How to turn off the music.

[Selva]

Eventually, in any game, the music loop gets old. Even the games with the best themes need to have the sound be, shall we say, adjustable. That's why BGM volume is a standard. I can't find the controls for it on this one though. And I'm gonna have to quit playing because... Well... The music isn't bad. But it's not exactly in the same caliber as Mario or Morrowind, which I also end up turning off eventually. So... Can someone give me a clue? Or know where I can find a patch?

[SpaghettiLord1010]

If you're on Windows you can right-click in the bottom right onto the sound-icon and click on sound-mixer (with the game open) then you can adjust the volume of just the game and for example listen to your favorite playlist from the browser, spotify or whatever.

Hope this helps!

[Selva]

I would like to keep the (admittedly few) important sound cues that the actual sound effects from the game give. If possible. But that is a usable idea. Thanks.

[SpaghettiLord1010]

Yeah, I don't think I know a way to only have soundeffects with this method, you'd need like a mod or something or official settings :/

[Selva]

SpaghettiLord1010: Well, I appreciate the effort. Thanks.
The quest, however, goes on. 8)

[SpaghettiLord1010]

Originally posted by Selva:

SpaghettiLord1010: Well, I appreciate the effort. Thanks.
The quest, however, goes on. 8)

Waiiiit, wait wait wait, I was just thinking maybe I can mod that in, but you won't see what I cam around to find!

There's a folder called Resources in the games install directory. (Either go to where you installed Steam/SteamApps/common/1001 Spikes or right click on the game and click view files.)

Who would've guessed that it is such a easy fix, just go into that resources folder and under sounds/music and either replace the .ogg music files with some music you'd like to play (same filename and in ogg format - you can simply search e.g. mp3 to ogg converter online and you'll find a tool!) or simply cut them from the music folder up into the sounds folder, that way, you can simply put them back in when you want the music back, I've just tested to see if the game works fine without the music and I've had no issues, I have yet to try different music, it could be that that might give some problems regarding size or so, but I think it should work flawlessly.

Sorry that I didn't search into this earlier, but this way of saving all kinds of data (even levels n stuff) makes it very easy to mod, simply edit what you want :D

I might take some time and re-imagine some songs if I find some time, 'cause I love music, and I do agree that it gets rather repetetive, but I think, easiest would just be that you just remove the music from the music folder and you can pop in any song you want to play in the background, bam, free choice with soundeffects :D

I hope this helps!

P.S. if you're feeling bored of how the graphics look, you can just pull some images into GIMP and go to Color/Hue and Saturation and you can play around and like, e.g. make the lava purple or the greens more vibrant :D

Enjoy!

[Selva]

@ SpaghettiLord1010: That worked perfectly!!! Thank you very much!!!!!

[SpaghettiLord1010]

Always happy to help :D