Removing the music from SSF4

Mikester99 · February 24, 2012, 7:55pm

Hi guys, I play SSF4 on the pc, love the game but really getting bad nerves from the aweful music, any1 have a trick or two, about how to completly remove the music??

Ikagi-chan · February 24, 2012, 7:58pm

Should be simple enough. When you go boot up the game, go to “Options” and go under “Sound Settings” or whatever it’s called. You should be able to find volume controls for sound effects, character voices, and music. Turn the music volume all the way down and that should do it. You can then play Street Fighter without any music playing.

Mikester99 · February 24, 2012, 8:09pm

I´ve already turned down the music all the way down , BUT nope, its still there

Ikagi-chan · February 24, 2012, 8:25pm

Hmmm…Odd. That usually does the trick for me when I play AE on the 360. I’ll double check this when I get back home. I’ve got access to AE on the PC as well, so I’ll check it on both and make sure it isn’t a console exclusive thing for instance. It shouldn’t be, but hey, you can never be sure right? I’ll post back here with my findings unless someone beats me to the punch. :lol:

Ikagi-chan · February 25, 2012, 9:26am

Mikester99, I just checked on both the Xbox 360 version and on the PC and I stand corrected. You are right, even if you turn the BGM volume in the Options menu to 0, there is still just a tidbit of volume that remains. Sorry to say that in that case, I’m out of ideas. I’m not at all familiar with manipulating the PC game files to keep the music off and in the searches I did, I couldn’t find much on it, though my Google-fu might just be weak. Hopefully, someone can answer your question.

Rufus · February 25, 2012, 9:39am

If you get an mp3 of silence, you can play it as media on the Xbox and get the sound off that way.

Darksakul · February 25, 2012, 10:13am

Mute your TV

pootnannies · February 25, 2012, 10:32am

try the actual sf4 forums. there should be a mod thread for the pc versions and there are ways of replacing music/sfx/etc…

Mikester99 · February 25, 2012, 3:53pm

Thx guys, I tried myself to mess around with the BFM files, I tried to replace them and tried to remove the “main” and so on, but the game crashes. luckily I ofc. made a backup ;)… I´ll check around more today and make a post if I find anything, I used hours last night so I think I´ve tried most options

Icy_Black_Deep · February 25, 2012, 11:09pm

From a quick scan of the SSF4-for-PC modding thread the closest thing I found [for editing the music file to make it silent] was:

Found it yesterday. BTL_CMN.csb
To change the music you need to:
SFIV Audio Manager open a copy of the BTL_CMN.csb
Unpack it to a folder. Have your replacement in .adx format. Make a copy of it. Combine multiple adx to aax select the music AND the copy save it. Rename the aax file to Synth_s_bgm_43_loop etc. (both versions you have unpacked) Replace content with… (all the aax files for your new BTL_CMN.csb) Save. Use the new BTL_CMN.csb you have made.

After some trial and error I got it to work. I had to use 2 copies of the song in each aax that was replaced to keep it looping. If you only leave one song in the aax file it will play once and stop. Also the files in question have f and r in the filename, I assume for front and rear. I did not try to do without the rear sound by replacing with a nothing.adx. So this method is going to give you 4 songs in the file size, but hey it does work, and let’s you change and loop the versus results music. I will be releasing a sound pack soon.

dhoushi · February 26, 2012, 8:42am

What you are quoting was for versus results music edit. To remove all the music would take some effort as you would need to go through a fairly large chunk of files and repack them with an mp3 that has a few seconds of silence.

The vanilla wiki DOES have tutorials on changing/removing the bgm on the stage files. For some of the more intricate removal of music it would take some effort as you have to go through the .csb file and find which parts need to be changed then repacked.