Extracting the sequence and samples from PSF by Xane123 at 5:23 PM EDT on June 3, 2017
I downloaded and like the PSFs of Mega Man 8, liking how unlike the PlayStation Mega Man X games it's sequenced, not rendered or whatever they did with the SEGA Saturn version.
However, I'd like to convert it into MIDI just so I'd be able to see the notes (the thing I like about sequenced music), especially for Rockman 8 Beta 1, with the placeholder music.
I was reading on some website VGMToolbox could do it, but when I dragged PSFs onto it when the PSF Data Finder was onscreen, it said it was extracting things but none appeared in the folder.
Is there a way to convert the PSFs into MIDI and soundfont files?
• I think the dummy stage music in Beta 1 sounds good and would probably like to try remaking it as it sounds like it's just a chord at different keys, nothing complex. • I swear I hear a Mega Man X2 sample in some of the placeholder songs (not the final). For example, in beta Frost Man's song here. Compare those high lead notes to the instruments during the intro of this song. • The stage select music in the beta sounds rendered, not sequenced, so it'd be nice to confirm it. All other songs sound louder and less muffled. Speaking of that, is there a way to know a PSF is even sequenced?
Drag the PSFs into the window or use File -> Open to browse them.
Then select each song in the "Collections" panel and right-click, "Save as MIDI and DLS" or "Save as MIDI and SoundFont 2" and, last but not least, select your destination folder.
If it didn't crash, there should be now a <songname>.mid and a <songname>.dls (or <songname>.sf2, depending on which you chose).
Success! by Xane123 at 11:49 AM EDT on June 4, 2017
It worked! I thought VGMTrans only handled DS music because that's all I used it for in the past, but now I know it works on PSFs as well! Thanks, StarWolf3000!
So, now I know the stage select music is technically "sequenced" but is just two samples, one of the background beat and one of the lead notes that start playing after the beat loops once. I knew that song sounded strange...