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McFrontalot - Final Boss, Credit Song
yutt
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UPDATE: I cannot and will not send you a copy of the song. It is both illegal and, more importantly, against the direct request of MC Frontalot. Please don't bother asking me.
MC Frontalot recently made an official post regarding this song:
If you like the song, please support Frontalot by purchasing the album when it is released! You should also check out his previous work, most of the songs are available on his site as free mp3 downloads.
Since Mr Frontalot is cool with it, I made a small Windows app to automagically extract the file:
http://www.analogdawn.com/files/final-boss-song-extract.exe
This requires you be using Windows and have the game properly installed.
Please be sure to scan this, and any other programs you download for viruses before running them.
I've tested it on Windows XP, but it should work with any version. I'm curious how the Steam version is installed, but I don't have it to test, so it may or may not work.
For those interested, it is written in AutoIt scripting language. I release the code and executable to Public Domain. So feel free to do whatever you want with it.
MC Frontalot recently made an official post regarding this song:
MC Frontalot wrote:Hi folks,
I don't at all mind people extracting it from the game if they've bought the game -- in fact, I think that's pretty slick. I would consider it kindly of y'all to not fileshare it, though, since it is slated for my October album.
Cheers
mcf
If you like the song, please support Frontalot by purchasing the album when it is released! You should also check out his previous work, most of the songs are available on his site as free mp3 downloads.
Since Mr Frontalot is cool with it, I made a small Windows app to automagically extract the file:
http://www.analogdawn.com/files/final-boss-song-extract.exe
This requires you be using Windows and have the game properly installed.
Please be sure to scan this, and any other programs you download for viruses before running them.
I've tested it on Windows XP, but it should work with any version. I'm curious how the Steam version is installed, but I don't have it to test, so it may or may not work.
For those interested, it is written in AutoIt scripting language. I release the code and executable to Public Domain. So feel free to do whatever you want with it.
#cs ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
AutoIt Version: 3.2.13.2 (beta)
Author: yutt
Script Version: 1.0
Script Function:
Extract the Final Boss song from the Rain Slick FSB file.
#ce ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Look up the Rain Slick path in the Windows registry
$rainslick_path = RegRead("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One", "Path")
; Create temporary directory to extract files to
$temp_dir = @TempDir & "\PAATEMP"
; Parameters for the fsbext command
$ext_param = '-d ' & $temp_dir & ' "' & $rainslick_path & '\parpg\data\sounds\ep_1\parpg_ep1_mx_streams.fsb"'
; Create temp directory
DirCreate ($temp_dir)
; Include fsbext.exe on compile, and extract it to the temp directory on execution
FileInstall ( "C:\fsbext.exe", $temp_dir & "\fsbext.exe", 1)
; Execute fsbext with the above parameters parameters
ShellExecuteWait ( $temp_dir & "\fsbext.exe", $ext_param, @ScriptDir, "", @SW_HIDE)
; Move the WAV file to the script's current directory and more clearly rename the WAV
FileMove ($temp_dir & "\credits_mx_01.wav",@ScriptDir & "\McFrontalot - Final Boss.mp3")
; Delete the temp directory and all files within
DirRemove ( $temp_dir, 1)
If FileExists (@ScriptDir & "\McFrontalot - Final Boss.mp3") Then
MsgBox(4096,"Success","Song successfully extracted to:" & @CRLF & @ScriptDir & "\McFrontalot - Final Boss.mp3")
Else
MsgBox(4096,"Error","An error occurred attempting to extract the song.")
EndIf
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This song was the first time I ever heard of MC Frontalot and now I already own his 2 albums so its cool to have a tentative release on the third one
Nope, nope. I have the code all posted there. I could even walk you through compiling it yourself if you don't trust me. With AutoIt it isn't much more than right-clicking on a text file. Though, since we are mainly utilizing the fsbext.exe program you'd need to download that and have it in the root of your C: drive.
Sweet. Yet another great example of free song distribution facilitating product purchase. :P
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Admittedly, copyright laws are a mess of archaic nonsense. Regardless it would be trivial to link a Gamertag of someone else who did purchase the game.
I'd say the best bet is to figure out a way to extract it from your own copy, or hope that it is released for free. In any case, please don't discuss questionable methods in this thread, as I would rather it isn't locked or removed. :winky:
Also you can download some other songs from his site if you want some to listen to more(completly free of course)
The Joker 138...I'd post a link to my profile on xbox.com but I cant figure out how to o_O
Honestly I can't think of one artist in the last 10 years (and I'm only 21 so meh) that I've purchased the cd's of without hearing the music first.
Every artist I've ever heard that was good has gotten my business, just like every game that I've played that was good has gotten my business.
I won't discuss the testing phase of this stuff, but if I find myself smiling or can't control the urge to dance I purchase the game or music. (The last time a game made me giddy was when I clubbed a guard in Oblivion, I promptly purchased the game w/knights of the nine).
I wish more companies and artists would realize that figuring out an easy way to sample their stuff without watering it down is a quick way to money. For those a-holes that brag about stealing, well collect them and take a meat tenderizer to their no-no parts.
At any rate I just wanted to support your point and I need to get around to getting this
...oh dear...I fear I've said too much.
- Rico -
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Yay MC Frontalot!
HKLM\Software\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode One
I grab the Path value there to find the game.
What you could do is give an option to pop up a file dialog and let us track down the file ourselves. I'm sitting here looking at this tasty file right now, if I had any idea how to compile your code I could just make it point to my particular filepath:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\on the rain-slick precipice of darkness - episode one\parpg\data\sounds\ep_1\parpg_ep1_mx_streams.fsb
QFT - I even became a valued sucker over at front's HQ, to see if he'd spiffed the elites an mp3. No luck. Ah well, will have it soon enough...
/shrugs
Can trade TF2 items or whatever else you're interested in. PM me.
If a person of authority could contact me I'd like to see if it's cool to elaborate.
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I just plugged my audio out into my PC's sound card.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
http://frontalot.com/index.php/?page=cd3
There are also teasers of all the songs available, so you can see if you like the rest of the album.
@gamefacts - Totally and utterly true gaming facts on the regular!
Joel
I have to say, while his second album was also good, his first seems to still be my favorite.
but more front is better than less front. Empirically!