Having some trouble with radio mods

[bogaty]

Hey all. I recently reinstalled SHIV. I used to play quite regularly until a HD malfunction lost all my mods and data. Anyway, I reinstalled SHIV and added on the TMO 1.9 mod plus a few radio mods (KGMB, KHJ, and KNX stations). They don't seem to behave themselves like they did in the past though.

Now, if I try to listen to a station, it seems to take a long time with nothing but silence playing until one of the radio tracks loads up. When it does, it's always the same track and it doesn't seem to want to play most of the stuff listed in the events.ini

I've tried loading the mods with JSGME and directly into the radio folder, but I get the same result.

Is there a way to fiddle with the .ini files in order to get all the tracks to play?

Thanks

[fred8615]

Originally Posted by bogaty

Hey all. I recently reinstalled SHIV. I used to play quite regularly until a HD malfunction lost all my mods and data. Anyway, I reinstalled SHIV and added on the TMO 1.9 mod plus a few radio mods (KGMB, KHJ, and KNX stations). They don't seem to behave themselves like they did in the past though.

Now, if I try to listen to a station, it seems to take a long time with nothing but silence playing until one of the radio tracks loads up. When it does, it's always the same track and it doesn't seem to want to play most of the stuff listed in the events.ini

I've tried loading the mods with JSGME and directly into the radio folder, but I get the same result.

Is there a way to fiddle with the .ini files in order to get all the tracks to play?

Thanks

The silence before a program starts is because you either have no music installed, or installed in the wrong place. For KNX and KHJ, the music has to be extracted into the year (1941, 1942, 1943, 1944, 1945) folders inside the station folder. For KGMB, you extract into the KGMB folder.

As for the second problem, it sounds like you're saving a game, then restarting it and hearing the same program as the first time you played? If so, that's a bug/feature of SH4. If you save a game, then restart it later it'll replay all the programs from before. To deal with that issue, find and download the Radio Station Manager mod.

A couple of more notes: Don't use JSGME to install the radio mods. They aren't designed to use it (unless you have really old versions) and it won't install them properly. They also double the used hard drive space when using JSGME, which is why I dropped support for it. Just extract the stations directly into the "Radio" folder.

You mentioned programs not playing after the first ones. Programs are scripted to only play at certain game dates and times. They won't play until then. The RSM program I mentioned above will let you edit the events.ini file too if you want to, but it shouldn't be necessary.

If you still have any problems or questions, let me know.

[bogaty]

Thanks for the help.

I'll give the radiostationmod a whirl now.