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Heh, I guess Vivendi wanted some extra money to licence Reinhardt's music? Not to mention the other labels\publishers.
 

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Heh, I guess Vivendi wanted some extra money to licence Reinhardt's music? Not to mention the other labels\publishers.

Licensing music, across all kinds of media, is an actually pretty hard task. Any kind of movie you can think of that relies on licensed music (think of Almost Famous or High Fidelity) often has like more than half of its budget dedicated purely to music licenses.
Blood Money hasn't been released on GOG purely because of licensing problems regarding one particular song by the band Clutch (iirc). It's a pity, bc Clutch is great.
 

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Blood Money hasn't been released on GOG purely because of licensing problems regarding one particular song by the band Clutch (iirc). It's a pity, bc Clutch is great.

Fortunately, I have the DVD version already. :)
 

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I am sure the music can be modded back in, and expect it to happen pretty fast.
www.gog.com/forum/mafia/tutorial_how_to_restore_the_original_music

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There was a bit of a mistake made when uploading the fixed music tracks - some of the files got missed out.

I can't edit the original post as I'm not the author. The correct place to extract the DTA files is:
C:\GOG GAMES\MAFIA

It's safe to delete the SOUNDS directory once you have the full list of DTA files:
http://www.kamalook.de/Mafia/DTA.html

Here's a full list of tracks removed from the GOG release:
https://pastebin.com/cm489NEb

To make sure everyone gets all the music in it's original condition.
I've uploaded the missing DTA files (which contain the sound fx and music) taken from my Mafia CD's rather than converting/extracting the Vorbis (ogg) files as GOG have done.

It's all described in this post I wrote:
https://af.gog.com/forum/mafia/tutorial_how_to_restore_the_original_music/post39?as=1649904300

There's some big losses from the edited soundtrack.
This for example:
https://instaud.io/1mGy VS https://instaud.io/1mGC
 
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It's not much of anything to go on as far as a GOG release goes, but Focus Interactive just stripped the drm out of this list of games by a patch for their cd version :
http://support.focus-home.fr/

There are Orcs and Men, Blood Bowl and the game of throne rpg in here, which might be of interest for some codexers if they go all the way with a GOG release.

EDIT : Also, while I'm at it with rumors, Brian Herbert, the son of the author of Dune, has some interesting thing to say :







Might be Nightdive.
 
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It's not much of anything to go on as far as a GOG release goes, but Focus Interactive just stripped the drm out of this list of games by a patch for their cd version :
http://support.focus-home.fr/
There are Orcs and Men, Blood Bowl and the game of throne rpg in here, which might be of interest for some codexers if they go all the way with a GOG release.
I'd really quite like to see several Focus titles arrive on GOG.
Top picks would be:
Blood Bowl (Chaos Edition & BB2 LE)
Mordheim City of the Damned (didn't realise what this was - though it was like Vermintide! - it's more like Blood Bowl and lots of fun)
and hopefully Necromunda: Underhive Wars (at some point)

Styx is meant to be reasonably good as well.
 
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GOG got some problems now when they implemented Potato language in their site today.
Yesterday they bring back potato dialect to Teenager, now more games get injected with solyanka, that include, of course, most worshiped game in eastern europe before Witcher came - Gothic.

And there is topic in GD to gather all potatoes but the only thread there got wiped out and it was welcoming one from staff member.
https://af.gog.com/forum/general_pl#1508841069?as=1649904300

From what I saw there is sale for games that get PL language but they got problems at this moment.

Oh and they bring some actual old games, like AD 2044, Skaut Kwatermaster, Sołtys and Crime Cities (by Techland).
 
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Anyone played Crime Cities from Techland ?
I did, somewhere in 2001?
The closest example in term of gameplay would be Aquanox but that's pure decline compared to Dynasty games.
You pilot flying car in the big future city, do various task as a gun for hire, get money to pimp your car, rinse and repeat. You shoot stuff, do escorts mission (that were easy because AI was on rail) and occasional zapping for nonlethal take downs.
I remember that final 3rd planet (where they keep worst degenerates and criminals) had some occasional difficulty spikes but then I hit the wall and my Windows98 went to shit and needed his monthly dose of format c+reinstall that killed my saves.

Worth money I guess?

edit - forgot to mention that I was impressed how many thing can be rendered on the screen without much stuttering. Even GTA3 barely worked on PC that played CC nicely.
 
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Had a lot of fun with Crime Cities back in the day. Don't know how well it's aged, but shouldn't be too bad.
 

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