{"id":1438,"date":"2009-05-05T21:42:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/?p=1438"},"modified":"2009-05-05T21:42:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T04:42:26","slug":"orpheos-umv-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/orpheos-umv-format\/","title":{"rendered":"Orpheo’s UMV Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was contacted by someone who is performing an in-depth investigation of the data files for the game Are You Afraid of the Dark? The Tale of Orpheo’s Curse<\/em><\/a>. During the course of said investigation, he happened across my old Multimedia Exploration Journal entry<\/a> where I briefly inspected a CD-ROM copy that I had procured.<\/p>\n


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Oddly, my notes concluded that there was nothing interesting on the disc and that the contents would fit on a standard 5.25″ floppy disc. This might be a case where the game was unremarkable, multimedia-wise, for for its original floppy-based release but was upgraded for a subsequent CD-ROM release.<\/p>\n

He was able to work out the identities of many of the data files. These include AIFF, MID, and even tracker module formats like 669 (no, Colin, I don’t have that loader finished; to the rest of you… nevermind)<\/em>. He also found what we suspect is a FMV format called UMV and provided 3 samples. I looked at it briefly but nothing jumped out at me, save perhaps for some signed 8-bit PCM audio chunks. This would be unusual since most 8-bit PCM of the time was unsigned.<\/p>\n

I know you want to tinker with the samples, so here is the requisite MultimediaWiki page<\/a>, along with the 3 UMV samples<\/a>.<\/p>\n

No multimedia format is too obscure. That reminds me– I have a multimedia-looking file hanging around on one of my filesystems called CREDITS.NXL. Does that sound familiar? Did anyone reading this send that to me? What game is it from? I suspect I received it from a kind, curious contributor but was too lazy at the time to post details on the wiki.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A visitor found a multimedia format that I managed to miss<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-hacking"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1438\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}