Disabling the music?

Unfortunately, I'm using Windows XP so I can't adjust the volume for individual applications.

Maybe somebody knows of a program that let's you do that on Windows XP?

 

IndiVolume 3.7 should do the trick.

No, but seriously: if you turn off the "VAWE" volume, Cave Story be mute. But you cannot listen to any music that uses the vawemapper (VAW, MP3). So you'd need to go for MIDI files or anything that uses the internal synth, or listen to music directly from a CD.

 

IndiVolume 3.7 should do the trick.

No, but seriously: if you turn off the "VAWE" volume, Cave Story be mute. But you cannot listen to any music that uses the vawemapper (VAW, MP3). So you'd need to go for MIDI files or anything that uses the internal synth, or listen to music directly from a CD.

Don't you mean "WAVE" volume, and wavemapper, and .wav?

But yeah disabling wav would almost be completely useless since I think most ppl would want to listen to mp3s and such (and nearly all sound is generated as wav on PCs).

 

Don't you mean "WAVE" volume, and wavemapper, and .wav?

I'm fairly certain somebody corrected me when I actually tried having the w in front of the word "VAWE"... Drat, probably got my leg pulled. What the heck is the purpose of V, anyway?! W can do anything V can, and it'd remove tons of spelling errors.

 

D'oh! I just realized my previous post was useless, since you meant you wanted to listen to music on your computer. I thought you meant you wanted to listen to music like from a CD or something and I'm like, "well, duh, just turn off your computer volume and listen obviously". Silly me...

If I knew how TSC files are encoded, I could write a program to replace all instances of <CMUxxxx to <CMU0000, and then you can just reshack a blank org into the title screen music, but I don't. Though I do have the source code for CE, so I could maybe figure it out from that, except that I will fail a class if I don't get right back to work on this huge project when I get home.

Secretly, there's a piece of Windows called "svchost.exe" and if you open the music you want to play, terminate svchost.exe using the task manager, and then open cave story, the audio won't play in cave story (unfortunately, this includes sound effects, not just music, and terminating svchost.exe also causes some bizarre graphical glitches to Windows). Wow, I never thought I'd actually find a practical use for the horrible design of Windows...


The tl;dr version: replace all <CMU with <CMU0000 and change the title screen music to a blank org.

 

I'm fairly certain somebody corrected me when I actually tried having the w in front of the word "VAWE"... Drat, probably got my leg pulled. What the heck is the purpose of V, anyway?! W can do anything V can, and it'd remove tons of spelling errors.

In some languages (i.e. German, and apparently Swedish as well) this is true but in English, V and W are TOTALLY different, but I know in German they have like almost the exact same sound.

 

But why can't they just redesign V?

 

D'oh! I just realized my previous post was useless, since you meant you wanted to listen to music on your computer. I thought you meant you wanted to listen to music like from a CD or something and I'm like, "well, duh, just turn off your computer volume and listen obviously". Silly me...

If I knew how TSC files are encoded, I could write a program to replace all instances of <CMUxxxx to <CMU0000, and then you can just reshack a blank org into the title screen music, but I don't. Though I do have the source code for CE, so I could maybe figure it out from that, except that I will fail a class if I don't get right back to work on this huge project when I get home.

Secretly, there's a piece of Windows called "svchost.exe" and if you open the music you want to play, terminate svchost.exe using the task manager, and then open cave story, the audio won't play in cave story (unfortunately, this includes sound effects, not just music, and terminating svchost.exe also causes some bizarre graphical glitches to Windows). Wow, I never thought I'd actually find a practical use for the horrible design of Windows...


The tl;dr version: replace all <CMU with <CMU0000 and change the title screen music to a blank org.

I've done something similar to this, except I replaced all the orgs in the game with null orgs, which saves a lot of script work. I think the guy who revived this though wanted no soundeffects either, so I don't have a solution for that (don't feel like replacing all the soundeffects). I could post a link to the afforementioned exe I made.

But why can't they just redesign V?

I don't really think you can expect people to change that, especially english speakers who are very used to it. It's not viable.