The database says there is no way to hear them...
"Tales of Symphonia no 0.13 Vague Rant 1 working ADX, rest (probably sequenced) SONG and SND"
Hm, what does that mean?
Is there a way to rip them?
P.S.:
I own the legal copy^^ so is it legal isn`t it?
I tried to record it from my television, but it sounded terrible, to much sound effects... *grr*
edited 12:13 PM EDT October 17, 2007
However, you could just download the soundtrack at Galbadia Hotel, it seems pretty complete to me.
Mmh... I seem to be the only one who doesn't like the music in that game at all. It's far too repetitive and predictable for me.
I know, pretty dumb question, but please answer it. Thanks, this is the OST, and they changed a lot of things, the bass for example and so on...
A sound rip would probably be possible through file swapping, but I don't have the willingness to do it due to above mentioned reason. Maybe you can get someone else to do it - or, better yet: Try it yourself - that's much more rewarding. You just need the equipment for streaming GameCube ISOs.
But it sounds pretty good, normally I would expect some midi things from a sequencer...
Hehe, "just" equipment for streaming gamecube ISOs...
I dislike Mod chips and so on... or do you mean something like a crossover cable?
File Swapping you say? Hm... What`s that? Ahhh I hate to sound like a noob -.-
But even if I have the sequencer file I need some... how to call?... ah got it, a sound bank!
So, I have an iso, a gamecube, and what do I need?
Is there a way to use an emulator?
[There was a way to get the sprites with the GBA Emu, so why not also music file on a gc emu?^^]
Wow, they have updated dolphin O.o
--> http://www.dolphin-emu.com/
Edit: Wow, maybe it`s really possible, they support the iso! yay!^^
edited 1:42 PM EDT October 17, 2007
Or what do you mean?
Now that I think about it: Tales of Symphonia has been released on PlayStation 2... If the developers were too lazy to convert the sequenced music of the GameCube release to a sequenced format the PS2 could work with, they might have recorded all of the tracks and include them on the PlayStation 2 discs as many ADX files (as that is far less time consuming for the game developers). That's quite common for a lot of ports.
So I'd start with getting my hands on the PS2 ISO of Tales of Symphonia, mount it with Daemon Tools and then try to find ADX files.
Aren`t they`re compressed? (the adx files)
or are they normally lieing around?
Hm... hard to find... ahhh... and it`s illegal...
I will post again...
Then, a long search turned up that:
Enable sound test on title screen:
W3HR-1A7X-5QU90
CZN1-KAJD-5GPXZ
XB6T-UA6G-18ZEH
G0XN-MQ9H-EDPM7
JBMZ-Y73T-DAQRN
"After about an hour worth of work (I crashed or had to restart the game several times during this time) I managed to get into the sound test. With 2 hours more work, I managed to add the option to the title screen in place of customize, which you can access in-game anyway."
Works for the first disc of the US version. As I've got the PAL release, I wasn't able to test the code myself.
edited 8:30 AM EDT October 18, 2007
I still use the code in liu of any ripped tracks.
PS2 Version or GC Version?
Also how to enter the code?
(Is it possible to enter codes in Dolphin?)
But I also have to thank you, never thought that I would get such professional help^^
cube media player, years of ripping and downloading I have all sounds (original)... in Japanese, better then nothing. I only have to compress them and cut them, the originals sound better than that OST... I like ingame music!
Ah, but they are in fact loops... and nowhere stands when the looptime comes... I see, audacity has much to do now... I have to write myself a loop player... or Audacity... what is more work?
So, thanks for the help, I will come back with other things^^
Feel free to add an entry to the GC Stream DB so that other users can profit from the new gained knowledge.
You'll most likely not have to search the loop points if the files are ADXs. in_cube loops them automatically. You can view these loop points by playing the ADX file in Winamp (after having put in_cube in Winamp's plug-in folder), then doing a right click on the file in the playlist and selecting "View file info...".
You can configure in_cube in the plug-in preferences (right click in Winamp -> "Options" -> "Preferences..." -> "Plug-ins" -> "Input" -> "in_cube") to loop the file a few times more/less.
Then set the output plug-in to Disk Writer to convert the ADXs to WAVs. Be sure to set the output plug-in back to DirectSound after you're finished.
There are 106 Music Themes on the PS2 ISO,
and 1000s of Speechefiles, but in Japanese...
And yes they are all in ADX normal, they are Version 3 if you want to know^^, I managed to write a programm that finds version, sample rate and so on, so that in can loop them (I wrote above) but I can`t find the loop point myself (in milliseconds), so, it is possible to enter in_cube from outside winamp?
P.S.: I used Cube Player 2 for the ripping.
Take a look at the wikipedia entry for ADX, it has a nice layout of the header which points out the loop points. If I remember correctly, you should just be able to take the sample counts and multiply them by the sample rate of the file to get the loop points.
*checks in_cube...*
nope, the loop points are actual offsets in the file, so try this equation:
time_in_ms=(address-channel_start)*32/channel_count/18*1000/sample_rate
32 samples per frame, 18 bytes per frame.
channel_start you can get from the 2-byte word at 0x02, add 4 to it.
[edited for mathematical clarity]
edited 5:36 PM EDT October 26, 2007
On another note, why did you mark Tales of Symphonia PS2 as not working in the Stream DB?
edited 5:38 PM EDT October 26, 2007
I start testing^^, I use DarkBASIC Pro because thats the only programming language that I currently can handle (but I learn JAVA, so maybe I will switch... how know`s?)
I mean, what are the commands, darkbasic cannot find the dll commands by itself...
Ahhh, found something... :
DLL Export Viewer v1.11
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edited 9:36 AM EDT October 27, 2007