For example, there is one partition(when extracted through VGMToolbox) that has multiple files chunked together by 0x930 bytes each even through they all sound very different.
Here is the file in question:
BOKU_XA.7z
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Any help would be appreciated.
I tried to repeat the process for the Wii Shop channel, but I just can't find a brsar/brseq anywhere in the (accessible) .app files. When I open some of them in ArchiveExplorer I get the error "Could not load archive! Given file was not a supported archive format.", and the .app files this happens for will just crash U8Tool.
I saw that a file named 'wwwlib-rvl.lz7' in 00000009.app was relatively large so I thought the what I'm looking might be in there - I converted it to an ARC then extracted that ARC but that just contained files for the internet browser.
Has anyone (other than SiIvaGunner) managed to get sequence+sample data out of the Wii Shop Channel? If so, where did you find it/how did you extract it?
Edit: If it helps, I did a search through the raw data of the files, and found that the contents of 0000005e.app and 0000005f.app (or 00000034.app and 00000035.app for the Korean version) both at one point reference a .brsar file "/arc/sound/iplSound.brsar". 0000005f.app does not contain this file, and 0000005e.app is one of the files that doesn't seem to like extracting.
edited 4:37 PM EDT May 24, 2017
I'd like to know if there is any method to play USF files with the real N64 hardware.
Thanks,
Link
Usage: VGAudioTools.exe CrackAdx <path to files>
Unlike GuessAdx, this operates on a folder of encrypted ADX files, with the goal of finding keys as quickly as possible, usually within 1-3 seconds.
Once a valid key is found, it will be used to decrypt, decode, and reencode all the ADX files in the folder, and the re-encoded file will be compared to the original. The closer to the original the re-encoded file is, the more likely the found key is correct.
I only implemented type 8 encryption cracking. I'll probably add type 9 soon.
@bnmm I haven't looked at that Japanese ADX cracker yet. I might take a look now that I've made one myself.
Instead of reimplementing some stuff in a separate program, I used my library, VGAudio, for reading, decoding, and encoding the audio. Just a note in case anyone wonders why the .exe is so large.
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PSOUND found 26 audios inside file, but i need find how i extract the audios:
https://www.mediafire.com/?idtjuez94k9judr
2. Is it still not yet possible to loop Mega Man Network Transmission's .dsp format tracks?
3. Is it possible to get foobar2000 to loop OGGs, and if so, what component(s) are necessary? (I can use XMPlayer to loop OGGs but I'd like to do this in foobar2000 if possible.)
edited 9:20 PM EDT May 29, 2017
Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire. (PSX)
Hard Edge or know as : T.R.A.G.: Tactical Rescue Assault Group - Mission of Mercy (PSX)
Lucidity (360)
I've checked several website that were sharing gamerips in their original format but didn't find these.
Thanks a lot,
Venouney.
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I'll start.
The superstar Koji Kondo got heavily influenced by these tracks:
Super Mario World Overworld Theme
Matt Bianco - Get Out Of Your Lazy Bed
Super Mario 64 - Dire, Dire Docks
Intro to "The Adventures of Milo and Otis" (at 3:21, it's the second part of the Dire, Dire Docks Melody)
Starman Theme
What's The Buzz from Jesus Christ Superstar
However, I'd like to convert it into MIDI just so I'd be able to see the notes (the thing I like about sequenced music), especially for Rockman 8 Beta 1, with the placeholder music.
I was reading on some website VGMToolbox could do it, but when I dragged PSFs onto it when the PSF Data Finder was onscreen, it said it was extracting things but none appeared in the folder.
Is there a way to convert the PSFs into MIDI and soundfont files?
• I think the dummy stage music in Beta 1 sounds good and would probably like to try remaking it as it sounds like it's just a chord at different keys, nothing complex.
• I swear I hear a Mega Man X2 sample in some of the placeholder songs (not the final). For example, in beta Frost Man's song here. Compare those high lead notes to the instruments during the intro of this song.
• The stage select music in the beta sounds rendered, not sequenced, so it'd be nice to confirm it. All other songs sound louder and less muffled. Speaking of that, is there a way to know a PSF is even sequenced?
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Codec: 4-bit IMA ADPCM
Header Skip: 0x200
Interleave: 0x10
Channels: 1 (Mono)
Frequency: 15001 Hz
Basically all I want is to play the files like in-game, tiny little silences but without any skips or distortions.
Here is the file SAW file : HERE
Thanks in advance.
Michael Jackson Presents - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles
...and also some other people such as Howard Drossin, Brad Buxer, a bunch of Japanese people whose names you won't remember, and the MIDI slaves.
Try to remember THAT title in your alphabetically sorted album list!
That's right, Mike. Roll over in your grave. Like it, Michael. LIKE IT.
(Context Clues):
http://info.sonicretro.org/Michael_Jackson_Involvement_with_Sonic_3
"B&W: Can you clarify the rumor that Michael had in 1993 composed the music for Sonic 3 video game, for which you havel been credited?
Buxer: I've never played the game so I do not know what tracks on which Michael and I have worked the developers have kept, but we did compose music for the game. Michael called me at the time for help on this project, and that's what I did. And if he is not credited for composing the music, it's because he was not happy with the result sound coming out of the console. At the time, game consoles did not allow an optimal sound reproduction, and Michael found it frustrating. He did not want to be associated with a product that devalued his music...
B&W: One of the surprising things in this soundtrack is that you can hear the chords from Stranger in Moscow, which is supposed to have been composed later...
Buxer: Yes, Michael and I had composed those chords for the game, and it has been used as base for Stranger in Moscow. [...]"
How 'bout you go ahead and define "optimal" as in "optimal sound reproduction," eh there, Buxmaster? You know, in your professional, artistic opinion.
Sonic & Knuckles Collection was released for Windows 95 in 1997. The music playback system is MIDI, and the game includes two sets of MIDIs from which to choose. Those sets are entitled "FM Synthesizer" and "General MIDI," despite neither of them having anything to do with real Frequency Modulation synthesis; they are simply different MIDI arrangements. The game relies on the sound card or Windows' built-in DownLoadable Sounds ("gm.dls") for a sound font.
The "General MIDI" set generally (lol) sounds more "primitive" or "retro," which could be considered counterintuitive. Given any song, a version from one set tends to have a richer instrumentation and/or more accurate rhythm and/or unique embellishments than the other set (for embellishment example: the end of "Final Boss"). It's possible that two MIDI arrangers interleaved work on both sets, given the clear difference in sequence quality. For some reason, multiple tracks were replaced with new compositions. In many cases, the new compositions are preferable to the originals. Theories explaining the reason for the song replacements:
1. Michael Jackson's grunts/compositions were just too darn copyrighted
2. Drum and voice samples were too hard to fake using MIDI
Songs replaced:
1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Knuckles' Theme
2. Carnival Night Act 1
3. Carnival Night Act 2
4. Icecap Act 1
5. Icecap Act 2
6. Launch Base Act 1
7. Launch Base Act 2
8. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Credits
9. Competition Menu
Songs simply omitted because they were lazy/negligent:
1. Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Boss Act 1 (also known as, "Let's just pretend Sonic & Knuckles is always locked on, even in Sonic 3 mode. We already have a Boss Act 1; no one will care!" Utterly deprived)
Songs that went unused because extra Credits music is great. Apology for the above omission:
1. Unused
In the spirit of GNU Make's wonderful, bottom-up (read: scatterbrained) documentation, I now give you the high-level summary of what this is: This is all of the songs from Sonic the Hedgehog 3 & Knuckles, interleaved with the "best" MIDI versions for each song in Sonic & Knuckles Collection. Even though Window's official Roland sound font could be considered the accurate baseline for the true Sonic & Knuckles Collection experience, the instrument samples' rates are only 22.05 Hz. That's basically half of CD quality. More is good, yesh? I used "WeedsGM3.sf2" instead because of its high quality. Pretend it's from a sound card that didn't exist in 1997: http://www.simpilot.net/~richnagel/#soundfonts
Rendered MIDIs with the foobar2000 plugin "foo_midi" with reverb and chorus processing turned OFF. Cheese reverb is cheese. I chose the "better" of each MIDI pair, so you don't have to! I fixed Sonic & Knuckles - Knuckles' Theme (A) by replacing the "Gunshot" instrument with "Chinese Cymbal." Low-note cannonfire isn't quite the same as Asian.
Rendered Sega Genesis with SMPSPlay 2.11. Problem: Playback clips, and there's no way to adjust the volume. I ended up using Cheat Engine to hack the output scale factor down by a bit shift. Searched for the YM2612 sample rate 53267 and modified surrounding bytes based on the structure in the source code. Similar procedure for the PSG. No more clipping! By the way, SMPSPlay 2.11 is the best way to render SMPS music driver games, because it doesn't clobber the DAC samples like on the Sega Genesis. Enjoy that percussion and Michael's sexy voice.
All ReplayGain-ed (with prevent clipping according to peak) for your optimal listening pleasure. Right Brad?
I've been wanting to do this project (combined Genesis and PC album) for a long time. Done.
Credits:
Valleybell: https://github.com/ValleyBell/SMPSPlay - The real work. Sounds great. Also, MIDI rip made possible by: http://info.sonicretro.org/SKC-Midi
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soundbank (if it saves as .crb, rename to .dls
encrypted midis
I've been trying to find information about the audio format that's being used in Attack on Titan: Wings of Freedom for PC. It seems that the game uses two different systems (I'm a newbie in audio findings, please bear with me): The already known KOVS format for the music and a different system for the rest of the audios (Voices, SFX, cutscenes).
I'm interested in extracting the second format for this version. Can you please help me out?
I've placed some samples a while ago here.
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The music definitely can be worth it, e.g. just check out the new SINoALICE by Yoko Taro/Keiichi Okabe of Nier fame.
I personally started by network sniffing as surprisingly many games (like discontinued Skylock, Valkyrie Anatomia, Valkyrie Connect) get data from servers that are also reachable with a browser. I moved on to Bluestacks to get file system access which is way more comfortable, though quite some games seem to detect that environment and just don't start, so I guess a real Android device which can be put in development mode only when required may be more suitable. I'd love a rip of Terra Battle (by Nobuo Uematsu), Heaven x Inferno (by Yuzo Koshiro), Star Ocean anamnesis etc.
Then there's formats and encryption. My impression so far is that most games use Ogg Vorbis or CRI (mostly HCA, but some ADX) along unidentified stuff. User furrybob posted a program to get the key for encrypted ADXs, user ssh managed to get keys for encrypted HCAs. Samples can be found in their respective APK (really zip) files, but never take an APK as complete. Nowadays they are only like installers that get most of the data at a later point.
Tool wise aside the obvious VGMToolbox I suggest UnityEX as extractor for diverse Unity files (which most mobile games appear to use).
Long story short, I hope more people look at that field. Plenty traditional VGM composers are active there so I'm sure there's good stuff to unearth. Also maybe some other sites and people already did work that can be brought together here?
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GitHub repo for the source code
Direct link to the latest release, where you can download 32- and 64-bit DLLs precompiled.
The DLLs go into the C:\Program Files (x86?)\REAPER (x64?)\Plugins folder.
Because I had trouble building it otherwise, this has all external library (ogg, mpeg, G.722, etc) support disabled, but I hope to figure out how to add that back in the future. I've tested this minimally, so please report any issues here or preferably on the GitHub project itself.
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The PS3 versions were missing tracks (at least in sly 2). I used Cube Media Player 2 to scan the disc, although that only started the project. I found that the music files are generally 44100hz ADPCM, with 4096 interleve. I wrote a program to rip the raw files from the disc based on the playlist from Cube Media Player. Since many songs in the game have more than 2 channels, I wrote another program to separate each channel, and then one to re-combine them into stereo tracks without a loss in quality (since this is reading and writing the audio as binary). The main issue I have is that there seems to be a clicking sound in the audio, and this can be easily heard in the 2-channel tracks strait from CMP. The other issue is that there seems to be no header for the audio tracks (although there seems to be a footer that always starts with magic " KPV" though I am mainly looking for the loop points. If anyone has some insight on this, I hope to do a lossless rip with the correct loop points.
Edit: I'm led to believe that the loop point is before the audio data, and it is a per-channel value. I tried deleting this amount x2 from a 2 channel track, and it sounded like it was looping in the right spot for the most part.
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I have an HP EliteBook 8440p laptop. It has an IDT audio device.
IDT 92HD75B3X5 (Linux driver: HDA Intel MID)
The official driver from HP has never been perfectly stable. It seemed like WASAPI event mode caused issues (loud noises, rarely) in Windows 7.
Fast forward to Windows 10 land. I decided to apply the anniversary update recently. Then I noticed the left channel cutting out using Foobar2000. I think the Windows update exposed even more bugs in the crappy HP driver. HP won't update there driver beyond Windows 7 support: (Let's see how long this link works:) https://support.hp.com/us-en/drivers/selfservice/swdetails/hp-elitebook-8440p-notebook-pc/4095872/swItemId/ob-100226-2
So I did the usual thing. I trying uninstalling the HP driver to use Microsoft's omniscient "High Definition Audio" driver. But then the internal speakers and headphone devices always reported as disconnected. I tried a registry hack to force enable both the internal Speakers and Headphones devices: https://superuser.com/questions/1194448/how-do-i-disable-audio-jack-detection-in-windows-10-without-using-realtek-hd-aud
By the way, these undocumented properties have line descriptions in "hdaudio.inf".
They were force enabled, alright, but still no sound. Then I found an IDT driver from HP for later laptop models (circa 2015 instead of 2010), but that installer failed, claiming no support for my device. Being the shifty cowboy that I am, I tried adding my Hardware ID to the installer's INF file and crossing my fingers. The installer seemed to run longer, but ultimately failed with the same message. No luck.
I finally decided to boot up Ubuntu as a cross-reference, having strong feelings that the Linux driver would work just fine. Confirmed; good ol' Alsamixer.
Here's the strange part: I booted back into Windows, miserably defeated after hours wasted. The High Definition Audio driver now magically works. Completely; no issues whatsoever*. Even detects Headphone connection. Theories:
1. The 2010 IDT uninstaller left crap around that interfered with drivers installed after it. The 2015 installer cleaned this junk up.
2. Windows/the driver corrupted some kind of onboard memory of the IDT chip, and Linux rewrote it correctly. (Unlikely, but I like to pretend this one is true because it makes for a good story.)
Morals: Laptops are expensive and dumb. Save your money for less specialized parts to leverage strength in numbers. Googling for unpublished Windows internal features is a good way to waste time. Hardware is useless without a software driver, and drivers are usually awful. Civilization III runs very poorly in Wine. My laptop speakers can play much louder now.
"Cool story, bro."
*Uh oh, an asterisk. My laptop speakers make a popping sound when I Sleep the computer. Civilization III's background music was choppy on my first run; don't know what that was about.
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Crash Twinsanity (GENH link from PS2)
I will hopefully never get tired of the various madness on this soundtrack.
Not exactly VGM, but Impeccable Micro is a chippy dancey thing.
Goldeneye (USF link) has been nice.
The Black Mages is good for getting energy up.
S.S.H.'s Summer Vacation Game Music Festival (Youtube) is one track going nuts for 40 minutes.
Any suggestions?
edited 1:01 AM EDT June 21, 2017
sample:https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZJh6GZLJodIog2eqS1zfnXxAuyP0MvprMX
allready tried hca2wav but no luck.
edited 6:50 PM EDT June 23, 2017
For now, here's the first ever version.
If not, has there been any info on where I can rip these music files myself?
edited 4:05 PM EDT June 29, 2017
The Sweétch.
Here you go! Spelled it weird to obfuscate search results. It's pretty useless right now, but give it a few months or weeks and you'll get something purity dang handy.
I've yet to check the audio documentation, but you'll see how it works there. Maybe we can learn something about the new formats it uses for future rips, if any.
I hope this isn't BAN worthy of anything (LOL), nudge nudge, wink wink. (;
edited 4:35 PM EDT June 29, 2017
I'm far from truly comphrehending how all this stuff works but when it comes to general overview here is what I know:
- Starting with Rome 2 Total War, Creative Assembly switched to WEM format and they're using Wwise software for their newer titles.
- After a lot of noise, CA acknowledged their players' needs and reached some sort of agreement with Audiokinetic. They released a free version of software for TW modders (they can use it to turn Wav into proper WEMs which they can later apply in their mods but - unfortunately - no way to playback/convert original WEMs).
- Based on this, the files and the way they're coded or else... change periodically, with some new releases of Audiokinetic software?
- Hence, as far as I know, it's possible to mod music in Rome 2 but next titles (Attila Total War & Warhammer Total War) weren't given the same treatment yet (and the older Rome 2 version won't work for them).
In that case, is it even possible to crack all these WEM files of Rome 2, Attila and Warhammer? And convert them into a different format? Because right now this soundtrack looks a bit like Fort Nox, at least to me.
Also, here is a sample of unpacked WEM files I was using: https://mega.nz/#!FNgxVI4Y!Gh3_52P6g-xq8aDme9eJMCVfxK7itsii1V9CgvqZdEo
Anyone willing to look into it and take up a challenge?
In the very least, it's fair to say that it would be a relieve to know where we're standing here (since the web seems to be silent on the matter, last time I checked). Some Total War music is amazing but CA doesn't even intent to make official releases anymore which sucks a lot.
edited 9:28 AM EDT July 3, 2017
Give it a try.
Rave.dj
A somewhat related question, has a format been created that can act as a container for streamed files which supports tagging?
I'm guessing the IMA ADPCM used isn't decoded properly (variation?). Any ideas about what could be happening?
(above: STRM version, below: OST version)
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https://mega.nz/#!Xs1RwBJA!JU4CN42pNjNKicfbAo7pe6dIs3_OJ1esXSZxuaDw8Q0
Any help to convert the files? Thanks.
Splatoon 2 Global Testfire
Splatoon 2 World Premiere Demo
ARMS
I included custom multi-channel versions of the ARMS title song/character select/online lobby. They're separate BFWAVs by default. The main track for the title screen is the only lossy one in those mixes, since it's PCM16. The other variations are still DSP-ADPCM.
edited 11:39 AM EDT July 15, 2017
Here's the 99_98.pss file : PART 1 FILECUTTED
PART 2 FILECUTTED
Thanks in advance. I know it is part of frustrating chapter of HCS life, but the music is good.
Thanks in advance!
edited 1:33 PM EDT July 24, 2017
Here's sample: Click here
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after more than 2 years desperately looking for ways how to extract the ISO and get to the actual files, Louigi was that kind, wrote the script and make it happened in a few days!
What we discovered is that there are not exactly files what we expected unfortunately. There is no DDS, PNG...etc or known audio files or any other "game" extensions that I could work with.
Just 2 folders: "0A" and "0B"
I found that "0B" is full of audio, but just as ".dat"
I tried to import those files as raw data in Audiacity. I can hear the game files somehow, but the quality is just very poor. Voices full of distorted noise in wrong speed.
Here are the settings in Audiacity that gives me best results:
edit: Photobucket is not working, so I made a short video with the screens, so please take a look below...
Louigi already suggested that it might be ADPCM codec.
THE VIDEO with screens:
[url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OeTH8SPaGk[/url]
I'm looking very forward for all your suggestions guys. Any ideas how to make those files editable is greatly appreciated!
Thank you very much.
Is there another way to convert Switch BFSTM to BCTSM?
If you need the ripped midi's or want to play around with them, you can get them from here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8rHgE_H8aJsQzVSR3ExZnFrd0U/view enjoy!
I thought about recording the music from Scooby-Doo: Mystery Mayhem but that would take way too long.
Someone suggested using the rom hacking method but I do not know anything about that method.
edited 3:22 PM EDT August 4, 2017
From what I understand, MPEG-1 Layer III is just the full title for MP3 and therefor should already be lossy, but foobar200 says the files encoding is lossless in the properties.
Regardless, with that in mind will simply changing the filename extension from .SCD to .MP3 effect the audio quality?
In my past experience I've learned that .SoundNodeWave files are typically just OGGs or MP3s in disguise, but I'm uncertain if it's the same thing with these SCD files.
edited 7:16 PM EDT August 7, 2017
Has this already been done? Is it possible at all? Any other comments?
His Thread
Livestream!!
His Twitter
Basically checks are lax, so we can "encode" tags into a fake filename, and vgmstream could catch and interpret.
Format could be like: (rel/abs filename)(separator)(tag)(sep)(tag)(sep)...(ext). Ex:
song.fsb | $title$=Uneternalessness Engrish|$artist=Sakuraba| %album% = Awesome |.fsb
When the player asks to open that "file", vgmstream divides it into actual filename + tags and nobody notices.
Other details:
- exact tag format TBD
- no global tags (as vgmstream only gets single filenames, doesn't read M3U).
- separators preferably Windows non-file chars (? | *, but not : // as they mark protocol = no relative filenames)
- last ext may be required, but any would do (= force exts into vgmstream).
- tags could be commands too. Like "$s=3"=play stream #3, "$i"=disable looping, "$f"=force looping, etc.
- XMPlay won't work as seems it checks if files exist. But maybe the author could add an option to disable that?
- unicode/utf8 to be tested
Thoughts?
It seems as if the BGM.awb file containing various sounds in a game called Jojo's Bizarre Adventure: Eyes of Heaven is unpackable as the usual procedure using VGMtoolbox just yields garbled .hca files, making it impossible to get the inital sounds as intended. Can anyone figure out why this is happening, and at least confirm if it is indeed impossible to extract the sound files from this game?
I'd like to go back to a more outdated version until this possible bug is fixed. Is there a site that archives previous versions?
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Thanks to Josh fantastic cooperation vgm.hcs64.com can update every 10 minutes, offering full text search across all sets names and an endless update list if one want to catch up with all the changes. On top of it filtering by system/subdomain is supported.
Search is also included as OpenSearch description that, among other things, allows one to start searching directly from Chrome's omnibox. Searching on the site itself offers instant word completion. And like with any decent fulltext search this one also allows to specify search terms using additional modifiers like wildcards, quotes, circumflex and hyphen.
To make it easier for xxx.joshw.info maintainer Knurek to gather new sets from contributors the site also offers a publicly accessible upload form that allows resuming partial uploads.
Thanks to hcs' nice cooperation we not only may use the vgm subdomain but are also able to use this forum's accounts for authentication on the site. These will be used for the upcoming tagging system that I hope will make it even easier to browse and manage the whole treasure trove.
So I decided to write my own command line tool, which can be found here. In addition to accepting loop points using samples, it supports creation of multichannel streams and allows the disabling of looping, among other things.
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However, I can tell a simple music hack.
Change BGM
You can change the title BGM by editing the string ("W02"), which located at ROM:0xDDE38. (or do the same to ROM:0xDE4C8, the menu BGM)
* B01~B05
* C01~C07
* D01~D09
* E04~E31 (there are some missing No.)
* F01~F06
* W01~W04
Disable SFX
ROM:67A48: 0F 00 2D E9 -> 1E FF 2F E1
Could anybody finish the rest? I'm getting stuck for now.
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Due to my limited free time and varied interests I don't code as often as I used to, so I figured I'd try and get ACB+AWB as solid as possible while I'm in a "coding mood."
Here's VGMToolbox r1045 with the latest fixes.
Note: I've already got the Metal Gear 3d working from the VGMToolbox thread. The link above will work for it.
Also, I believe Datschge had a question about internal checksums to match ACB and AWB. ACBs do have a checksum. Sometimes it's MD5 and that can be used. There's another checksum type that I haven't figured out yet. In any case, please repost those, I may be able to make a little command line exe to handle that.
Lastly, if you don't want to post here, you can email at vgmtoolbox g mail acct
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Long time ago, Knurek use to update for us all the Hoot sets he can, but this project was unfortunatly discontinued.
I'd like to continue this, but I do not have any idea even how to start.
- Where can I find new sets?
- How can I make them playable with the my current version of Hoot?
- How I can make work new sets? (For example, I remember Windjammer was not avaliable and I don't know if it has been done)
Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.
See ya
"Decoding failure at 0:00.000 (Unsupported format or corrupted file)"
The game is Atelier Viorate. The odd thing is VGMTrans reads the sets fine without a problem.
Another odd this is that the latest version of VGMToolBox doesn't seem to want to output a file. The old version that outputs PSF2s for this game is vgmtoolbox_bin_r1026. Any help with this issue would be much appreciated.
Here is the files I've been working with, it includes the modules, sq, hd, bd, and the PSF2s.
Atelier Viorate test.zip
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I want to create WAV files from psf (or minipsf) files. I can do this with Audio Overload, though - this is incredibly time consuming.
I would like each channel as a separate WAV file. Audio Overload is also capable of this, but in it's current form would take up to an hour or so per song (with constant human interaction).
I'm looking to generate songs in the following format:
\SONG_01
\Channel_01.wav
\Channel_02.wav
.....
\Channel_24.wav
\SONG_02
\Channel_01.wav
\Channel_02.wav
.....
\Channel_24.wav
You would think one of these Winamp plugins or foobar plugins would come with a command line output option. I don't mind some manual work, I can create scripts for mouse/keyboard automation. But I would at least like to save each WAV file near-instantly, as opposed to letting the entire song play through 24 times (takes extremely long time).
Hope that made sense.
Thanks guys :)
The major discrepancy I am experiencing is between Genesis and Super Nintendo. I'm not sure if it's due to the software, or I have some settings incorrect (you be the judge):
GENESIS TEST:
Audacity Screenshot
Full song
SUPER NINTENDO TEST:
Audacity Screenshot
Full song
I believe the Super Nintendo is perhaps the culprit? It seems very quiet.
I'm using 'SPCplay' for Super Nintendo.
I'm using 'VGMPlay' for Genesis.
SPCplay has options to increase volume from 100% up to 400% but I did notice clipping when raising these values.
I would like these to be "normalized" aka play at the same volume compared with each other. Before I create too many songs, I want to make sure I am doing this correctly.
Should I try some different settings? Different software?
If everything seems correct here, which of the following two methods would be correct?
a) Raise volume on the final result of the SNES audio
b) Lower volume on the final result of the GENESIS audio?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions!
peace
edited 4:44 AM EDT August 31, 2017
edited 11:52 AM EDT August 31, 2017
This indicates that there's a problem with the rip itself, and that it needs to be either fixed or replaced as the Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga GSF was. If anybody knows of any tools or methods for ripping GSFs, I would be grateful to hear about them.
KH1: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/zl7e9cemlesim/KH1_soundfonts
KH2: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/qyzcbxdwl5144/KH2_soundfonts
In some games such as Donkey Kong Land, on the wave channel, the square wave will suddenly change from 50% to 25%. For example, in the "Mountain" theme at around 34.4 seconds.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_G73t0I71FdYVRWdW9zZkV1OUE
How do you branch that GSF to get MINIGSFs for all of the different songs in the game?
I have no real experience whatsoever, but I couldn't find a rip of the music, so I decided to try ripping it myself.
First thing I had done was used [ur=http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm]QuickBMS[/url] with the Scooby Looney script to extract all the files from the game's ShantaeCurse.data file. This gave me a bunch of .vol files.
From the MUSIC\m directory of the extracted data, I started looking at the .vol files there. What I found was that the .vol files for the music are just OGG files with a header on them. Unfortunately, stripping away the header wasn't enough to get them to be playable completely (the time was something like a few seconds instead of the actual time). I had to use ffmpeg with the following:
ffmpeg -i <orig>.ogg -c:a copy <copy>.ogg
After that I had to run revorb on the OGG, as the time was entirely wrong after ffmpeg. The reason for using ffmpeg first was that revorb actually destroyed the file and made it really short (in the sample case, it was around less than 1/5 the original size).
The ffmpeg/revorb combo was enough to get them playable, but I wanted to make them loopable. I looked at the header portion of the .vol file, but I couldn't determine what constitutes loop points, if they are in that header.
I'm going to link to the files for Burning Town, as that was the first one I tried.
The vol file is here: burningtown.vol
The OGG made from it using the above instructions is here: burningtown.ogg
Any help finding the loop points would be appreciated. I didn't spend a ton of time on it, but I did try various values that seemed like they might've been loop points and none of them produced a working or seamless loop.
I'll start with a contribution:
Banjo-Kazooie
* Juka and the Monophonic Menace (GBA)
A virt game. I once tried using a gsf ripper on it and getting a file like the size of the game with just the title screen music, and it seems someone else did the same. The third area of the game has bgm that shares a tune with the last track in virt's album FX3.
* Scurge: Hive (GBA)
The rip of the DS version of this game exists already, but I was wondering whether the GBA version -- which was made by the same folks as Juka and probably even shares its isometric game engine -- might shed some light on how to rip Juka.
* Sands of Destruction (DS)
Apparently a Yasunori Mitsuda soundtrack that uses the "Procyon" driver?
* Black Sigil (DS)
Possibly another game using that Procyon driver? Though written by Jan Morgenstern, not Mitsuda; still great though, and I wish this game put a lid on its frustratingly-frequent random encounters because otherwise it's excellent.
* Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Pumpkin King (GBA)
Contains a number of downmixes of music from the movie. Difficult to search for info on (try searching "nightmare before christmas" "gsf" if you don't know what I mean).
Download for the file:
https://mega.nz/#!jxRWjbpa!bNUNx20NQz3r4owT2A-8DImLUDxM58_o6JX5kAkTPpM
Also, how do you play Atrac3 files? Is there a plugin for Winamp?
edited 1:10 PM EDT September 19, 2017
Here is a .ACB File
https://www.mediafire.com/file/vruqor9902kp2gq/TK_VO_53_IBF2.acb
Here is a .Bin File
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2b8j5wu79iqvhwb/emotion_2.EncodeType-06.bin
Here is an .HCA file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/66bgk5i3gvlur87/TK_VO_53_IBF2_00000000.hca
edited 8:34 AM EDT September 20, 2017
Does this issue exist with similar file types of other games, or this even a known issue? I hope somebody here knows something about this.
I decided to take a look at it in a hex editor, and discovered that this is a proprietary container format that has only ever been used in this one game.
This file contains the commentators' speech audio which is used throughout races.
This file seems to contain two file types, ADPCM or DSP audio (The main stuff I want, which unsurprisingly I haven't been able to decode, although if you import it into audacity as raw ADPCM, you can just make out the speech under extremely loud background noise) and signed 8-bit PCM audio (which can be listened to in Audacity).
Please help me decode the (what I assume is) ADPCM data!
Link to the file: Download
If you want/need me to upload any other files from the disc, let me know!
However, I know that THERE ARE games that have been ported to consoles that were on arcade, like Sonic the Fighters. I am not saying that if it is possible to get the GAMECUBE samples or rips from the game, but the original ARCADE rips, or if the gamecube version can be done, that would be interesting, my guess is that it does not use sequenced music because it is a port of the original arcade version, but I might be wrong.
Today i had a little trouble extracting .brstm's from Super Paper Mario and Mario Kart Wii.
while extracting the brstms via dolphin i heard you can "hack" those.
so,can you extract files/samples from brstm?
Please i need help asap.
Thanks.
If you're interested in the sample collections from Animal Crossing: Population Growing!, Super Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, Kingdom Hearts 1, Kingdom Hearts 2, and Wave Race 64, this is the place to download them! :)
https://xephyrpanda.wixsite.com/momarmalade
I have sorted them into their instrument categories as well (bass, bells/marimbas, kick drums, hi hats, snares, synths, pianos/organs, etc)
I hope whoever finds this enjoys it and makes some sick music with it!! If you do use these packs, please do send me a link to whatever you make with them! I will definitely take a listen, and maybe even help you get some exposure for your music if it's something I really dig! :)
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Either of those sites are a great way to get a hold of me! ( just send me a message on soundcloud, or tweet me with a mention on twitter :) )
Have a nice day everyone! ~Master Orange Marmalade
edited 10:19 PM EDT October 8, 2017
I finally figured out how to get the .BRSTMS From games...
But i want some samples from the .BRSAR
But every time i try, it shows an error.
Can somebody help me extract New Super Mario Bros. Wii samples?
thanks!
The effect of that filter can be heard in CBFD's RockSolid or in JFG's Spacestation (as wind effect at about 1:10).
From a listening it sounds like a band pass filter is used. Converting the N64 cseq format using Subdrags N64 MIDI Tool, one can see that the filter is controlled via MIDI CC33 and 34. CC34 controls the filter's center frequency, while CC33 seems to influence the filters passband width.
With SoundFont2 modulators being able to be mapped from any MIDI CC to any destination sound generator, I modified fluidsynth to implement an IIR bandpass filter, intending to reproduce the tunes as close as possible. Sourcecode to be found here.
Use this command to try yourself:
fluidsynth -F test.wav -o synth.band-pass-filter=yes -o synth.midi-bank-select=mma -o synth.volenv=compliant CBFD.sf2 rocksolid.mid
After many hours of try and error, this is the best render of RockSolid I've got:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7HVOcdsHTi3a0luWXhjcnBEaXM
It turned out that solely using a bandpass filter the hearable passband becomes way too narrow, no matter how I used CC33 for setting the filters Q. Looking at the HLE of that IIR, 3 multiplications are done, while a pure bandpass IIR would only need 2. It's more likely that Rareware cascaded a lowpass and a highpass. After having done this it sounds fine and also works well for JFG. However I'm not sure if my implementation is equivalent to what Rareware did. My reverse engineering skills are limited. Any input on that welcome.
IIR implementation according to Robert Bristow-Johnsons AudioEQ cookbook.
CBFD's SoundFont
JFG's SoundFont
Enjoy.
edited 4:51 AM EDT October 12, 2017