How I Replaced the Music in LEGO Island 

11:28 “I figured since it’s 2019 and I’m running the game off an SSD it might just work” Yeah ok there Todd Howard

When I saw the title I just assumed you put the recovered tracks into the game by just drag and dropping them... the amount of dedication and effort is commendable, this is amazing!

Matt: runs game off ssd Game: *"WHOOPS! YOU HAVE TO PUT THE CD IN THE COMPUTER!"*

16:17 why do I actually like this skipping? It makes a cool transition.

You should insert the GTA 3 radio into the lego one.

5:00 "ok! That's not music!" I think we have different tastes in music because THAT IS MY JAMMMM

20:25 I only just now noticed that the tools in the background spell out Toy :D It's always fantastic how much things go unnoticed when playing something.

"this game is officially old enough to drink now" *germans laughing in 16 year old*

*I quickly whipped up a C# Script* [*Shows Many Lines of Code*]

i can't just lurk on a video as brilliant as this. Freaking breathtaking & great job!

Every once in a while I have to come back and rewatch this video. It never gets old.

8:33 "Helllo-*chkk-SHH-A A A A A-brrr*-oo! hol-*WHOSHH-RRRR*-a! Wilcom-(more earrape cut by Matt)

1:41 calm music while A LEGO MAN JUST LOST THEIR HEAD AND DIED mmmmmm so calm music

"whoops you have to put the cd in your computer"

young Markiplier

Imagine this: Someone putting into a copy of Lego Island a high quality rip of Africa but the lyrics are replaced with that of Never Gonna Give You Up. The (B)Rick(ster's) Revenge.

This will blow up in the coming months, just let the algorithm do its thing...

Druaga1 just did a video on this game, it's nice to see more about it.

why didn’t the Lego island developers just save the music as 44.1kh 2-bit? Smh my head..

6:55 Windows 10 bg, Windows vista taskbar, and Windows 8 window... What a scene.

We need a rom that is just the version that plays Africa

4:59 I completely lost it when I heard the distorted audio Good to see my sense of humor is still as immature as ever.

11:35 That timing how it crashed and became silent was perfect at that short amount of time.

9:10 I too quickly build 700 lines of code that simulates 1990 CD drivers. I too am an average coder.

I've watched a few videos about people messing with old video game music files (my favorite being one about two songs in StarTropics having audio errors), but honestly, this video is the only one I've seen that made me somewhat understand how old music was stored and played. Every other video has me rather confused. I want to thank you for your visuals and explanations to help a novice like me understand.

omg how does this have so few views, so entertaining!

This was over 3 YEARS before you even decompiled the game? God, you're good at this

5:52 My favorite thing about this is-as you said- the songs technically take the same amount of storage due to lower bit-depth vs the higher quality; but the fact that they had an 8 bit 22khz version of all the songs left ingame easily means the music could've taken the same amount of storage as if they had just used 16 bit 22khz in the first place. Maybe it's another one of those "temp things to be fixed later" that never actually ended up being changed due to Mindscape firing everyone.

Oh my gosh... it has happened! Thank you SO much. I tried figuring this out long ago but with a much different idea and approach. Now looking back, it would have never worked. Anyways, I love this video a lot. Your humor adds a nice touch to the entire presentation. Subscriber earned! Keep up the good work. -Henry

This video is amazing. I love Lego Island and I love in-depth breakdowns like this. I'm definitely going to check out that link to more technical info about the game and I'll probably spend part of this weekend reinstalling the game and giving Lego Island Rebuilder a shot.

3:17 _Disney Lawyers_ : We actually ... own the *whole video*

At least now you can say that you’ve done this BIT BY BIT

If I heard any of these songs in isolation, it would drive me crazy being unable to figure out where they were from, or why they'd be so utterly familiar and nostalgic to me.

Never shat myself harder that I have at 5:00 Never maxing out earphone volume again

"OOH who lives in a pineapple under the sea", "Lego Island master tapes"

0:18 **88 MILES PER HOUR**

3:37 "who lives in a pineapple under the sea?" "plea charging" - my ripoff headphones

12:13 music.exe has stoped working

5:45 His lego body was flat for a few seconds

“Dude come here! I got LEGO island!” “Woah! It looks like 88 miles per hour!”

I thought this was a Druaga1 video, still great tho

A lot of respect for all the work you've done to create this (awesome) video! Kind of genius how the developers coped with this technical limitation of that era.

This video pops up so much for me that it's become my comfort video

Slowly but surely you are remastering one of my favorite childhood games...please continue this work it is appreciated.

damn he really using visual studio with light theme... smh my head

16:30 You can see the trees change models

13:46 the "Eureka Effect" in action

I tend to come back to this video every once in a while and it truly never fails to cheer me up. It's weird, but whenever I feel unmotivated for work, I enjoy watching you work out the file format of Lego Island :D Thank you so much for this video!

This is awesome! I remember hearing that the original code and music were lost in the houseboat sinking incident. Cool to hear that the part about the music being lost was at least fortunately wrong. Thanks for your dedication to this absolutely quirky gem of mid-late 90's computer gaming history!

we need a hd remaster of the textures now.

This is incredible stuff. I feel like I've learned more about efficient programming from this than I did from my C class in high school that was run by a guy whose job used to be all about rewriting other people's code to be more efficient. He often had size and length limits on the code we could turn in and he wouldn't accept the assignment if it was a single byte over the limit. Now I think I understand why.

3:08 WOW UR A COMEDIAN MATT

The interleaved animation and audio reminds me of the CD-i format.

Next get higher quality models and textures and sprites

I don't even play this game but this is really cool, I love seeing old games being picked apart and modded.

I'm glad people are still making videos on Lego Island, that game was my childhood. Very interesting to see how music was used in games back in the day. Great video!

This was for some reason the most interesting, fun, and enjoyable video that i have watched all f***ing day, and although i know my way around a .wav file, watching you just casually stroll threw hexadecimal information and spewing straight fire knowledge blew my mind!, i know it does matter but you got another sub under you belt and bravo! that was really really amazing, and now im off to add all-star to LEGO Island

What a journey that was. Thank you Matt, very cool

Wow, this is one of my favorite childhood games. I would have never thought I'd find something so technical about it on RU-vid!

Holy moly. I love how persistent you were to get it working. An absolutely joy to watch this video!

Imagine *”mother love me long time”* as the music in this game..

3:30 S T R E T C H

I've watched this too many times but 3:37 still makes me laugh every time. On a serious note, this is a really interesting project, great work.

Loved the video and the realization that you'd need to repack the entire si file given what adding more data would do. Legit giving giving Lego Island a second life with all the uploads and shared code for the modern machine.

2:14 it feels like I cleaned the nostalgia out of my ears. 🤣🤣🤣 But it is nice to hear the cleaner versions though.

9:22 - It seems that LEGO Island also blesses the rains down on Africa. XD

Now the real question is.... can we add hd textures to the game?

16:23 that's just the remix

Lego Island. An absolute classic from my childhood! I actually went and re-downloaded Lego Island just to play around with this Rebuilder tool you made. I can’t say that the first thing I did was set the jukebox songs to some really bizarre, unfitting songs. 😂 Also, loved the informative video!

20:28 I don't know why, but I find it interesting to see how the video wasn't aligned with the "screen" here and that it has graphics under it.

My God, after seeing all your effort and resourcefulness, I dare not call myself a developer anymore

Just discovered this channel and omg, I loved this game! Though I never really played it much, just enjoyed it because it was Lego! Still a blast from the past and I still have the CD

oh god, working with riff files at the byte level. every few years, i take on some hobby project or other that requires me to refamiliarize myself with the riff file structure and write some reading and/or writing code for it pretty much from scratch 😅 you've done some fantastic work here!😃

I can't emphasize how much this game meant to me as a kid - to this day I occasionally listen to the soundtrack when I'm real drunk (I've even been in contact with a few people who worked on the music, just for the hell of it.) To see you made Lego Island Rebuilder is just way too cool, dude. First video of yours I'm seeing and I like it.

Dude, this was phenomenal. Thanks for the nostalgia trip and the incredibly deep and nerdy explanation of the game's music and your methods for altering it. I really need to learn to use a hex editor...

you’re channel is very underrated. i never played lego island and yet i loved learning so much! you’re an inspiration bro keep it up

my fave game when i was a kid this is amazing

I legit cried when you popped up hex editor, the bane of my existence

You are absolutely incredible. I love this channel so much. It has a perfect blend of all of my interests. Programming, reverse engineering, hardware, nostalgic stuff... this channel is a goldmine.

Incredible work man, what fight that was to figure it out. Take solace in the fact that this video still entertains and inspires 3 years later.

I’ve never even played the game and this was so interesting! Great job!

3:37 Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea! The Lego Island Soundtrack Master Tapes. *Shows VHS tapes instead of reel to reel tapes!*

5:40 - The change in the audio format from 16-bit 11kHz to 8-bit 22kHz is increasing the frequency range at the cost of added noise floor and possible distortion in quiet sounds. The latter would probably best work in very loud and bright tracks, while the former would be perfect for softer, more dynamic and mellower ones. I suppose they have ended up having both versions in the game to have the option to choose per-track at any point. They didn't save that much storage, but they are still saving the data throughput needed to play the audio back. Since the game shipped on a CD, they probably had enough space for this and then some, but the drive read speed (as you mentioned) or the CPU cycles needed to process and pass the audio to the soundcard were probably limitations that forced the suboptimal quality. EDIT: 8:46 Oh, you mention the CD speed limit :D Yeah, 1x CD-ROM drive is exactly the speed you need to read 44.1 kHz stereo 16-bit PCM audio. So reducing the music to 1/4 of the bandwidth, leaves room for other things. Otherwise the game might have required a 4x drive or something.

8:33 I like how it isn't even edited so it doesn't destroy your ears, it's edited so it doesn't destroy your *life.*

6:21 "Bus if the music is just uncompressed PCM, can't you just swap it out with new PCM data? You would think so." Yup, I was thinking that precise thought and I know what PCM means

I grew up with this game but my system was wayyyy too slow to handle it. I think my sound card was the only piece of hardware that didn't have a stroke; so thankfully I'll never forget the main menu song... "Leh Leh Leh Lego" ahhh nostalgia....lol.

I’ve watched this at least 12 times now. I haven’t gotten bored of it.

LEGO island is one of the oldest games I have memory of playing, blew my mind as a 4 year old, love that you also have a passion for this game

2:05 me hears in-game version: eh me hears studio tape version: O

I have absolutely no interest in doing something like this. The video started playing by accident. And I watched the entire thing! The amount of effort you dedicated to this is amazing. As is your ability to take something like this seem so fascinating to me. Well done!

Never played this game myself, but what you did is just AWESOME! Not only you achieved your goal, you made a tool for anybody. I salute you, sir! Thank you for everything that you are doing!

You're deductive reasoning is brilliant! Love your content and look forward to more!

1:52 i prefer the muffle, its more nostalgic tbh

"Ackshually it's not low quality heavily compressed audio, it's what I like to call lo-fi"

Amazing find. Glad you are the first to find this. I have heard other games crashing, animations stopping, and music changing to unused tracks because of loop coding.

As soon as it got to the fixed music transition my video buffered, awesome video MattKC glad I found this channel

I have so much nostalgia for this game

Very interesting video, I remember playing this game a LOOOONG time ago, but it would always crash the PC whenever it got to particular parts in the game randomly for no reason, just blue screen gone, restart the game again and still crashes. Nice to know there's ways to mod the game with better sounds of higher quality.

Finally decided to watch this video after it being recommended it to me for 4 years straight

Was really nice to hear that old music again, its been lurking in the back of my mind!