Suikoden II Bug: War Theme #1 and #3 Do Not Play
In the North American version of Suikoden II, several of the Major Battles take place in silence. There are actually three musical compositions that Konami intended to play during these battles. The first song goes by the title
War Theme #2 - Battlefield without Light, and is familiar to anyone who has played any version of the game. The second is
War Theme #1, which is never played in the North American version. Likewise
War Theme #3 - Decisive Battle is never heard in the North American version.
Like many other bugs, this error was fixed for the European releases.
Cause
The cause of this is identical to the "
Annallee Bug", the songs are on the disc, but cannot be played because the CD info in the executable contains a channel/subheader number that was not encoded into the songs' sectors. Read the entry for Annallee's Song for more information. The entry for both War Themes are in the same array as Annallee's Song.
Fix
A one-byte change is required to modify the channel numbers in the CD Info array. In the European versions, it appears that Konami simply repacked the data, so that songs were encoded with the expected channel number.
GameShark Codes
War Theme #1 Plays
300ECFB7 0001
War Theme #3 Plays
300ECFAB 0001
Patch
See the Patch Files page for your version.