Lossless Audio Extraction From PSX ROMs? by Bs at 8:55 AM EST on January 26, 2012
Hi there, something that I've been planning to do for a while but not had the chance until now is to start extraction lossless quality audio from PSX games that I have a particular nostalgia for, and I just want to know what I need to do to be able to do it properly.
Thanks to sites like this, I've had great joy in listening to Game Boy .gbs files, and also the audio from a few PS2 games in original audio quality, far exceeding anything I'd actually heard while playing on the original console or on an emulator, so I'm now hoping to start doing the same for the rest of the games I feel the same way about.
I have Foobar 2000 and the Game Emu Player (something like that?) plug in, and I also used to have Vgmstream until a couple of days ago, until updating to Foobar 1.1.10 or whatever recent version it was, stated that it was no longer compatible and deleted it. I haven't been able to get it working again since, despite trying newer downloads of the plugin so if anyone can point me in the right direction of that too, then that would be great.
Otherwise, explanations about which files I need to look for in the ROMs if it's possible, and how to go about doing it and getting them playing properly or converting them to saved files or whatever. Thanks for any help. :-)
Hmmmm...So what's the best solution? What I'm basically trying to get is the audio from my favourite old games in the quality it's originally in, rather than poor quality mp3s over the web or whatever, so without losing quality from the game itself...
I remember I used to be able to put some of my PSX games into a CD player and listen to the music that way, but sadly, all my old games got sold a number of years back when I didn't have the knowledge or foresight to think about these kinds of eventualities.
Well, I wasn't expecting that I'd be able to get as lossless as I couldn't get. Just the best that's possible. Sorry if I wasn't precise enough, but any advice for extracting it at the best quality it can be from the game is still very much appreciated. I'm not sure exactly what I'm looking out for or what I need to do, etc, at the moment. Thanks.
Shit, this thing again... Then adx/aax/xma and bunch of others are all lossless. Why don't people call mp3/ogg lossless too if the game uses those codecs?
That's why all are making awesome FLAC rips from games that use lossy codecs... Because it's the original <lossy, and sometimes lossy as hell> game quality.
Nobody would ever hear the difference between <insert lossy game codec> and an ogg q10 transcode of it.