Any idea what this format is?

[bored]

Hello all,

I was going through the data files of the PC game TFX from 1993 and came across some audio files which start off looking like this:


Any idea what format this is? and if so, what can I play it with?.....

[SirLoon]

Looks like some kind of module. try rename it to mod, it, s3m, xm and open in modplug tracker, maybe you got luck

[bored]

Thanks. Looking further into the data archive, and while I don't have the actual filename, the file extension is likely to be one of the following:

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.par
.dir
.dat
.way
.cfg
.sam
.000
.cmb
.col
.bin
.plt
.com
.hdd
.txt
.hud
.opt
.asc
.le2
.lev
.sta
.mis
.def
.hlp
.ody
.spr
.pos
.tmt
.dav
.bbm
.ssd
.lst
.adl
.rld
.lap
.scc
.ald
.btm
.256
.lbm
.pet
.fn
.tm
.3
.2
.h

Unfortunately, none of these are on the list you give....or on the list of Wikipedia's known file extensions.

[SirLoon]

Thanks. Looking further into the data archive, and while I don't have the actual filename, the file extension is likely to be one of the following:

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.par
.dir
.dat
.way
.cfg
.sam
.000
.cmb
.col
.bin
.plt
.com
.hdd
.txt
.hud
.opt
.asc
.le2
.lev
.sta
.mis
.def
.hlp
.ody
.spr
.pos
.tmt
.dav
.bbm
.ssd
.lst
.adl
.rld
.lap
.scc
.ald
.btm
.256
.lbm
.pet
.fn
.tm
.3
.2
.h

Unfortunately, none of these are on the list you give....or on the list of Wikipedia's known file extensions.

try eliminating process. txt, h, cfg, com, hdd, hud is weird... and tbh other extensions are weird too. upload file and i look at him

[bored]

Thanks. Here's a couple of files.
I'm assuming they are audio since they have identifiable ascii, like 'lead guitar'...

[bored]

I tried a different line of research, and found out that the composer (or one of them) for TFX was one Barry Leitch who has a website:
www.barryleitch.com

From his Resume, he says this about his days at Ocean Software (who published TFX):
1992 - 1993 Ocean Software Ltd. Manchester, UK
Senior Composer
Responsibilities included
* Composing music and sound effects across several platforms
* Co-Composed several soundtracks with other composers.
* Designed proprietary music system for PC / SNES / Genesis

So, since the first few bytes of the file are 'OSL1', I presume that this is their 'proprietary music system'.

I might try asking him about it but I'm sure he'll just refer me to Atari....

Anyway, unless anyone knows this format I guess that's it.

SirLoon. Thank you for taking an interest!

[hcs]

Those sound more like MIDI instrument names than anything, so this is likely some midi variant. Possibly FM synthesis settings at the beginning (seem to short and consistent (0x122 bytes) to be PCM samples) and MIDI later? I know pretty much nothing about what binaries for any of these look like, though, so I'm not going to be any help here.

[bored]

Thanks hcs,
I suspect you're right. I'll put off digging into the binaries for a while, in the hope that someone here will recognise this.