Getting Opera to work in HOMM2

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Getting Opera to work in HOMM2

Unread postby Old_Man » 15 Oct 2008, 08:04

Hello. I am wondering if any of you know how to get the Opera music from the HOMM2 Gold Disc to be able to work on my machine. I have a Windows XP OS. None of the other specs really need to be said since it hasn't worked even on the older machine that we had that had a Soundblaster Awe32 sound card in it. I like the MIDI music as it is, but I have never really heard the Opera music in the game and it really would be nice to hear it.

Do any of you know how to get it to work on an XP machine?
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Unread postby Metathron » 15 Oct 2008, 09:42

No. :(
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Unread postby Kristo » 15 Oct 2008, 11:40

Here are two things you can try. First, try playing the CD in a music player to make sure you actually have the opera music on the disc. If so, make sure you have opera music enabled in the game options. Let us know how that goes and then we can try other things.
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Unread postby Darmani » 15 Oct 2008, 17:49

For a long time I had a similar problem. I have a DVD/CD drive and a CD drive/burner, and, since HoMM II is a CD, I would always play it from the CD drive.

Then one day I played it with the Dark Messiah soundtrack, and heard its music play during HoMM. I started playing HoMM from the DVD/CD drive, and it fixed the opera problem.

So, in summary: try switching drives
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Unread postby Muszka » 15 Oct 2008, 17:59

And what if we don't have alternate drives? :)
BTW, for me never worked, but I cared little about opera music anyhow.
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Unread postby UndeadHalfOrc » 16 Oct 2008, 00:36

I use XP and it works just fine for me.

I don't use Gold version though... Price of Loyalty.
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Try DOSbox

Unread postby archcorenth » 03 Nov 2008, 22:12

The game works great for me, but if it doesn't with whatever soundcard you have, you might try DOSbox to emulate Soundblaster.

Some budget versions of the game, and direct to drive version don't include CD audio.
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Unread postby Old_Man » 13 Nov 2008, 12:26

Hmm, do you think if I set the game to work in Compatibility Mode that it might work? I could use DosBox but I really couldn't be bothered. I have another machine that has Windows 98 so I might try that (plus it has an old sound card in it which is sound blaster compatible).

It's just really strange that it doesn't work though.
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Unread postby ruXxar » 14 Nov 2008, 11:21

Try the fix I posted in the FAQ(scroll down)
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