file formats...

[bat]

i downloaded sgdk pre... and the  *.sg2 is a band-in-a-box format already. i don't know if you care or if it's  too late... 

[bluemonkmn]

According to fileext.com, the .sg2 extension is not known to be used by any other product.  What does your machine say a .SG2 file is?  Band-in-a-box doesn't say much except maybe what the icon looks like.  Any more information?

[bat]

well... i have band-in-a-box, and it thinks a *.sg2 is a band-in-a-box song...

[sam]

ugh...ive never downloaded or, even heard of Band-in-a-box but, are you sure it's not sg2.(band in a box file extension)?

[bat]

I'm SURE!!!!
i really don't mind just chaning wut program opens the file... i don't use band-in-box much

[bluemonkmn]

Looks like filext.com didn't catch that one.  But with only 46,656 possibilities (if you confine yourself to 3 characters A-Z, 0-9, which I guess you don't have to any more) there are bound to be some collisions in file extensions with all the zillions of programs and data formats that are out there.  MP2, for example, is sometimes used for MPEG files (I think) and sometimes for Heroes of Might and Magic 2 map files.  The most overused extension might be ".map" which is used for at least 31 different file formats!

Think I should switch to using .SGDK2 as a file extension?

[durnurd]

or perhaps .cfg.  I mean, perhaps that's the most overused, not that you should switch to using it as an SGDK2 file extension.

[billybob884]

Well, if it gets to be too much of a problem, maybe bluemonk could jsut add a second extension, like *.SGDK2 as a secondary save format, and make it exactly the same. Then you could just choose that when you save.

[durnurd]

That would just be more confusing, I think.

[bat]

me like secondary!!!

[bluemonkmn]

Why not just have one called ".SGDK2"?

[Jam0864]

i dont think it really matters that its being used by band in a box but if its not too much work that secondary thing could be a good option or you could change the one you already have to SGDK2

[durnurd]

I'd like to point out that no other program I've ever worked with in history has had more than one file extension for the same filetype, and it would just be confusing to have that with this program.

[bat]

new trend! 

[Jam0864]

I'd like to point out that no other program I've ever worked with in history has had more than one file extension for the same filetype, and it would just be confusing to have that with this program.

in nero wave editor you can save edited music files as mp3, wav, wave, aif, mp4, wma or vqf. thats a lot of extensions