I need some ff7 aid

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Not so long ago, I posted that my dog ripped up my ff7 installation cd. Whether you believe me or not, I beg of someone a favor. I need a copy of the yamaha xg synthesizer driver which was included on the disc. If you need proof of my previous ownage I will gladly provide a picture of myself with the three remaining discs inside the case. However, at this time I only have one of the discs because my friend is borrowing the case containing two of the discs. If you are willing to wait a bit for the picture, then it will take a week or so.

All I am asking for is the synthesizer driver, nothing more. Whether you think I'm trying to con you into a piracy scam, please just recognize that I'm just asking for help.
 
I'll put it up for you this afternoon, if no one else does first.
 
I'll put it in my web space and PM your a direct link.  Beginning the upload now, but my upload speed is real slow and I'm uploading some stuff to other people (P2P file sharing)... so... I'll PM you when its done.
 
I gots a faster, better, (and more importantly), a relatively free idea that should work better than the S-YXG70.

The web site of this guy known on the VGMusic Forums as "Tony Thai" has the Full (non shareware) version available of the S-YXG100 and S-YXG50 available for download in a small corner of his site.

The site's main function is NOT warez, as far as I know, he mainly has his latest MIDI and mp3 compositions there, most of the MIDI's are XG, hence he decided to upload the install program for it.

So, to keep it a little general, I'll link to the main page of the site, which does not have direct links to the program or any other programs for that matter, so I don't know if that is still considered a "Warez" link.

Tony Thai's page is here.  Last I checked, the "miscellaneous" link on his page should lead you to the page containing the link to the download.

I hope I'm not crossing the line here, though.

And, in regards to the funtionality of the S-YXG100 in FF7, I've done tests about half a year ago with the Shareware version of it in-game, the only real differences is that it uses the XG MIDI data setting instead of the General MIDI data setting in the config.
 
Thanks you guys  :)

except..why does the yamaha xg softsynth lag so much when loading songs? is there a way to counter this?
 
Cool.

I really, really want a Win2k/XP version of the Yamaha Soft Synth, heh...  I haven't tried the S-YXG100 yet though, maybe I'll be lucky and it'll work.  Probably not, dangit.

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Oh, he says the S-YXG50 works in Windows 2000... gonna try it.

Is the S-YXG100 really better?  It's less than half the size of the S-YXG50.
 
Faster response time in FF7 compared to when I use the S-YXG70 on the same card.

Is that good enough for you?  Seriously, it actually is in the next class of XG synth above the class my XG hardware is classified as.
 
Problem:
I had the SXG50 (it came with my card), and I could select to have 512 simultaneous voices. With the SXG100 I only have 256. That, and I can't access the plugins at all! What's wrong with it?
 
512 voices?!  WTF?!

XG hardware of that class can only do 128 at the most, so I don't see how softsynths could do that.

Second, do you by any chance use a K6 or K7 type processor?  Yamaha said that processors of those types (might have been just the k6, not sure), can't use the plugin functionality because the plugins depend heavily on FPU calculations, and they said the k6 (again, and maybe k7)'s FPU capabilities are not enough, because they are only as good as an MMX Pentium1 class chip, which is not fast enough.
 
I have a Duron 700  :D
Yes, yes, 512 voices. I don't know either, but it had it selectable (my sound card just keeps getting crazier, eh?)
 
Is there any kind of config file that I need to manually tweak?
 
I don't know, never thought of that.

You might have to look around.  I'm not sure which files exactly govern the synth's operation, but I would bet it would be more in the form of needing to tweak registry entries as well as looking for regular files.
 
The number of voices it lets you select could be waaaay off what you can actually use in reality ;)  The SB Live 1024 is so called because the softsynth on it lets you select up to 1024 voices. I've no idea how powerful a processor you actually /need/ to run that, though ... I guess it depends how much it can offload onto the Live DSP (answer: probably not enough). Besides, since when have you seen anything that would need 512 (or 1024) voices?
 
When have you ever seen anything that uses 256 voices?  I bet there is almost nothing that uses even 128.
 
Alright, so how do I fix my other problem? You know, the one with not being able to access the plugins? My processor is well capable of handling it ^^;
 
Ok, Idea. Could someone who's got the plugin pack installed zip up the plugin files and send them to me?
 
The S-YXG100plus (which is actually the version you've downloaded, if you choose the XG100 install), claims to come with the plugins with it.

Back when I was testing the S-YXG100 (the Shareware version, though), I also noticed that I could not access the VL plugins. In hindsight, though, I have traced the reason why to being that when I tested it, I was still using my old P1 233mhz MMX CPU, which couldn't handle the plugins.

So, basically, even if they were active, I'm not sure if I would know how to use them.

I do have a question for you KojiroTakenashi.  Is there any option that reads as "Sondius-XG"?  I think that is the tech that is used in VL plugins.
 
Well, I think it detects what you have during install, so if it misdetects what I have, the plugins won't even be extracted.
Nope, all I've got on the control panel is just the bare basics. No plugin
-anything-.
That's why I suggested just sending the plugins themselves, since I could manually install them.
 
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