When I saw the title I just assumed you put the recovered tracks into the game by just drag and dropping them... the amount of dedication and effort is commendable, this is amazing!
20:25 I only just now noticed that the tools in the background spell out Toy :D It's always fantastic how much things go unnoticed when playing something.
I've watched a few videos about people messing with old video game music files (my favorite being one about two songs in StarTropics having audio errors), but honestly, this video is the only one I've seen that made me somewhat understand how old music was stored and played. Every other video has me rather confused. I want to thank you for your visuals and explanations to help a novice like me understand.
This video is amazing. I love Lego Island and I love in-depth breakdowns like this. I'm definitely going to check out that link to more technical info about the game and I'll probably spend part of this weekend reinstalling the game and giving Lego Island Rebuilder a shot.
Actually, Germans are allowed to drink as young as 14 years old as long as it's in a private setting under parental supervision. You only need to be 16 years old to buy "weak" alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine.
@@tzipirigu25I know it's a year late, but that's one of windows many default cursors. It helps when looking for it because it looks like a fly landed on my monitor.
Oh my gosh... it has happened! Thank you SO much. I tried figuring this out long ago but with a much different idea and approach. Now looking back, it would have never worked. Anyways, I love this video a lot. Your humor adds a nice touch to the entire presentation. Subscriber earned! Keep up the good work. -Henry
5:52 My favorite thing about this is-as you said- the songs technically take the same amount of storage due to lower bit-depth vs the higher quality; but the fact that they had an 8 bit 22khz version of all the songs left ingame easily means the music could've taken the same amount of storage as if they had just used 16 bit 22khz in the first place. Maybe it's another one of those "temp things to be fixed later" that never actually ended up being changed due to Mindscape firing everyone.
well no because theres still the limit of the drive read speed, you wouldnt have enough bandwidth to load other assets if the music was taking up half of the bandwidth of a 4x drive and not just 1/4 of the bandwidth
@@aprilnya Oh yeah, I forgot to consider they needed to support the slowest of CD drives. Still makes it weird that they kept the higher quality versions in the files though if they didn't seem to have any intention of using them for the final game.
@Radkeyboard7984 No, the master tapes quality music would likely supersede the digital copies from the web used in this video by a bit, but even the "high*er*" quality in-game 22khz audio is still lower quality than the web ones; and also has more dithering noise.
@@urielc918 Seems like nostalgia, but then looking at the same games from an adult point of view. You can also find modding communities for other LEGO games like LEGO Rock Raiders and LEGO Racers. I did some tinkering with the former and there are already mod loaders, level editors, texture replacing, custom cave themes, sound replacing and such. I wonder if by now new models and animations are working.
"you can hear it here in some of the infomaniac's dialogue." "hello-- B̷̡̹͍̱̻̥͇̫̠̆́̇͘Ç̴̺͚̰͚̯̯͔͍̥̻̗͊̽̓̊͒͋ͅJ̵̧̢͎̯̦͓̯̣͖̥̪̓̈̊̓͂̀̀Ų̴̗̞̥̹̞̤̰͇͇̺͆̌̅̐̒̀͐̋̈́͑͌̚͜͝F̷̯̩̼̣̖̼̄̓̀́̃͊͆̀̆̎J̶̢̼͇̪̲̬̱͐̆̆̎̎͂͗̍͘͘̚̚C̶̛̟͙̺̔̏̇̐̈́͐̚H̵̙͓̙̮̻̗̘̳̟̝̻͆̇͛ͅV̷̬̩̗̳̹̱̬̄͒̽̋̋́͗͜Å̸̘̥͇̤̘̪̉̎̄̐́̇̇̚͘͝N̸̛̼̈́̑̄͛̿̅̏̍̈͋̚̚͝͝n̸̡͓̞̦̟͕͓̣̥̜̩̑͆̌̓͐̓̅̾̉̏̏̂͝͝ͅn̵̛̤̪̘͕͔͎̩̾̈̔͌̐n̶̢͚͕̠̬͋̎͑̎̔̄͋͜ǹ̵̢̨̨̛͉̩̫͓̳̼͕͉͍̌̑̿̂͑͘̕͜͝͠͠ṅ̴̨̘̭̩̪͍̙̬̩̪̜̱̘̠V̵̙̥̜͊̊̆̃̉v̵͈̦͓̦̻͍͖͉̯͎̘̣̆͜͝ͅÏ̷̧̩̣̜͙̻͙̲̥͌͗̓̈̄͋̈́C̷̨̡̟̪͙̖̀̈́̋́̔̓̕Y̴̢̱͙̰̺͇͓̙͎̬̺̳͓̠̭̾i̷̢̛̭̠̣̼͌́͠y̶̡̜̳͉̯̝̼̘͖͆̆́̈́̓̉͘͜͝͝-- foo--"
I tend to come back to this video every once in a while and it truly never fails to cheer me up. It's weird, but whenever I feel unmotivated for work, I enjoy watching you work out the file format of Lego Island :D Thank you so much for this video!
I love these vids so much. You get history, technical info, a tiny bit of a mystery, and Matt is the perfect host for the format, and it all wraps up in a beautiful package. I’ve been off and on binging these vids for a couple weeks and I’m never disappointed with any of them
If I heard any of these songs in isolation, it would drive me crazy being unable to figure out where they were from, or why they'd be so utterly familiar and nostalgic to me.
Imagine this: Someone putting into a copy of Lego Island a high quality rip of Africa but the lyrics are replaced with that of Never Gonna Give You Up. The (B)Rick(ster's) Revenge.
A lot of respect for all the work you've done to create this (awesome) video! Kind of genius how the developers coped with this technical limitation of that era.
This was for some reason the most interesting, fun, and enjoyable video that i have watched all f***ing day, and although i know my way around a .wav file, watching you just casually stroll threw hexadecimal information and spewing straight fire knowledge blew my mind!, i know it does matter but you got another sub under you belt and bravo! that was really really amazing, and now im off to add all-star to LEGO Island
This is awesome! I remember hearing that the original code and music were lost in the houseboat sinking incident. Cool to hear that the part about the music being lost was at least fortunately wrong. Thanks for your dedication to this absolutely quirky gem of mid-late 90's computer gaming history!
This is incredible stuff. I feel like I've learned more about efficient programming from this than I did from my C class in high school that was run by a guy whose job used to be all about rewriting other people's code to be more efficient. He often had size and length limits on the code we could turn in and he wouldn't accept the assignment if it was a single byte over the limit. Now I think I understand why.
Lego Island. An absolute classic from my childhood! I actually went and re-downloaded Lego Island just to play around with this Rebuilder tool you made. I can’t say that the first thing I did was set the jukebox songs to some really bizarre, unfitting songs. 😂 Also, loved the informative video!
I have absolutely no interest in doing something like this. The video started playing by accident. And I watched the entire thing! The amount of effort you dedicated to this is amazing. As is your ability to take something like this seem so fascinating to me. Well done!
I grew up with this game but my system was wayyyy too slow to handle it. I think my sound card was the only piece of hardware that didn't have a stroke; so thankfully I'll never forget the main menu song... "Leh Leh Leh Lego" ahhh nostalgia....lol.
I can't emphasize how much this game meant to me as a kid - to this day I occasionally listen to the soundtrack when I'm real drunk (I've even been in contact with a few people who worked on the music, just for the hell of it.) To see you made Lego Island Rebuilder is just way too cool, dude. First video of yours I'm seeing and I like it.
This game changed my video game life! I played this for houurrrrssss!!!! This was MY first game, my dad had his games(and I had other cheapo ones). But Lego island, that was my BIG game. My thing that allotted me time on his computer, what made me wow by the graphics and even made my dad super impressed by it all! I was in heaven and I wanted EVERY experience like it! I was HOOKED on gaming! haha Then he had the excuse to buy me my own PS1. Man, the nostalgia is REAL!!!!! Straight up chills when I hear these songs :) :) :) I love that I found your channel!
oh god, working with riff files at the byte level. every few years, i take on some hobby project or other that requires me to refamiliarize myself with the riff file structure and write some reading and/or writing code for it pretty much from scratch 😅 you've done some fantastic work here!😃
I don't know why YT recommeded this, but I'm so happy! I've tried to reinsert files in a game (font to BL2 but who cares) and had no success. I've tried to contact everyone, but noone was able to help. I tried the customer service, the forum, just general forums about font editing, nothing. Now you gave me back the hope. I know nothing about Hexediting, but I'll learn and I shall finish the job I've started. Thank you!
You are absolutely incredible. I love this channel so much. It has a perfect blend of all of my interests. Programming, reverse engineering, hardware, nostalgic stuff... this channel is a goldmine.
I'm glad people are still making videos on Lego Island, that game was my childhood. Very interesting to see how music was used in games back in the day. Great video!
6:21 "Bus if the music is just uncompressed PCM, can't you just swap it out with new PCM data? You would think so." Yup, I was thinking that precise thought and I know what PCM means
Loved the video and the realization that you'd need to repack the entire si file given what adding more data would do. Legit giving giving Lego Island a second life with all the uploads and shared code for the modern machine.
5:40 - The change in the audio format from 16-bit 11kHz to 8-bit 22kHz is increasing the frequency range at the cost of added noise floor and possible distortion in quiet sounds. The latter would probably best work in very loud and bright tracks, while the former would be perfect for softer, more dynamic and mellower ones. I suppose they have ended up having both versions in the game to have the option to choose per-track at any point. They didn't save that much storage, but they are still saving the data throughput needed to play the audio back. Since the game shipped on a CD, they probably had enough space for this and then some, but the drive read speed (as you mentioned) or the CPU cycles needed to process and pass the audio to the soundcard were probably limitations that forced the suboptimal quality. EDIT: 8:46 Oh, you mention the CD speed limit :D Yeah, 1x CD-ROM drive is exactly the speed you need to read 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit PCM audio. So reducing the music to 1/4 of the bandwidth, leaves room for other things. Otherwise the game might have required a 4x drive or something.
Never played this game myself, but what you did is just AWESOME! Not only you achieved your goal, you made a tool for anybody. I salute you, sir! Thank you for everything that you are doing!
You are in-f*cking-sane. I simply cannot choose words to describe how clever you really are. Awesome job and keep it up!!! P.S. If someone had a novice knowledge of C# paired with Unity, how would that someone start his "hacking" adventures in single player video games?
Amazing find. Glad you are the first to find this. I have heard other games crashing, animations stopping, and music changing to unused tracks because of loop coding.
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When I saw the title I just assumed you put the recovered tracks into the game by just drag and dropping them... the amount of dedication and effort is commendable, this is amazing!
Jameskii we need more Arma 3...
shut up
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Hello radal. When new video?
Hellow obvious Russian man who pretends not to be
20:25 I only just now noticed that the tools in the background spell out Toy :D It's always fantastic how much things go unnoticed when playing something.
I just noticed that after seeing your comment, it truly is a subtle thing
How could MattKC insert HD music
@@satamsonic4026 Did you not watch the video?
@@mysticaxolotl8215 it’s a sonic fan they’re stupid
where is the :D
11:28 “I figured since it’s 2019 and I’m running the game off an SSD it might just work”
Yeah ok there Todd Howard
I literally pause the vid a few seconds before he said that to check the comments, went back to the video and got scared
It just works.
11:27
At least Matt had the integrity to fix it immediately rather than making us watch another ad after it.
why's this is a big deal, i run my pc on an ssd
Matt: runs game off ssd
Game: *"WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN THE COMPUTER!"*
Me : Installs the iso file
@@yablock7346 you, also chooses "install game to harddrive"
Dameon tools: allow us to introduce ourselves
Also me with a laptop (doesn't have CD drive):
Am I the only one who knows the phrase "WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD UP YOUR AS-"?
5:00 "ok! That's not music!" I think we have different tastes in music because THAT IS MY JAMMMM
you sure you arent 8 bit?
@@MacBack123 He probably is.
i think that is the start of that song that plays at the final scene of breaking bad
exactly
It's not Trout Mask Replica, I'll say that much.
(That's not a dig at TMR, more of a joke.)
This was over 3 YEARS before you even decompiled the game? God, you're good at this
i can't just lurk on a video as brilliant as this. Freaking breathtaking & great job!
no.
@@shovel_salesman no
Ayy it's AS!
@@shovel_salesman nyos
@@LorenzJahn maybe
Every once in a while I have to come back and rewatch this video. It never gets old.
Same, idk why but it's still interesting even though I watched it often enough
@@NikoHD203 ikr
yeah same
I dont get this. I just watched out of boringness
Same
16:17 why do I actually like this skipping? It makes a cool transition.
I like the skip transition too but I understand it’s not faithful to the original
It sounds like "I-I-I I am a dwarf and I'm digging a hole!"
@@TheBcoolGuy diggy diggy hole im digging a hole
same
I dont get this. I just watched out of boringness
8:33
"Helllo-*chkk-SHH-A A A A A-brrr*-oo! hol-*WHOSHH-RRRR*-a! Wilcom-(more earrape cut by Matt)
You should insert the GTA 3 radio into the lego one.
Fuck yeah slap on Rise FM
MSX FM
Have you ever wanted a giraffe
*MOOO*
Okay LEGO ISLAND, this is Chatterbox...
F l a s h b a c k. FM
8:33
I like how it isn't even edited so it doesn't destroy your ears, it's edited so it doesn't destroy your *life.*
I've watched a few videos about people messing with old video game music files (my favorite being one about two songs in StarTropics having audio errors), but honestly, this video is the only one I've seen that made me somewhat understand how old music was stored and played. Every other video has me rather confused. I want to thank you for your visuals and explanations to help a novice like me understand.
3:37 "who lives in a pineapple under the sea?"
"plea charging" - my ripoff headphones
This video is amazing. I love Lego Island and I love in-depth breakdowns like this. I'm definitely going to check out that link to more technical info about the game and I'll probably spend part of this weekend reinstalling the game and giving Lego Island Rebuilder a shot.
11:35 That timing how it crashed and became silent was perfect at that short amount of time.
*I quickly whipped up a C# Script*
[*Shows Many Lines of Code*]
thats not that many lines of code for me
good for you
@Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji where so you learn about hex?
those hands arent only usefull when moms coming up the stairs
vincent castro ok
"this game is officially old enough to drink now"
*germans laughing in 16 year old*
Actually, Germans are allowed to drink as young as 14 years old as long as it's in a private setting under parental supervision.
You only need to be 16 years old to buy "weak" alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine.
you'd think Germans would, y'know, laugh in German.
@@Mysteri0usChannel I know, I'm german
Laugh in 18
*Danish people laughing in newborn*
1:41 calm music while A LEGO MAN JUST LOST THEIR HEAD AND DIED mmmmmm so calm music
He repairs himself. They do this in the game sometimes
He ♦§☺•lo!↑-σ├ƒ±R
BowserLover Ummmm.... You okay dude?
@@spongechair r/ihaveastroke
@@l0f1_problems65 wow you have reddit
6:55 Windows 10 bg, Windows vista taskbar, and Windows 8 window... What a scene.
And a MacOS cursor
@@tzipirigu25I know it's a year late, but that's one of windows many default cursors. It helps when looking for it because it looks like a fly landed on my monitor.
Oh my gosh... it has happened! Thank you SO much. I tried figuring this out long ago but with a much different idea and approach. Now looking back, it would have never worked. Anyways, I love this video a lot. Your humor adds a nice touch to the entire presentation. Subscriber earned! Keep up the good work. -Henry
wgat was the idea
why the -henry ?
9:10 I too quickly build 700 lines of code that simulates 1990 CD drivers. I too am an average coder.
This will blow up in the coming months, just let the algorithm do its thing...
RUclips algorithm sent me this way
it just did
its already doin
can confirm
reporting for duty, sir
5:52
My favorite thing about this is-as you said- the songs technically take the same amount of storage due to lower bit-depth vs the higher quality; but the fact that they had an 8 bit 22khz version of all the songs left ingame easily means the music could've taken the same amount of storage as if they had just used 16 bit 22khz in the first place.
Maybe it's another one of those "temp things to be fixed later" that never actually ended up being changed due to Mindscape firing everyone.
well no because theres still the limit of the drive read speed, you wouldnt have enough bandwidth to load other assets if the music was taking up half of the bandwidth of a 4x drive and not just 1/4 of the bandwidth
@@aprilnya Oh yeah, I forgot to consider they needed to support the slowest of CD drives. Still makes it weird that they kept the higher quality versions in the files though if they didn't seem to have any intention of using them for the final game.
@@ZohondeKids So the orginal high quality music can be extracted from the SI file (that was supposed to be in the master tapes)
@Radkeyboard7984 No, the master tapes quality music would likely supersede the digital copies from the web used in this video by a bit, but even the "high*er*" quality in-game 22khz audio is still lower quality than the web ones; and also has more dithering noise.
@@ZohondeKids Its most likey was put in a physical copy but there was no backup
Druaga1 just did a video on this game, it's nice to see more about it.
I saw that, what a coincidence! I'm glad there are people still out there helping keep this wonderful game alive
I was wondering why everyones talking about it
@@urielc918 Seems like nostalgia, but then looking at the same games from an adult point of view. You can also find modding communities for other LEGO games like LEGO Rock Raiders and LEGO Racers. I did some tinkering with the former and there are already mod loaders, level editors, texture replacing, custom cave themes, sound replacing and such. I wonder if by now new models and animations are working.
I love all this sudden new Lego Island content, some dude also made a video where he interviewed Lorin Nelson who made the music!
Video+game = videogame
"you can hear it here in some of the infomaniac's dialogue."
"hello-- B̷̡̹͍̱̻̥͇̫̠̆́̇͘Ç̴̺͚̰͚̯̯͔͍̥̻̗͊̽̓̊͒͋ͅJ̵̧̢͎̯̦͓̯̣͖̥̪̓̈̊̓͂̀̀Ų̴̗̞̥̹̞̤̰͇͇̺͆̌̅̐̒̀͐̋̈́͑͌̚͜͝F̷̯̩̼̣̖̼̄̓̀́̃͊͆̀̆̎J̶̢̼͇̪̲̬̱͐̆̆̎̎͂͗̍͘͘̚̚C̶̛̟͙̺̔̏̇̐̈́͐̚H̵̙͓̙̮̻̗̘̳̟̝̻͆̇͛ͅV̷̬̩̗̳̹̱̬̄͒̽̋̋́͗͜Å̸̘̥͇̤̘̪̉̎̄̐́̇̇̚͘͝N̸̛̼̈́̑̄͛̿̅̏̍̈͋̚̚͝͝n̸̡͓̞̦̟͕͓̣̥̜̩̑͆̌̓͐̓̅̾̉̏̏̂͝͝ͅn̵̛̤̪̘͕͔͎̩̾̈̔͌̐n̶̢͚͕̠̬͋̎͑̎̔̄͋͜ǹ̵̢̨̨̛͉̩̫͓̳̼͕͉͍̌̑̿̂͑͘̕͜͝͠͠ṅ̴̨̘̭̩̪͍̙̬̩̪̜̱̘̠V̵̙̥̜͊̊̆̃̉v̵͈̦͓̦̻͍͖͉̯͎̘̣̆͜͝ͅÏ̷̧̩̣̜͙̻͙̲̥͌͗̓̈̄͋̈́C̷̨̡̟̪͙̖̀̈́̋́̔̓̕Y̴̢̱͙̰̺͇͓̙͎̬̺̳͓̠̭̾i̷̢̛̭̠̣̼͌́͠y̶̡̜̳͉̯̝̼̘͖͆̆́̈́̓̉͘͜͝͝-- foo--"
"whoops you have to put the cd in your computer"
WhooOoOOps*
69 likes. Nice
I tend to come back to this video every once in a while and it truly never fails to cheer me up. It's weird, but whenever I feel unmotivated for work, I enjoy watching you work out the file format of Lego Island :D Thank you so much for this video!
omg how does this have so few views, so entertaining!
Because of the cursor
Merlin Dienst no
Merlin Dienst I downloaded the exact same cursor the other day, it’s great.
It has over a million views now
I love these vids so much. You get history, technical info, a tiny bit of a mystery, and Matt is the perfect host for the format, and it all wraps up in a beautiful package. I’ve been off and on binging these vids for a couple weeks and I’m never disappointed with any of them
4:59 I completely lost it when I heard the distorted audio
Good to see my sense of humor is still as immature as ever.
Fewúretweetedreyo
Same
@@Mrdab3st1085 dat was funny
5:00
Slowly but surely you are remastering one of my favorite childhood games...please continue this work it is appreciated.
If I heard any of these songs in isolation, it would drive me crazy being unable to figure out where they were from, or why they'd be so utterly familiar and nostalgic to me.
Imagine this: Someone putting into a copy of Lego Island a high quality rip of Africa but the lyrics are replaced with that of Never Gonna Give You Up.
The (B)Rick(ster's) Revenge.
Bster's
The Rick Revenge
@@Iristallite rickvenge
The BRickster's Revenge
brick astley
A lot of respect for all the work you've done to create this (awesome) video! Kind of genius how the developers coped with this technical limitation of that era.
3:17 _Disney Lawyers_ : We actually ... own the *whole video*
This was for some reason the most interesting, fun, and enjoyable video that i have watched all f***ing day, and although i know my way around a .wav file, watching you just casually stroll threw hexadecimal information and spewing straight fire knowledge blew my mind!, i know it does matter but you got another sub under you belt and bravo! that was really really amazing, and now im off to add all-star to LEGO Island
At least now you can say that you’ve done this BIT BY BIT
We need a rom that is just the version that plays Africa
Honestly it fit SO well
@@TracksWithDax Africa makes EVERYTHING better
@@p3chv0gel22 fart
hell|ejfghhsdd|o welc|ufadsgifvds|ome to|dhushgkfaiusgf| lego isl|lidsewfhid|and
tod Roger's thinking ok
@@TheDerric good job
"rom"
This is awesome! I remember hearing that the original code and music were lost in the houseboat sinking incident. Cool to hear that the part about the music being lost was at least fortunately wrong. Thanks for your dedication to this absolutely quirky gem of mid-late 90's computer gaming history!
Never shat myself harder that I have at 5:00
Never maxing out earphone volume again
I've watched this too many times but 3:37 still makes me laugh every time. On a serious note, this is a really interesting project, great work.
This video pops up so much for me that it's become my comfort video
"OOH who lives in a pineapple under the sea", "Lego Island master tapes"
“Dude come here! I got LEGO island!”
“Woah! It looks like 88 miles per hour!”
Ngl I think it looks like 89 miles per hour
Marty?
@@icantpretend726 yes?
@@malanao 90. MPH.
@@gmdking 99 MPH
This is incredible stuff. I feel like I've learned more about efficient programming from this than I did from my C class in high school that was run by a guy whose job used to be all about rewriting other people's code to be more efficient. He often had size and length limits on the code we could turn in and he wouldn't accept the assignment if it was a single byte over the limit. Now I think I understand why.
I don't even play this game but this is really cool, I love seeing old games being picked apart and modded.
5:45 His lego body was flat for a few seconds
I legit cried when you popped up hex editor, the bane of my existence
Is it that hard?
Ghex is pretty neat (also known as Gnome Hex Editor).
12:13 music.exe has stoped working
I thought this was a Druaga1 video, still great tho
same
Was expecting weed, 7/10 I guess
It's Not Druaga1 Or AkBkUkU, It's MattKC.
@@titmouse-distribution sorry I think you mean Druaga3
AkBkUkU, Druaga3, Same Thing!
0:18 **88 MILES PER HOUR**
Lego Island. An absolute classic from my childhood!
I actually went and re-downloaded Lego Island just to play around with this Rebuilder tool you made. I can’t say that the first thing I did was set the jukebox songs to some really bizarre, unfitting songs. 😂
Also, loved the informative video!
Finally decided to watch this video after it being recommended it to me for 4 years straight
I have absolutely no interest in doing something like this. The video started playing by accident.
And I watched the entire thing! The amount of effort you dedicated to this is amazing. As is your ability to take something like this seem so fascinating to me. Well done!
I’ve watched this at least 12 times now. I haven’t gotten bored of it.
20:28 I don't know why, but I find it interesting to see how the video wasn't aligned with the "screen" here and that it has graphics under it.
you mean screen tearing?
My God, after seeing all your effort and resourcefulness, I dare not call myself a developer anymore
I grew up with this game but my system was wayyyy too slow to handle it. I think my sound card was the only piece of hardware that didn't have a stroke; so thankfully I'll never forget the main menu song... "Leh Leh Leh Lego" ahhh nostalgia....lol.
Wow, this is one of my favorite childhood games. I would have never thought I'd find something so technical about it on RUclips!
I can't emphasize how much this game meant to me as a kid - to this day I occasionally listen to the soundtrack when I'm real drunk (I've even been in contact with a few people who worked on the music, just for the hell of it.) To see you made Lego Island Rebuilder is just way too cool, dude.
First video of yours I'm seeing and I like it.
i have watched this video a few times each year it has come out. idk why, its just a really nice video :)
my fave game when i was a kid this is amazing
This game changed my video game life! I played this for houurrrrssss!!!! This was MY first game, my dad had his games(and I had other cheapo ones). But Lego island, that was my BIG game. My thing that allotted me time on his computer, what made me wow by the graphics and even made my dad super impressed by it all! I was in heaven and I wanted EVERY experience like it! I was HOOKED on gaming! haha Then he had the excuse to buy me my own PS1. Man, the nostalgia is REAL!!!!! Straight up chills when I hear these songs :) :) :) I love that I found your channel!
oh god, working with riff files at the byte level.
every few years, i take on some hobby project or other that requires me to refamiliarize myself with the riff file structure and write some reading and/or writing code for it pretty much from scratch 😅
you've done some fantastic work here!😃
Love the editing of the video, so entertaining lmao
3:08 WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
@@Luigi_bros4321 real 😱😱
@@AspectCave wdym?
WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT
I don't know why YT recommeded this, but I'm so happy! I've tried to reinsert files in a game (font to BL2 but who cares) and had no success. I've tried to contact everyone, but noone was able to help. I tried the customer service, the forum, just general forums about font editing, nothing. Now you gave me back the hope. I know nothing about Hexediting, but I'll learn and I shall finish the job I've started. Thank you!
The interleaved animation and audio reminds me of the CD-i format.
I hope she made lotsa spaghetti!
You are absolutely incredible. I love this channel so much. It has a perfect blend of all of my interests. Programming, reverse engineering, hardware, nostalgic stuff... this channel is a goldmine.
16:30 You can see the trees change models
Level of Detail(?)
@@dragonivanrussiayeah, so it doesn’t crash the game. it’s also been used in SM64.
I'm glad people are still making videos on Lego Island, that game was my childhood. Very interesting to see how music was used in games back in the day. Great video!
9:22 - It seems that LEGO Island also blesses the rains down on Africa. XD
Thank's ! ; ruclips.net/video/KP4Ed3xJ0t8/видео.html&ab_channel=sme02
@@flowckey shut
@@rodrigopadilha5682 Up
@@flowckey shut up kid, go back to your roblox
@@flowckey please
I watched the video more than 10 times since you've uploaded it. Definitely needs more views, somehow this never gets bored
6:21 "Bus if the music is just uncompressed PCM, can't you just swap it out with new PCM data? You would think so."
Yup, I was thinking that precise thought and I know what PCM means
you’re channel is very underrated. i never played lego island and yet i loved learning so much! you’re an inspiration bro keep it up
2:14 it feels like I cleaned the nostalgia out of my ears. 🤣🤣🤣
But it is nice to hear the cleaner versions though.
LEGO island is one of the oldest games I have memory of playing, blew my mind as a 4 year old, love that you also have a passion for this game
Imagine *”mother love me long time”* as the music in this game..
Loved the video and the realization that you'd need to repack the entire si file given what adding more data would do.
Legit giving giving Lego Island a second life with all the uploads and shared code for the modern machine.
13:46 the "Eureka Effect" in action
I love watching your videos at 1:25am on a school night
still true
Holy moly. I love how persistent you were to get it working. An absolutely joy to watch this video!
I’ve never even played the game and this was so interesting! Great job!
5:40 - The change in the audio format from 16-bit 11kHz to 8-bit 22kHz is increasing the frequency range at the cost of added noise floor and possible distortion in quiet sounds. The latter would probably best work in very loud and bright tracks, while the former would be perfect for softer, more dynamic and mellower ones. I suppose they have ended up having both versions in the game to have the option to choose per-track at any point.
They didn't save that much storage, but they are still saving the data throughput needed to play the audio back. Since the game shipped on a CD, they probably had enough space for this and then some, but the drive read speed (as you mentioned) or the CPU cycles needed to process and pass the audio to the soundcard were probably limitations that forced the suboptimal quality.
EDIT: 8:46 Oh, you mention the CD speed limit :D Yeah, 1x CD-ROM drive is exactly the speed you need to read 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit PCM audio. So reducing the music to 1/4 of the bandwidth, leaves room for other things. Otherwise the game might have required a 4x drive or something.
I'm so glad this had a better fate than "The Music Of Humongous Entertainment". Next to HE soundtracks, this is my favorite.
As soon as it got to the fixed music transition my video buffered, awesome video MattKC glad I found this channel
"Ackshually it's not low quality heavily compressed audio, it's what I like to call lo-fi"
Ackshually, it's low quality _uncompressed_ audio
“Ackshually”
@@tauon_ They were (probably?) referencing this
knowyourmeme.com/memes/ackchyually
I never even knew about this game as a kid but partly because no computer access. Really cool to see all of this.
0:25 88 MILES PER HOUR
Incredible work man, what fight that was to figure it out. Take solace in the fact that this video still entertains and inspires 3 years later.
What a journey that was. Thank you Matt, very cool
I gotta say, thank you for all of your work on Lego Island. I got it running on my steam deck almost solely because of the work you've done. Cheers.
Why is it that every time a africa by toto is just see a shaking book in my head?
Was really nice to hear that old music again, its been lurking in the back of my mind!
Next get higher quality models and textures and sprites
DR0p_gkid64 LEGO island HD remaster for 2020
Also add ray tracing shaders while your're at it :D
Zircuitz lets get the goddamn animators for the LEGO movies to make it look like stop motion
What about widescreen
@@firebro74 also a great idea
Never played this game myself, but what you did is just AWESOME! Not only you achieved your goal, you made a tool for anybody. I salute you, sir! Thank you for everything that you are doing!
You are in-f*cking-sane. I simply cannot choose words to describe how clever you really are. Awesome job and keep it up!!!
P.S. If someone had a novice knowledge of C# paired with Unity, how would that someone start his "hacking" adventures in single player video games?
Amazing find. Glad you are the first to find this. I have heard other games crashing, animations stopping, and music changing to unused tracks because of loop coding.
Wait, this is not Druaga1. Not disappointed though, great video!