Paper Mario battle sfx! by zen at 4:02 PM EST on November 21, 2007
HELP!!! I've been all over the net but I can't find them. I've found music for this game both in midi and dsp but no sfx! Do they even exist? If so where and what in what form?
by nensondubois at 5:03 PM EST on November 21, 2007
Take the dsp, with winamp to record it to an mp3. then use goldwave to apply mono mix then remove either right or left channel. Do the same thing with the mp3 from galbadia hotel. put the mp3 on one channel and the recorded dsp mp3 in the other channel then remove the center channel (in gold wave its reduce vocals select default. And you should only have Sound effects then enjoy!
Re: that won\'t help... by zen at 6:09 PM EST on November 21, 2007
no... the dsp and the galbadia hotel don't have the sounds I need. I don't need abstract effects like speech or curtain movement I need battle related like attacks, lightning, healing, that stuff. Thanks anyway.
by nensondubois at 6:45 PM EST on November 21, 2007
I don't know what else I Could do. Maybe record in game sound while playing onto your pc and use my method as described above. That didn't come out right.
edited 7:03 PM EST November 21, 2007
Re: I can try that by zen at 7:08 PM EST on November 21, 2007
I can try that. (echo... weird) thanks for your help...
by nensondubois at 8:41 PM EST on November 21, 2007
Stereo vocal muting is rarely used because it is ineffective alot of time because echo is usually there due to the fact that it has phase differences.
Actually, you don't need a driver at all. There's a few ways to rip the ISOs of GC games. 1 of them requires the Broadband adapter and a specific game (this is the first, and oldest method), another requires a special mod chip and firmware for your Gamecube along with an add-on USB port, and the most recent method requires updating the firmware of a specific model of DVD drive. A firmware modification is not a driver.
As for how to do these methods, I can't help you, since I have no mod chip, and I have no idea where to find the firmware for the DVD drive, nor do I know what kind of DVD drive you'd need. The reason your PC can't recognize the DVD is because the header of the DVD has been altered such that when your DVD drive attempts to read the disc, it can't see the information it's looking for, and thus the DVD drive perceives that there's no DVD present.
As for DSPs, those are *very* easy, once you have the ISO file. Really, if you can't find this stuff out on your own, you probably shouldn't be asking here how to do it. Your best method of getting sound effects would be to get Paper Mario and browse its directories, looking for suspicious files that might contain sound effects. Then, run through those files in a HEX editor, looking for some form of sample data (essentially, you'd have to figure out how to decode/interpret the files, in the hopes of finding the sound effects). Using the hex editor, you'd be able to extract these files to somewhere else. From there, you would probably need to make a program that could "translate" those files into a format that Winamp (or other such media player) could play (or, build your own player). Or, you could modify the Paper Mario ISO file such that all the music files are gone. Then you'd re-encrypt the ISO, then burn it, and play it on a modded GC, recording the audio playback. Now that the music is gone, all you *should* get is sound effects.
Chances are that the second method is easier than the first... Really, it seems to me that those are your 2 biggest options. HCS *might* be willing to look at some of the "suspicious" files, but he's often busy, so I'm not sure how likely that method would be.
Hopefully this explained the current situation in such away that you can understand it more fully. Mouser X over and out.
edited 7:05 PM EST November 22, 2007
by nensondubois at 6:29 PM EST on November 22, 2007
Maybe UF, might know. I thought it was a new driver but was mistaken sorry.