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Does this guide work for Windows only? I was planning to play Betrayal at Krondor today and spotted this thread. However, I'm playing it on Steam Deck (I installed the GOG version using Lutris).

Given that the Steam Deck is Linux-based, I'm not sure the first step of this guide is going to work. Are Bassmidi and VirtualMIDISynth compatible with Windows only?

I'm kind of put off playing it now if it's going to be an inferior audio experience. :/
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fionnula: Does this guide work for Windows only? I was planning to play Betrayal at Krondor today and spotted this thread. However, I'm playing it on Steam Deck (I installed the GOG version using Lutris).

Given that the Steam Deck is Linux-based, I'm not sure the first step of this guide is going to work. Are Bassmidi and VirtualMIDISynth compatible with Windows only?

I'm kind of put off playing it now if it's going to be an inferior audio experience. :/
I just did this in Linux today. I don't have an exact step-by-step but in general.

1. Install Fluidsynth linux package
2. Install a soundfont for Fluidsynth to use. There are several free ones usually as packages.
2a. If you want to use Patch93's soundfont it comes as a sfpack
2b. You'll need to get the SFPACK utility from the archive.org and run it in wine to convert to an sf2 file
3. Configure and run/enable Fluidsynth as a service with desired soundfont
4. Download NewRisingSun's patch and replace frp.sx
5. Download Tikalat's patch and replace sx.ovl
6. Place KRONDOR.EXE and Tikalat's Sierra_patch.exe in the same folder and run the patcher in wine
7. Change soundDrv to GENMIDI.DRV in RESOURCE.CFG
Post edited August 22, 2023 by themaxxus
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fionnula: Does this guide work for Windows only? I was planning to play Betrayal at Krondor today and spotted this thread. However, I'm playing it on Steam Deck (I installed the GOG version using Lutris).

Given that the Steam Deck is Linux-based, I'm not sure the first step of this guide is going to work. Are Bassmidi and VirtualMIDISynth compatible with Windows only?

I'm kind of put off playing it now if it's going to be an inferior audio experience. :/
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themaxxus: I just did this in Linux today. I don't have an exact step-by-step but in general.

1. Install Fluidsynth linux package
2. Install a soundfont for Fluidsynth to use. There are several free ones usually as packages.
2a. If you want to use Patch93's soundfont it comes as a sfpack
2b. You'll need to get the SFPACK utility from the archive.org and run it in wine to convert to an sf2 file
3. Configure and run/enable Fluidsynth as a service with desired soundfont
4. Download NewRisingSun's patch and replace frp.sx
5. Download Tikalat's patch and replace sx.ovl
6. Place KRONDOR.EXE and Tikalat's Sierra_patch.exe in the same folder and run the patcher in wine
7. Change soundDrv to GENMIDI.DRV in RESOURCE.CFG
Very much appreciate your help. Unfortunately I've spent around two hours just trying to do step 1 and I'm close to giving up.

I can't find a downloadable Fluidsynth linux package anywhere on github - only installers for Windows and Android. I tried to teach myself how to install from the command line instead, but the suggested commands on the github page are all for different distributions and don't work for Steam Deck, which uses Steam OS (a modified version of Arch Linux apparently). Some errors I encountered: 'keyring is not writable', 'failed to commit transaction', 'no packages were upgraded'. I have no idea what any of this means.

I actually managed to do all the other steps you listed, but of course I can't actually use any of the files without Fluidsynth installed first.

EDIT: Reading further, it appears Steam OS is read-only so doesn't allow pacman commands, which I think Fluidsynth requires in order to install. And there's no flatpak as far as I know. I really wish I could simply download a file, double click it, and watch it install, like on Windows.
Post edited October 04, 2023 by fionnula
Damn I couldn't follow this. Would have loved to try it though. I've played this game since it came out, one of my all-time favorites, and I don't remember EVER hearing voices. But I'm not understanding the instructions well enough to try it (that's an indictment of ME, not OP). I'm just starting yet another game and was checking the forums to see if there were things I had missed in all of my previous games and this was definitely one thing. Maybe one day in a future play through I'll get to experience it this way.

And after all these years and starting many times, I've never finished Betrayal at Antara and reading the forums here today (Dec 19, 2023) i STILL, TO THIS DAY, can't find a simple YES or NO answer to whether the missing temple bug has been fixed. I assume still no. Unbelievable.
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OldFatGuy: Damn I couldn't follow this. Would have loved to try it though. I've played this game since it came out, one of my all-time favorites, and I don't remember EVER hearing voices. But I'm not understanding the instructions well enough to try it (that's an indictment of ME, not OP). I'm just starting yet another game and was checking the forums to see if there were things I had missed in all of my previous games and this was definitely one thing. Maybe one day in a future play through I'll get to experience it this way.

And after all these years and starting many times, I've never finished Betrayal at Antara and reading the forums here today (Dec 19, 2023) i STILL, TO THIS DAY, can't find a simple YES or NO answer to whether the missing temple bug has been fixed. I assume still no. Unbelievable.
Regarding the Missing Temple in Antara, there's a work around.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/214067205-Betrayal-in-Antara?product=gog

I think the general consensus is that the game took advantage of being on multiple CDs and therefore the GOG merged install needs to have some files temporarily renamed for that section and then renamed back when done. I suppose they could have set it up as a multi CD, but then people would also need to know how to change CDs in DOSBox.

Is there any particular issue you're having with the BaK music/soundblaster patch?
Post edited December 20, 2023 by Crimson_T
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Crimson_T: Regarding the Missing Temple in Antara, there's a work around.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/214067205-Betrayal-in-Antara?product=gog

I think the general consensus is that the game took advantage of being on multiple CDs and therefore the GOG merged install needs to have some files temporarily renamed for that section and then renamed back when done. I suppose they could have set it up as a multi CD, but then people would also need to know how to change CDs in DOSBox.

Is there any particular issue you're having with the BaK music/soundblaster patch?
Yeah I had seen the workaround for BiA before, would just be nice to have it fixed and not have to go through that saving, renaming, playing, saving, renaming routine every time you want to go to that temple (Remember, temples are good for more than just that particular quest, at least I think they were similar to BaK temples in that you could get info, blessings, and sometimes other quests at them).

As for the sound, no, not any particular issue, I'm just unable to understand the instructions. And again, this is an indictment of me, not the OP. It's apparent that others followed these instructions and got it to work as evidenced by the comments in this thread. But I don't know enough about this stuff to feel comfortable about doing things like this unless I'm absolutely 100% sure I am doing it right. And I was getting confused in the first two paragraphs here lol. Sometimes I feel like the old Led Zeppelin song "Dazed and Confused" was written about me. lol
Post edited December 20, 2023 by OldFatGuy