP4Ed3xJ0t8/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=sme02
@@flowckey shut
@@rodrigopadilha5682 Up
@@flowckey shut up kid, go back to your roblox
my fave game when i was a kid this is amazing
Holy moly. I love how persistent you were to get it working. An absolutely joy to watch this video!
Wow, this is one of my favorite childhood games. I would have never thought I'd find something so technical about it on TH-cam!
oh god, working with riff files at the byte level.
every few years, i take on some hobby project or other that requires me to refamiliarize myself with the riff file structure and write some reading and/or writing code for it pretty much from scratch 😅
you've done some fantastic work here!😃
I legit cried when you popped up hex editor, the bane of my existence
Is it that hard?
Ghex is pretty neat (also known as Gnome Hex Editor).
Finally decided to watch this video after it being recommended it to me for 4 years straight
I really enjoy watching these modding videos, I mod some other games and its really interesting seeing you overcome challenges in similar areas that Ive experienced.
Next get higher quality models and textures and sprites
DR0p_gkid64 LEGO island HD remaster for 2020
Also add ray tracing shaders while your're at it :D
Zircuitz lets get the goddamn animators for the LEGO movies to make it look like stop motion
What about widescreen
@@firebro749 also a great idea
Lego Island. An absolute classic from my childhood!
I actually went and re-downloaded Lego Island just to play around with this Rebuilder tool you made. I can’t say that the first thing I did was set the jukebox songs to some really bizarre, unfitting songs. 😂
Also, loved the informative video!
Just discovered this channel and omg, I loved this game! Though I never really played it much, just enjoyed it because it was Lego!
Still a blast from the past and I still have the CD
you’re channel is very underrated. i never played lego island and yet i loved learning so much! you’re an inspiration bro keep it up
I’ve never even played the game and this was so interesting! Great job!
1:52 i prefer the muffle, its more nostalgic tbh
Mmm muffins
@@JumpyKaput muffins? where?
I bet he also prefers not cleaning the wax out of his ears lol 😂
@@draconic5129 your just a scruff mate
You are absolutely incredible. I love this channel so much. It has a perfect blend of all of my interests. Programming, reverse engineering, hardware, nostalgic stuff... this channel is a goldmine.
Amazing find. Glad you are the first to find this. I have heard other games crashing, animations stopping, and music changing to unused tracks because of loop coding.
2:14 it feels like I cleaned the nostalgia out of my ears. 🤣🤣🤣
But it is nice to hear the cleaner versions though.
2:05 me hears in-game version: eh
me hears studio tape version: O
5:40 part 2 of this
idk why but I keep coming back to this video and others of yours and just watching it in the background
I’ve watched this at least 12 times now. I haven’t gotten bored of it.
I have so much nostalgia for this game
I can't emphasize how much this game meant to me as a kid - to this day I occasionally listen to the soundtrack when I'm real drunk (I've even been in contact with a few people who worked on the music, just for the hell of it.) To see you made Lego Island Rebuilder is just way too cool, dude.
First video of yours I'm seeing and I like it.
Dude, this was phenomenal. Thanks for the nostalgia trip and the incredibly deep and nerdy explanation of the game's music and your methods for altering it. I really need to learn to use a hex editor...
Loved the video and the realization that you'd need to repack the entire si file given what adding more data would do.
Legit giving giving Lego Island a second life with all the uploads and shared code for the modern machine.
0:26 nice "Back to the Future" reference
I have absolutely no interest in doing something like this. The video started playing by accident.
And I watched the entire thing! The amount of effort you dedicated to this is amazing. As is your ability to take something like this seem so fascinating to me. Well done!
You're deductive reasoning is brilliant! Love your content and look forward to more!
8:33
I like how it isn't even edited so it doesn't destroy your ears, it's edited so it doesn't destroy your *life.*
20:28 I don't know why, but I find it interesting to see how the video wasn't aligned with the "screen" here and that it has graphics under it.
damn he really using visual studio with light theme... smh my head
well um actually, it's called "Visual Studio"
"smh my head"?
lol
smhmh
The best theme
smh my head
i hate dark theme so that's fine with me
This came out BEFORE the video about the turn speed. Thanks Matt, very cool
Incredible work man, what fight that was to figure it out. Take solace in the fact that this video still entertains and inspires 3 years later.
Now the real question is.... can we add hd textures to the game?
Probably would require a full disassembly of the game, or for somebody to come forward and leak the old source code.
@@draconic5129 Personally I never worked with LEGO Island but I assume it would not be more complicated than replacing the music.
Not sure what format the textures are and if they are in a proprietary file, but I think it would be decently easy.
@@PilaCiu they are probably .bmp images split into chunks put in .SI files
@@PilaCiu probably bitmaps from what i found. The information centre has a 256 640x480 bmp background.
@@2ndCreeper I have no clue if this old engine can even handle such high definition textures.
I felt like I entered the 4th dimension when I heard the new tracks, wow.
Was really nice to hear that old music again, its been lurking in the back of my mind!
Amazing work Matt! Thanks for all the effort! I love the lego island music!
"Ackshually it's not low quality heavily compressed audio, it's what I like to call lo-fi"
Ackshually, it's low quality _uncompressed_ audio
“Ackshually”
@@tauon_ They were (probably?) referencing this
knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually
Damn honestly didn't expect to see this game anytime soon. But it was nice to see my first pc game in a vid
Video was 3 years ago but you really gotta commend how he scripted the darn thing, the answer was APPARENT the moment he slowly starts explaining how hex worked for the game, giving you the information you need to make the assumption he did, this explanation I think would genuinely work for people studying code a few weeks in, I mean, it worked for me! And the sense of accomplishment you get almost like you can feel his victory and relief, absolutely incredible
5:40 - The change in the audio format from 16-bit 11kHz to 8-bit 22kHz is increasing the frequency range at the cost of added noise floor and possible distortion in quiet sounds. The latter would probably best work in very loud and bright tracks, while the former would be perfect for softer, more dynamic and mellower ones. I suppose they have ended up having both versions in the game to have the option to choose per-track at any point.
They didn't save that much storage, but they are still saving the data throughput needed to play the audio back. Since the game shipped on a CD, they probably had enough space for this and then some, but the drive read speed (as you mentioned) or the CPU cycles needed to process and pass the audio to the soundcard were probably limitations that forced the suboptimal quality.
EDIT: 8:46 Oh, you mention the CD speed limit :D Yeah, 1x CD-ROM drive is exactly the speed you need to read 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit PCM audio. So reducing the music to 1/4 of the bandwidth, leaves room for other things. Otherwise the game might have required a 4x drive or something.