My problem is that ww2ogg can't seem to convert them. It'll spit out files a mere fraction of the size that end up sounding like junk data.
There were also a few sound effects in the sound banks that couldn't be converted either (some with the extension .wav but with a RIFX header), but the cutscene audio is my main concern.
demo_stream.zip
(Sorry the archive is so large; I compressed the whole directory into one zip.)
edited 11:37 PM EDT April 25, 2014
STR files from Rule Of Rose can be scanned in CubeMediaPlayer which recognizes them as PS2 ADPCM but during playback the audio is distorted. Changing interleave in options didn't fix it.
Then I tried ADPCM Player v1.44h and PSound but they didn't come up with anything.
Also I know there a way to deal with these kind of things by slapping a GENH header onto files but I'm a real noob at that. Did some experimenting in VGMtoolbox with genh creator using various presets but I still have no idea how it works.
Here's a sample file:
https://mega.co.nz/#!YkEViBiJ!7GY4bj_9jNkKAfJ67Aej-y-mgU0eeLMOSSh-yoeMNcA
There are a few games for which I'm trying to compile a music tracklist straight from the ROM. For an example of what I'm talking about, see the list I found at ROMhacking.net for Super Mario RPG on SNES that I've included at the bottom of this post.
I'm not trying to rip music exactly--just locating it in the ROM and seeing what the particular game counts as actual music (i.e. not sound effects, not audio for movie files, not every single variation/instrument arrangement of every melody, etc.). And I want to see what order they're arranged in the ROM. (I don't pretend there's some higher purpose for this--I just enjoy seeing how files and things are laid out within game ROMs.)
The main game I'm interested in seeing this for right now is Paper Mario (but I'd also like to look into SSB, OoT, MM, and SM64 at some point). Instead of asking one of you more experienced folks to make such a list for me, I want to ask how I can do this myself? I'm a complete newb when it comes to hacking/digging around inside ROMs, but I want to learn.
The tools I have are the ROM itself, Project 64 (as it's an emulator, I don't know how useful it will be for seeing files inside the ROM), and a hex editor known as HxD (is there a better hex editor I should use?). What else do I need?
For Paper Mario, I downloaded the USF rip from Zophar's Domain. According to the readme on that set from hcs, if I'm reading it right, there are 143 tracks that are considered valid songs. I'd really like to know what those 143 songs are, and what order the game puts them in. What do I need in order to figure this out? Can anyone help me?
Anyway, for a great example of the sort of thing I'm looking for, below is a list of BGM songs for SMRPG that I found at ROMhacking.net (byte reference in one column and track title in the other):
00 Silence
01 Dodo's Coming
02 Mushroom Kingdom
03 Fight Against Stronger Monster
04 Yo'ster Island
05 Seaside Town
06 Fight Against Monsters
07 Pipe Vault
08 Invincible Star
09 Victory
0A In The Flower Garden
0B Bowser's Castle (1st time)
0C Fight Against Bowser
0D Road Is Full Of Dangers
0E Mario's Pad
0F Here's Some Weapons
10 Let's Race
11 Tadpole Pond
12 Rose Town
13 Race Training
14 Shock!
15 Sad Song
16 Midas River
17 Got A Star Piece (part 1)
18 Got A Star Piece (part 2)
19 Fight Against An Armed Boss
1A Forest Maze
1B Dungeon Is Full Of Monsters
1C Let's Play Geno
1D Start Slot Menu
1E Long Long Ago
1F Booster's Tower
20 And My Name's Booster
21 Moleville
22 Star Hill
23 Mountain Railroad
24 Explanation
25 Booster Hill (start)
26 Booster Hill
27 Marrymore
28 New Partner
29 Sunken Ship
2A Still The Road Is Full Of Monsters
2B Silence
2C Sea
2D Heart Beating A Little Faster (part 1)
2E Heart Beating A Little Faster (part 2)
2F Grate Guy's Casino
30 Geno Awakens
31 Celebrational
32 Nimbus Land
33 Monstro Town
34 Toadofsky
35 Silence
36 Happy Adventure, Delighful Adventure
37 World Map
38 Factory
39 Sword Crashes And Stars Scatter
3A Conversation With Culex
3B Fight Against Culex
3C Victory Against Culex
3D Valentina
3E Barrel Volcano
3F Axem Rangers Drop In
40 The End
41 Gate
42 Bowser's Castle (2nd time)
43 Weapons Factory
44 Fight Against Smithy 1
45 Fight Against Smithy 2
46 Ending Part 1
47 Ending Part 2
48 Ending Part 3
49 Ending Part 4
edited 12:29 AM EDT April 27, 2014
Inside the JaiInit.aaf, there's a section with information about JaiSeq.arc: (ANSI codes)
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After translate them to hex codes:
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72 65 73 73 2E 63 6F 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 02 23 C0 00 00 12 20 54 6F 74 61 6C 2E 63 6F 6D 00 00 00 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03
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6B 6F 2E 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 02 37 C0 00 00 56 00 46 69 73 68 69 6E 67 5F 45 76 65 6E 74 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 02 8D C0
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6F 6D 2E 63 6F 6D 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 03 28 40 00 00 10 E0 42 61 62 79 44 65 6D 6F 2E 63 6F 6D 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03
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63 6F 6D 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 04 52 A0 00 00 02 00 42 6C 75 65 44 65 6D 6F 2E 63 6F 6D 00 00 FF FF 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 03 00 04 54 A0
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All I need to know how should I use them to split the JaiArcS.arc
Great thanks for help!
More information about this goes here.
Download the two files:
JaiInit.aaf
JaiArcS.arc
edited 10:20 AM EDT April 27, 2014
When I convert it to .brstm (using brstmmake), I get TONS of quantization noise. There will obviously be some, I know, but for this particular wav, it's incredibly noticeable, whereas I've never even heard it happen in other songs. I need more info.
.arc = these can contain just about anything, but for the "sound" directory, all of them contain only "pool", "proj" and "sdir" files, respectively
.sam = samples
.son = sequencer data.. I think
If you're curious, you can extract the internal files from the .arc files with MarkGrass' excellent tool, BioFAT (SVN6 anyway).
The sdir files contain DSP header data (such as sample rate and coefficients) and some other data. They contain two tables, which are terminated by 0xFFFFFFFF. As for the pool and proj files, I can't figure those out. If someone knows though, enlighten me/us!
sdir structure:
Table 1 (each entry is 32 bytes)
16 No idea.
16 Reserved? This is always 0x0000.
u32 Sample's offset in the .sam file.
32 Reserved? This is always 0x00000000.
16 No idea. This is always 0x3C00.
u16 Sample rate.
u32 Total number of RAW samples.
u32 Loop start offset?
u32 Loop end offset?
u32 Pointer to entry for this sample in the next table.
Table 2 (each entry is 40 bytes)
u16 Size of the first chunk of the entry. This is always 0x0008.
48 Not sure what's stored here.
u16[16] Coefficients.
The sample extraction script can be downloaded here.
It's written in PHP (I know, it's a dumb language to use for a task like this, but it's so easy to use), so you'll need PHP. I'm sorry if it's any trouble. Getting the script running is not a lengthy process, even if you're unfamiliar with PHP. Simply get the binary package (windows.php.net for Windows users), unpack it anywhere, then, in a command prompt/terminal use the CD command to change the current working directory to the directory in which you extracted the binaries.
To actually run the script:
php [path...]script_name.php [path...]bio0_sound_dir
Example:
php C:\SamExtract.php C:\bio0\sound
If you come across a bug, please do notify me! I honestly wasn't sure if I should share the script in the first place, due to the harsh criticism it may or may not receive. This is the first time I share the full source code of a project, so please go easy on me.
Finally, some important things to note...
1: The first six samples of voice_1.sam contain only null bytes, and very few of them. As a result, your player (foobar2000 in my case) may crash if you try to open them, so please avoid these samples if possible!
2: The script won't add any loop values to the header [yet] as I'm not sure if those are standard loop start/end offsets in the sdir table (or if they're even loop values at all). Mainly because some of them don't make sense to me, like here for example -- the start offset (assuming that's what it is) is higher than the end offset(?) in a lot of cases. I also don't think they're offset+length pairs. So, if anyone figures it out, certainly do let me know, or post an update of the script even.
I get a i586-mingw-32msvc-gcc: command not found
error 127.
Can someone please compile the winamp dll for me,
thanks
EDIT: ...Nevermind, after two hours, it's up. Please delete...
edited 9:55 PM EDT May 5, 2014
Along with this work was continuing attempts to gain access to a faithful recreation of the music tracks, however awful, from the N64 game. On the tail of the recent success interpreting the binary files extracted from the ROM as a sort of hybrid data type between N64 standards and the 1st PC game I took a try combining the samples and midi rips. This did not go well. I took another tactic and started tearing through the USF creation example from 'KIG'. While it didn't match up very well, it got me far enough along to make some major progress.
And without further exposition on why I did this, the fruits of my labor thus far and the reason for my post:
First, the questions:
What do I put in the genera tag, the game genera?
Is there any way to remove a 1 second or so gap at the start of every track? It is part of the track, though not played when the track loops around a 2nd time (aside from some slight volume differences at the start the 2nd loop is exactly the same, and as tracks are all over a minute and sometimes it does not mesh well, not needed). The only way I can think is to create a save state manually for each and every track with the $a0 register already set, since I would lose my entry point to change the register value in "PJ64 USF" (which, btw, is a pain in the arse to get working). I'm just starting to think leaving the 1 second gap (that is also in the midis if you rip them) is the best course of action, but I want opinions.
How do I know if my rip's CPU use is low enough. I suspect it is fine given Winamp's CPU change is not even noticed by task manager when playing, but it is just something I want to be sure is good knowing how much of a pain it was to get the game to emulate properly in the first place (it really still doesn't).
What is the proper method to release these rips, where do I submit them, to whom.
Are my timings good enough? (They are all within 1 second of correct, I tried to use a precision of 0.01 seconds but I swear it kept changing to 0.1 and on a rare occasion the thing wouldn't play exactly the same if skipped right to the end. Basically, it was a matter of trying to prevent you from hearing the first note of a loop that is unnecessary and sometimes doesn't mesh well in the first place.)
What should I do with a few samples that are used by the game as music? These are: the Climax Group card sound, the Crave Entertainment card sound, the Title Screen sound, the Success sound, and the Failure sound. I figured I would distribute the WAVs of these tracks with the miniusf files and usflib, at least for the Battlezone community, but I wonder what the proper action is in the "USF Scene".
Some tech info:
if (PROGRAM_COUNTER==0x80036820){
if (!runyet) {
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x2972C/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 2 // nothin'
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x3F3D0/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in __osDevMgrMain
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x3C6D8/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 4 // nothin'
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x525EC/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 5 // nothin'
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x2AB94/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 6 // nothin'
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x2A8FC/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 7 // nothin'
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x29AF4/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread 9 // message queue chewer
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x2A4B0/4]=0; // set jump to NOP in thread A // message queue item shifter
((DWORD*)((g_MMU->Rdram())))[0x2AA44/4]=0; // set jal osSendMesg to NOP in thread 8
/*paste the save state as menu item code here for lack of an easy function in the current PJ64 source for this*/
}
runyet=1;
}
Entry point for ripping the USFs with PJ64 USF is 0x80036820.
Final filesize of miniusf files and usflib is 336,546 bytes, they play well in Winamp under 64th Note.
I worked with a fellow BZ community member in tagging the tracks and used his descriptions in the comment tag. The names are not final, they are based on the names given to the tracks when they were recorded directly from an N64 by another community member, probably based on their order of occurrence in one of the three campaigns. There are 3 files that we suspect are unused by the game, though we need to look into it harder. Zealous direct recordings didn't find them after all.
And last but not least, the current nearly complete package
edited 8:17 PM EDT May 8, 2014
Anyways, the stream rip I did was awkward. It's sadly not a raw rip, kinda like the SFEX3 rip I had a while back. It's modified and I wouldn't felt comfortable uploading it at this state. So now, I want to start back again with The Bouncer.
There are the two test files, one that's modified, and one that's raw.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/yun0q272r1rln38/The+Bouncer.rar
So the modified one removed every line consisting STRL and STRR, while the raw maintains the line each certain amount of blocks. Unfortunately, I wouldn't know the answer to upload this set in it's rawest form. I was looking to see if .genh supports ignoring certain offsets or headers to a certain degree, but no luck.
The other issue is sequences. Thanks to one of the new versions of VGMTrans, The Bouncer sequence could be properly played and extracted, and it helped me understood a bit about it's WD/BGM. Well, not entirely...
FFX and FFX-2 uses WD and BGM, and unfortunately, I can't seem to use their FFX.irx or iopfix irx files respectively onto The Bouncer set. When I try to do that from both games, it gives same results. Sequence data itself is fine, but the audio data it outputs is incorrect and it plays odd PCM noises. Below is the result, and it includes what is in the DATA folder of the game.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/g337f1ju0ra3rs1/The_Bouncer_Sequence.rar
Help would be appreciated!
edited 4:52 AM EDT May 14, 2014
I tried to export the music files from the new MMO PC game called Wildstar. Seems they use BNK extension to store the music files. I successfully(?) extracted the Music.bnk file from the archive and then extracted the files from the bnk container with bnkextr.exe but I received RIFF files in an unknown format. Tried to convert with many converters with no success. Your ww2ogg also gives me the error message: "parse error: RIFF truncated"
I uploaded one of the audio files to here:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/n4n2lcxlfcaf72s/.002.wav
From MediaInfo:
General
Complete name : D:\GAMES\UJ\2\.002.wav
Format : Wave
File size : 2.72 MiB
Duration : 1mn 24s
Overall bit rate : 271 Kbps
Audio
Format : In Development
Codec ID : FFFF
Duration : 1mn 24s
Bit rate : 271 Kbps
Channel count : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Stream size : 2.72 MiB (100%)
Please take a look and see if you could identify the format / help with a converter. Thank you in advance!
edited 10:07 AM EDT May 19, 2014
Edit: I'm blind, delete this.
edited 2:55 AM EDT May 20, 2014
diffbcstms.rar
http://www.mediafire.com/download/424bo33mofi0lle/converted.zip
Help????
I'm trying to get the music files from 4 GameCube wrestling games:
WWE WrestleMania X8
WWE WrestleMania XIX
WWE Day of Reckoning
WWE Day of Reckoning 2
My search led me to this forum post: http://hcs64.com/mboard/forumlong.php?showthread=9185, about mpq archives and ydsp formats. It looks like you guys were able to successfully extract the files to be played, although I'm not sure how. I tried following a lot of the links but they are all dead now.
I'm wondering if anyone would be kind enough to help me out. I can re-upload what I believe are the archives that contain the music files if needed.
Thank you all in advance!
Edit: Okay, Linda^3 Again works but it just takes a while to actually play for some reason.
edited 6:15 PM EDT May 27, 2014
bms to midi converter.
miniusf to midi converter.
minigsf to midi converter.
mini2sf to midi converter.
And a wav extractor for (usf,gsf,2sf)lib.
I sent Grant copies of the soundtracks last night and he said it was okay for me to tell some people about the impending release, but also to note that it could take some time as there are 461 tracks to sort through in total! :D
I hope you guys enjoy this news as much as I did!
Banjo Kazooie Preview
Banjo Tooie Preview
Donkey Kong 64 Preview
edited 1:35 AM EDT May 28, 2014
Thanks in advance.
PD: BTW, I also miss the Poké Flute in any RBYG release...
Dino Crisis (PS1)
DBZ: Legacy of Goku II (GBA)
Medabots AX: Metabee/Rokusho Version (GBA)
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky (DS)
Zone of the Enders (PS2)
Zone of the Enders: The 2nd Runner (PS2)
Pokémon Colosseum (GameCube)
Also, I don't need native format music, but playable music from Fable II (XBOX360). How can I achieve such? All I really want is the pause menu music.
Also, my original account, Vittas, won't log in. How can I get help with this?
edited 11:46 PM EDT June 1, 2014
edited 2:55 AM EDT June 2, 2014
edited 2:56 AM EDT June 2, 2014
edited 5:29 AM EDT June 2, 2014
There are a few more I'd like, though, if anyone can help? I'm looking for BCSTM sets (or even sequence files) from these games, if possible:
- Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
- Ocarina of Time 3D
- A Link Between Worlds
- Kid Icarus: Uprising
Thanks!
Anyway, since the BCSTMs of this game are out now, I figured someone out there might know how to access the text as well?
BMS source
And the user instruction written by gamplegusts:
"What I did was I installed xampp, then I went to the C:\xampp\htdocs folder. There is where I extracted the contents from BMS source into. In there you will have a folder called midi_class_v175, which is located in C:\xampp\htdocs\source, place all the contents in the newly extracted source folder which has midi_class_v175, place everything out of it into C:\xampp\htdocs\source once done doing this. Go to your xampp control panel; click start for apache module. Now you should be able to write localhost/source/ into your address bar of your web browser and see it working. Clicking on any bms there should convert it and once it does click download midi. "
Unfortunately, I couldn't work it out.
All the bms I want to convert are these.
From Luigi's Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy 1&2.
Please, if there is anyone could convert them and send the midi here. Great thanks a lot!
edited 3:22 PM EDT June 9, 2014
I'm desperate for answer's here.
Tried running as Administrator and still nothing.
Am I doing something wrong or it's my OS fault?
If I'm reading this documentation correctly (and that's generally unlikely), the file directories at joshw.info (like hoot.joshw.info) are automatically generated and have "fancyindexing" enabled.
What I'd appreciate someone clearing up for me is where, exactly, the information for use with AddDescription might be entered in such a situation. Any attempt I make to clarify the question just reminds me how little I grasp of the concept, so I guess I should just go directly to: would it be possible for someone with uploading access (like Knurek) to add a file which could be edited to fill out descriptions like, say:
AddDescription "Hydlide 3: Forgotten Subtitle - 198x - T&E Soft - BEEP/PSG" hydlide3_msx.zip
...and that would be that? Or would some deeper level admin actions be required?
Alternately, can using index.html and automatic index generation be combined for similar effect?
I've pulled the .xa's from the disc, they are located HERE, however it appears from the retail rips already on Josh's archive site, that each .xa file is compressed and contains 8 singular .xa files (if that makes sense).
I'm hoping someone can help with the ones I uploaded or could point me to the tools I need to extract them and then convert them into .wav files. Thanks!
Apparently mSound holds everything so any ideas on how to extract the samples from the Aw files?
edited 10:00 PM EDT June 16, 2014
Here PS3 pam video streams all work for now,but some audios don't.
They demux-ed to .lpcm audios, or .genh files.(i know they're same audio with different header.)
Both .lpcm and .genh can't play or decode, while i already have k-lite codec mega on PC.
I'm so curious, isn't .lpcm a common format??
Need help, thanx to everyone!!!
edited 12:21 PM EDT June 17, 2014
http://slick.cokeandcode.com/tools/gm2m040.zip
http://slick.cokeandcode.com/tools/dgguspat.zip
How to convert ogg to wav mp3 ?
http://rghost.net/56498633
edited 7:29 AM EDT June 21, 2014
I'm honestly dumbfounded by the fact that they used standard ogg files in the sound dat archive. It just blows my mind since I've never seen a wii game use something other than a sequenced format or adpcm variants. I'm even more dumbfounded I didn't spot the fully intact headers in the dat.
Anyone else have any stories of overlooking the smallest of details and coming back to the format years later and feeling like an idiot?
I set the track to a long enough amount and did seek to 50:00 on the results theme in Winamp, but this alternate sequence never triggered. Is there a way to edit the underlying miniUSF to fix the original Nintendo coders' error or trigger this unused pattern?
The game uses a sound format where every song has an SND file and a GSW (in Gamecube) or VBC (in PlayStation 2) which contains the actual audio data.
Can these be decrypted somehow?
Spider-Man (Gamecube):
https://www.sendspace.com/file/cwc7bi
Spider-Man (PlayStation 2):
https://www.sendspace.com/file/rguqde
Some example pcks to look at are uploaded here: https://mega.co.nz/#F!vckzCCSb!LfRnJDj233NGMb57HmnyOA
Some samples
I'd appreciate any help converting these
If anyone could possibly help me, i've been trawling the net trying to find someone who knows how to properly rip audio from a PS2 game, Tekken Tag Tournament on the PS2 to be exact. I have had zero luck. Try MagicIso, Isobuster etc... None worked.
I then came across this forum: http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=5999&sid=78eef3fb0bad073382931007b84643d7
Several posts make reference to a piece of software called FJFU, which is downloaded from this site here, hcs64. Link: http://www.hcs64.com/files/fjfu.zip
Could anyone possibly tell me please how on earth I use this software to open a PS2 bin file? :( I haven't a clue i'm afraid!
Any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated :D Thanks for all your time!
Sounds natural and perfect with little to no reverb! :) :) you can check out his youtube channel here. Were working together on a soundfont per song project for super mario sunshine and I'm helping him loop the samples.
Don't expect a bunch of soundfonts to come out soon as this may take a long time (I'm not going to give an estimate) to complete depending on how his program works, the Super Mario Sunshine Editor. Which reminds me, if any programmer here is interested in helping him with his program get in contact with him.
For now here are my own remakes with the samples:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8rHgE_H8aJsMUZMWWxPOGszSkk/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8rHgE_H8aJscjJCV2t5WjFnMVU/edit
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8rHgE_H8aJsY2pHa2RuSU1KRzQ/edit
And if anyone wants to help out in any way leave a comment and enjoy. :D
Once again they don't play in vgmstream. Want to use them for a donkey kong country remake project :D the only infomation online is from this thread, not very much I know :( any help would be nice. Thanks in advance.
edited 8:20 PM EDT July 2, 2014
I have been focused on achieving the lossless soundtrack of Luigi's Mansion(GC) for months.
However, I just keep posting question everywhere and doing nothing right.
Achievements? Just the informations from FurryBob. And I know nothing about codes.
Right, I have totally done nothing for this. And I just keep worry about this everyday (Since I have searched the soundtrack for years, and I always wanna achieve a goal which is too hard for me as soon as "possible"). I had thus far suffered from psychical illness......
Few days ago, I decided to give it up and let it go.
I have collected the resources from Luigi's Mansion (SFX Free), Luigi's Mansion Rip (Mostly Complete) and some from the original files.
And created this: Luigi's Mansion Original Sound Version
The soundtrack maybe a little bit lossy, but the tracks are all good.
Here's the Luigi's Mansion SFX Collection (Ripped from JP ver. Since there's more wav. files could be extracted)
And the massive AR codes colletion of Luigi's Mansion.
Also, download all the midis from SMG1&2 (A quarter of them are from here and the rest of them are coverted by myself).
I'm so sorry for unable to do anything for this and every stupid thing I have done.
You could try to figure it out (How to convert the LM bms to midi) if you like to.
BMS convertor & Luigi's Mansion BMS downloading.
There's some information about that in those txt. files.
You could find more information from here and here.
Please Enjoy!
edited 2:06 AM EDT July 4, 2014
All sounds and music have .wma as extension and are laying around in the gamedata/sounds/ folder. Sound effects are RIFF files with things like "fmt " and "data", like you'd expect. They also have XWMA as fourcc and a "dpds" chunk. These play just fine in mpc-hc for example.
The music, however, seems to be headerless. I tried inserting a sound effect header and modifying some values, but no luck.
It was first released on xbox live arcade, so could it be some "xbox format"? I'm not very familiar with what that looks like.
Edit: I uploaded a music file if anyone wants to check it out.
edited 4:51 PM EDT July 4, 2014
Edit: I found a file, in a different folder, that is more to what I'm interested in. pbp_eng_samples.sbs Any info on extracting these sounds.
edited 8:10 PM EDT July 4, 2014
I have some .usm and .sfd videos(.sfd from XB360).
as i know, both .sfd and .usm have the same ODD version of mpeg codec. the only thing i found to play them perfectly is K-lite mega codec pack.
but it can't convert them. TMPG 5 can't decode the right picture, it's messy wrong picture.
what i want is to decodoe the ODD usm and sfd, the ODD mpeg, and convert to normal format.but how?
.usm samples: http://www.speedyshare.com/r3NNx/usm-and-m2v-samples.rar
usm info: Matrix custom, GOP M=3, N=13
plz help! thank U!!
edited 10:59 AM EDT July 7, 2014
Second, this topic's been eating away at me.
Ever since the gamerip of the game's demo, the songs in the game have had instrumentals done by whoever made said rips for each song featured. But then in "Disc 2" of said rip, every track had its different sequences ripped separately. (Leads, Vocals, Bass, Rhythm, etc. all split)
That's how it is in the game, everything just kinda' merges or assembles itself.
Considering the music files are in .aax, the files are easy to listen to but some parts sound quieter than others, which got me thinking: just how does one isolate each and every part of the music from those files? I am kinda new to this whole thing and I was thinking of snagging some bits to experiment with sampling, but it's been over a year that I've been trying to find something that works with no dice.
Would be great to know how the rippers did it, and I haven't had much luck understanding through VGMToolbox. Still very new to this whole thing.
Many thanks in advance.
And I have tried with some dats, I have put the .scd at the end of some files, follow the instruction in the command prompt but it turned out the sound only have the peep sound.
I don't know how get into the right path. Hope someone can help me with it?
Here are some example of the original dats, maybe you guys can figure out how to do it. Thank you so much.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/5sbxzm1ppoxs903/AACLIxqua9bAyCN3ofywva-za
It's not giving me any explanation and I just tried all sorts of in_vgmstream versions already.
What the hell is going on?
edited 1:37 AM EDT July 9, 2014
EDIT: I just tried older versions of Winamp and vgmstream wont load. test.exe works fine though. I am seriously confused what's happened...
edited 2:33 AM EDT July 9, 2014
I'm not sure if it's an archive or a multi track audio file, but I can't find anything to open it.
I've uploaded 3 PS2 and 1 Wii example of the file if someone can please check it out.
[https://mega.co.nz/#F!ZwAhDLQR!8NdnaJlXjZSmkUJ81Zo1Sg]ASF Examples[/url]
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/45822870/icebigstream.7z
Recently I noticed a few game music stop working.
For example, using the latest Foobar 1.3.2 Win 7 x64 and the latest vgmstream plugin r1034
Games using frequencies like 22050Hz, 28000Hz for example don't work and I just get a message
"Unrecoverable playback error: Unsupported stream format: 22050 Hz
LUNAR 2 ADX
This is when I play Lunar 2 and a couple other games with odd ADX files. Previously they all worked..
Odd thing is normal ADX work, like Sonic Mega Collection which uses 1536kbps 48000Hz..
Has something broken or changed recently to cause such issues ??
I was also unable to play music from the WWE lwav fils in the WWE .pck file extension thread..
Same error message as above......Hmmmm
Perhaps is a Foobar/vgmstream issue only as I heard winamp users don't have this issue
Thanks.
Marcus
edited 12:28 PM EDT July 12, 2014
[QUOTE]Turns out, the BMS files are played directly from RAM in real time without any modification (i.e. interpretted) and don't have "tracks" per say, but more like subroutines, as in the file is being scanned in several independent locations at once. Each subroutine is assigned an ID number (which may or may not be unique) and has their own polyphony, note history, jump history, delay timer, etc. What I've seen most people treat as a header is not a header, but rather just another part of the music file that ends up "spawning" the other subroutines.
The AAF file is loaded into memory when nintendo.szs is loaded and decompressed at the beginning splash screens (since it needs the coin sound effect and images) and kept there for the entire game. w1stLoad_0.aw is loaded immediately after nintendo.szs, while w2ndLoad_0.aw is loaded at the title screen (along with mario.szs and others) and kept in memory for the rest of the game, as well. In other words, what you were told was right:
* BMS files tell the audio engine what notes to play with what bank and program numbers.
* WSYS files tell the audio engine where each sample is in specific AW files (since those are just raw sample data pools) and specifies information such as what note a sample represents, loop information, sample rate, etc.
* IBNK files tell the engine the articulation of an instrument, along with which samples it uses and how the samples are mapped to the notes.
So the flow chart would presumably be: BMS -> IBNK -> WSYS -> sample data -> synthesis engine -> output[QUOTE]
This is the way super mario sunshine works at least so the format is probably similar in some other games as well. I had a feeling it worked like this for some time now myself, very useful information. :D
Check out his newest video of his BMS to MIDI Exporter in action here. Still have a long ways away but I will have the honor of being the first person to beta test it :D so I'll let you guys know how that goes. :)
He's coding it in C# and it should support windows 7 and 8 (maybe) he's doing some tests on XP (all 32-bit) so you will need Net 4 or 4.5 if you want to use it whenever it is ready and if you can run this then your fine and you will need the original super mario sunshine rom, I'm not going to tell you where to get it but just that it has to be either ISO or GCM with the exact file size of 1,459,978,240 bytes. Luckily I already have it. :)
So far we have the bms for Super Mario Sunshine, Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2, Luigi's Mansion, Twilight Princess, Donkey Kong Jungle Beat, Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures and Double Dash but we are looking for more so I've also made this a BMS Collection Thread for you guys to post all of your bms you have collected over the years or just now :P
Although Super Mario Sunshine is a priority and comes first all these would be good to test. ;)
Thanks again you guys~
edited 2:53 AM EDT July 17, 2014
The music in Tonic Trouble (made by the same composer as Rayman 2) is in a very obscure MPEG format. You can find some examples here.
This is all I have figured out in the past few months:
It's segmented and packed in MPX bigfiles, each segment starting with a 4-byte number and then "2RUS", the 2 standing for the amount of channels (the game tries to play the files in mono when you change it to 1). The 4-byte number always seems to be bigger than the segment size in bytes.
Does anyone here have any idea how to play these files? Thanks!
PS: I've even provided the DLLs that play these files on XeNTaX if that can help somehow.
I'm trying to extract the seperate XMA files from the 6 channel XMA files from the DJ.fsb files from the DJ Hero 2 Pendulum DLC.
I've managed to extract the 6 channel XMA files but can't get any further (this is where I need help)
I've tried various different methods of extracting the 3 XMA files from a 6 channel XMA but always get stuck at the parts where hex is involved (I tried to learn about hex and get a better understanding of it but gave up)
Now, I like a challenge, but I feel that I've spent far too long on this.
If someone could give me some guidance on exactly how to do this (I have no idea at all) or even do some of it (or all of it :P) for me, I'd appreciate it very much!
Here are the files I'm trying to work on:
FSB's (password for these is "nos71RiT":
1st song: http://www.mediafire.com/download/uxgdx46zx8vfior/1stSong.fsb
2nd song: http://www.mediafire.com/download/fdt49j6j4v7fvuc/2ndSong.fsb
3rd song: http://www.mediafire.com/download/1347xx9udwifbxy/3rdSong.fsb
6 Channel XMA Files I extracted from those .FSB files with fsbext:
1st song: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/oaowdalq9c7033q/tmpC497.tmp.wav.xma
2nd song: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/xji2ey02l93wkzk/tmp50A7.tmp.wav.xma
3rd song: http://www.mediafire.com/listen/rjh1o8sq1sbw5cv/tmp7219.tmp.wav.xma
Thanks!
Files: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34957059/Wii%20U%20BFWAV%20files.zip
My work currently: http://gbatemp.net/threads/wii-u-audio-dumping-research-thread.369481/
It's a bit of a work in progress, but it's slowly getting there. Hopefully this can be added to VGMstream sometime soon and have this format out of the way. I'm working on adding these formats slowly, so once RAM dumping is possible, this application will be there and ready to go.
edited 1:58 AM EDT August 2, 2014
edited 2:04 AM EDT August 2, 2014
https://www.sendspace.com/file/9qmgip
Edit: I just realized track 18 "Watch Me Dance!" doesn't loop as it does in the official soundtrack. /shrug
Here's the NSFe with truncated track timing on track 18:
https://www.sendspace.com/file/8tuewi
edited 8:54 PM EDT August 2, 2014
Thxx
edited 8:46 PM EDT August 4, 2014
Sly 1 and 2 have missing files in the iso, if you open it in something like winrar. Sly 3 puts all data in a file called sly3.wad
Sly 1 uses sequenced music, sly 2 and 3 use streamed. My question is, what formats of known streamed music are there for ps2 (or the headers i can search in a hex editor) and is there a way to find sly2.wal (or so it's called in the demo from ratchet and clank)
Has anyone figured out how to rip music from PS4/XB1 games yet?
If so, has anyone tried ripping the audio from NBA Live 14?
I'm interested in the ESPN NBA cues used in the game.
Stuff like the background music in this clip:
http://youtu.be/-uZer_BttVw?t=13m28s
Kind of a long shot, but you guys are the gaming music ripping experts :)
edited 11:01 PM EDT August 6, 2014
The issue i'm having, is figuring out the track numbers for this game. I have the usf rip, but it seems different, because my searches brought up no results. Can anyone give me the proper track numbers? (the ones that the game uses) or a pointer to the table of song pointers?
I tried loading the files in VGMToolbox and the rendered GENH produce static results but if the sounds are mono and at 22050 hz, you can hear some of the sound effects albeit distorted. I tried using the GameCube ADP/DTK 4-bit ADPCM codec but it produces an unplayable GENH unless if I use stereo, which I know is incorrect.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
edited 11:14 AM EDT August 8, 2014
Take the regular enemy battle theme (or "Battle Fanfare" per OST track title) for example. If you open up that track in WindHex, the byte number (02) will appear at the beginning of the third row. But there are a few tracks under 02. Go a row and a half from there (it's always directly underneath a D0), and you'll see a different number. 00 is always the default, and for this example's purpose, track 02-00 is just the regular battle theme with no special beginning. If you alter 00 to 01 (so you have 02-01), it will give you the battle theme beginning with Mario's first strike fanfare. Change it to 02 (so 02-02), and you'll get the foe's first strike preceding, and finally 02-03 will give you just the foe first strike fanfare by itself. (Almost never does this byte value do anything different beyond 03.)
There are not so many variations in most track groups, however. In most cases, you'll have the default theme at 00, then a truncated version (more on that below) at 01, or in some cases 02. In general, further track numbers will just repeat whatever the 00 default is.
Toad Town (the first musical track in the game, located at 00) is an interesting case, in that there is a *third* segment for it! For Toad Town normally, the first byte on the third row in WindHex will be 00. A row and a half later will determine whether it will be the full theme with intro (00) or without intro (01). (02 and 03, etc. default back to the 00 setting.) But a row and a half after that (so the beginning of the 7th row in WindHex) is another byte value, which determines which of the Toad Town variations will play, from 00 to 09.
The purpose of this thread is to help people create as comprehensive a USF set as possible for this game--which is easily enough done since you can edit these byte values in WindHex, then use "save as" to create a new track to play in Winamp or whatever you use.
So below you'll find the tracklist that I have compiled. A note on "truncated" tracks (since there are a ton of them): These tracks play for a while--almost a full loop but not quite in most cases--before the track just abruptly stops. It will sometimes play faster than the default theme too. I imagine these are in the game's data for some programming reason I don't understand. If anyone has any theories on those, I'd be keen to hear them.
Another note: The Goomba Village theme is the default or "filler" theme for this game. Whenever there is a byte value left out of the below track list, it's Goomba Village. (The actual Goomba Village in-game uses byte 10, hence its place on the list.) There are also a few tracks that I as yet am unable to find--I'll go more into those after the list.
Without further ado, here are the tracks, sorted by track group number (OST titles are noted in "quotes" where available).
00 - Toad Town - "Toad Town Theme"
00.00.01 - Toad Town (Tayce T.)
00.00.02 - Toad Town (Merlon)
00.00.03 - Toad Town (Dojo)
00.00.04 - Toad Town (Tunnels)
00.00.05 - Toad Town (Minh T.)
00.00.06 - Toad Town (Fice T.)
00.00.07 - Toad Town (Russ T.) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 1)
00.00.08 - Toad Town (Rowf)
00.00.09 - Toad Town (Toy Box)
00.01 - Toad Town (without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 9)
00.01.01 - Toad Town (Tayce T., without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 6)
00.01.02 - Toad Town (Merlon, without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 3)
00.01.03 - Toad Town (Dojo, without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 2)
00-01.04 - Toad Town (Tunnels, without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 7)
00-01.05 - Toad Town (Minh T., without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 4)
00-01.06 - Toad Town (Fice T., without Intro)
00-01.07 - Toad Town (Russ T., without Intro)
00-01.08 - Toad Town (Rowf, without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 5)
00-01.09 - Toad Town (Toy Box, without Intro) - "Toad Town Variations" (Part 8)
02 - Enemy Battle
02.01 - Enemy Battle (First Strike) - "Battle Fanfare"
02.02 - Enemy Battle (Foe Strike)
02.03 - Enemy Battle (Foe Strike) [truncated]
03 - Event Battle - "Hey You!"
03.02 - Event Battle [truncated]
04 - Jr. Troopa Battle
05 - Final Battle - "King of the Koopas"
05.01 - Final Battle Intro
05.02 - Final Battle [truncated]
07 - Goomba King Battle - "Goomba King's Decree"
07.01 - Goomba King Battle [truncated]
08 - Koopa Bros. Battle - "Attack of the Koopa Bros."
08.01 - Koopa Bros. Battle [truncated]
09 - Bowser??? Battle - "Trojan Bowser"
09.01 - Bowser??? Battle [truncated]
0A - Tutankoopa Battle - "Chomp Attack"
0A.01 - Tutankoopa Battle [truncated]
0B - Tubba Blubba Battle - "Ghost Gulping"
0B.02 - Tubba Blubba Battle [truncated]
0C - General Guy Battle - "Keeping Pace"
0C.01 - General Guy Battle [truncated]
0D - Lava Piranha Battle 1
0D.01 - Lava Piranha Battle 2 - "Go! Mario! Go!"
0D.02 - Lava Piranha Battle 1 [truncated]
0E - Huff N. Puff Battle - "Huffin' and Puffin'"
0E.01 - Huff N. Puff Battle [truncated]
0F - Crystal King Battle - "Freeze!"
0F.01 - Crystal King Battle [truncated]
10 - Goomba Village - "Goomba Village Theme"
10.01 - Goomba Village [fast]
11 - Pleasant Path - "March Ahead"
12 - Fuzzies in Koopa Village - "Fuzzys Stole My Shell"
12.01 - Fuzzies in Koopa Village [truncated]
13 - Koopa Village - "Koopa Village Theme"
13.01 - Koopa Village [truncated]
14 - Koopa Bros. Fortress (without Intro)
14.01 - Koopa Bros. Fortress - "Koopa Bros. Fortress"
14.02 - Koopa Bros. Fortress [truncated]
15 - Dry Dry Outpost - "Mysterious Dry Dry Outpost"
15.01 - Dry Dry Outpost [truncated]
16 - Mt. Rugged - "Mt. Rugged Theme"
17 - Dry Dry Desert - "Dry Dry Desert Trek"
18 - Dry Dry Ruins - "Dry Dry Ruins Quest"
18.01 - Dry Dry Ruins [truncated]
19 - Tutankoopa's Lair
19.01 - Tutankoopa's Lair [truncated]
1A - Forever Forest - "Forever Forest Theme"
1A.01 - Forever Forest [truncated]
1B - Boo's Mansion (Exterior) - "Approach to the Mansion"
1B.01 - Arriving at Boo's Mansion
1B.02 - Boo's Mansion (Exterior) [truncated]
1C - Boo's Mansion (Interior) - "Boo's Mansion Theme"
1C.01 - Boo's Mansion (Interior) [truncated]
1D - Gusty Gulch - "Gusty Gulch Adventure"
1E - Tubba Blubba's Castle - "Tubba Blubba's Castle"
1E.02 - Tubba Blubba's Castle [truncated]
1F - Escape from Tubba Blubba - "The Castle Crumbles"
1F.01 - Escape from Tubba Blubba [truncated]
20 - Shy Guy's Toy Box - "Shy Guys Toy Box"
21 - Toy Train Railroad - "All Aboard!"
22 - Toy Box in the Dark
24 - Jade Jungle - "Jade Jungle Theme"
24.01 - Jade Jungle [truncated]
25 - Inner Jungle
25.01 - Inner Jungle [truncated]
26 - Yoshi's Village (Coast) - "Welcome to Yoshi's Village" (1st Movement)
26.01 - Yoshi's Village - "Welcome to Yoshi's Village" (2nd Movement)
26.02 - Yoshi's Village (with Intro)
27 - Search for the Fearsome 5 - "Search for the Fearsome 5"
27.01 - Search for the Fearsome 5 [truncated]
28 - Raphael the Raven's Theme - "Raphael the Raven"
28.01 - Arriving at the Raven's Tree
28.02 - Raphael the Raven's Theme [truncated]
29 - Mt. Lavalava - "Hot Times in Mt. Lavalava"
29.01 - Finding Mt. Lavalava
29.02 - Mt. Lavalava [truncated]
2A - Escape from Mt. Lavalava - "Escape from Mt. Lavalava"
2A.01 - Escape from Mt. Lavalava [truncated]
2B - Star Way Opens
2B.01 - Star Way (Ascent)
2B.02 - Star Way (Descent)
2B.03 - Star Way - "Star Way"
2C - The Master Battle
2C.01 - The Master Battle [truncated]
2D - Island Sounds Station
2E - Hot Hits Music Station
2F - Golden Oldies Station
30 - Flower Fields (Cloudy) - "Clouds Over Flower Fields"
30.01 - Flower Fields (Cloudy) [truncated]
31 - Flower Fields (Sunny) - "Flower Field Rondo"
31.01 - Flower Fields (Sunny) [truncated]
32 - Cloudy Climb
33 - Puff Puff Machine
33.01 - Puff Puff Machine [truncated]
34 - Sun Tower (Before)
34.01 - Sun Tower (Before) [truncated]
35 - Sun Tower (After)
35.01 - Sun Tower (After) [truncated]
37 - Crystal Palace - "Crystal Palace Crawl"
37.01 - Crystal Palace [truncated]
38 - Shiver City - "Cold Reception in Shiver City"
39 - Detective Mario - "Detective Mario"
39.01 - Detective Mario [truncated]
3A - Shiver Snowfield - "Snow Road"
3B - Shiver Mountain - "Over Shiver Mountain"
3C - Starborn Valley - "Starborn Valley Trail"
3D - Merlar's Shrine
3E - Mail Call!
3F - Party at Peach's Castle - "A Party at Peach's Castle"
3F.02 - Party at Peach's Castle [truncated]
40 - End of Chapter - "A Kingdom in Chaos"
40.01 - End of Chapter [truncated]
41 - Chapter Start - "Mario's Theme"
41.01 - Mario's Theme
41.02 - Chapter Start Fanfare
42 - Item Get
44 - Boo's Phonograph
45 - Tutankoopa's Theme
46 - Kammy Koopa's Theme
47 - Jr. Troopa's Theme
47.02 - Jr. Troopa's Theme [this one causes Winamp to crash, for unknown reasons]
48 - Bullet Bill Attack - "Bill Blaster! Go Faster"
48.01 - Bullet Bill Attack [truncated]
49 - Monty Mole Attack
49.01 - Monty Mole Attack [truncated]
4A - Shy Guy Invasion - "Shy Guy Riot"
4A.01 - Shy Guy Invasion [truncated]
4B - Toad Town Tunnels
4B.01 - Toad Town Tunnels (Ice) [truncated]
4C - Whale's Theme
4C.01 - Whale's Theme [truncated]
4D - Forever Forest Warning
4E - Fearsome 5 Found
4F - Fanfare [unused]
50 - Goomba King Appears - "Gates of Goomba Castle"
50.01 - Goomba King Appears [truncated]
51 - Koopa Bros. Interlude
52 - Koopa Bros.' Theme
52.01 - Koopa Bros. Appear - "Koopa Bros. Keep Cool"
52.03 - Koopa Bros. Appear Fanfare
53 - Tutankoopa's Final Warning
54 - Tutankoopa Appears
54.01 - Tutankoopa Appears [truncated]
55 - Tubba Blubba Appears - "Tubba's Heart"
55.01 - Tubba Blubba Appears [truncated]
56 - General Guy Appears - "General Guy's March"
56.01 - General Guy Appears [truncated]
57 - Lava Piranha Appears - "Lava Piranha Attack"
57.01 - Lava Piranha Appears [truncated]
58 - Huff N. Puff Appears - "Huff N. Puff's Theme"
58.01 - Huff N. Puff Appears [truncated]
59 - Crystal King Appears
5A - Blooper Appears
5A.01 - Blooper Appears [truncated]
5B - Mini-Boss Appears
5B.02 - Mini-Boss Appears [truncated]
5C - Monstar Appears
5C.01 - Monstar Appears [truncated]
5D - Club 64
5D.01 - Club 64 [truncated]
5E - Opening [unused]
5F - Fall of Bowser's Castle - "Beware! Bowser's Castle!"
60 - Star Haven - "A City in the Stars"
60.01 - Star Haven [truncated]
61 - Shooting Star Summit - "Shooting Star Summit"
61.02 - Shooting Star Summit [truncated]
62 - Star Ship Takeoff
62.01 - Star Ship
62.02 - Star Ship Takeoff [truncated]
63 - Star Sanctuary - "Sanctuary!"
63.01 - Arriving at Star Sanctuary
63.02 - Star Sanctuary Fanfare
64 - Bowser's Castle (Early)
64.01 - Bowser's Castle (Late) - "Siege on Bowser's Castle"
64.02 - Bowser's Castle (Late) [truncated]
65 - Bowser's Castle (Underground)
65.01 - Bowser's Castle (Underground) [truncated]
66 - Bowser's Theme - "Angry Bowser"
66.02 - Bowser's Theme [truncated]
67 - Bowser Battle - "Bowser's Rage"
67.01 - Bowser Battle [truncated]
68 - Peach's Wish - "Wish of the Princess"
68.01 - Peach's Wish [truncated]
69 - File Select
69.01 - File Select [truncated]
6A - Title - "Main Title"
6A.01 - Title Fanfare
6A.02 - Title [truncated]
6B - Princess Peach's Castle Taken
6B.01 - Princess Peach's Castle
6B.02 - Princess Peach's Castle [truncated]
6C - Prologue Interlude
6D - Princess Peach Appears - "Princess Peach Saved!" (Part 1)
6D.01 - Peach's Address - "Princess Peach Saved! (Part 2)
6D.02 - Peach's Address [truncated]
6E - The End - "Mario and Peach's Theme"
6E.01 - The End [truncated]
6F - Star Rod Get
70 - Twink's Theme - "Twink's Theme"
70.01 - Farewell Twink - "Goodbye, Twink!"
71 - Baking a Cake
72 - Gourmet Guy's Gratitude
73 - Princess Peach's Theme - "Princess in Distress"
73.01 - Princess Peach's Theme (Balcony)
73.02 - [silence]
74 - Peach's Event - "Hang in There, Peach!"
74.01 - Peach's Event [truncated]
75 - Peach's Stealth
75.01 - Peach's Stealth [truncated]
76 - Peach Caught
77 - The 64th Trivia Quiz-Off (Intro)
77.01 - The 64th Trivia Quiz-Off (Question)
77.02 - The 64th Trivia Quiz-Off (Outro)
77.03 - [silence]
78 - Theme of the Star Spirits (Before)
78.01 - Theme of the Star Spirits (After) - "Star Spirits' Request"
78.03 - [silence]
79 - Penguin Murder Mystery
79.01 - Penguin Murder Mystery (Herringway)
79.02 - Penguin Murder Mystery (Herringway) [truncated)
7A - Mayor Penguin Recovers
7A.01 - Mayor Penguin Recovers [truncated]
7B - Magic Beanstalk (Growing)
7B.01 - Magic Beanstalk (Climbing)
7B.02 - Magic Beanstalk (Growing) [truncated]
7C - Merlee's Spell
7C.01 - Merluvlee's Fortune
7C.02 - Merlon's Fortune
7D - Lakilester's Theme - "Lakilester the Great!"
7D.01 - Lakilester's Theme [truncated]
7E - Goomba Bros.' Retreat
7E.01 - Goomba King's Fortress
7E.02 - Goomba Bros.' Retreat [truncated]
7F - The Sun Rises on Flower Fields
7F.01 - The Sun's Theme
80 - Dry Dry Railroad
80.01 - Dry Dry Railroad [truncated]
81 - Whale Ride
81.01 - Whale Ride [truncated]
82 - New Partner
83 - Dry Dry Ruins Appears
83.01 - Dry Dry Ruins Appears [after delay]
84 - Candy Canes
85 - Playroom
86 - Moustafa's Theme
86.01 - Moustafa's Theme [truncated]
87 - Game Over
88 - Toad House
89 - Petunia's Theme
89.01 - Posie's Theme
89.02 - Lily's Theme
89.03 - Rosie's Theme
8A - Flower Gate
8B - Battle Victory
8C - Pop Diva's First Song
8C.01 - Pop Diva's Song
8D - Boos' Game
8D - Boos' Game [truncated]
8E - Level Up
90 - Staff Credits (Day) - "Victory Parade"
90.01 - Staff Credits (Day) [truncated]
91 - Staff Credits (Night) - "The Celebration Continues"
91.01 - Staff Credits (Night) [truncated]
94 - Mario's House
95 - Opening: The Star Rod - "Story of the Stolen Spirits" (Part 1)
95.01 - Opening: Bowser Attacks - "Story of the Stolen Spirits" (Part 2)
95.02 - Opening: Star Kids and Wishes - "Story of the Stolen Spirits" (Part 3)
95.03 - Ending: Peach's Castle Restored
96 - New Partner [JP] - "Nice to Meet You"
96.01 - New Partner [JP] [truncated]
Whew! So there we are.
Like I said above, though, there are some tracks I can't seem to find/trigger, no matter what I do:
- Dry Dry Desert (Oasis), which is presumably under byte 17.
- Toad Town Tunnels (Ice)--I was able to find a truncated version of this one, but frustratingly, I could not find or activate a looping version of this track. It should be somewhere under byte 4B along with its truncated counterpart.
- I am also missing at least 1 or 2 variants of the Bowser's Castle theme, which should be located somewhere within byte 64. There are one or two more variations between the subdued and quiet "Early" theme and the loud and bombastic "Late" theme.
With these missing ones, I did try the Toad Town trick of locating a third segment, but my attempts were unsuccessful. Maybe someone around here who knows more about what they're doing can aid the search and make this list fully comprehensive?
edited 4:54 PM EDT August 10, 2014
edited 4:55 PM EDT August 10, 2014
http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=29892
It's like a dream-come-true. We need a driver for Donkey Kong Country 3.
I assume the same concept could be applied to less-sucky-but-still-hissy-as-hell DS music.
edited 1:10 AM EDT August 12, 2014
Not all tracks will play, as it's not the original driver. But maybe someone can get them to play somehow anyway? The tracks that will play are: C, D2, E, E2, H, H2, I, K, K2, L, P, Q, R, T, T2, X, Z.
So not even half of the sequenced tracks from the game.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/48454461/aud/sh1psf.rar
Untagged/untimed
edited 2:16 AM EDT August 15, 2014
I used vgmstream to extract the bgm from Mad World.
Now, i wanted to take some mp3 and encode, to replace the original music.
Anyone can give me any tip on this?
Has anyone already tried to do something like that?
The GC and Xbox(1) versions of Enter the Matrix (2003) use a special version of the DivX codec to store their live action cutscenes. (The PC version uses BINK and the PS2 version uses its native MPEG2 format).
This special version was made by Factor 5.
Related articles:
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/7826/factor-5-divx-networks-release-sdk-for-gamecube
http://www.neowin.net/news/divx-for-the-xbox-sdk-announced
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/92434/Factor_5_and_Divx_Networks_Release_Divx_for_Gamecube.php
Now what's interesting is that the Xbox version is the only one that stored the videos in higher bitrate "HD" resolution (likely 720p) compared to the other versions of the game.
So I'd like to be able to play/convert those files. But as far as I know nobody has worked on reversing this format.
Here is one such file (it's Atari's logo) provided as a sample: Logo
And here is the beginning of the file in hex: Header
Thanks!
edit: Perhaps it would help to note that at the time that Factor 5 released the DivX for GC and Xbox SDKs, the "PC" version of the codec was DivX 5. So I would expect that this special version of DivX is based on DivX 5.
edited 11:43 AM EDT August 18, 2014
Therefore, I would like to pose a question...
Would it be possible, instead of attempting to hopelessly replace the audio files of the game, to cue replacement tracks via an external program such as a soundboard? Essentially, my thought process behind this was if a cue is coded so that when the instance a vanilla track is triggered in game, it would cue an audio track from the soundboard. Is this a viable option, or just a waste of time?
I'm considering working out the loop points for Stella Deus (PS2, mostly ADX) and resubmitting to joshw.info.
1. Is somebody else (that reads here, obv) already working on this or do they have it completed but not uploaded?
2. As for track filenames, I was going to rename them to match the OST (using the convention of track 99 for outtakes/unknowns). Is this acceptable or should I just leave them as-is?
3. As for the ADX loop points themselves, I was going to just update the headers directly. Is that fine?
4. Does there already exist a tool to calc the byte offsets from sample/other offsets and update the headers? I've already done this manually for one of the files as a test, but if there's a tool that can save a bit of time that'd be great. Although, I'm mainly asking this to lead into the next question...
5. VGMToolbox (r930) doesn't have anything for working with ADX headers, unless I'm missing it somewhere. Is that correct? Would it be alright if maybe I extended it to support them?
Thanks for your time.
Of course I mean after said IPS is applied to the ROM. It really improves the music of this "unofficial" port.