Half Life 2 music (assistance required)

[Mowens]

First Post

I've decided to forgoe the seemingly mandatory crap people put in their early posts (invariably some hair-brained theory about the G-Man or HL3, or maybe some mindless drivel about how HL2 is better/worse than Halo/Doom3/whatever) and will get down to business

I like HL2's Music, and having forked out the money to buy the game, now wish to enjoy the songs without having to load the whole damn thing up.

I tried using GFCScape, and that worked fine and dandy in that it allowed me to access the files, but whenever I tried to extract them or simply double-click and play them, Windows Media play starts telling me that it doesn't understand the file type or the files are corrupt. The files are apparently MP3's, so that can't be it, but the music works fine in the game so I would have figured corruption wouldn't have been the problem either.

I'm not particularly computer-literate (merely average- I know a bit more than most amateurs), but I am good at following orders, and would really appreciate the help.

 

[Ryjalon10k]

yes, i would also like to know how to extract the music, mainly to make my own music videos....this would kick arse.......

whats gfcscape?

 

[Mowens]

GCFScape is the program I downloaded (some guy made it) that can read the particular file types that Hl2 and Source use.

You can get it @ http://veggie.shackspace.com/GCFScape.zip
'tis rather good, if only it would work with mp3s.

 

[Ames]

GCFScape:

http://articles.thewavelength.net/657/

It's for extracting and viewing GCF cache files.


Try validating the HL2 files:

steam://validate/220

If that doesn't work, try using Winamp or another application to read the files.

 

[diluted]

Have you tried opening them in Winamp? ( www.winamp.com ) Winamp is what most people use to play mp3s.

whats gfcscape?

a program that allows you to open the gcf files, where the majority of the content for valve games is stored (music, models, maps, sounds, etc.). you also need microsoft's .net framework installed to use it.
there's also another program called hl2studio that allows you to extract stuff from the gcf files. www.hl2studio.com

 

[Mowens]

Try validating the HL2 files:

steam://validate/220

That sounds like its on the right track, I've tried limewire and Quicktime but to no avail.

Where do I type that validate thing into? is it like a URL (pardon my ignorance)

 

[Ames]

That sounds like its on the right track, I've tried limewire and Quicktime but to no avail.

Where do I type that validate thing into? is it like a URL (pardon my ignorance)

Yes, just link it and it'll validate.

 

[diluted]

Just type it into the address bar in your browser.
edit: beaten again

 

[Mowens]

unfortunately, no joy with vaildating the files either...

I wonder if it has anything to do with the mp3s being encrypted

 

[Hazar]

winamp is bad. quintessential is good.

But yeah, it should work.

 

[diluted]

unfortunately, no joy with vaildating the files either...

I wonder if it has anything to do with the mp3s being encrypted

they'd only be encrypted if the gcf files were encrypted. if you've played the game, the files aren't locked/encrypted anymore.

 

[Mowens]

they'd only be encrypted if the gcf files were encrypted. if you've played the game, the files aren't locked/encrypted anymore.

Ah hah!

Thank you, that now explains it- I have loaded HL2 onto my other computer, played it on that, and have tried to extract the files having loaded it on this one. Haven't played through it on this one yet.

Thanks for the assistance

 

[FieryGoose]

i'm interested in this also where exactly do you find the music in the files? I've already installed the game... i'm not sure if that makes a difference....

 

[Dodo]

soo in those gfc things are maps and music etc. files ! cuze if i could get my hands on those maps... i could learn so much on mapping.

 

[sfc_hoot]

soo in those gfc things are maps and music etc. files ! cuze if i could get my hands on those maps... i could learn so much on mapping.

The maps can't be opened/edited in Hammer, though. They're BSPs (for HL2) not VMFs (for Hammer). Valve only gave us about five HL2 maps in VMF format (with the latest SourceSDK update).

 

[scarecrow1]

what folder is it in? Sound folder is empty!!

 

[Ames]

GCFScape:

http://articles.thewavelength.net/657/

It's for extracting and viewing GCF cache files.

Read this scarecrow.

Then open up source sounds.gcf in your SteamApps folder.

It's the music one.

 

[rpgprog]

or you could buy the soundtrack. They do have a soundtrack right