Some but not all of the missing tracks were found. Library files with the metadata are included and need to be worked with again similar to what @bnnm posted previously.
Here are the .sxd1 for the lazy, also tweaked slightly the .lib extractor. Like before you need to use those in GT7SP_sxd1. I think the extra .sxd1 without .sxd2 in PREVIEW_sxd1 are all jingles and such tracks, perhaps they simply didn't make the cut.
If not, could someone reup? The original isn't available anymore.
@Knurek Yes, all of the original files are included; the new ones from 1.13 were simply merged in and the 7z was updated.
All of the "Sneaking" themes are now mono as intended, this saves ~40MB compared to the other rip when decompressed.
I've used mostly the same tags as FroggestSpirit's rip, so shout out to him.
I left the tracks deinterleaved (tracks with 2+ channels are simply concentrated).
1) Movies folder contains audio demuxed from Bink videos, it's mostly multiplayer tutorials in 7 different languages. I kept all these *.bik files because there's some atmospheric ambient music in background (well other folks might consider it mere noise or pure ambience).
2) Scenes directory accommodates short level briefings or mission intermissions (also available in many localized versions), I included only the ones with some "real" BGM (like excerpts from a J-pop song or a snippet from traditional Chinese composition).
*.WHD\*.WAV pairs couldn't be extracted so that I simply made a *.txth for those. I would rather not call it a dirty hack or something; it serves its purpose just fine because each WAV is actually a single headerless audio stream.
3) SFX group - this is where it gets much more complicated: I requested a script for extraction of all the remaining *.WHD\*.WAV pairs (storing global map / level sounds) and got a BMS which outputs every single piece of audio in both unplayable WAV or " fake" SS2 forms (details here). The latter files proved to be much more useful - they were useless as-is but at least info about frequency / channels was stored in their SSHD headers; that's why I managed to create a working TXTH for those false *.ss2 tracks and listen to them all.
They were all played back with quite a bit of distortion (heavy rumble I suppose) though... I tested playback with many codecs but results were never perfect & crystal clear: MS_IMA, APPLE_IMA4 or XBOX codec types don't work at all; DVI_IMA & IMA sort of work but distortion is pretty audible.
Anyway nothing in SFX category of my rip is overly important.
4) Streams folder holds Vorbis audio ripped from PC_Def.str using VGMToolbox. This is where you're going to encounter all "real" music as well as lots of atmospheric ambient (music or not, stinger or spooky SFX - here it is). The least I could do was moving all that experimental material & noise music in Bonus subfolder.
A few tracks were apparently reused from K&L1 (PC_Def_0x36065500_000072AC.ogg or PC_Def_0x09932A00_000077B8.ogg are prime examples).
And some more:
1) Splinter Cell 1 (PC) @Mediafire - use DecUbiSndGui.exe to scan *.ss0 files and play / extract them / convert to PCM Wave tracks;
2) Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow (PC) @Mega - the same procedure.
Need for Speed - The Run (X360)(2011-11-15)(Black Box)(Electronic Arts)[rerip] - probably redundant now when we've just gotten this variant by Nicknine but my version still has something to be valued (additional tracks like the ones from story cutscenes & movies, as usual they're all available in multiple languages whenever possible).
Need for Speed - Underground 2 (Xbox) [addon] - a bunch of extra stuff besides licensed songs which were ripped eons ago but the main attraction is audio from live-action scenes of course. All the SNG files should work fine although I probably didn't extract & demux VP6 videos the proper way.
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Killzone 2 - any rip should be better than no rip at all but surely I'd like to have those streams properly unpacked (perhaps with a custom BMS script) from their respective bigfiles (and there're definitely many track titles / paths somewhere in the middle of these). If anyone's willing to inspect initial audio banks and devise a splitting method then be my guest!
Metal Gear Solid 4 - some redone stuff but with no descriptive track names this time (I'm wondering where did original ripper of this get most filenames...), it's just ArchiveName_#.mta2 for all the tracks. Well at least my WIP variant has fixed movie_00000920.mta2, the song which was sadly abridged in earlier rip.
Current WIP rerip misses most CS streams because the biggest archive is still a hard nut to crack but apparently all music has been correctly reripped. This release has its merits, take my word for it!
Speed Racer (Wii)(2008-05-06)(Sidhe)(Warner Interactive) - supposedly it's a tad bit incomplete since it doesn't have intro composition but it won't be rippable any time soon, this is the reason I'm posting this here & now.
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Have fun listening to my goods and give me a shout if you particularly liked anything!
Best wishes!
edited 10:13 AM EST December 31, 2018
Later!
Flyff Gold (2012-07-10)(Gala Lab)
by bcass at 4:20 PM EDT on October 31, 2009
Starsky & Hutch [Tim Follin] (FLAC - PS2) (This is a lossless digital rip that I did using the soundtest with a TOSLink to TOSLink cable from PS2 to PC)
Does anyone have this digital rip of Starsky & Hutch?
https://projectisland.org/music/
Hellbender (1996-08-31)(Terminal Reality)(Microsoft)[PC] - same as above, undemuxable movies (this time it's Smacker codec).
https://mega.nz/#!rpFUlCrD!vWCHg_hQ_LI-VtJAWUMzCC6KYjIAbVcMeT3DQM198JE
This soundtrack got a vinyl release in 2003. However, track 3 ("Catchup" - side A) on the vinyl is not in the game's sound test (and might not even be on the game disc at all). Tracks 9 & 10 from the sound test are not on the vinyl.
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https://www.mediafire.com/file/b69tif0rrg80sqw/RE6+XMA.rar
Indigo Prophecy / Fahrenheit Android version
ObsCure I-II The Aftermath PS2 version
Technomage PSX or PC
Kirikou PSX or PC
Azur et Asmar PS2
A Way Out PC
Dreamfall for Xbox - it's here instead of my usual place because it might be incomplete: a tool made specifically to unpack game archives (PAKExt.exe by Deniz Oezmen, creator of a toolset for Dreamfall) extracts only files with known names & skips the rest.
Maybe all would have gone down smoothly if I had worked with PC version but for now there's just this port of the title.
Mercenaries 2 - World in Flames for PC - it's not perfect but it's probably the only thing we'll have for quite some time. A person from ZenHAX forum managed to divide BGM bank into multiple files (without a TOC? by hand?!) & they all play with a TXTH provided in my rip (only 1 track ends with a few seconds of static) BUT those files weren't split perfectly in every single case - some compositions are obviously concatenated and one will possibly have to decode the longest tracks to PCM then divide them into shorter ones himself.
Just in case anyone's interested - PS2 port is really easy to rip but sadly it doesn't have any APM music; PS3 & X360 versions should have APM tracks but both are as hard to rip (properly) as Windows variant. PS3 uses MP3 though, it means it's a bit easier to rip than Xbox ver.
@PrinceSnake - I actually looked into Fahrenheit for Android but stuck at "unpacking OBB files" phase which is the very 1st one: those looked like bunches of concatenated assets which require some special tools/scripts/utilities instead of 7-zip/Winrar (the first thing someone is going to learn about ripping Android games is that those OBB giants are simply renamed RAR/ZIP archives... unless you're not lucky).
So that's where I stopped because I wasn't really interested to begin with. But you can post cuts of those *.OBB files, maybe even DLLs & other contents of accompanying APK file at sites like XeNTaX or ZenHAX; possibly someone will come up with an unpacking solution. I've got suspicions though: even after unpacking OBBs you'll have to request another piece of code/program needed to extract contents of files which came from OBBs...
As for ObsCure I-II (PS2 versions) I can only recommend you to upload cuts from STRMPACK.HVP archives & post DL links here: Bnnm or Nicknine might make a BMS script to correctly unpack all audio streams stored there. Maybe they'll also provide a TXTH that allows playback of extracted tracks in VGMstream.
@Night Furious - the same, this is the most appropriate place for your samples.
Bye!
1) Shogo - Mobile Armor Division (1998-09-30)(Monolith)[PC]: this rip should be fine & 100% streamed stuff BUT I decided to post it here because I included untouched Smacker movies (dunno if those can be demuxed so that video streams are excluded but audio isn't re-encoded), I even supplied RADTools along with a batch processing file to make converting sound from SMKs to PCM WAVs easier;
2) Hitman – Blood Money (2006-05-30)(Io)(Eidos)[PC]: now there're much more issues with this one - glitches during playback in select few streams or supposedly wrong frequency value in a pair of PCM WAVs but one can get more details from here (the doc is also present in my uploaded archive).
1 thing I forgot to mention there is that most *.wav files have 2 seconds of playlength specified in headers but are actually way longer than that.
Anyway if anyone wants to improve this or that (or what I used for that matter) then he's more than welcome to do it, then possibly provide a better gamerip.
Bye!
PS. Mirrors for Hitman and Shogo.
Thanks
I have the Fable II music ripped on my PC since more 9 months now, and I thought I had submitted it to the archive at joshw.info but apparently not, and I can't find the upload page anymore -_-
Can someone post the link ?
Thanks
https://vgm.hcs64.com/upload/
https://mega.nz/#!KVowgSTY!xDjsNRmZFTHrHnjm_JSR4jymzyX5TsRrCMFaYh_STIE
It's more listenable than the multi-track and WIP rip someone did.
Gran Turismo 5 Prologue (2008-04-15)(Polyphony Digital)(SCE)
GT Academy 2012 (2012-05-01)(Polyphony Digital)(SCE)
I won't be hosting these forever on my Mega account but I'll have them up for a while until they're on the VGM server. If there was a way how, I'd upload them myself to the server but there's this thread here so there's that. I've included bgm.lib for anyone who wants to take the time and tag up the tracks.
Bye!
edited 1:23 PM EDT August 22, 2019
Thank you very much for sharing! I waited for reply a few weeks and later forgot about this request. Found your message today using tags in google.
<em>@defcon - here's the Starsky & Hutch SPDIF rip you requested:
https://mega.nz/#!rpFUlCrD!vWCHg_hQ_LI-VtJAWUMzCC6KYjIAbVcMeT3DQM198JE
This soundtrack got a vinyl release in 2003. However, track 3 ("Catchup" - side A) on the vinyl is not in the game's sound test (and might not even be on the game disc at all). Tracks 9 & 10 from the sound test are not on the vinyl.
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edited 11:54 AM EDT October 7, 2019
Has anyone tried ripping music from PC version of Trolls (1992 by Flair & Capstone)?
I searched for some time and found only Amiga and Commodore64 rips. C64 is close to PC version, but has only 3 tracks, so it is not what I am looking for.
I'm on Win 7, 32x (so yes, I have encountered memory limits before, but if that's the problem here, why does the larger file work just fine?). I'd appreciate any help or suggestions please.
It's pretty excessive, I'll recompress it and put it somewhere, watch this space.
My internet is the best it's been in years (aka, I actually have internet at home for once), but it's via my cell carrier, and they only allow 10 GB of hotspotting data. I'm using an app to spoof my hotspot usage, so I'm at least not getting cut off from exceeding my data limit, but it fluctuates wildly, and often gets disconnected (which is still better than no internet, which is what I had before). I can't tell if that's due to the app, due to the connection, or due to my carrier throttling my speed and usage.
I know all that is mostly irrelevant. I only mention it, because it's annoying that I'll have to redownload those two very large files on my connection. Due to Covid-19, my carrier had 2 months with no restrictions, and it was glorious! I downloaded 150+ GB each of those two months (I had 2.5 years of backlogs of downloads I wanted to get). So, all things considered, I really can't complain. I can exercise patience, like I have been for the last 2+ years, and download them again.
To be clear, thanks for all you guys are doing! Even if it's not mentioned very often, it is appreciated. I just no longer have the time I once did, or I'd gladly help. I have considered renaming the new Xenoblade Chronicles DE rip to match the OST, but I'd be surprised if someone else doesn't finish it before I have the chance to. It'd take me weeks to compare and rename everything, with the limited time I have. :(
edited 12:02 AM EDT June 15, 2020
Here's the Arcade one. MD5 3a7c397ba53b20fbe64a8aab22a6df40
edited 3:02 AM EDT June 15, 2020
I uploaded these to the FTP in a dir uploads/repack/.
edited 5:55 PM EDT June 15, 2020
1) Watch Dogs PC rip which must be way more complete & properly done than earlier version, the one made by VladlenCry from FFshrine forum. That guy omitted tons of tracks (most importantly licensed songs) + edited some parts of original score (maybe that change wasn't entirely a bad one, I mean he supposedly stitched 3 or 4 second segments together for convenience sake but still that's not the way to preserve given audio data & of course transcoding was also performed to re-encode resulting tracks).
All in all mine should be absolutely full (not only I kept each & every piece of music I could find, I even included all the whistling/humming sounds just in case) & contain only 1:1 original audio data (I didn't merge any given sounds into longer compositions even if it was painfully obvious that a 1 minute track was split into 15 segments, 4 sec. long each).
I made a few *.txtp files to allow playback of multi-channel licensed songs but you can actually disregard them, it's quite possible that those tracks weren't supposed to be treated as multi-channel streams (you might know it's rather typical for developers to have a few pre-recorded variants of exactly the same song for use in different situations, #1 is loud & crystal clear sounding while #2 is muffled & lo-fi, then #3 isn't too loud but doesn't sound as good as #3... you should get an idea).
Anyone remotely familiar with ripping BGM off newer Ubisoft games probably knows that one can't expect proper descriptive filenames there. Alas, there're merely 2 kinds of track names there: either hexadecimal numbering or hashes (the latter are in capitals while the former are lowercase).
The tools I used are:
a) Gibbed.Disrupt.Unpack.exe by Rick AKA Gibbed;
b) DecUbiSndGui.exe 0.81 by Zench of the XeNTaX forums (forum.xentax.com);
c) VGMToolbox.exe by Snakemeat to get audio data from Bink videos.
2) Killzone HD, PSN version - this one is likely incomplete but a partial rip is way better than nothing. I strongly suspect that those 6 (!) *.snz files aren't all the music used in game but presumably everything else (very likely encoded in MPEG, not PCM as those *.snz) is packed in *.CoreStream or *.Core archives. Those are a such a pain to work with and they're the main reason there're no Killzone 2 or 3 gamerips (proper and final that is).
Anyway you can still get whatever I've got to offer: it includes aforementioned 6 BGMs, SND0.AT3 (also known as icon music) & tracks from pre-rendered scenes (MPEG-encoded, rather low quality sadly).
The tools I used are:
a) make_npdata.exe by Hykem;
b) PSARC plugin 1.4 for Total Commander by BEKETATA;
c) FFMPEG.exe to get audio data from *.avi videos.
Enjoy these treats guys!
Cheers!
Here is
Star Ocean - The Last Hope (2009-02-19)(Tri-Ace)(Square Enix)[PS3]
Rip using my own dump and tagged.
Enjoy !
Valkyria Chronicles 4 [Senjou no Valkyria 4] (2018-03-21)(SEGA)[PC]
If you liked the soundtracks of the previous entries you for sure will enjoy this one as well!
Extraction process:
1) Used CriPakGUI by wmltogether to search through and extract the CPK files
2) Find the music files inside BASE.CPK named M_0001.BIN, M_0002.BIN, etc.
3) Used VGM Toolbox by snakemeat / CRI HCA Extractor to get the files linked above
Hope I did everything correctly, enjoy.
Anyway did you use this script? I requested it because blitz_games.bms by Luigi Auriemma was not working with all my audio files while that newer BMS managed to unpack all of them without any errors.
And let me make a wild guess & tell you that wav.str files might be unplayable ATM just 'cause they use some different codec, not 4-bit ADPCM used in PS3 ver.
You'd better post those *.wav.str files either here but in another thread or in #vgm-ripping-help channel @Discord.
On a different note: anyone out here possibly interested in Far Cry 2 PC rip?
Truth be told I made it months ago but haven't shared it yet. I was simply waiting for another gamerip or two to be completed so that I'd be able to make a post with 2-3 different rips, not just a single game.
Later!
1) Alien - Isolation (2014-10-06)(Creative Assembly)(Sega)[PC][rr] - a set made with Alien: Isolation Audio Extractor by MattFiler & VGMToolbox by Snakemeat; the former supplied audio tracks with their proper names as in this rip while the latter demuxed sound data from USM videos.
I guess there's little difference from that aforementioned earlier version but I'll try to list anything that could highlight my fresh rerip:
a) much more tracks from pre-rendered videos this time (adx files), I even kept all the variants with different voiceovers;
b) a few tracks might seem to be missing (for example 81804391.ogg, 120209045.ogg, 1016790723.ogg, etc.) but they weren't missed or left out or anything like that, those tracks were simply given their proper names by MattFiler's tool when reripping this game;
c) a previously unavailable DLC track was added as well as 3 playlists (M3U format) for listener convenience, keep an eye out for "Movies (Eng).M3U" one because it has all crucial video tracks collected in one place (the ones without any VO + the ones with English voices).
2) Far Cry 2 Fortune's Edition (PC ver.) - now this is quite an oldie, I made it months ago & this rip could prove to be a real rarity.
I used DecUbiSndGui-0.81 by Zench to obtain OGGs, Gibbed.Dunia tool pack by Rick (Gibbed) to unpack another archive & obviously VGMToolbox to dump audio tracks from any Bink videos I managed to hunt down.
Goodbye!
edited 5:12 AM EST December 7, 2020
1) Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Blacklist [PC] - this thing might be 1 of a kind, Alpha23 ripped the game years ago but with FFShrine down his version is lost. Or did the respective DL link die even before the whole of FFS forums went offline?
Anyway my rip was made using DecUbiSndGui-0.81 by Zench so thanks to him for the tool!
*.bik videos were demuxed with VGMtoolbox by Snakemeat; *.txtp files made by me for convenient playback of multi-channel tracks. The same goes for both *.m3u playlists.
There's a file, SG_MAP_14_AMERICAN_BLOOD_149.ogg in Sounds folder, which might refuse playing on your end but DecUbiSndGui is able to play & decode it. It'd be too much to oblige you to get the program to play or convert a single piece of audio, that's why I included a decoded PCM ver. in my rip (SG_MAP_14_AMERICAN_BLOOD_149.wav obviously).
2) Homefront [PC] - I wanted to rerip this using UModel but for some reason both Windows & Xbox 360 ports use nonstandard *.upk archives that make UModel crash with weird errors. I asked maker of the program if he's able to fix at least Xbox 360 ver. but he said it's supposedly impossible.
That being said, the 2nd iteration of a rip differs little from previous variant: I unpacked those *.upk with Unreal Package Extractor by Gildor (creator of UModel & lots of other Unreal Engine tools) but this time VGMtoolbox was used to get OGG Vorbis files contained in *.SoundNodeWave assets.
That's all for now, goodbye!
I'd like to give back to the community that has been such a great help. I see that there's a Genshin Impact PC Rip. What tools were used to rip the files? If I had the sort of tools you guys seem to use to rip VGM, I could post more rips for you guys.
The tools I used were Far Cry 3 Unpacker (Gibbed.Dunia2.Unpack.exe to be precise) by Rick (Gibbed) with FC4 filelist & DecUbiSndGui by Zench; the former extracted initial archives (DAT+FAT) while the latter split some given audio files into stereo or mono layers (those weren't otherwise playable).
The tracks playable as they initially were have *.vgmstream extension whereas split layered tracks have *.layer extension (that's default extension DecUbiSndGui assigns to extracted sounds). I added that ".vgmstream" suffix to most files to make them more compatible with VGMstream plugin but it's highly probable that an audio player of your choice will be able to play both *.vgmstream & *.layer tracks without that plugin installed, it's rather common MPEG audio after all.
BUT (!) you'll definitely have to use VGMstream with any *.txtp files, TXTPs mix some layers on fly so that you can get a 3-channel track reconstructed from 3 mono sounds or a quad track consisting of a pair of stereo layers without the need to manually mix said layers in an audio editor.
Oh and you might already know that but Far Cry 4 reuses lots of music from FC3, that recycled stuff mostly resides in "soundbinary" folder but there're tons of reused tracks in "unknown" folder too.
Bye!
PS. You should possibly disregard any files with "(dupe)" prefix, those are duplicates/copies of some other files (look for "(dupes)" suffix).
I know how to access the android storage and find the obb of the DLC, but I don't know what tools I'd need to use to open the file (or decrypt it if it's encrypted)
edited 8:50 PM EDT June 29, 2021
It's an old-school gamerip with just *.wem files, it's possibly the only way it can be done because lots of audio tracks / banks only have hashes for names.
The tools I used are Far Cry 5 / New Dawn .dat/.fat Unpack / Repack Tool by Rengareng (ZenHAX Forum) & Wwise BKHD soundbanks (.BNK) extractor (a QuickBMS script) by Nicknine & Bnnm.
So here it is (mirror DL link).
I hope someone else will also find this release useful, I can't be the only one who truly liked FC New Dawn music!*
Cheers!
* - BTW my rip should be a nice release where you can find both original & licensed music from the game, all collected in one place!
Not sure if its the right place to ask but I saw that you made a Deus Ex Human Revolution Directors Cut PC rip once and I couldn't help to notice that sadly the music quality is rather low with MP3 96kbps.
Do you think other versions of the game might have higher audio quality? Like the original non directors cut version for XB360 or the WiiU port?
I was often thinking about trying to make a "Extended Edition" soundtrack of this games music, since sadly it was canceled. But with this low music rip quality its rather lacking. Weirdly enough Deus Ex The Fall from the same time had high quality OGG music.
It's sad that devs sometimes use such low quality for audio in their games but obviously that's something I can't really change.
I'm sure I started ripping DEHR for XB360 quite some time ago but stopped it rather soon. First an unpacker by Gibbed kept complaining about wrong archive header so I had to change those 4 bytes in hex editor; then that unpacker apparently stopped after extracting just a piece of multi-part archive. Anyway I found some sounds and even BGMs in that partial output & it seemed like music was encoded using mono (!) XMA codec. It's either that or that MUL demuxer program didn't work as it should have (it's supposedly made for PC version and wasn't tested with console files).
Bye!
PS. There're some forthcoming rips apart from Far Cry: New Dawn or Dead Rising 2 but they might take quite some time to sort/check/pack 'em.
EDIT: I think you'd better visit HCS channel at Discord and ask some very advanced ripper (Bnnm, Nicknine, Bxaimc, etc.) to try and rip other platforms of DEHR. I mean those guys are so advanced that they don't even need to rely entirely on someone else's scripts/tools/programs; if that MUL_demuxer.exe (or whatever it's called) doesn't work properly they'll be able to make better scripts or tools.
Now that I think of it they might even add that original MUL audio format to VGMstream plugin! That way you can add a single *.MUL file to playlist & you'll basically get all the tracks from a location/map/level.
I hope it helps.
So long!
edited 11:59 AM EDT April 17, 2022
Gamerip of Far Cry 5 for PC (version 1.11) (mirror link).
The whole procedure of making this rip didn't differ much from ripping New Dawn so I'll simply skip this part.
I originally thought that my release is going to contain just music from FC5 but I also found & included numerous tracks from arcade game mode + apparently a few jingles / BGMs from Zombies DLC (it turned out all those extras were stored in FC5 shared or common archives).
I hope you find this gamerip useful and enjoy both original & licensed music from FC5! If anyone's willing to further sort/tag/re-release this stuff (possibly add loops & fadeouts, re-encode these tracks & create some sort of an expanded soundtrack/ fan-made album) then feel free to; it'd be pretty nice to credit me as author of initial raw/streamed/unedited rip though.
Goodbye!
PS. I certainly have plans to rip BGM from some FC5 DLCs too but not right now, I definitely need a break after sorting like 36,000+ streamed audio files from main game ...
Here's the sample for anyone who wants to take a crack at it working with VGMstream or whatever:
https://mega.nz/file/JnRCWTSC#PHOPqNVDT4YMRKACb6W6xSlAGLt8w-YxTizJ30uwKBY
GT Sport used SXD2 (ATRAC9) with the metadata pulled from the .lib files. I'm thinking GT7 is the same thing, except the extension is different this time around (they are .szd2 files)
https://github.com/bnnm/vgm-tools/blob/master/bms/gt_lib_extract.bms
Then put szd1 with szd2, should be playable with latest vgmstream. .szd wokds too but I forgot to include the extension, I'll do it later (rename to szd3 for the time being).
Tags are now in music.dat though, I'll update the script later to extract them. Also a bunch of szd1 don't have szd2, maybe reserved for updates?
The game uses the Unity Engine. The .pcm files are actually .dsp files. to play the files without the .txth, you rename the .pcm extension of the files to .dsp.
The !extra.7z file is missing so the file is i guess incomplete, when i have plans to update the pack, i will include it there.
Go to the site vgm.hcs64.com and you will see it.
edited 7:11 AM EDT August 21, 2022
I believe it's for android devices or mobile phones in general.
An old rip from march of last year already exists, but now it can be updated for the last time.
I don't mind cleaning out duplicates and reuploading the set.
Both games are on Unity 2019.4.14f1 and use asset bundle
I tried extracting the bundle with various tools but only ever got to extract them in .dat
Tried to rename a file and used current vgmstream builds to do anything with it, tried via winamp and foobar too, but no success.
Start of sndz hex:
Start of bundle hex:
My ripper name is DarkSolidSnake.
For several weeks now, new sets of the final mix versions of kingdom hearts 1 and 2 have been on the list by a user named NoWool.
seeing as these sets won't be gotten to for a long while yet, could someone please post links to them so I can check them out?
Normally I'd wait, but it seems that new sets keep getting added to the bottom of the list frequently enough where these kingdom hearts sets might stay on the upload list for quite some time.
Thanks to anyone who can do this.
And also, to whom it might concern, thanks for the kh union cross dark road upload.
It's got almost everything, save for one event track that's probably lost to time now.
I've cleaned out all of the duplicate songs, so if a slightly smaller set might interest people, I have no problem uploading it.
In addition, i have plans to rip the BGM from Scooby Doo games from 2009-2010. Though the PS2 version cannot be ripped because the game stores most of the .raw files inside packfile.dat. The Wii and DS versions store all the .raw files in the sound folder of the game's files. Scooby Doo: First Frights on the PS2/Wii uses the Bink Video technology instead of Mobiclip used in the DS version. The updates are coming soon!
The game actually came out in 2011-09-22. Sorry for the mistake.
Cut the Rope - Triple Treat (2014-03-25)(FUN Labs)(Activision)[3DS][alt]
edited 12:12 AM EST January 19, 2023
Note for Lalaloopsy Carnival of Friends rip:
This game uses EngineBlack and i spectified a .txth for .wave files with a name table. i also mispelled the date as 2012-09-25. The correct date is 2012-10-30.
Note for Pocoyo Racing rip:
For this rip, i accidentially made a mistake, i corrected the mistake so a fixed rip was uploaded.
edited 7:59 PM EST February 18, 2023
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edited 7:55 AM EST February 19, 2023
Unfortuanently i have made a mistake, i mispelled the date at 2009-10-01, the correct date is 2009-09-29. I hope hcs will correct the mistake.
EDIT: I also forgot to add one more missing track. I hope HCS will accept my apology as well.
edited 4:37 PM EST February 23, 2023
Here's the Link to the rip for those interested.
As of the making of this post, the BGM from the Wii version cannot be ripped because the game's files are all stored in a headerless .bin file besides the executable in .elf format.
As i said. I made a mistake. The NDS version was developed by MileStone.
The name should be like this:
Mind. Body. Soul. - Nutrition Matters (2009-05-22)(MileStone)(505)[NDS]
Anyways. I'll try not to make such mistakes again.
For this rip, first things first, some of the files are duplicates, second, the demuxed audio from .pam files are headerless PCM data that have been converted to .genh files.
As i said, i made a mistake yet again. The title should be:
Professor Layton and the Last Specter [Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call, Layton-kyouju to Majin no Fue] (2009-11-26)(Level-5)[NDS]
This game uses the Digital Sound Elements sound driver by Procyon Studios. Unfortuanently, not that much is known about this engine due to the rarity of usage on the Nintendo DS. anything else other than streamed music is not rippable. If anybody ripped the sequenced data in dsesf format that someone announced as usual. I will update it. Thank you.
In addition, movie files are separated between Mobiclip .mods format and .sad files.
This version of Yogi Bear: The Video Game, uses the same engine from Club Penguin EPF and EPF Herbert's Revenge. I used EPFExplorer to extract the music and convert them to .xm files.
This is a rip of an iOS game which was a title known for the iOS emulation to be cracked (Big thank you to hikari_no_yume).
The game uses an earlier version of the Squeak engine, header info for .raw files do not start in a 4-letter string, there are some cases, it won't parse the files with the TXTH correctly. So, i merged the files in to the .raw files and created the .genh files out of them.
A rip of the Wii version of SDFF will probably come later on, maybe not.
The only changes to my style are the movie or cutscene track or banner sound filenames are now in it's original name. Though the file extension will not be changed. I think i should follow the style of rips like someone else other than JackTheRipper.
Edit: I feel like i will not do the style of someone else. I have changed back to following the style i used back in June 2022. I should follow the style like Ultrafighter or JackTheRipper. Except for the notices i made.
edited 1:02 PM EDT May 7, 2023
Does anyone still have this gamerip?
Lost Eden (1995)(Cryo Interactive)[CD-I][MPEG 1 Layer 2][MPG]
edited 1:11 PM EDT May 14, 2023
We wait until this rip gets published. Please note that some tracks are not converted properly, some notes are way off, and the music is slightly played on the left channel. Aside from that, it is recommended to play the .xm files in a mono form.
edited 8:52 PM EDT June 11, 2023
Here's the new link to the latest version of the re-tagged CBT rip.
edited 10:59 PM EDT June 11, 2023
While in the ripping process, i came across some unplayable .bnk files containing partial stream names and ADPCM data. I extracted ADPCM data, merged it, and converted to .GENH format, then put stream names.
At the same day, i released two updates as to fix 2 issues, first was stream name fixes, now fixes for half-sized interleave. Anyway, HCS64 or bnnm needs to always choose the latest version. Thanks
https://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=26929&showpage=413#post_63152
also the response at ETH_shiniori's complaints:
https://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=26929&showpage=414#post_63211
(also the top of the pending upload list...)
Specially the bit about data must be original format. That means avoiding stuff like hex-editting files or mixing parts of files + pasting a GENH just to force them into playing. Please, don't do that.
There are enough ways to play unplayable or uncommon files (TXTP + changing sample rate or TXTH + name list) without resorting to that. Or just post the bug report or question here/discord and wait a bit, there is no rush. No point in uploading a mutant rip or calling something "[unplayable] music_07_newpork" when it'll be fixed in a week or two. Also avoid GENH and use TXTH, as GENH is outdated and hard to guess data is original or not.
Like EHT_shiniori says, you can post just them in the forum instead of joshw, if you are somehow offended about those rules or myself. I however think they are a minor annoyance and it's better to collaborate with others in building a good quality archive.
(if one can appreciate the amount of time and work that others have put into vgmstream, joshw and the queue, maybe following some rules isn't that much)
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