New Sound Mod for Aces of the Deep!

Andreas86 · 01-19-22, 09:30 AM

Aces Of The Deep: Sound and Music Mod 1.0
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This is a mod for Dynamix' Aces of the Deep which will change almost all sounds in the game. I have tried my best at making the game more immersive and realistic, and done a lot of work sourcing good samples, editing, layering, editing pitches, and mixing together the various speech and effect samples. At the same time I wanted to keep them clean and not colored by movie background music or very recognizeable long passages from popular movies. A few stock sounds are still used but I have either edited them or layered them with other sounds. The few sounds not changed are not included, like the ricochet and aircraft fly-by sound as I found they were good enough. I hope these new sounds will greatly enhance your experience of Aces of the Deep, and that the new depth charges will rattle your cage a bit!

Being a hobby musician as well as retro gaming fan, I have made an original new main theme for Aces of the Deep in my old DOS program "Sequencer Plus Gold". There are files included for SoundBlaster and Roland MT-32. You can easily use MT-32 in DOSBox X or DOSBox SVN-Daum, which I personally use. But be sure to choose MPU-401 in the AOTD sound setup and not MT-32. The main theme song in AOTD is called "Shell__l.hmp". Just place either of the music files in your "Sound" directory. If you don't like it just delete it and AOTD will look for the main theme on the CD as usual.

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Installation: Just copy all sound and music files to your AOD\SOUND\ directory.

(There are two different "Los!" samples, named "5GC.RAW" and"5GC_ALT.RAW". Decide for yourself which one you prefer, and rename accordingly. Also, there is an alternative ASDIC sound called SONARRET_ALT.RAW. Rename to SONARRET.RAW of you want to check it out.)

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Speech sources: Mostly Silent Hunter II samples, some samples were borrowed from "Thomsen's Sound Pack" found on Subsim.com. Some were also found in the movie "Das Letzte Uboot".

FX sources: Silent Hunter II, "Das Letzte Uboot" (good movie with many really good sound effects ready for harvesting!), "Das Boot", a few samples borrowed from the mod GWX3.

Music sources: "No Return" theme created by myself. Â©2022.

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Thanks to John Pancoast for testing the mod, suggestions and sending me sound and music files, many of which I hope to include in later editions!

Download link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eOd...ew?usp=sharing

Music demos
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Sound Blaster:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZ-...ew?usp=sharing

MT-32:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HrW...ew?usp=sharing

List of files included:

01-19-22, 09:30 AM	#1
Andreas86 Engineer Join Date: Jan 2019 Posts: 213 Downloads: 44 Uploads: 1	New Sound Mod for Aces of the Deep! Aces Of The Deep: Sound and Music Mod 1.0 ----------------------------------------- This is a mod for Dynamix' Aces of the Deep which will change almost all sounds in the game. I have tried my best at making the game more immersive and realistic, and done a lot of work sourcing good samples, editing, layering, editing pitches, and mixing together the various speech and effect samples. At the same time I wanted to keep them clean and not colored by movie background music or very recognizeable long passages from popular movies. A few stock sounds are still used but I have either edited them or layered them with other sounds. The few sounds not changed are not included, like the ricochet and aircraft fly-by sound as I found they were good enough. I hope these new sounds will greatly enhance your experience of Aces of the Deep, and that the new depth charges will rattle your cage a bit! Being a hobby musician as well as retro gaming fan, I have made an original new main theme for Aces of the Deep in my old DOS program "Sequencer Plus Gold". There are files included for SoundBlaster and Roland MT-32. You can easily use MT-32 in DOSBox X or DOSBox SVN-Daum, which I personally use. But be sure to choose MPU-401 in the AOTD sound setup and not MT-32. The main theme song in AOTD is called "Shell__l.hmp". Just place either of the music files in your "Sound" directory. If you don't like it just delete it and AOTD will look for the main theme on the CD as usual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Installation: Just copy all sound and music files to your AOD\SOUND\ directory. (There are two different "Los!" samples, named "5GC.RAW" and"5GC_ALT.RAW". Decide for yourself which one you prefer, and rename accordingly. Also, there is an alternative ASDIC sound called SONARRET_ALT.RAW. Rename to SONARRET.RAW of you want to check it out.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Speech sources: Mostly Silent Hunter II samples, some samples were borrowed from "Thomsen's Sound Pack" found on Subsim.com. Some were also found in the movie "Das Letzte Uboot". FX sources: Silent Hunter II, "Das Letzte Uboot" (good movie with many really good sound effects ready for harvesting!), "Das Boot", a few samples borrowed from the mod GWX3. Music sources: "No Return" theme created by myself. Â©2022. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thanks to John Pancoast for testing the mod, suggestions and sending me sound and music files, many of which I hope to include in later editions! Download link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eOd...ew?usp=sharing Music demos -------------- Sound Blaster: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CZ-...ew?usp=sharing MT-32: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HrW...ew?usp=sharing List of files included: