These are the Stone Age (Mesolithic/Paleolithic), Tool Age (Neolithic/Chalcolithic), Bronze Age and Iron Age. A major component of the game is the advancement through four ages. Each civilization has technologies unique to them, so that no civilization possesses all the technologies possible within the game. Twelve civilizations are available, each with individual sets of attributes, including a varying number of available technologies and units. Resources must also be preserved, as no new resources become available as the game progresses, meaning if you cut a tree down, the tree will not grow back. To ensure victory, the player must gather resources in order to pay for new units, buildings and more advanced technologies.
the Taunt folder in your Age of Empires II directory.Age of Empires Official Trailer (1997, Ensemble Microsoft)Īge of Empires requires the player to develop a civilization from a handful of hunter-gatherers to an expansive Iron Age empire. mp3 file to the following location:Ĭ:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\TauntC:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\TauntĬ:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Taunt
Unfortunately, changing the music volume in the options menu will not change the volume of the soundtrack (since it is a taunt file, after all), and it is a bit louder than the average villager's voice, but at least this "fix" is better than the usual 'home remedy' where you played the soundtrack from your media player and then quickly switched back to the game, right? (it would play all over your main menu, the victory/loss screen etc.) And with Windows Vista, 7 and 8 also requiring you to kill explorer.exe to prevent the weird colour bug, keeping your media player application open is even harder.ĪNYWAYS.long story short, remember that once the whole soundtrack has finished playing, hit enter again and type 50 again and it will start from the beginning once more. The soundtrack will start playing and it will stop when you exit the game and return to the main menu. Window, and there, type the number "50" (without the quotation marks) and hit enter again. You need to move this file into the /Taunt folder in your Age of Empires II main game directory, and then when you launch a game and you can see your villagers and town center, you hit the enter button to open up the chat Assign the resulting single file a number like you would for a custom taunt file.
The free program I recommend is WavePad Sound Editor - you just need to drag and drop the music files one after the other into the program's main window, then for each track, select everything, and cut and paste it into the first music track, that way creating a huge "combined" track, which you can then save in the default lossless. mp3 file (the conquerors soundtrack for example doesnt come bundled as a 30 minute audio track, but as multiple songs), then you will need a program to combine all of them into 1 track. wma files, so use a free audio converter to convert them to. If you didn't use Windows Media Player, skip to step 3.Ģ. I did this with both the AOK and AOC soundtracks. Use Windows Media Player or itunes to rip the soundtrack(s) from the game CD. If I am not mistaken, it is a 30 minute long music file.
a quick scan of your Aoe II CD should yield you the Age of Kings soundtrack).
This tutorial aims to fix this problem and allow you to (finally! after all these years!) once again be able to enjoy the full AoE experience, provided you have the soundtrack as an. Also, those of you that own the Collector's Edition will know that the game no longer requires a disc in the drive for you to be able to play, and thus, you won't be able to hear the background music at all. Most people nowadays have DVD drives, and these do not have this capability. The reason is that these soundtrack(s) were on the game CD, and older disc drives had the capacity to stream music from the CD while you were playing. =INTRODUCTION=Īs you know, it is a well known issue that the background music AOK and TC originally shipped with, doesn't work for many people. This article has been approved and can also be read at the University.