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Message	I have been trying for about a year to get a clean rip of Wind Waker but [em]nothing works correctly[/em]. I have a collection of lossless VGM from SNES, Genesis, PS1, Dreamcast, and even some other Gamecube, all [b]looped[/b] (except PS1) for 20 minutes. But this game is giving me hell. I am on Gentoo and have tried building everything from source and/or using wine (a windows loader). I managed to get all the sequences ripped to BMS and only found 2 programs that successfully convert the bms to anything else, but both don't do it right. I'm a fanatic about getting lossless rips and these differences might be easily overlooked. I haven't seen anyone else talk about this problem. There's missing fade outs on notes, wrong tones, wrong pitch, etc. I don't know all the musical lingo but you should get what I'm saying. [b]VGMTrans fork[/b] [url=https://github.com/fuzziqersoftware/gctools]https://github.com/magcius/vgmtrans[/url] [b]SMSSynth[/b] [url=https://github.com/fuzziqersoftware/gctools]https://github.com/fuzziqersoftware/gctools[/url] The main VGMTrans won't even load BMS. That fork is the only one that works. I just open the BMS and right click it and save as MIDI. I have several different smssynths I've tried, probably from different packages but the latest I tried was from gctools. They all had the same problem. The command I use to convert is this smssynth house.bms --audiores-directory=P-GZLE/files/Audiores/ --output-filename=house2.wav Here are the resulting files VGMtrans [url=https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/6imokfvm5cc0hs2gi1ubm/house_vgmtrans.midi?rlkey=fyxs1px6nff7y8dj0cherdli5&st=1al0a6zg]house_vgmtrans.midi[/url] SMSSynth [url=https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/g1ewh4uucaijxirv0n42a/house_vgmtrans.wav?rlkey=0y6agct1yftui6a0qn5dlrvll&st=6mix76g6]house_smssynth.wav[/url] Original BMS [url=https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zgk3qjmchmennzxulsfjh/house.bms?rlkey=wwm73nq39ffn2501lc272h8rx&st=il1vnypp]house.bms[/url] What it should sound like [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-4aW_VRhs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-4aW_VRhs[/url] [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5-4aW_VRhs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUnVEjcht6E[/url] As you can tell there is something wrong with both bms converters. I compared a lot of other files and they are messed up as well. Has anyone managed to convert the Wind Wakers JaiSeq BMS files without these problems? [small][i]edited 5:18 AM EDT October 24, 2025[/i][/small]

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