The "test.exe" progam part of VGMstream is a command-line tool. In other words, you need to open a command prompt (on Windows, you can hit your "start" key, and the "R" key at the same time, which will bring up the "run" command. Type "cmd" into the text box, hit enter, and that will bring up the command prompt) and run "test.exe" from the command prompt.
It's not crashing. It's running perfectly normal. If you read the readme file that it comes with, it will tell you that you need to run "test.exe" with certain arguments/parameters for it to work. Dragging+dropping a file onto "test.exe" doesn't provide any of these parameters, and thus the program doesn't know what it is you're trying to do. It does display an error message, but you never see it, because the window closes, because "test.exe" closes.
The other option (and often easier option, depending on your familiarity with the command prompt) is to install foobar2000, and the necessary component to play GENH files (this component will also enable you to convert the GENH files to MP3, WAV, OGG, FLAC, etc.), or to install Winamp, and use the plugin contained with the "test.exe" application (see the included readme on how to install the plugin for Winamp).
While I prefer Winamp, I would suggest installing foobar2000. It's much easier to convert from a VGMstream supported format, to something else from fb2k (or so I've heard). Also, it's often easier to install components in fb2k (it has a built in component installer, whereas Winamp doesn't have that). And to top it off, VGMstream in fb2k has had more development attention than the Winamp version ( :( ).
If you want to avoid installing a media player application (aka, you don't want to install fb2k or Winamp), then learn how to use the command prompt (the commands you need are "change directory" ( "cd" ) and possibly "list files in the current directory" ( "dir" )). It's not as hard as you may think. Lots of applications still use it today. It's just that most of them *also* have a GUI (Graphical User Interface) component/frontend. No one ever wrote a frontend for VGMstream, because it's pretty simple to use without a frontend, and there's also GUI progams that use VGMstream (foobar2000 and Winamp), as an alternative.
Hopefully that clarifies what's going on. Good luck on figuring out the GENH files (creating "proper" ones, and getting them to play/convert). Mouser X over and out.
Here it is decoded to normal PCM .wav via vgmstream: pmw3_decoded.zip
by Mario123311 at 9:45 AM EDT on September 18, 2015
Thanks. Sorry for me being confused. The sounds you linked are perfect. Some are a bit too sped up but again, It's simple to just play around with in Audacity.
Again, Many thanks.
by birdmanager6 at 9:33 PM EDT on September 23, 2015
@Mario123311 Make sure you change the sampling rate, not edit the speed!