Anyway, the reason I bring this up, is to show that Meridian has been developing emulated audio software for years (minus nearly all of 2005). About a month ago, he released a new GBS plugin for Winamp. The plugin is far from feature rich, but it's very very accurate. It sounds great, and in most cases sounds better than any other GBS player I've ever used (I think the only exception to this is Meridian Classic).
Check out the new GBS plugin here. While it may be a little CPU intensive (it takes about 30% of my 2ghz AMD CPU), it sounds great. As I said, it's not feature rich, but hopefully that will change as Meridian continues to work on it (which I certainly hope he's doing. Check the forums). Hope you enjoy this great GBS player. Mouser X over and out.
edited 12:57 PM EDT July 19, 2006
I managed to parse a track. The way Bandai decided to have the music loop sucks - they just made it play over and over then have it fade instead of giving it any sort of real loop points.
It's in my PSF2 directory. (FFOP-2.psf2)
edited 10:33 PM EDT July 25, 2006
Fetchez le test-track!
Wario Ware Inc, broken and with only 256 of about 500 or 1000, is up at GSF Central.
In the meantime, check out my PSF2 dump.
edited 7:55 PM EDT August 1, 2006
Do you have any plans on ripping the other ratchet games?
I've tried to rip the Ratchet games using some audio rippers (like MFAudio and PSound), but most of the files on the DVDs are hidden :(
edited 8:32 PM EDT August 1, 2006
Also, I'm gonna need to start work on We Love Katamari since nobody wants to bother with it.
Lastly, Jak and Daxter has been abandoned for now. My notes and everything are in the "Scrapped Sets" folder.
edited 9:52 PM EDT August 1, 2006
Jak & Daxter and Jak II both seem like they would be hard to rip into PSF2 files. Most of the songs use several soundbanks depending on the situation/location in the game. Jak 3 and Jak X: Combat Racing are both streamed. I've ripped all 4 of those games to mp3 too (1 and 2 manually and 3 and X using MFAudio).
I also ripped the Jak X demo. It has different "demo" versions of all of the songs used in the final game. There are some songs in the demo not used in the final game and vice versa (There were also a couple of unused tracks on both DVDs).
Speaking of streaming: Did anyone bother with examining Star Ocean 3? I mean, the music quality is almost too high for being sequenced...
Also, if you can, then send me Star Ocean 3, and I'll take a look at it. My email is certifiedunknownfile@spamisforlosersgmail.com.
(without the spamisforlosers)
We Love Katamari is 66.1% downloaded.
Star Ocean's download is paused.
Ratchet and Chank is showing its first signs of looping.
Jak And Daxter is still in the scrap pile.
Last but not least, antifreeze pwns.
...62 MB. FOR ONE TRACK. :(
I predict it'll be about 850-1000 MB when finished, which will whip Katamari Damacy's record for biggest psf2 set.
Stay tuned.
While we're on the subject of PSF2, check out Sir Sabin's PSF2 Dump. He's ripping Dragon Ball Z: Sagas to PSF2 form, and this'll be his directory for when he needs some space. Currently, a WIP version of his set is in there.
In the meantime, megaupload:
part 1
part 2
part 3
edited 2:54 AM EDT August 6, 2006
First off: We Love Katamari is in the PSF2 dump. Be light on bandwidth or I will delete it from the server.
Secondly: I finally figured out Mawaru Made In Wario. It's going to take about 8 to 12 hours to optimize if my predictions are correct. CPU use is 55% on average.
A while back I ripped WLK using MFAudio and here are the names used within the US version of the game. Some of the names I got from the "The Complete Sounds of Katamari" CDs (those songs are marked with a @).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Sounds_of_Katamari
Here are the names of the Unknown files:
301 Unknown.psf2 = Dan Don Fuga
302 Unknown.psf2 = Meadowtronic
303 Unknown.psf2 = One Chip March
304 Unknown.psf2 = Do Re Mi Katamari Do
305 Unknown.psf2 = Starlight Jamboree
306 Unknown.psf2 = Results *(I'm not to sure about this one, it's not in the game's song list)*
307 Unknown.psf2 = Cosmos Salon
308 Unknown.psf2 = Campfire Karamari
309 Unknown.psf2 = Love & Peace & Katamari *(The PSF2 sounds a bit echoy)*
310 Unknown.psf2 = Fly, Mr. Turtle
311 Unknown.psf2 = Mr. Ghost & Mr. Stress
312 Unknown.psf2 = Kuttsuki Taro *(Million Roses song)* @
US version names:
102 Katamari on the Rocks.psf2 = Katamari on the Rocks (Arrangement)
107 Bluff Spirit.psf2 = Bluffing Damacy
109 Angel's Rain.psf2 = Angel Rain
114 Disco Prince.psf2 = Disco [star symbol] Prince
115 Scorching Savana.psf2 = Sunbaked Savanna
117 King of King's Song.psf2 = A Song For the King of Kings
202 Katamari on the Rock.psf2 = *(I didn't run into this one when ripping the music off the DVD)*
BTW, here are other songs I got ripping the DVD (these are not in the game's song list):
Super Taiko Damacy (long) @ [unused]
KANEWOOD EDGE ~ Morning @
KANEWOOD EDGE ~ Day @
KANEWOOD EDGE ~ Star @
Royal Rainbow
Super Taiko Damacy (short) @ [unused]
edited 2:34 AM EDT August 7, 2006
edited 3:14 AM EDT August 7, 2006
edited 9:28 AM EDT August 7, 2006
Mawaru, like Wario Ware Inc, had a double sync function. One was to keep the music playing and the other was to keep the music synced. So, it would be something like this.
ldr r0, songnumber
bl sappy_songselect ;this game uses the generic song select
playloop:
bl vsync
bl mawaru_soundmain
swi 2
b playloop
And I'm still not going to rip the US version of the game.
@AENIGMA:
Thanks for the tag corrections. Since Mawaru Wario is still optimizing (only about 210 of the 1023 have been done so far!) I'll repack the set later.
edited 10:40 AM EDT August 7, 2006
Well, it took 12 hours 30 minutes to clean songs 1 to 256. At this rate, I estimate cleaning will take a total of 52 hours. In the meantime you are free to twiddle your thumbs and listen to the broken Wario Ware Inc. set.
UPDATE: I've stopped optimization for the set. It's taking far too long due to all the smaller tracks (eg, sound effects).
Katamari-related:
Revision 3 is yet to be packed and uploaded.
Jak and Daxter-related:
My IOP compiler sucks ass.
edited 5:34 PM EDT August 7, 2006
It allows you to read the headers of ads files, and is tested with Megaman X7.
It supports displaying headers, and writing PSF2 INI's based on them.
Snaffle it
God Hates VAGs also required hcs's help. It can take two mono streams (specifically headerless VAG), and turn them into a stereo stream with a 16 byte interleave. This is needed for my Ratchet and Chank 2 set which sucks in mono, but I decided to release it to the public. Still, it is not perfect, but it's damn close.
Fred Phelps sucks
edited 11:13 PM EDT August 8, 2006
Anyways, progress on Ratchet on Chank 2:
I managed to whip together two programs, one for making stereo streams out of the two VAG files, and one for getting the VAG files out of the WADs.
On another note: Creepy new forum sig:
edited 12:07 AM EDT August 12, 2006
EDIT: It's up. Go get it!
edited 9:17 AM EDT August 15, 2006
- Crash Bandicoot Twinsanity (I found the stream bank on my computer after about a year of it sitting around)
- Ratchet and Clank 2 (OBVIOUSLY!)
- A bunch of sets from davironica
Anyway, the progress is damn slow on WW. I might give up in the middle of it too, since it's frustrating. Hmm, now that I think of it, maybe it would be easier with an emu, being able to pause and all. Anybody have a savefile with everything unlocked? I'd appreciate that.
# There was once ASM Code Here
Anyways, update: We Love Katamari has been delinked due to bandwidth abuse by some fucktard. I still am waiting for this to appear on Zophar or elsewhere.
edited 5:47 PM EDT August 17, 2006
I'm sorry!
vsync is at 80206F4
song select at 8020284
And I shall now continue work on it.
SUPER MARIO LAND 2!!!!
It's available here
After hours and hours of hacking away at the GBS player, I found out that there was an easier way.
And here it is.
EDIT:
And they say two sets are better than one.
So that's why I also bring you:
WARIO LAND!!!!
Go fetch!
edited 2:24 PM EDT September 3, 2006
New GSF Sets from Dias!
Airforce Delta Storm
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster's Bad Dream
Summon Night Craft Sword Monogatari
Jarel Jones also sent in new tags for Metroid Fusion and Metroid Zero Mission.
Also, here's one a lot of you have been waiting for. Someone named Asho sent me an email with tags, so I put them up. What set is that you ask?
MAWARU MADE IN WARIO!!!
Is here
Any requests for songs from the American version will result in me telling you that you are gay, so don't bother.
Josh is working on a much less sucky version of the format, and I hope to get working on some rips soon.
In the meantime, tacos.
here is samply. Yes, i know about the bugs and crashes and memory leaks. The mame.dll needs to be in the winamp main directory.
edited 8:03 PM EDT September 7, 2006
"UF, you hadn't optimized the Mawaru GSF pack. Saves about 6 MB of the space, so if you'd be interested I could put the file somewhere. ;)"
Updated!
Also, for you JoshW:
Mighty Pang files
edited 4:35 PM EDT September 8, 2006
Good Job!
No US songs? Wel, I guess I can record them off my emulator. ^_^
Still no news on the sequenced Gamecube format?
So, keep your eyes open on GC emulators. I've heard good things about Gekko, but it's not out yet. Do a search on emutalk for more info on Gekko (or Gecco, I don't remember). Though, I wouldn't get my hopes up on that one either. I haven't heard anything that implies it will successfully emulate the GC SPU (not that it won't, but I don't have any good reasons to beleive that it will. At least for the first release).
Hope that answers that question.
[EDIT](still part of the one above) Apparently UNKOWNFILE knows a little bit (more even?) about the software end, but there's still not enough, if any, information on the hardware to make a format (and player) likely. Sorry for my misinformation. Mouser X over and out.
edited 11:54 PM EDT September 9, 2006
I absolutely *despise* the US version of Mawaru Wario. It is so bad that it's close to what 4Kids Entertainment is doing to One Piece - that's how bad it is. At least it keeps the original music though.
Also, there is a specific sequencer used - it's called JaiSeq, and runs using AW sample banks. It's been used in Luigi's Mansion and ZeldaWW.
I actually like both version of Mona Pizza. It's impossible to do a direct translation of the lyric but it still kept the "meaning" of the song. XD
And speaking of that song, ever since loveemu created a NDS strm to wave converter I was able to rip the song from both version of Touched!.
EDIT: Since this is about other audio format I just wanted to say that I was surprise that Animal Crossing DS have two strm audio. The title music was recorded at 47605Hz. Doesn't that mean the NDS SPU is outputting audio at 48kHz?
edited 11:25 PM EDT September 10, 2006
- an excess of puns
- censorship of alcohol (becomes juice or milk)
- missing elements
- Americanized themes
Look at this and tell me what the two things have in common in terms of editing.
For me, I just look at the edits between anime and games differently. Or rather, you can say I look at the experience from each one of them. When I watch the Japanese and the English version of One Piece, I get two different experience of the anime. When I play both Japanese and the English version of Twisted!, I get the same experience from the game.
Anyway, maybe that's just me. I'm not saying you're wrong. I don't want to go off topic either so I'll stop here.
edited 7:14 PM EDT September 11, 2006
Converting src/layout/dualhovu.lay...
Unable to open output file 'obj/mame/layout/dualhovu.lh'
make: *** [obj/mame/layout/dualhovu.lh] Error 1
make maketree
and to make the driver go
make gamedriver.dll
The in_mame plugin only works with out_wave in Winamp 5. If it is played with out_ds, the music will be choppy/garbled.
Also, I tried it in Winamp 2 and if you use out_wave, the music is choppy/garbled like out_ds on Winamp 5, but if you use out_ds nothing will play.
You probably know of this already, but just in case you don't, here you go.
Thanks for the great format.
edited 11:45 AM EDT September 21, 2006
Ultra64 Sound Format | USF Central: http://www.hcs64.com/usf | HCS Forums: http://www.hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php5 | The rip resounded from the hills with a mighty "PANG!"
[21:14] <JoshW> ive decided automagic drivers are a bad idea
[21:15] <hcs> so where is this crazy train headed?
[21:15] <JoshW> crazy train?
[21:16] <hcs> this crazy in_mame train
[21:16] <hcs> and MSF in general
[21:16] <JoshW> dunno yet. Im gunna fix the sound problems and make an interface for config and im gunna put it up
[21:16] <JoshW> then i gotta make makemsf
[21:17] <JoshW> and do mighty pang
[21:17] * ChanServ sets mode: +o hcs
[21:17] * hcs changes topic to 'Ultra64 Sound Format | USF Central: http://www.hcs64.com/usf | HCS Forums: http://www.hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php5 | The rip resounded from the hills with a mighty "PANG!"'
MSF forum thing here
Highly Unorthodox v1.0 Alpha
edited 11:37 PM EDT September 27, 2006
In short, this requires knowledge of C and MIPS assembly language, which I am in no mood to look at. UNKNOWNFILE under and in.
edited 5:49 PM EDT October 12, 2006
edited 7:23 PM EDT October 12, 2006
Anyway, thanks in advance for any help anyone might have to offer (marioman, I'm looking at you). Mouser X over and out.
Man, I haven't been ripping in a while. I feel tempted to get ripping a GSF, but school has been slowing me down.
I have been wondering for a while what has happened to Meridian's site. It has been down for about two weeks.
I don't know of a way to contact Meridian, but I do happen to know that he has been VERY busy because of a job promotion. It may be that he just hasn't had time to go to his site lately and doesn't even know it is down.
You may be able to get Meridian's E-mail address from someone at OC Remix. If they don't know, I guess we will just have to wait until he fixes his site.
cline at rollanet dot org
meridian at overclocked dot org
Due to lack of time, I can't email either of those right now. Though, I will later if I get the chance. Hopefully one of them is still valid, and that he checks it somewhat frequently... Mouser X over and out.
So far, I have a program that is able to convert a GBS into a GB ROM. The algorithm isn't perfect (titles and such aren't read yet), but the results are nice.
You can nab it here if you use Windows, or you can also click here for a Mac OS X flavor which should work on computers supporting Universal binaries.
Usage is (omit the ./ if you are using Windows):
./gbs2gb base
Replace base with the file you wish to convert without the .gbs extension.
Enjoy!
The algorithm is based off of ugetab's VB converter of the same name, which is full of unneeded junk. This should clean it up a bit ;)
~ Sir Stupcarp
edited 2:04 PM EDT October 22, 2006
- Since the goomba library is somewhat inaccurate, emulation of certain sets may suck.
- This currently leaves behind a bunch of temporary files which might be useless. In which case, feel free to delete them.
So far, I have only built this on Windows. A Mac OS X version might be coming soon, who knows...
source code
win32 binary
Also, ugetab says that there are some bugs with converting certain sets (Deja Vu), so he'll be making his own version. I will continue to maintain this one.
edited 5:35 PM EDT October 24, 2006
edited 10:03 PM EDT October 24, 2006
I also recommend getting the old version of in_gbs from Zophar.net to help you locate the problem. (The sampling rate on it is correct.)
Hope that this helps.
--EDIT--
Oh yeah, something else. I find it slightly annoying that the extension of the GBS file is added in the program. This makes it impossible to run the program by dragging GBS file onto a program shortcut.
edited 2:23 PM EDT October 25, 2006
The two sets came from here, so I hope he doesn't mind me mirroring the sets here.
Anyway, if there's anyone interested in finding Meridian related stuff, please spread the word/link, because I doubt it's widely known where it can be found.
Also, to add to the list of email addresses I had earlier, it seems that the list should include this:
cline at rollanet dot org
meridian at overclocked dot org
oneeyedbluemonkey at hotmail dot com
Perhaps someone wants to try these out? Mouser X over and out.
edited 12:00 PM EST December 23, 2006
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PPLNZ7SD
Some things to remember:
- Renaming files isn't tagging.
- Tagging guidelines are at the bottom of the GSF Central page.
edited 11:08 AM EST December 31, 2006
I'm going to be busy as hell over the next few weeks but I will still find the time to be a lazy ass. During this time, I will be taking requests for GBA games to rip over the spring break.
Also, since Josh has disappeared, I will do work on 1080 when I have the chance.
This time he is targeting the Super Nintendo, which is very cool, considering that SPC has been in need of a replacement for quite some time.
The Lost Vikings 2 and a modded SNES9X
now off to work for today!
My current target is Sonic the Hedgehog but only because the assembly code is on the internet. I'm aiming to compress the whole ROM so that only needed code is included.
There is a 1 second pause before the music starts so a silence suppression function in Winamp will be A+.
EDIT: Just got Gens compiling. Yay!
edited 12:03 AM EDT July 19, 2007
And yes, I searched. As far as I could tell, it's not on Wikipedia yet. Though, the "Swiss National Science Foundation" is on there. I just thought I'd point that out. Mouser X over and out.
>instead trying a lower-end console called the
>Genesis. This is because it's been in need of a
>good format and everyone who makes up a format
>for the console ends up logging the writes to
>the sound chip.
Charles MacDonald (http://cgfm2.emuviews.com/) has a semi working format and a few rips done, he's just waiting with the release till he'll fix some of bugs.