Comments - Laundry_Hamper

Installing ffmpeg:

To install it properly, you need to add the bin folder as an environment variable to your system's PATH. Extract the whole ffmpeg folder in that archive to somewhere sensible (such as C:/Program Files/ffmpeg/), go to it in an explorer window, hold shift and right-click the bin folder. Click "copy as path". Press Win+R, type SystemPropertiesAdvanced, press enter. System Properties should open on the right page. Click Environment Variables and it'll open a new window. There, under "user variables", select Path, and click the Edit button. In the next window, click New, and paste in the address of the bin folder. Click OK. Now regardless of what directory a command prompt window is pointed at, if you try to run an ffmpeg command, it'll know where the .exe is and it'll work.

...In the GOG release, why is "10.mp3" the title track? A mystery for the ages.

For anyone using Windows who's got the game off GOG and wants its music to work in this remake:

1. Download a build of ffmpeg (from the links under "Get packages and executables" at the website's download page, Ffmpeg.org - if you get gyan.dev's, downloads are faster from their github mirror than those hosted on their own site).

2. Copy ffmpeg.exe from the /ffmpeg/bin/ folder in the archive you just downloaded directly into the GOG installation's /Powerslide/music/ folder. Alternatively, if you want, you can install ffmpeg system-wide. I'll add instructions for this in a reply.

3. Make a batch file in /Powerslide/music/: in an explorer window, go to that folder, right-click some blank space, go to New, then click text document. Rename the new file, changing its extension from ".txt" to ".bat". You will need file extensions to be visible to do this, to set this there's a checkbox in the "view" tab at the top of the explorer window.

4. Right-click the .bat file, click Edit, a notepad window will open. Paste in the following two lines:

FOR /F "tokens=*" %%G IN ('dir /b *.mp3') DO ffmpeg -i "%%G" "track_%%~nG.ogg"

REN track_10.ogg track_0.ogg

5. Press Ctrl+S to save the file, close the notepad window, and then run the .bat file by double-clicking it. A terminal window will open and ffmpeg will convert the mp3s to ogg vorbis (the original .mp3 files won't be changed or deleted) and the new files will be renamed to suit the remake, it shouldn't take long.

6. Cut and paste the new .ogg files into the same folder as the PowerslideRemake.exe and the .pf files. If trying to move .ogg files makes explorer hang for you, click Start, then Settings, then Apps. Uninstall "Web Media Extensions", blame Microsoft, and try moving the files again.

Done.