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Posted October 19, 2017
Welcome back to the family.


Mafia is now available DRM-free and only on GOG.com.
The action/adventure classic that you really shouldn't refuse, finally returns. Embark on a celebrated open-world thriller and follow Tommy Angelo's rise (or fall, depending on your perspective) to a perilous life of high-stakes crime in 1930s America. The city of Lost Heaven is your playground, as long as you don't let the police catch you in the act, wise guy.


NOTE: This rerelease of Mafia has an edited soundtrack and does not include any licensed music.
Posted October 19, 2017
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Kunovski: výborně! vítej doma :)

too bad the original Czech dubbing is missing...
Czech language included, among many others, but so far only in the off line installer, Galaxy installer with music is in the works.
See https://www.gog.com/forum/general/release_mafia_80944/post54
and https://www.gog.com/forum/mafia/does_it_include_czech_language/post2
Post edited October 19, 2017 by Tarhiel
Posted October 19, 2017
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Kristian: GOG won't let me buy this game: "You cannot proceed with your order because game Mafia is not allowed to be sold in your country of residence." This factually inaccurate, there are no legal restrictions on any games whatsoever here.
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Thiev: Could you open a Support ticket please? It will help us with pinpointing the source.
Done. I can hope it can be sorted out soon.
Posted October 19, 2017
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: All potential customers should have a clear answer as to what music, specifically, exactly, is included and excluded within GOGs phrase "the game's original soundtrack." Nobody other than GOG and the publisher knows what that phrase means. Therefore, it requires public clarification by way of much greater specificity.
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tfishell: It'd be nice but again it may be tough to get a response. However Thiev responded to a question about languages, so you may be in luck.

I believe the original musical score is still intact, but the soundtrack - radio music, basically music with lyrics - is not.
To clarify: by 'original music' we mean Mafia Orchestral Score composed by Vladimir Šimůnek
Posted October 19, 2017
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Well, it appears to be pretty simple to put the missing tracks back into the game as there are obvious dummy files in *Mafia\sounds\MUSIC: https://i.imgur.com/Mnt6lHg.png

Time to get to work! ;)
Post edited October 19, 2017 by ShadowOwl
Posted October 19, 2017
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mechmouse: Surely any authentic music from the 1930's would have left copyright by now?
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Grargar: Not necessarily, especially if the copyright is 70 years+author's death.
A quick search shows that anything post 1923 could still be copyrighted... Madness
Posted October 19, 2017
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Thiev: To clarify: by 'original music' we mean Mafia Orchestral Score composed by Vladimir Šimůnek
Thank you for the clarification.

If I'm understanding that statement correctly, then this release has way more music cut out of it than what many posters in this thread were speculating to be so. The game's been completely gutted IMO.
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Grargar: Not necessarily, especially if the copyright is 70 years+author's death.
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mechmouse: A quick search shows that anything post 1923 could still be copyrighted... Madness
You can thank a certain anthropomorphic mouse for that.
Posted October 19, 2017
Can't wait to play Vietcong games again.
Even if they get music cut too....
Or Myth games...
Posted October 19, 2017
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Thiev: To clarify: by 'original music' we mean Mafia Orchestral Score composed by Vladimir Šimůnek
Well, why not replace the phrase 'the game's original soundtrack' with the latter part then?
Posted October 19, 2017
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Vythonaut: The easiest way to get the music back (sort of), is to have a cd/vinyl/playlist playing alongside the game.
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: [...] The bottom line is that only way to have the proper Mafia experience is with all the music in the game functioning exactly as the original designers told it to.
I don't disagree with that; the best experience may only be the original experience as it was intended by the devs, but since there isn't a way to revert the changes (at least yet), what's better than a jazz album of that period (Ellington, Parker, Miller, Armstrong, Basie, Henderson, Goodman, Gillespie and many others) to play along the game?
Posted October 19, 2017
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Thiev: To clarify: by 'original music' we mean Mafia Orchestral Score composed by Vladimir Šimůnek
Thank you Thiev. :)

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Ancient-Red-Dragon: Thank you for the clarification.

If I'm understanding that statement correctly, then this release has way more music cut out of it than what many posters in this thread were speculating to be so. The game's been completely gutted IMO.
I can understand that you and others are very unhappy, but that's just the way it is. I hope this unhappiness will be put towards making a fanmade patch that lets people put in their own music, at least for the radio.
Post edited October 19, 2017 by tfishell
Posted October 19, 2017
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jozinho: But am I the only one out here who actually enjoyed the race?
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Vythonaut: That makes two of us; actually, i found it to be very simplistic in terms of physics (maybe i've been spoiled by Grand Prix Legends [1998, Papyrus], a racing sim that i already have put hundreds--if not thousands--of hours before Mafia was released back then) but nevertheless, i enjoyed the race due to the fact that it was the only game that featured a race with 1930's cars back then.
Exactly! Where else can you race those kinds of cars? I'd love a sim focusing on that. Gentlemen in scarves and goggles and everything.
Posted October 19, 2017
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Ancient-Red-Dragon: [...] The bottom line is that only way to have the proper Mafia experience is with all the music in the game functioning exactly as the original designers told it to.
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Vythonaut: I don't disagree with that; the best experience may only be the original experience as it was intended by the devs, but since there isn't a way to revert the changes (at least yet), what's better than a jazz album of that period (Ellington, Parker, Miller, Armstrong, Basie, Henderson, Goodman, Gillespie and many others) to play along the game?
Again, this is the music of the game mainly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1j8VLPasO0
Posted October 19, 2017
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mechmouse: A quick search shows that anything post 1923 could still be copyrighted... Madness
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tremere110: You can thank a certain anthropomorphic mouse for that.
I know Danger mouse can be such a prick sometimes.


I remember a few years back they where reviewing the UK copyright laws and the mucians body got the multi-millionaire Cliff Richard to to be a spokes person. He was saying his early works where about to expire from copyright and that the income from his previous works will be his pension. His pension shoul dbe his pension, plus the millions he's earned over 50+ years.

The only good thing to come from X-Factor was their drivel of the moment Christmas release drove Cliff Richard into not releasing his Annual themed Drivel.
Posted October 19, 2017
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GOG.com: NOTE: Mafia does not contain any licensed music - only the game's original soundtrack.
Good that I still have the disc here somewhere...
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