About NUB audio format by HHTT at 10:32 AM EST on January 1, 2009
NUB do not work on vgmstream and other extractors or convertors. I guess this format is not implemented yet. NUB is include in The Sky Crawlers Innocent Aces (for Wii) and Family Ski (for Wii), Ridge Racer 7 (for PS3). These games are all the games of Bandainamco.
Does anyone know the method of listening NUB format? These are NUB files in The Sky Crawlers Innocent Aces. http://www.megaupload.com/jp/?d=5L2U54Q5
remove the first 48 bytes from "BANK_HANGER_BGM.nub" and rename to ".idsp", don't know what the first 48 bytes are for, but it's simple DSP and even implemented in vgmstream! :o)
This isn't precisely what is already in vgmstream, the idsp header format is a little different. However, the most important difference is that these .nub files contain multiple streams, so we need to extract them first.
@manakoAT: Thank you. However, "BANK_VOICES_M12.nub" contains only one IDSP. Thus, we can make it to simple DSP by removing 48 bytes.
On the other hand, "BANK_VOICES_M12.nub" is collections of IDSP files. It is not possible to extract IDSPs by removing only 64 bytes. To listen included IDSPs, I think that we should extract IDSPs in the beginning.
@bxaimc,souma: I saw the news that person who extracted RR7 found the BGM.nub file in RR7's disc image. I have not extracted Blu-ray disc of RR7. Sorry.
@hcs: This is other NUB file (BANK_BGM.nub) in The Sky Crawlers Innocent Aces. I guess it including BGM of the mission and other main BGM. This also contains some IDSPs. The boundary of each IDSP is not clear, so the extraction is difficult... http://www.megaupload.com/jp/?d=BQ9TXS9U
So, how would I go about using that nub_cut_pl.txt file? I downloaded Sky Crawlers (I wanted to give it a try), and figured I should attempt to rip it. There's some THP files as well, but most of them aren't really music.
Anyway, help on this would be appreciated. Mouser X over and out.
Please excuse for my poor English, and thank you for your great utilities.
"Tales of Graces" uses .nub files , too. But These file's header are written not "IDSP" but "is14 or DSP". Probabley, vgmstream can't open them.
When I replace header part from "ToG's DSP" with "RR7's IDSP",vgmstream can convert ToG's DSP Files, but some problems remain.(unmatched samplingrate or also)
I would like to see the files for Tales of Graces.
Updates? by hufman at 8:59 AM EDT on April 30, 2010
Are there any updates about this? I've hacked apart the WAD for Kotoba no Puzzle Mojipittan, split the bank_bgm_full.nub into 16 idsp files, but they all start with is14 at byte 0. At byte 188, they say BNSF, and at 196 they say IS14sfmt. Should I upload an example?
Yes, manakoAT made an NUB extractor, but bxaimc posted about it in a new thread here. I had a little difficulty finding it myself, since the post doesn't contain "nub extractor" in it. I searched by author, and that doesn't have a "skip to end" feature either. Anyway, that might be the tool you're looking for. Hope it helps. Mouser X over and out.
IS14/BNSF is already added to vgmstream but it's disabled atm because we're having difficulty with MSVC in compiling the source. Until then, it's still unplayable. BTW, it uses the Siren14 speech codec which is also Polycom's G 722.1C codec.