_-Sorcerian-_: Hi! i've been trying The GL wrapper for HOMM2 and looks pretty nice so far! The problem is that i can't make the music work properly. At least not unless i set the game to run with the MIDI setting. But i wonder if i can make the stereo or stereo + Opera work. I tried downloading the winmm.dll in the OP, but nothing changed.
Also i noticed that there are some shorcut keys that doesn't work as indicated in the OP with the Wrapper. Specifically, the F2 key (show/ hide frame counter) and F9 (enable/disable aspect ratio).
Any suggestion about the music in Stereo/ Opera with HOMM2 would be welcome.
If you have Daemon Tools or some other image drive - I recommend you to delete buggy winmm.dll wrapper to force game play music from CD drive. If you don't have CD image with original game - download CDDA image (only CD audio without game itself) and play game with CD audio music.
On author's cloud drive you can find 7zip archives with
CDDA images for HoMM 1 and 2 (open CDDA subfolder)
- HEROES_1_CDDA.7z - for HoMM 1 - A Strategic Quest
- HEROES_2_CDDA.7z - for HoMM 2 - The Succession Wars
- HEROES_2X_CDDA.7z - for HoMM 2 - The Price of Loyalty
- HEROES_2XM_CDDA.7z - for HoMM 2 - Millennium Edition
As GOG release is GOLD, you need HEROES_2X_CDDA.7z (The Price of Loyalty). But you can also play game with HEROES_2_CDDA.7z (The Succession Wars) or HEROES_2XM_CDDA.7z (Millennium Edition). All have the same number of tracks, and all are capable with GOG release, differences only in castles songs. After mounting, game will find and play CD audio from your CD/Image drive
As for me, I like music from "The Succession Wars" more than "The Price of Loyalty"
In regards shortcuts. Seems like FPS counter was removed from patch, and aspect ratio shortcut was unbinded. You can redefine it by yourself, by opening config.ini file inside game folder via notepad -> find "AspectRatio=" and set it to 9 or else [0-12], e.g. AspectRatio=9 for F9 or AspectRatio=11 for F11