Warcraft 2 BNE doesn't extract the sound effects

[sblatnick]

When I select my Battle Net Edition CD, it gets the music, but almost all of the ~/.stratugus/data.Wargus/sounds/ are nearly empty.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install
2. Click on the launcher icon
3. Select the disk
4. After extracting the contents, most of the wav files are missing. I was unable to find the missing audio files from using wartool on the install.exe.

Expected behavior I love the voices. It is part of the game's charm :-)

Desktop:

• OS: Linux Debian Bullseye/Sid
• Version 3.0.0-0~202012191004~ubuntu21.04.1

[timfel]

Can you launch "wargus" in a terminal, let the extraction run and upload the output here as a file?

[timfel]

(to let it re-extract you'll have to remove the already extracted data)

[sblatnick]

wargus.log

[timfel]

Thanks for the log. It's strange, the log shows all of the voices are extracted but it fails to load them during startup. I'll need to think about this

[InFerYes]

I'm having the same issue with the BNE. Music plays, but many sounds do not (selecting units, being attacked, ..).

[mooskagh]

I have the same issue. What seems to happen is.. wartool creates the directory GameSFX in the current directory, and extracts *.wav files there, then starts to process them and copy to ~/.stratugus/data.Wargus/sounds. However it expects them to be lowercase, but they are mixed case:

/t/mnt $ find GameSFX/
GameSFX/
GameSFX/Aleria
GameSFX/Aleria/Alyessr2.wav
GameSFX/Aleria/Alwhat1.wav
GameSFX/Aleria/Alpissd1.wav
GameSFX/Aleria/Alyessr3.wav
GameSFX/Aleria/Alpissd3.wav
GameSFX/Aleria/Alwhat3.wav
...

so it cannot copy most of them.

I tried to create a temporary FAT32 filesystem just to do installation, but it didn't help though..

[timfel]

@mooskagh that is helpful at least. weird that I'm not seeing the same issue on my ubuntu 20.04, but now i know what to fix