I have a big problem because all channels are mixed together into one single .wav file.
What i want it to do is to record all 24 channels into 24 separate wave files.
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10MB sample of one of the files
Duck Tales Remastered
I get a stupid error:
[C:\Users\Miles\Desktop\SILENT]
Extracting VH
Error processing <C:\Users\Miles\Desktop\SILENT>. Error received: Cannot create "C:\Users\Miles\Desktop\SILENT" because a file or directory with the same name already exists.
Either I'm stupid or VGMToolbox is.
I recently opened a topic over at TCRF about a kiosk version of Star Fox Adventures that was included in one of the interactive multi-game demo discs (july 2002). This version seems to date the final release by a few months, so it's a pretty neat find given it's history.
Anyway, immediately upon extracting the demo, I noticed a H4M video in the root directory titled "crap starfox.h4m". The file name just begs the question what it could be. But no matter what I tried, I can't get it to play and it doesn't seem like the game itself plays it at any point (I can't find references to Hudson's format anywhere else in the game). I tried using the H4M player dol file and it didn't work for me, and I tried to load the file by replacing the H4M in a few games (Bomberman Jetters and Kirby) but it would just not play the video and go back to whatever menu follows the video that normally plays. I tried using h4m_audio_decode but I get the error "expected nonzero audio srate and frame size". The video itself is a HVQM4 1.3 format. It's only present in this version of the game.
You can grab the file here.
There are also some other odd files included in this version, but only this version. MPEG.bin is a a pretty big file, but it seems to be obfuscated or compressed in something since I don't know what format they would've likely used. Star Fox Adventures uses a combination of LZO and ZLIB for model files, but I can't tell what format they could've used for some of the files that aren't used as there's no header to note. TRACKS.bin is the same deal, afaik.
Another thing I wanted to note is that Star Fox Adventures would eventually use the MusyX sound engine for music and sfx playback. The game actually included the project, pool, sample directory, and sample data files used for MusyX. Unfortunately, as I've read the documentation for the format, they strip the original "non data" versions of the files of useless information and compress the data for use with the game itself. However, this version of the game includes a leftover directory of this conversion process (after the music composer converts their project into data and before the programmer makes use of it in their program). Inside the directory contains a header file of labels for the music and sound for two versions of the game, and converted project data. In the final version, they take all the converted data generated from MusyX's tools, remove the last letter from the file extension, and threw it in the 'audio' directory. The sequencing data, which would normally be left as individual files after conversion, would get thrown in 'midi.wad' - which doesn't appear to be compressed in anything. But this version of the game retains each music sequence data as an individual file. Again, these files are never used, but are leftovers of an early version of Star Fox Adventures (but not Dinosaur Planet, though - since it's evident that DP didn't use MusyX). Not that any of what I just said was important or useful, but I thought that maybe it would be worth pointing out.
I figured I'd mention some of this stuff besides the H4M video in case anyone with more knowledge of audio/video formats was interested in looking further into this version of the game. You'll find more information in the topic over at TCRF.
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https://mega.co.nz/#!YZMXzaCI!Qy0F1l...RgIcuQ1gIKP2-M
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Ex C:\new folder
newfolder.(file)
newfolder.(file)
newfolder.(file)...
How do i make it keep the original file names?
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I've been using Neon64 on my Everdrive 64 very much lately. My roommate and I play Contra and Battletoads all day. We really love the emulator and we thought it would be nice to play Famicom Wars as well but mapper 10 is not implemented. According to
iNES Mapper Grid Mapper 10 is nearly identical to Mapper 9 (which is already implemented). So I thought it would be only a few lines of code to get mapper 10 working. However I have only basic knowledge of C and Assembly and nearly no knowledge of emulation so I have a few questions:
- I thought of copying the mapper 9 code, change a few lines so it matches mapper 10 and make Neon64 know that it now supports mapper 10. Is it really that "simple"?
- Are there any newer version of the source code than version 1.2a? SVN repository is empty.
- How to compile this? hcs' U64ASM doesn't work on Win8 so do I have to install an older OS (probably Win 98) or are there other possibilities?
- How does the emulator determine which mapper
it should use?
I'm sure that more questions will pop up but that's it for now.
I am porting the plugin from audacious 2 to version 3 and most of it is done. But there are some problems I ran into.
First. When I close the application it says
String not freed:///path/to/file/here.*
Now I don't know where this message comes from. I know that close_vfs is being called twice (even though I don't know why).
Second. Isn't there a better way seek than render everything from the position you are to the point you want to go?
Third. The return value from get_vgmstream_play_samples is always the same. Regadless how I change the looptimes. Why is that?
Other than that everything works quite good (for now).
Nevermind, clicking the bookmark a 2nd time got Firefox to load it proper.
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ww2ogg works with files in one directory ignore subfolders, if use this batch:
for %%i In (*.wwise) do "%CD%/ww2ogg.exe" %%i --pcb packed_codebooks_aoTuV_603.bin
But me need subdirs converting. How it do? Tries myself without results.
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Run through ww2ogg using the command line: "ww2ogg WwiseDefaultBank_Music_Admin_Revisit_00000000.wav"
ww2ogg does not throw an error and appears to complete successfully. However, the output file doesn't work in Winamp or XMPlay. Also, it crashes revorb.
I've tried both the codebooks files included with ww2ogg and all command line switches, but the nothing helps. I don't immediately see any codebooks files in the installed dirs either. Could they be in a .upk archive?
Here's some samples. Thanks for any help.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-H5bKHG1tODQVBCSmctejJJN00/edit?usp=sharing
Help me.
They came out as .XMA1 .XMA2 .XMA3 etc
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Dropbox
What tool can be used for these files and how do I use it?
Also how do I look inside them to spot headers if that is relevant?
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Who is able to help me i pray on God for him:)
Take a look please on theese files.
I used addxmariffheader alpha script bms to a Common_BAO_0x00006e06 file(without extension) then i convert with towav.exe Common_BAO_0x00006e06.xma.
Result distorsioned wav.
Please help help help help!!!
Sample
Common_BAO_0x00006e06.rar (65.2 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!MB0XAIrB!GfpUEjNo-eVOxYQEtXaxTBmgxp8y8QEJEfmCN-uC6Zw
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I'm currently working on "The Bureau: X-COM Declassified" and I've encountered quite a few RIFX-header ogg files that produce gibberish when run through ww2ogg & revorb:
http://www.putlocker.com/file/B61F1D463AB14D7B
Is this a new variant or is there something wrong with the source files?
Any help is highly appreciated!
Kind regards, Timo
I have absolutely no clue what any of this is supposed to be as it sounds like high pitched squeels when imported as any form of PCM in Audacity
These files came from Terminator: Future Shock
Since the game uses the same engine as Daggerfall it was really trivial to get these .RAW files out of the BSA, but I'm not sure if I got them right or the RAW files are using some strange audio encoding...
Anyone have a clue?
EDIT: Okay from glancing at the other BSA's there's either some form of compression or encryption going on... probably going to have to get a debugger attached to the game and see how it accesses the files.
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Thanks
In this thread Alpha said it can be decodable with towav.exe but look what result converting with towav:
Nfs ProStreet Sample Pc.rar (14.0 MB)
https://mega.co.nz/#!8U1XXKqD!EKlTcwVAIc4wDxQkg40BsUjococo4KcOFS3LKvHRSY4
Help me Timo or someone who has made make playable this xa format.
Thank you!
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After some googling found this pack, sounds neat.
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Is there a safe way to convert it to 2048 byte sectors, or does there exist a much better tool than what I'm using?
Tool in question is: "unCD-ROM.exe" by Alexander Trush http://trush.da.ru
The .cpp was provided with this but I'm not sure if it's an easy task to modify the program to read 2352 images.
EDIT: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/unCD-ROM.cpp There's the CPP if anyone can figure it out before I do...
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I'm sure these are the sound effects used in the game though, anyone have a hint on what I can do to decode these?
From what I can read in the odd footer at the end of each FORM is, apparently the ratio of compression is 22:1...
SDX22:1 Squareroot-Delta-Exact compression
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/fx.aifc
ww2ogg doesn't recognize the chunk type from the WAV file when I try to input it.
Now, if I use the OGG file instead and rename it to .WAV and then use ww2ogg on it, it will decode.
But Revorb crashes on the resulting file :/
Here is a sample :)
http://www.sendspace.com/file/bvmwqc
Secondly, when I add a proper .ss2 header to any of them and convert it with vgmstream, I get half of the normal runtime. I think it has something to do with the channels because when I set it to be 1 channel, I get the proper runtime, however, I KNOW this game's music is not in mono. I believe it is also noteworthy that if I set the channels to 3+ I get an incrementally shorter runtime.
Here have a sample:[url]http://www.mediafire.com/?zdhrc3zaz7wox5b[/url]
15 Battle ~ Drill [DATA_0001_00].minipsf
DATA_0001.psflib
DATA_0000_VAB.psflib
To:
1.SEQ
1.VB
1.VH
DATA_0000_VAB.psflib
Converted to:
JC1.exe
Then conveted to a single psf file using:
VGMToolBox. PSF Maker. PSF Stub Builder Defaults.
PSF-o-Cycle can't replace the driver on (1.psf) with (15 Battle ~ Drill [DATA_0001_00].minipsf) .
Upgrade Driver.
No driver info found.
In updating this library, I've also spent hours updating the vio2sf fork of DesMuMe into a multi-instance safe statically linkable library, which is here, and replaced the vio2sf foobar2000 component with a variant of my own xSF plug-in based on it, with the component repository page set to automatically push updates to anyone using the original component.
One need only look into the foo_input_vio2sf repository or the Cog repository to see how to use psflib to process a 2SF/MINI2SF set into the ROM/state blocks necessary to feed the vio2sf library, and how exactly one needs to operate that library.
Oh, right, and I added MIDI support to Cog, so now there's a nice Mac player which supports proper MIDI playback, although it's not terribly configurable yet.
Only just came across this forum, since I've been busy extracting sounds from video games, but I'm having difficulty with a particular format atm.
I have successfully extracted GRID 2 .xma's from their .bdl package using ea_multi_xma & towav.
I originally had this tool to convert Forza 4 engine sounds from .fsb to .wav... The folder contained, quickbms, addXMARIFFheader bms script, xmatest, a batch file, Makefile, and of course to.wav
I have downloaded several tools, xma_parse & ww2ogg but I'm not quite sure how to use them.
My initial reaction was to open cmd.exe, then cd to where these tools where, and then run;
ww2ogg C:\Users\thisismyusername\Music\gamemusissoundfile.xma
or replace ww2ogg with xma_parse, but this didn't give any results, so if someone could please help me that would be great.
My thoughts are I should probably add the files for those tools beside towav or something, and I know I'm going to end up hitting myself because it's dead simple.
Thanks if you help!
BkS
P.S. I've search through the forum, and found a thread which had a tool (but was removed) for converting the xma's. Is that still around?
This is thread
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samples: music097.scd
http://www75.zippyshare.com/v/59597049/file.html
Thought I'd share with you this. I'm still working on it at the moment (as you can tell by the small amount of uploads).
My goal here is to collect as many of the non-player moments from games. This includes pre-rendered FMV, in-game movies and anything that'd fit under that category. I'll also be trying to do these in the best quality I can, often higher than the original console could output.
I've got quite a lot to get through at the moment from all generations of consoles, so I'm interested to know what you think and maybe later down the line I'll take requests. As for now, I'll slowly be adding more and more as I get time to do them so keep checking every now and then.
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Here is a .sgd sample:
http://www.sendspace.com/file/m1yrin
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I'm trying to replace the music on the adx2.cpk file from the PC version of Naruto storm 3 Full Burst. I have extracted the cpk and I have 2 files : bgm.acb and bgm_streamfiles.awb.
In PES 2014 file explorer I can see all songs in the bgm.acb file but it's only 35 kb... So I guess the songs are in the bgm_streamfiles.awb but when i extract it with vgmtoolbox i have 74 .hca files but in the bgm.acb file, there is 147 songs...
And I can't convert .hca with hca2wav 0.2.7, I have "error reading hca header"
Someone helps me pls ?
Game_cut.dat
I've been trying to compile a code on Linux (probably only works on Linux, I don't know, but there's a port of the "V64jr send util" for Linux). I'm always getting wrong syntax errors or a "mips64-gcc: cannot execute binary file." error.
So, I tried asking now the original creator of this: "ZZT32" which was a pretty good Zelda 64 hacker and pretty good at hacking other games too.
Generally, this is "a debugger which hooks into N64 games (similarly to Datel's GameShark software). Includes code searching, memory viewing/editing, memory breakpoints, and PC breakpoints." Difference is just, you can actually get it inside the SM64 ROM and use it in an emulator, if I understood correctly.
You can look yourself through the Debugger and download the snapshot from: "Download Snapshot" to get it. Could anyone try to compile it with Linux? (You may requiere GCC -> MinGW, etc. Try it please.)
Here
Try to cd to "n64db-code-172-trunk/n64db" and then "make". If it works, it should ask for the "SM64 ROM" (the original US version). If it does so, go to "n64db-code-172-trunk/rom" and put the SM64 ROM in there and call it: "MARIO64".
Maybe someone have used that debugger already and knows how to fix this. If anyone wants the error messages, please say so.
Greetings,
Cajetan.
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"The ordinal 12384 cound not be located in the dynamic link library mfc90.dll"
I instaled MVC2008 and even manually put the dll in system32 and wow64.
What the hell. Its not even working on my laptop. Same error.
I was hoping to find a simple command line tool that is free to redistribute to do this without having to install Audiokinetic Wwise.
Youtube Link
Bandcamp Link
AAAND Just because it fits way too well I'm going to copy the tag example to the right of where I'm typing this:
I'm looking for a programmer that can code a custom patching tool for a PS2 game. The tool must be able to add as many patches to the game as the user wanted. Most tools nowadays have the limitation of adding a single patch. I need something that can be easy to use and have no limitation for patch adding.
how much would you ask?
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use ww2ogg20 get unknown chunk type
It's some kind of WII ADPCM I think???
Samples: http://www48.zippyshare.com/v/27870829/file.html
Thanks for supporting the Winamp community for over 15 years.
I could use some help.
I've been thinking for a while on making some forum topics (elsewhere) on GBA games, and for some I really want to be able to include the music via a browser-agnostic plugin (Flash, not Javascript). Playing with GBAMusRiper got me thinking how nice it would be if I didn't have to record from hardware or convert from GSF - being able to play a MIDI that draws from a soundfont hosted somewhere like FileDen would be really great, even if not entirely true to how the game would sound coming from an actual system.
But, to my knowledge, there aren't any Flash plugins that allow for that...?
Well, if that can't be done, it seems to me like the next best thing would be converting from MID to some module format, which would still save space compared to mp3/ogg and should allow for proper looping. My questions are thus:
1. What would be the preferred way to create a module from a MIDI file and the relevant bits of an SF2? Open ModPlug Tracker?
2. What do you folks think the best choice among Flash-based MOD players is? (I'm pretty sure they exist, yeah?)
3. Are there be one or more specific MOD formats that would best reproduce the same kind of sound as using GBAMusRiper extracted data with kode54's Foobar plugin?
While I'm on the subject, the vintage SPC2IT converter is still the only real way to do something similar for SNES music, right? I'm sure it has a number of downsides when it comes to more elaborate games, but are there any major drawbacks to it that I'm forgetting/ignorant of?
Well, thanks for any input or insight.
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Now I have managed to get the music files from the PC version, but they are 32khz and the console version feature more high quality audio files.
Apparently, the PS2 version has one big 1.7gb bigfile.bin where the music could be stored, but there is absolutely no way to open that archive by any conventional means.
Maybe somebody can help? Please?
PS: The music format this game uses is .FSB
Here's a screenshot. Am i doing something wrong?
I have to mention that i have no problem creating .pos files from xma files using xma converter. But if i use the standalone pos file maker it doesn't create anything.
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Here this to help:
uint Signature 0x3154444B ("KDT1")
uint Size of this file in bytes
uint ???
uint # of tracks
for each track:
ushort Size of track in bytes
for each track:
byte*trackSize Track event data
where
uint = unsigned 4-byte integer
ushort = unsigned 2-byte integer
Known event codes:
FF FF End of track
Post here if you find more info.
Here is the KDT I'm using with its corresponding VAB.
https://www.mediafire.com/?aprz1slm1ep8pmo
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Does such an app exist, or would it be easy for someone (not hinting at myself, I suck at programming =p) to do? It would be most helpful. If not, is there any way at all to find it out manually?
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it contains
MP5_Str_00001.pdt
MP5_Str_00002.pdt
MP5_Str_00003.pdt and so on (they can be converted to wav files using VGS Converter)
MP5_Str.pdt contains all music pdt files
Any way to extract this pdt file?
Another interesting part, is if you use MilkyTracker, you can see some interesting commentary from the composer for the instrument names. I have not heard .xm used on N64 games before, anyone know if used anywhere else?
It is a nifty soundtrack. You can restore the main menu Japanese song to US version pretty easily if desired, just copy in compressed area, I'd think.
I found two .ssf songs, and while I can play them fine in Winamp, I can't convert them.
Any idea what should I use?
It works great and is much easier to work with than BrrTools, all you have to do is drag & drop an spc file into split700 and it will output a bunch of brr samples or use the batch file to let it do that automatically and then drag and drop the brrs into brr2wav to get the wav samples with the original loop points, heres an example
Aquatic Ambiance.
Is there a way to implement this to wrap all wav files and spit out a soundfont during the conversion process? Would be a very useful tool. :P
Danke.
\AudioRes\Seqs\JaiArcS.arc
Just post an extractor...
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The pointer information is located at the bottom where the "2AF8" values appear.
There are two more values between those which I presume are the pointers for each audio, but I can't figure them out yet.
So, experts in HCS Forums can you give me a clue or tell me how to locate every audio exact address?
Here's the container in question:
http://tinyurl.com/nfvwrhr
Thanks a million :D
Seen newer Ubisoft games (South Park, AC4 Black Flag, at least PC versions) use .bk2 video files that are maybe updated bink things? Could play the old .bik just fine even with MPC-HC. How to play these new ones?
So far, I did manage to get an audio file ripped and had to convert it to .genh (the file name according inside the data proposes that the music uses .int format, which plays bad when extracted using this name, but does better in .mib. Even then with .mib prefix, it needs interleave adjustments to improve quality, which .genh provides).
Audio sample of (assuming) HM12_P1.genh EDIT: Frequency is wrong, should be 48000.
The audio (along with gameplay data) is all coming from an approx 3.51 GB file called "OS.SNP". Oddly, there is another file called "OS.FAT", and it's pretty small file size, but it gives detail of names. Since I have little to no experience with messing around of VFS, I'm curious if this even a VFS table or not :(
OS.FAT
I would guess it relates to "OS.SNP", but in the beginning of file, I don't remember coming across "/", "archive", or "033paracelsus". I assumed that the first thing I came across from "OS.SNP" was "HM12_P1.int".
My big problem now, is that after the offset data from the audio above, there are now formats that I think maybe relates to movie format, AVF and VSF formats. So, of course the problem I have with this is that I lack scripting knowledge. I'm looking for a way to understand how to batch process anything starting with the header (so far)...
"4153433120" (ASC1)
"4153433140" (ASC1)
"4153433160" (ASC1)
"41534331E0" (ASC1)
...and copy anything all the way to EOF. EOF in this case consists of either coming across any of these flags...
"41564631" (AVF1)
"FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF"
"454E4443000000000000000000000000" (ENDC)
...if "7364337374727633" (sd3strv) ever comes through the process, make a new file.
So, my series of questions.
1. Was this game ever ripped?
2. Does OS.FAT look like a VFS?
3. I need general advice about learning batching process. I never tried it before, but I need to in order to get this process down reliably.
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In short, MDScene, as it is as a site, will cease to exist on April Fools Day. This is NOT an April Fool.
i try xa2wav, VgmStream
both not working
Anyway, I need some help with creating/modifying some sets for Hoot. First, the MT-32 version of the existing Genocide 2 set plays the version of "Opening 1" that's used if the sound driver is booted into 'Internal' mode and not 'Internal & MIDI', so it's essentially missing a track. I'd like to know how and what to modify to correct this, as I only have a basic understanding of how Hoot works.
Second, the music data in Genocide 2's special 8-minute demo is a bit different that what was included in the final game. Since it uses the same sound driver and has quite a few files in common with the existing G2 set, I would try creating a new XML entry, but it doesn't have any CMU files and I essentially have no idea what to make the offset values for each ROM and track entry.
Here are the files from the demo for anyone who might be interested.
Genocide 2 Special Demo.7z
Finally, does Hoot support the FM-Towns' YM2612 and Ricoh RF5C68 chips? I know that there are already a few sets for FM-Towns games, but all of those happen to be Falcom games that use the YM3438. If so, then I assume that it's also possible to create a set for the Genocide Square compilation.
I'd appreciate any information anyone can give. Thanks.
Going by the sound of it in-game I'm tempted to think it uses some form of ADPCM encoding... could anyone take a whack at these files and somehow extract the sample streams out of it?
Here's the music files:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/GunmetalMUSIC.7z
The demo of the game for debugging purposes can be found here, the format is identical as it's the same engine:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/GUNDEMO.ISO
It's in ISO format so one may load it into a VM for a quick xcopy deployment but this game runs just fine under any flavour of windows as it uses pure DirectX. (GunDX.exe obviously)
When running GunDX I'd advise enabling the ACT fixes "SingleProcAffinty" and "GlobalMemoryStatusLie" or the music wont play at all.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mcj1oyhq4x8trxs/dsf_tr.rar
Playing these gets shit crazy (especially 07BG30C.dsf)
Using:
http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_ht
Set from:
http://dsf.joshw.info/s/Shenmue%20%5bShenmue%20-%20Ichishou%20Yokosuka%5d%20(1999-12-29)(Sega%20AM2)(Sega).7z
Any solution for this?
According to FFXIclopedia, it's a medley of four parts, namely:
1. Legend-The Crystal Theme
2. Memory of the People
3. Memoro de la Stono
4. Memory of the Wind
However, I can only see it split up in to three sections. As far as I can tell:
Memoro de la Stono is from 1:35 - 4:45
Memory of the Wind is from 4:48 - end
Legend-The Crystal Theme starts at 0:00, and Memory of the People ends at 1:33.
But when does "Legend-The Crystal Theme" end, and when does "Memory of the People" start?
Anyway, I've been doing some research on the game these past few days. Thanks to PCSX2, MHS (Memory Hacking Software) and a hex editor, I'm starting to get fairly confident that SOUND.MGF may just be sound effects and some... other data, which at the most controls how/where the sequenced music plays. So it looks like there's really nothing of much interest in it (unless you do want the sound effects).
The top chunk consists of S-FORCE (.sfc) files, which is a 3D sound format. I noticed that when I nulled the "forest.sfc" file (0x49F800 in SOUND.MGF), the growls that usually appear when you pass through the forest are no longer there. Everything else seems intact.
The bottom chunk (0xFC6000) contains .sdb files. These, as kind of previously mentioned, seem to just control where/how music plays, but I have no idea how they really work. I guess they could be sound banks of some kind...
So even if someone did extract the data of SOUND.MGF, you'd still have to figure out a way to play/convert the stuff... And I don't think anyone knows anything about it. In fact, this is the first time I've heard of S-FORCE. I only found two games that apparently utilize it: Silent Hill 2 and Kingdom Hearts II. I also found a press release regarding S-FORCE for whoever cares.
If someone thinks differently (or even knows) about the SOUND.MGF file though, by all means prove me wrong. I'm not saying I have to be right, but it is an educated guess.
Also, the reason I'm calling chunks "files" is because the game actually does have a virtual file system kinda thing. You can see all the paths in the main executable (SLUS_202.28). Here's a structure and an example...
Table 1:
ulong address of sub-file attributes (pointer to main file or larger chunk of it, offset, size) (->table 2)
ulong address of sub-file path (->table 3)
Table 2:
Each entry has one of three initial values before it's loaded into memory. So, depending on that value...
ulong 0x03 00 00 00 -- physical file
ulong address of filepath (->table 3)
ulong offset (sector) of physical main file
ulong size (bytes)
ulong 0x23 00 00 00 -- virtual file
ulong same as for physical files
ulong same as for physical files
ulong same as for physical files
ulong 0x50 00 00 00 -- virtual sub-file/chunk
ulong address of entry of main file or a larger chunk of it (->table 2)
ulong offset (bytes) in the file/chunk
ulong size (bytes) of sub-file/chunk
Table 3 contains null-delimited filepaths only.
It probably seems a bit confusing, so here's a demonstration - let's find out in what file forest.sfc is stored, as well as its offset/size:
Prerequisites: Silent Hill 2 (the disc itself or an image file), PCSX2 and MHS.
First off, I feel I need to make it clear that when the game's main executable is loaded into memory, a lot of values are changed, stuff is loaded above it, etc. So the addresses in the static executable doesn't really make much sense unless the game is loaded. Also, you need to know that the address in memory at which the actual game data begins, is going to be 0x20 00 00 00 and not 0x0. This is because MHS reads physical memory, and not exclusive PS2 memory. So you need to account for that, where needed, by adding 0x20000000 to addresses that are stored in memory by the game and subtracting from addresses that aren't stored in memory by the game. Lastly, keep in mind that all values are big endian, so you'll also likely need to reverse the byte order when using functions such as goto (Ctrl+G).
Start by fully loading Silent Hill 2 in PCSX2. Then open the process for PCSX2 in MHS. Now make a string search for forest.sfc (make sure "aligned" and "match whole word only" are NOT checked). Open the first address in the results with the built-in hex editor. Note the address of the start offset of the path (if you're unable to see the whole path, use goto (Ctrl+G) and enter an appropriate negative decimal number to backtrack from current position, as you won't be able to simply scroll up unfortunately.) Go back to the main MHS window and make a pointer search (exact value; make sure "find only static pointers" is NOT checked).
If you get multiple results, open the first dynamic (non-green) address in the hex editor. You should be somewhere in table 1 now. The 4 bytes to the left of the found value should be the pointer for the file's entry in table 2 (where all the good stuff's at). Use goto to get to the address.
Now you should be somewhere in table 2. For this particular case - forest.sfc - we can see that it's a sub-file/chunk entry (0x50 00 00 00). Note the offset and size values of this entry for now, as those are the attributes for forest.sfc. Next, let's go to the address being pointed to. This is another sub-file/chunk entry, which simply defines a larger chunk at the top of a file. Again, note the offset/size values. Let's again proceed to the address being pointed to. We finally end up at an entry for a physical file. Let's see where the pointer value takes us. That should have landed you at the filepath of SOUND.MGF!
So, going by the info in table 2 and 3:
- forest.sfc has offset 0x49F800 and is 0x08F63A bytes in size
- the offset is relative to a chunk defined from 0x0 to 0xFB6000 (i.e. the offset is still 0x49F800, duuh)
- in file "SOUND.MGF"
In short: 0x49F800 to 0x52EE39 in SOUND.MGF is forest.sfc
Here is the full filepath table in a human readable format: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48454461/misc/fparr.txt
Now, if only someone could be awesome enough to figure out how to make PSF2s with those module files, I'd be forever grateful.
edited 2:05 AM EDT April 12, 2014
edited 4:01 AM EDT April 15, 2014
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Many threads I come across here are either
"Yes it is doable" with a vague or unhelpful reply
or
"No it is not doable"
I know it is doable.
Is there anyone here who still has any recollection of how to do this? Greatly appreciated!
edited 9:19 PM EDT April 18, 2014
edited 9:19 PM EDT April 18, 2014
edited 12:22 AM EDT April 19, 2014