Max Payne 2 music?

[RocShemp]

Anyone know where I can get the score to Max Payne 2? I really like the music but the official site only has the main theme available for download.

[nickdawgy]

The main song is called "Late Goodbye" by Poets of the Fall. I believe you can get it at their web site, or you can do the trick to extract it from the game directory. Go to Gamefaqs, and follow the directions to do that.

As for the rest of the music, I have no idea.

[khai]

It's a fairly easy process if you're familiar using DOS.

ADoomedMarine posted a quick and painless method with a small app over at the 3drealms forum.
http://forums.3drealms.com/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=382189&page=1&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=1

You can get the link to the app on that thread.. and here's the info on the readme so you see what you're getting yourself into

RiffExtractor, copyright 2003 by Alex 'ASk' Shapiro


The author is not to be held responsible for any damages/data loss that may occur as a result of using the following program. Use it at YOUR OWN RISK.

This program will extract music data/sound data/dialog data from max payne 2 .ras archive files
It's not really user friendly, but it does the job :)
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Usage:

For music extraction:

Put the file in the same directory as mp2_music.ras file

Run from command line as follows:

riffextractor.exe -m mp2_music.ras


For sound extraction:

Put the file in the same directory as mp2_sounds.ras file

Run from command line as follows:

riffextractor.exe -s mp2_sounds.ras

Note: there are ~650 sounds, so copying the sounds file to a separate dir is encouraged before extraction


For dialog extraction:

Put the file in the same directory as mp2_english.ras file

Run from command line as follows:

riffextractor.exe -d mp2_english.ras

Note: there are ~2200 sounds, so copying the dialogs file to a separate dir is encouraged before extraction
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The program will work for a while, outputting files named file###.wav into the directory.

These are the music/sound files. Some of them are empty (example - music's file002.wav) and will cause winamp to 'hang' when played. For reference, music's file003.wav will be the intro music of Max Payne 2.


Enjoy.


Not anything that makes you lose your hair. Just make sure you have about 160MB of free space. It'll turn the music into fake wav's, which you can turn into wma or mp3.

[RocShemp]

Thanks a whole bunch to both you and the poster that lead me back to my old thread. :)