Introducing the Musical Aces High Launcher

[Stalwart]

The Musical Aces High Launcher is an unofficial and unauthorized add-on for Hi-Tech Creations game "Aces High".

The launcher comes with a set of twenty-nine 1940's era tracks which rotate into focus for the game's title music each time you run the launcher.

The tracks are all simple .mp3 files.  You can replace any or all of them with your own selections.

The installer at the link below includes the launcher and the 1940's tracks.
It's pretty simple to install.  Just follow the prompts to point the installer at your Aces High folder.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/10/6/2987784/Musical_Aces_High_Launcher_1-0_Setup.zip

FileDen, is a bit slow, so be patient.  The file is less than ~56MB

Please reply here if you have any questions or issues with my new toy.

[TwinBoom]

The Musical Aces High Launcher is an unofficial and unauthorized add-on for Hi-Tech Creations game "Aces High".

The launcher comes with a set of twenty-nine 1940's era tracks which rotate into focus for the game's title music each time you run the launcher.

The tracks are all simple .mp3 files.  You can replace any or all of them with your own selections.

The installer at the link below includes the launcher and the 1940's tracks.
It's pretty simple to install.  Just follow the prompts to point the installer at your Aces High folder.

http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/10/6/2987784/Musical_Aces_High_Launcher_1-0_Setup.zip

FileDen, is a bit slow, so be patient.  The file is less than ~56MB

Please reply here if you have any questions or issues with my new toy.

Nice but, hope you got permission to use Aces High

[Stalwart]

I'm not selling anything. 

[Stalwart]

Nice but, hope you got permission to use Aces High

On reconsideration, you're point is well taken.   
Maybe I should have called it something else.   

I'm checking it out with HiTech via private message.
Thanks.
Stalwart.

[Motherland]

You may also want to consider 'distributing' the music separately due to the gray nature of 'distributing' music

[Chalenge]

Just FYI. There are NO public domain sound recordings in the USA. The earliest that Copyright protection will expire in the USA is 2067. Compositions and Recordings have two separate and distinct meanings. If you are unsure it is your responsibility to look it up. If you have something that clearly came from Hollywood or the music industry in the US or UK you can be sure the Copyright will NEVER expire. Thats the Disney clause which means the Copyright is perpetually extended. So if you hear of a great check six sound from your favorite movie. . . think again. Music recorded in the US/UK? Forget it. Unless you did it and it is your original work. . . its not yours to play with.

[Stalwart]

Fine.  It's gone.
I removed the package from the host.
The link is dead.

[Stalwart]

I never intended anything shady.  I just wanted to share what I thought was a cool idea, that worked when I experimented with it.

If you like the idea of dynamic title music, are handy with Windows, and want to build your own add-on with your own music, it's simple:

Here's the script for the song rotation:  "rotate_title.bat"
This goes in the sounds folder:

   @echo off
   rename title0.mp3 title_.mp3
   rename title1.mp3 title0.mp3
   rename title2.mp3 title1.mp3
   rename title3.mp3 title2.mp3
   (... and so on)
   rename titleS.mp3 titleR.mp3
   rename title_.mp3 titleS.mp3
   
Here 's the script for the game launcher:  "title_music_launcher.bat"
This goes in the game folder with the aceshigh.exe

   @echo off
   cd sounds
   call rotate_title.bat
   cd ..
   start aceshigh.exe

Add your own mp3 files to the sounds folder following the naming convention:

   title0.mp3
   title1.mp3
   title2.mp3
   (... and so on)
   titleA.mp3
   titleB.mp3
   titleC.mp3
   (... and so on)
   titleS.mp3

Customize the rotate script to how ever many mp3 files you want to use in the rotation.

Create a shortcut to the launcher script, and boom, you've got new music each time you start the game with the launcher.

There's more than one way to do it, obviously.

Stalwart

[Motherland]

So if you hear of a great check six sound from your favorite movie. . . think again. Music recorded in the US/UK? Forget it. Unless you did it and it is your original work. . . its not yours to play with.

For example I think I heard that new movie Sinister (or something else maybe) used a bunch of pieced together 'fair use' length clips of Godspeed You! Black Emperor songs since Godspeed wouldn't license them their work or something.

[Stalwart]

There's a new link for version 1.1

http://www.fileden.com/files/2010/10/6/2987784/title_music_rotation_launcher_1-1_setup.zip

Version 1.0 was ditched after concerns were raised that I was illegitimately distributing music and using the 'Aces High' name.

So, in the new version, you have to supply your own .mp3 music files, but the launcher will rotate them.

Still with FileDen, but not as slow.  The setup file is less than 5MB.

Regards,
Stalwart 

[Lab Rat 3947]

thanks Stalwart   
I have a bunch of WW2 era songs that I downloaded from this site
http://www.6thcorpsmusic.us/
the download is free and you don't have to install any kind of download program. Just click whatever song that you want on their "jukebox" 

Butch
LtngRydr