Is there a special file I need from the ISO or isn't it possible?
I don't think I'll be looking into it.
I hope it!
edited 9:19 AM EDT September 26, 2007
Fine, someone put them up and I'll have another look.
edited 1:12 PM EDT September 26, 2007
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8K4AG03V
I dont know if you need all, so I uploaded 5, cause they're so big.
EDIT: Oh and I found this into a thread on the emutalk board: AW files are music libraries of a game in which the particular instruments for the sequences are stored.
The sequences itself are located inside a SZS or ARC archive whose name I can't recall at the moment.
I dont know, but maybe it can help you somehow.
edited 3:32 PM EDT September 26, 2007
Maybe Twilight Princess tomorrow? Doubtful, I was up all night on this...
Let me know how it works on Windows.
edited 5:58 AM EDT September 27, 2007
I think first you should get it to work perfectly (problems with stereo samples, like you said), then trying to get TP working.
working...
expected 1, got 49, at 46974
dump failed
mwahahaha
siren
kerboom!
spleesh *favorite
hooray! yay!
dreaming about his job...
edited 2:48 PM EDT September 28, 2007
And this funky sound that I remember well:
d_earth_0.aw 9
edited 3:03 PM EDT September 28, 2007
Link is electrocuted
Link drowns
edited 3:21 PM EDT September 28, 2007
Among the Ganon voice clips, along with the requisite maniacal laughter, there were some weird voice clips seemingly from the same actor: 20 21 22.
edited 3:31 PM EDT September 28, 2007
Also, I thought weird voice clips 20, 21 and 22 are the King of Hyrule speaking his wish after touching the Triforce, but the title "GanonT_0.aw_00000020.wav" of course suggests beta material for Ganondorf...
It's funny how they recycled quite a few sounds from the N64 titles for the GCN installments. For example "objSE_0.aw_000000ad.wav" (the teleporter sound after completing a dungeon) is the instrument in the beginning of "End of the World" from Majora's Mask.
"n4d_ryu_0.aw_00000008.wav" was used very obviously in "Small Shrine Near the Peak of Dragon Roost" as a nod to "Dodongo's Cavern" in Ocarina of Time.
The only time I was disappointed with the usage of these old samples was in Twilight Princess. "Hyrule Field Night Theme" reuses Malon's synthesized voice from "Lon Lon Farm", and it sounds crappy as hell.
edited 1:56 AM EDT October 4, 2007
An interesting set of sound effects. It's nice to be able to listen to some of the effects used in the dungeon music, and hear some more of the boss voices while not frantically trying to silence them.
Also, in regards to Twilight Princess' night theme, I didn't find the voice overly similar to OOT's version. I think it was processed adequately to not make one immediately think of lon lon ranch every time the song played. It could've been done better, but I think the overall theme fit well enough.
Different sound effects for different areas would have been nice as well, such as wind in the desert at night.
Here's the actual in-game scene (scroll to 2:49).
So, now that the AW format is cracked, is playback of BMD files a little more in reach now?
Note that AW isn't so much a format as it is a single file with a bunch of data end-to-end, all the formatting is contained in the AAF. I only decoded enough to be able to extract the AWs, there's plenty more which deals with instruments and samples.
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Just ran it on a couple of files from Super Mario Sunshine, it appears that at the end of a sample there's a few garbage bytes and audio alignment screws up, therefore screwing up samples past that point until the decoder fixes the alignment on its own.
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And the jaudio project is resumed:
[22:22] <stupcarp> because hcs requested it i decided to go look at the jaudio libraries again
[22:22] <stupcarp> i'm looking at zeldaww's library but it's the japanese version
[22:22] <stupcarp> anyways
[22:23] <stupcarp> 8027DB58 is a function called __sinit_JASSeqParser_cpp which loads addresses for specific sequence parsing functions into memory
[22:24] <stupcarp> no idea why it would do such a thing but i suppose it's for class creation
[22:25] <stupcarp> and this library does indeed show that jaudio has a bit too much control over the hardware
[22:26] <stupcarp> it controls interrupts for christ's sake
[22:26] <stupcarp> cmdClrI__Q28JASystem10TSeqParserFPQ28JASystem6TTrackPUl
[22:26] <stupcarp> that's JASystem::TSeqParser::cmdClrI
[22:26] <stupcarp> fucking wow, nintendo loves to confuse people by putting a bunch of shit into a single class
[22:27] <stupcarp> so that's like what in C++? JASystem->TSeqParser.cmdClrI?
[22:27] <stupcarp> I don't get why they'd have to make subclasses
edited 10:28 PM EDT October 4, 2007
lol
You could upload them to YouSendIt or similar services.
Or you could try running the utilities I have already that might work.
First, run baad on the .baa file (you might be able to get away with simply dragging and dropping the .baa file onto the baad.exe program, if not use the command line).
Among the files generated should be some .wsys files. Run wsyster on those (the .aw file must be in the working directory).
Or you could just send it to me and let me figure it out, there is a significant chance that baad doesn't properly understand the .baa file format, as I've only had one example to test it with so far.
edited 10:56 PM EDT October 22, 2007
edited 8:07 AM EDT October 23, 2007