Recently all music in Fortnite was converted to a strange format, "UE4OPUS".
I just wanted to ask if there's currently any way of playing that back or converting it? I'd love to extract the music, convert it to something like wav and listen to it in high quality.
Best regards,
filament
I know the SNES, for example, used a 32khz chip, but from what I understand, not all songs necessarily used that high of quality. If I ripped them all to 32khz, that would be fine, but would I be able to find out what their actual output sample rate is and theoretically rip it lower, to be more accurate and efficient?
Also, I have less knowledge on the output sample rate of 64, Genesis, and GameCube games.
I'm aware this is most likely a pretty large issue that's probably been discussed before. I used the search on the forums here, but was unable to find any factual discussion, mostly being people's debates between interpolation methods and other preferences.
If someone could provide me guidance or a link to an appropriate thread here, that would be fantastic! I have experience with the file formats and converting, but not with ripping the files myself. Though for the purpose of accurate representation, I'd most definitely be willing to learn.
edited 4:44 PM EDT June 29, 2018
edited 10:29 PM EDT July 2, 2018
I just ripped the Sly Cooper soundtrack to FLAC. This has no SFX or ambiance, and all variations.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/kwxy5277dlkyomd/Sly%20Cooper%20and%20the%20Theivious%20Raccoonus-FLAC.zip?dl=0
I'll have a Genh version up shortly that is half the size for play in VGMstream/Droidsound-e
I Try Rip Backgrıund effect but ı dont :(
I dont Need Gun Effects Or Another video sound But I need ripped Orginal background Theme
Like "Save Room Theme"
How Can I Rip this background Sounds ?
I was told to use an extension with VGMStream but the latest version of the program keeps booting me back to the beggining screen every time I add -o and the file names I want/need. Please help, I literally am stumped.
I'm part of a small group working on reverse-engineering a proprietary format from a Nintendo 3DS app called Flipnote Studio 3D. The format is used to store user-generated animations, which can include a few audio tracks recorded with the console's microphone.
We're currently trying to identify the audio encoding that these recordings use. So far, the closest result we've managed to get was from decoding as adpcm sampled at 16364Hz with nibbles flipped, however the output still sounds much worse than what can be heard in the app and includes random bursts of static.
Raw audio data:
https://lightni.ng/kwz_audio/raw.bin
Our attempt at decoding (using sox -t ima -N -r 16364):
https://lightni.ng/kwz_audio/decoded.wav
What it sounds like in the app:
https://lightni.ng/kwz_audio/target.wav
Any help would be greatly appreciated by us and many more!
Download
Thanks!
edited 5:59 AM EDT July 15, 2018
The thing is that theres no way to change the .bin files to MIDI or SF2 files. and I'm 100% sure that all the music is sequenced.
.bin files
edited 12:48 PM EDT July 19, 2018
Here is the link for one THP file
https://ufile.io/vn38z
And here the first 20MB of a BKT file.
https://ufile.io/snr42
edited 11:18 PM EDT July 19, 2018
Here to download
I need some help figuring out the whole block size of a file. Basically, I want to deinterleave the two streams of that file (with the Alpha23's script) in order to obtain the two streams seperated and then play with vgmstream. Unfortunately, I don't have the block size and also, I'm pretty sure the resulting files will not be playable with vgmstream. It's the Blitz Games STR+STH Gamecube format.
The *.wav.str contains two different files interleaved together (0x8000).
The frequency of the streams is 32000Hz.
The codec used is Nintendo Gamecube DSP 4-bit ADPCM. The coefficients are found in the *.wav.sth file (didn't start to find them, as I'm not at this step right now).
Thanks!
edited 1:15 PM EDT July 23, 2018
This mostly has to do with the main game have a hidden ToC, and other factors, such as needing working .wal extractors.
But, as luck would have it, the Sly 1 E3 Demo did not hide the files on Disc, so we got access to the WAL and WAC file, which the 2 files allowed for us to decrypt the WAL, and get the files from it.
We got 2 things from doing so, the sound driver the game uses, and the actual music files themselves.
As far as we know, the music format Sly 1 uses has never been cracked. So i'm hoping with this sound driver and music files iv'e provided, someone smart enough out there can reverse engineer the music driver and crack the music files as the result.
There were multiple drivers on the Disc, with 989SND.IRX being the one of interest. Iv'e included the other drivers on the disc, should they be needed.
Enough talk, here is the link: The Sly E3 Music Files and Drivers
Oh, and as a bonus, take this, also ripped from the E3 Demo: Sly 1 Action Trailer
It was the only PSS file on Disc, so I took it, converted the audio to FLAC, and encoded the video to H265 with QTGMC deinterlacing set to placebo.
edited 1:12 AM EDT July 25, 2018
edited 4:13 PM EDT July 25, 2018
And I converted acb files to hca files and hca files to wav files.
But it has only noise sound.
I think that need the decode key, but I don't know how to find decode key.
Any tips to find decode key in here?
I actually tested this on Sony Vegas Pro and Audacity. The exact same thing happens.
Anyway to fix this?...
edited 5:09 PM EDT July 28, 2018
edited 5:11 PM EDT July 28, 2018
I need your help because it seems this Ubi Soft game stores its music in a very uncommon format (PK). There are also a bunch of SPK files in the same directory, but I don't think these contain any music at all.
I also found a "AudioInfo.bin" file. Maybe this one can be useful to understand the game format?
Anyway, here's one of the PK files here: Download PK
Thanks.
edited 11:25 AM EDT August 4, 2018
edited 5:41 PM EDT August 4, 2018
I searched for extract the music from these games, but I wasn't capable to do it.
Maybe someone knows how to do that or can give me a nice tutorial for that.
I would really apreciate it.
My only options have been to use a program called DeliPlayer (which works but has emulation issues with proper reproduction) or emulate and record it. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
SPU IRQs in MGS1 are triggered from a single one-time call to SpuSetKey. The magic of it is that the ADPCM address specified in the SpuVoiceAttr struct to SpuSetVoiceAttr is the same address defined to trigger an interrupt when the data there is read (and I must assume the data read operation happens through SpuSetKey, because if I remove the call, no interrupts occur). Furthermore, the data at the IRQ address contains a silent, looped ADPCM stream, so interrupts are triggered automatically and continuously. The most important piece of information here though, is that they set the pitch value in the SpuVoiceAttr struct to 4096 ("pt" units), which represents 44100 Hz according to the SDK docs. From what I can tell, at this rate (pitch), 256 bytes (448 samples) are read between each interrupt, which is half of the stream's size (512 bytes).
So now, the question is, how could I replicate this timing in a simple loop without the use of SPU IRQs? Any ideas? I'm simply calling the sequencer function (similar to calling SsSeqCalledTbyT in a loop), which is essentially the same that happens with SPU IRQs. Here's what I've tried so far:
* Calling SpuSetKey to trigger a non-looped silent ADPCM stream followed by polling SpuGetKeyStatus to check that it finished playing (SPU_ON_ENV_OFF)
- this actually works decently, but it's just a little too slow in PSFLab/foo_psf
- no good in viopsf (w/ spumednafen.dll), skips a lot
- Mednafen itself does play it without a hitch
* Polling root counters 0, 1 and 2
- I used SetRCnt followed by GetRCnt in RCntMdNOINTR mode, but the results seem totally random?
* VSync(-1), VSync(0), VSync...
- Obviously not enough precision with this, but I tried it...
Here's a great example of what can be achieved with agbplay.
edited 3:43 PM EDT August 7, 2018
With Smash Bros 3DS something similar also happens, the audio sounds low quality (probably to save space in cartdrige), but it is possible to mod that game to import sound files with better quality, and it works perfectly (meaning that the only reason it did not sound well was because of the audio files in the game).
However, I took a look into Majora's Mask 3D SFX files and compared them to those of Ocarina of Time 3D and.. the SFX both games share sound exactly the same, no quality downgrade or anything like that. Even Link's sounds in Majora's Mask 3D sound pretty high quality, unlike, ironically, how it sounds in the game itself.
So I came with the idea that maybe the game forces the console to output Surround audio. But, is that even possible? Maybe there's a byte in the "exefs" or even in one of the ".bcsar" files that forces the console to output Surround audio, instead of what the user has set on their console (in my case, Stereo).
Thanks in advance. Surprisingly, I have never seen anybody complain about this.. I hope we can make Majora's Mask 3D sound like Ocarina of Time 3D in terms of audio quality.
ARC files just seem to be basic archives, with files uncompressed inside them, but what I wonder about is the music stored inside audiostr.arc; It has no "magic" word at the beginning of each sound file, but it has a header part which varies in size per song, as shown here:
I tried opening the file in Audacity, opening it as RAW ADPCM with different sample rates and it always had a distinct "screeching" sound over the distorted audio, which you can hear a sample of here.
Does anyone know what I have to do to get the music out of that ARC file as normal sound files? If a method is found out, it could help me get songs from other console Sims games as they seem to have the same "data/audiostr.arc" file based on what I've read online.
Here's the file if anyone wants to try to crack the format of it and the audio within it: Download
It has to be possible to convert this music if it is even in the same format as previous games, as console Sims game pages on TCRF imply people could find unused songs, which would be hard with how unpleasant my attempts to "rip" the music have turned out...
edited 9:06 PM EDT August 12, 2018
I was searching for a program that can extract the music that seem to be stored in the Stream.h01 and Stream.h02 archives.
I read other posts and Droolie said it requires reverse engeenering because in the same directory, there are BNH and HXX files which contain references and original filenames for the music (not only, also SFX and voices) contained in Stream.h01 and Stream.h02, and maybe also in the Data.hst archive.
The codec may be IMA ADPCM. The sample rate varies, but mainly it's 22050Hz stereo.
Droolie wrote scripts for the PS3, PS2 and Gamecube versions, it certainly helps.
Here's the link to see the scripts: SCRIPTS
I uploaded the whole directory on MEGA with all the HXX, BNH files and also the Stream.h01, Stream.h02 & Data.hst but for these I used a script called "filecutter.bms" by Luigi Auriemma to reduce the file size.
DOWNLOAD
Thanks if somebody can help me on this!
edited 2:44 PM EDT August 13, 2018
I converted a couple psf's to wav using both the Mednafen plugin and peop's with reverb 2 set so people can get an idea how the 2 sound against one another. They are trimmed and label so as to keep the files short and easily identifiable. Also included are snippets of the same tracks from ost's(I understand OST's are NOT good for real hardware comparisons, but you try finding audio capture of these games, or getting the proper hardware to do so), and in the case of the track from The Crow a youtube snippet that might be from real hardware.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/5643chybuauv4xy/ps1%20reverb%20comparison.7z?dl=0
TBH, it's kinda hard to find reliable real hardware recordings of these games. I think I found a better one from The Crow, but I haven't asked the user what platform it was captured from. In the case of Brave Fencer Musashi, this is the best I could find for it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHJ3gOv9Uwo&t=7m15s
Of course that video was captured from a ps2, model unknown, and with the voices in the way, it's hard to do a proper comparison.
As I said before, while I believe mednafen to be the more accurate emulator, it just doesn't sound it yet, to me anyway, when compared to many hardware videos I've come across. I didn't use those, however, because reverb is a bit harder to hear in them against all the other sfx. I'm certain others have their own opinions.
Also, one more thing, this is a simple comparison, not an expansive comparison with various sfx being set to various reverb settings and checking differences.
edited 11:14 PM EDT August 14, 2018
StartTime: 4800 (it's milliseconds)
Object "example_handsup.msm"
but in new game,
StartTime: 24 (A time stamp I don't know)
Object "example_handsup.msm"
I'm searching for a help. I really wonder how can I convert old game's timelines into new game's timeline system (talking about new game's time)
I really need help, I can't find a way to do it for 2 months and one person said that it's Cross Multiplication.
Also, don't care about the "png" in new game file.
Please answer if you have any ideas.
Here are the files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LSWvkbv2aHTJyn1myatMyIxnOfKabKAd
I will leave a link to the 2 "fonts" I already have, one of them being the samples, and the other being a bunch of sounds and strings and junk from the game that sounds like 8 bit stuff
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1JUWf9x5BgA3V_5Xc0cj0qFwfD-tJusSC
edited 10:47 AM EDT August 17, 2018
P.S. Support Prince Fluff (not yarn) to become Dream Friend in Kirby Star Allies!
FILE: APM Sample
Here are all the details I seem to be sure they correspond to the following APM music file:
Codec Interleaved DVI 4-bit ADPCM (maybe not exactly?)
Frequency 44100Hz
Interleave 0x1
Header skip ??? PS: That must be the problem.
In fact, the offset seems to change from file to file, and I have some trouble finding it.
For this sample, I think it might be 0x64 or 0x6A.
THE PROBLEM: When creating a GENH header to the file, I have to specify the header skip. You can hear the music "sounding" changes when varying from 0x60 to 0x6F as offset. It can starts from example at the left channel, then move to the center, returning to left... Or the volume can be really low, or there is a fade in at the beginning...
My question is: is it a problem of format or a problem of header skip??
Thank you!
Quick question: is there a program available that would be able to unpack PKG files? I think it's a fake PKG.
Thanks.
Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what I should be doing with these multi-M3U sets to get them working under foobar2000? Alternatively, is there somewhere I can find sets that use a single M3U, to save me on quite a bit of manual editing? Thank you.
edited 8:09 AM EDT September 1, 2018
*A password is needed for decryption. Said password is "hantosikurai" without the quotes.
*The correct decrypted header for the movie file "MV0000.SFC" can be found by clicking here. (I am not sure if the latter part of it is 100% correct)
I think these might be similar to ADX / CVM encryption / decryption processes. Any tips would be appreciated.
edited 2:06 AM EDT September 3, 2018
Actually, there are three files in the "sound" directory: GAMESND.SP3, MAPS.SM3 & STRM.SM3
While STRM.SM3 contains all the data, I think MAPS.SM3 has the references for the files (I think, because the format seems a bit complex)
Streams may use the DSP codec.
Samples: GC
Thanks!
example file: https://mega.nz/#!ulpV0aJI!oVP_5GrcM_Dogh9hNN-YpgnFjzlt8BEckAhAnbksX7s
It use .awb and .acb files, i sucefully extracted then using various tools like Sonic Audio Tools, AWB Unpacker/Repacker and VGToolsBox, got ADX files, they sound distorted and static, then i checked the ADX file on VGMstream (cuz it can play encrypted files on the fly) and have seen the file is a CRI ADX 4-bit ADPCM codec and is encrypted with Type 9 encryption.
So i used Degod (it contains Key codes for some games and Dokkan Battle was on the list), then i decrypted the .adx file using it and played it on Foobar without any distortions or statics.
The problem is, after trying to encrypt the file back and putting it on the game, it sound static and weird... why? Does the tool don't encrypt it correctly? How can i encrypt it again so the game can play the file normally??
Degod can decrypt ADXs file and has a option to encrypt too, but after doing this, when i try to play the new encrypted file on VGMstream, it doesn't play, doesn't show the Codec of the file and nothing, just an error, but on Foobar the new encrypted file sounds static etc (meaning it's encrypted, right?) but after putting the new file on the game it sounds static as the file is wrong encrypted, why??
I also tried using VGAudio, a tool that can encode/decode ADX and it has a option to encrypt the file with Type 9, problem is a don't know the key code for encrypting it :/
If anyone want, i can upload the ADX file.
Sorry for the long post but i tried giving every detail possible lol
And sorry for the bad english too, hope you guys can give me some tips.
https://mega.nz/#!60dkAKQT!DKD4Xm0UwR-9ks3cdW2swLF7T93Dd3r6cbYKUibAT_Y
Can you help with them?
example:
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/temp/games/CLEARIT.DSF
Mus pack:
https://cloud.mail.ru/public/7HqA/hr9vcFzRa/2Last_Rites_Music.7z
I have already tried xmash, wwxmabnk and ww2ogg. None of them worked. Renaming .wem to .raw makes it playable on foobar but it only plays static. Renaming to .wav gives the unsupported format error, and taking out the bytes before RIFF displays the error: Missing ACM codec.
What should I do in order to convert these .wem files?
.wem example
Btw for anyone else wanting to extract the .pak files of this game, use this key: L%#)TuTw=n@fYRZa=~l>~ENkUE%i/>S(
edited 9:01 PM EDT September 9, 2018
1. .wav game sounds packed/crypted with some method in resource packs .AAF format. The header or respack "ATQ_AAF"
2. When started game and dumped memory - there is some raw IMA-ADPCM streams, without RIFF/WAVEfmt headers, so it's harder to detect them and add normal headers.
At least need help to detect true header method to add/play with genh
Game: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/NAD3/jLbhveodM
Dump-Examples: https://cloud.mail.ru/public/6sJ2/ncscAuCaQ
"extra.aaf" file as example from game.
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/temp/games/Steel_Saviour/extra.aaf
and
"intro.wav" (ripped music from memory)
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/temp/games/Steel_Saviour/intro.wav
edited 7:38 AM EDT September 10, 2018
There were only two "disappointments", and both were minor. First, the audio files were in their dry, data-type names from the game files and not matching the OST names and sequencing. But you know what? That's okay! The important thing is to get the music out quickly, and not hold it up because the tracks have to be in order.
...and besides, it gives me a fun project to do. ;)
The other was a bit more unfortunate. For some reason, the file related to the OST's "Another Challenge" was missing. I'm not sure if the extraction process had overlooked it, but it's one of my favorites...the one time in the soundtrack that Motoi Sakuraba broke the "no band instruments"constraint he used here and on Trusty Bell: Eternal Sonata. Kinda reminds me of Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria, which is quite delicious. :D
So yeah, I've fixed those things. After doing a side-by-side, I made a batch file that renames all the files into the OST order. I also took "Another Challenge" and LOGG-ified it, so that it finally had a place of honor among its kin.
One curious thing revealed was that the audio file "BGM_78_RAIN_OF_MOON_B.genh" seems to have no equivalent on the OST. A shame, as it's a rather haunting piano piece. So it's become a "999 Unknown".
Alright, I've linked the 7z with the BAT file and looped tune in the link below. I know the BAT works in Windows 10, but not if the syntax is similar if you run it in a Linux command shell.
Enjoy! :D
http://www.mediafire.com/file/uivtych0qkosnwx/Infinite%20Undiscovery%20-%20Rename.7z
p.s. I think I might give SO4 the same treatment at some point.
p.p.s ...oh yeah, Dirge of Cerberus will REALLY need the renaming love. ;)
edited 4:21 PM EDT September 12, 2018
This one is mainly for Nisto if ever willing to help.
Could you make/share a python script that would automatically build PSF files by simply dropping a folder that would contain a "Driver.exe" , Bgmxxx.seq, Bgmxxx.vh and Bgmxxx.vb files.
Something similar to your mkpsf.py from your mgs_psfkit.
That would be very appreciated and a huge time saver since i'm currently assembling everything via PSFLab and that is a long, repetitive and boring process.
Many thanks.
 With the NISTO tool I was able to extract all .capdsp from the bio4evt.sbb file. And then I was able to convert to .wav using the "VideoGameSoundConverter 2.0" tool.
 But I'm not able to convert to .capdsp for replace original files.
.capdsp have:
Interval: 0x4000 bytes
Encoding: "DSP" 4-Bit ADCPM
Example of .capdsp file:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/emckcowupo491sw/bio4evt_016.capdsp/file
Nisto Tools:
https://github.com/Nisto/bio-tools
VideoGameSoundConverter 2.0
https://dl.dropbox.com/s/1wuxr31hazx3fp4/VideoGameSoundConverter_2.0.zip
The .capdsp header is in the "bio4str.hed" file:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/e1ofroqc47dw447/bio4str.hed/file
It is cliche to say this, but: Sorry for bad english, xD
I've read another thread here about this and Nisto suggested a solution, which didn't work for me.
I have extracted the VAB with VGMTrans and split it with VGMToolbox. Then I tried to import VAB.vh back into VGMTrans, but it crashes. Any help?
20.psf
https://drive.google.com/open?id=12HkNnqb29qIvjD5DZhf4YaTKyLGC15wa
Could someone have a look at it to see what's wrong?
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1W4HDdrdgQpk31Ba7SjldTCbW1kSDYQz5
edited 10:53 PM EDT September 20, 2018
So might it be possible for someone to at the vary least look into that game and it's music?
Their isn't an ost for this game and no promises of us ever getting one unless we; somehow; get it on the kh3 ost.
Their are some really good songs in that game that aren't on any ost, though a vary few of them are in kh 2.8.
So that's my request...
edited 2:48 AM EDT September 27, 2018
http://www.mediafire.com/file/n40o5n1layqxx6t/New_WinRAR_ZIP_archive.zip/file
I'm looking for the sounds the pyreflies make in FFX as to attach them to the Particle Effects I'm making for a home made project in VR. I've spent days trying to download and search through the sound libraries others have put online one by one, but to no avail. Since I felt these libraries were lacking most of the time, missing basics like the background music or menu actions, I concluded that the best course of action is to extract them myself. Hopefully the result might come with decent file structures instead of huge folders containing thousands of non indicative numbers. After hours of research, I've read that the ff games are difficult to access to say the least. My efforts to extract the audio myself has been fruitless so far. Conventional methods do not seem to apply to this particular game. Having seen this forum's capacity to do just that, I'd like to ask for help. One of your users named Nisto has experience with this particular game. Whether he was successful I do not know. I've read all his posts and can't deduce any answers for this issue. If possible I would like his advice on how to approach this technical difficulty.
My apologies if this first post of mine has broken forum rules by asking such things, but I am at a loss here. I've dedicated many hours recreating The Cavern Of The Stolen Fayth with modern graphics for my own entertainment, but without the original sound effects from the game, it just doesn't feel right.
Hopefully you can set me on the right path, thank you for your time in advance.
Kind regards,
Rufio
Can someone share those files? I would be very grateful
edited 2:12 PM EDT October 3, 2018
Here's entire SOUND.FAT & 2 big chunks from SOUND.DAT (cuts from file start as well as its end), if you need more (be it bigger cuts or samples from SOUND_ENGLISH.DAT / SOUND_ENGLISH.FAT) just tell me.
Goodbye, I wish you the best of luck with this!
Is this a bug in the plugin? Can I downgrade to the previous version because it works for me? If so, how?
This one doesn't seem to store PS2 ADPCM (stereo 32000Hz 0x8000 interleave) streams but another codec.
There's a script written by Alpha23 which extracts IDs for each file of that archive (script here: click)
Thanks!
edited 11:50 AM EDT October 14, 2018
I'm using Foobar2000 with the latest vgmstream plugin.
===EDIT===
I managed to loop WAV with Wavosaur, and now I'm completelly understand how it works. However the program does not support Flac and I'm not a coder for being able to edit the Flac's header to add loop points. Is there a software for that?
edited 6:15 PM EDT October 17, 2018
Just curious to hear how it would sound.
Anyone can convert the audio to normal Wav?
In UHD Version of Steam, the format is the same, but the compress is very different.
.Wav of XBOX360 Version (5MB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/7989xnna75h9f3d/000000af.wav/file
The same .Wav of UHD Version (800KB): https://www.mediafire.com/file/sm6t1q727ddo2qb/000000af.wav/file
edited 2:17 PM EDT October 21, 2018
But is it possible to extract the sounds from the Switch version of NUS3BANKs? I'm trying to get Decidueye's voicebank/sound effects from Pokken Tournament DX but there doesn't seem to be anything about it.
Wario World uses mono .dsp files with suffixes of _0 and _1 to output stereo audio. Whilst vgmstream handles this properly, I'd like to be able to merge both streams into a single .dsp file without degrading the quality.
Super Mario Odyssey uses multi-track BFSTM files. I'd like to be able to take particular stereo tracks from these multi-track files (channels 1 and 2, channels 3 and 4, etc) and remux them into separate files so that each resulting file represents a single track.
It's been a while since i gave a look at SSF ripping and noticed an issue with current players (Foobar2k with SSF/DSF Decoder 2.0.50 to name one).
Some crackling noise occures with a few tracks from Samurai Spirit RPG.
I don't get such issue when playing them using Mednafen (1.21.3).
Here's a sample one:
http://rgho.st/private/7d7ZqlGRy/04044a421a71d7a6e525b223ee1ef8b3
Are all current player based on Highly Theoretical ?
Any existing one based on Mednafen's core available somewhere ?
In the game files, there's a "sound" folder containing all the *.RAW audio files (headerless) with dialogs, sound effects and music.
Each audio file finds his header and his proper filename inside the *.HNK files which can be found in the "hunkfiles" folder.
For instance, headers list start at offset 0xB7FA20 in the "global.hnk" files.
I must say "global.hnk" isn't the only one that stores the header. There are a lot of other HNK files. This one seems to contain what I need: music headers.
The first one is for "4acda574.raw". We can see its original filename "MUS_slower_loop_01.mus" and just before, the header with coefficients. Without these coefficients, I can't create a GENH header in order to play those because it is unsupported DSP. Plus, each file has a different header.
Looking at the headers, music seems to be 32kHz stereo. I don't know about the interleave.
So my question is: is it possible to add the proper header for each RAW files and to rename them into their original name?
GLOBAL.HNK/GLOBAL.FILES: DOWNLOAD
4ACDA574.RAW: DOWNLOAD
Thanks!
edited 8:41 AM EDT October 28, 2018
These were extracted using aluigi's Unity script and won't play. In Unity Studio it's compression format is Xbox360 WAV and get an FMOD error. I'd really appreciate the help.
In the screen folder in the PSX CD, there is a file called uacore.vab (the MD5 hash on my copy is 117e70076ee5563406829867d6a6465d).
With a hex editor, extract offset 7FA70 - 835A0, (not sure if you're supposed to include the zeros), to a bin file.
Then, in VGMToolbox, these are the settings I used to create the genh.
4-bit Playstation
1 channel
5512 Hz frequency
file start 0 loop start
file end as loop end
edited 11:59 AM EDT November 3, 2018
.DAT and .RAW samples:
https://mega.nz/#!2psmUQDR!tjJoo3Dw5FBT20K4HlGjZsgSwNIsnWjk6nc90mq5VIo
I know some use actual recordings like Mario Kart 8 or Splatoon, but how about others like the M&L Superstar Saga remake, Pokemon X/Y or Paper Mario Sticker Star?
I guess my question really is, what VSTs do they use for such great-sonuding pieces? Any ideas?
edited 11:08 AM EST November 9, 2018
Here is a sample .dat file and its .hdr file.
Well, I took a quick look into track 102 and contrary to what I've heard the past few years the instrument data is intact. I figured at this point it was the .bgm that was causing trouble, lo and behold when I opened it in a hex editor the end of the file was filled with junk(I think this is from a different file, but still) I tried viewing the hex data in VGMTrans but it straight up crashes on files with corrupted .bgm's, which in turn was actually quite useful. The headers were still intact so I used them to find the original data.
tl;dr Here just take 'em. Old files bad, new files good.
edited 3:42 AM EST November 13, 2018
Cleaned up "216 - Coexistence (Liberation Army Version)", accidentally bound 2 bgm's to the file.
edited 1:49 PM EST November 13, 2018
It’s still very much a WIP but check it out here:
This link
I’m hoping that with the new server we can offer better availability to help, whether it’s questions or answers from everyone in the forum and from those that haven’t registered here, not willing to, and/or don’t even know this place exists but already have a discord account.
Also, I’d like to keep it chill in there like it is here too :)
See y’all there~
As everbody knows, almost all the joshw collection is stored in solid 7z archives. Unfortunately, it's extremely heavy to perform file random access, especially for mobile devices.
I've made a tool to optimize collection of 7z files - GitHub
It processes all the input 7z files (or found 7z files in specified folders, processed recursively) in the next way:
1) if archive is solid and size of the biggest solid block with more than 1 file is more than --max-solid-block-size (3M by default) then archive is recompressed in the next way:
1a) if archive compression ratio is worse than --min-unpacked-ratio (0.9 by default) and compression delta is less than --max-nonpacked-space-loss (2M by default), then archive will be uncompressed
1b) else it's recompressed with --compression-level (7 by default), maximum filters and maximum solid block size equal to --max-solid-block-size
2) else file is untouched
This transformation dramatically improves archives' random access time without significant space loss. I've managed to process all the archives in my local copy (2sf dsf fmtowns gbs gsf hes kss ncd nsf pc psf smd spc ssf usf) and got about 3Gb used space decreasing, so it's worth doing:)
If you don't want to waste your CPU, you can download files from my copy (I can give a link if interested).
P.S. To clarify: I'm the author of ZXTune chiptunes player and joshw collections are the significant part of online catalogues for Android version. Sometimes users complaint about slow operations with 7z archives, so I decided to improve the situation:)
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/mus/gam/The_Guardian_of_Darkness/whiskey2.snp
edited 3:38 PM EST November 22, 2018
Could be a translation error, but it's interesting that he mentioned composing on the console. Was there some type of DAW? Is it available somewhere?
If you're curious, this is part of the message: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/299398989072302080/492617687760109569/Screenshot_44.png
1. N. Sanity Beach (Title Screen)
2. N. Sanity Beach (Part 2 where you enter the jungle)
3. The Aku Aku Invincibility.
Anyone know how to rip them? Thanks in advance!
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate soundtrack tags
I'm not sure how much I'll be able to contribute yet. If anybody knows of any other spreadsheets that are already out there (or rips that have some tags that could be extracted with MP3tag), fill free to merge the information so people don't have to do duplicate work.
My main contribution so far is doing a file name comparison of the previous streams from previous Smash Bros. games to find which songs are new streams.
My hope is for people to eventually create a combined "ultimate" soundtrack compilation of all Smash Bros. soundtracks, giving preference to streams that have higher bitrates and versions of songs that appear in lossless form on official soundtracks. The preferred order would be based on the official sound test order.
My preferred length would just be playing the song all the way through and having a 16 second S-curve fadeout if the song doesn't have a natural ending (which would match the official soundtracks better), but somebody could also create a two loop version as well for those who prefer that.
edited 6:08 PM EST November 25, 2018
edited 6:09 PM EST November 25, 2018
edited 6:23 PM EST November 25, 2018
Ran it through VGMToolbox on PSF Data Finder and it only extracted .SEQ and .VH
VGMTrans also shows the same result. There are 32 files for each of them. However, each .VH only shows 1 sample.
If you want to take a look:
RIPPED SEQ AND VH
SOUND.DAT
edited 9:17 PM EST November 25, 2018
I want to ask you for possible help.
these days i try to extract commentary audio file from SEGA WORLDWIDE SOCCER 2000 EURO EDITION, a dreamcast game.
I try PSound but program don't recognize file when I scan. One big audio file are contains many subaudio files, and that big file is .AI8 format.
I extract whole audio file whit gold wave but whole comentarries are in one file marge together, i want those file to export splited, if you understand me. I used many program but no effect.
For whom it may concern. I've added support of .mp3/.ogg playback and NeoGeoCD/PC/FM Towns/Mobile catalogues of JOSHW into my chiptunes player called ZXTune.
Take a try and welcome to discuss:)
Google Play
Other platforms download
edited 12:44 PM EST December 4, 2018
edited 12:44 PM EST December 4, 2018
the original fsb file is bigger but heres a cut to try out.
https://www.sendspace.com/file/4kby25?fbclid=IwAR1PNfI4I3LXTFt3VPpV5Zb9mQPFdrTchvSTmoaFo_vQqRpZWsGuqaQ_gNo
As you may remember I pointed out here (look for the last post on this page for original message) that the rip by !!!!! which I reuploaded and mirrored might be buggy / bad because at least 3 tracks ended very abruptly and with minutes of silence where it shouldn't be. Anyway I wasn't really planning to rerip this game myself at that time.
Well recently I stumbled upon this topic and decided to test author's BMS which should support MGS4. It didn't work out too well - not only the script is very slow it unpacks everything without extensions & doesn't output readily playable tracks with expected MTA2 headers.
If extracted files are edited afterwards (a portion of data from file start is deleted so that there's an "MTA2" string at offset 0x0) and saved with *.MTA2 extension they inevitably crash a player with VGMStream installed.
I searched a bit and discovered Konami DAT Utility by Sonix from this tool pack but it couldn't open any of my sample *.DAT archives (screenshot).
Finally I learned there's a program by HCS and that was quite a breakthrough: as soon as I started using demux_dat_be.exe on DATs it became obvious that this utility was used a lot while making !!!!!'s rip because naming scheme was the same. I still wasn't satisfied with results as an executable stopped dumping files to HDD wherever it encountered any unusual / untypical info and that left me with very few MTA2 tracks unpacked from DAT bigfiles (like 300MB worth of files from a 2GB bigfile). Here's what it reports on such occasions: movie.dat & demo.dat errors.
1 more thing: it looks like original ripper didn't deal with a single demo.dat (that notorious 12.3 GB monstrosity which is well known on the Net), he seemingly found / downloaded / made tinier demo#.dat (not less than 17 such files) and used demux_dat_be to rip lots of audio streams from those custom archives. Could he use Simple File Splitter or 7-Zip splitting tool? Those progs can divide any given file into multiple parts with the same sizes for each part (only the very last one is normally smaller).
It would supposedly trick demux_dat_be.exe into believing there's nothing wrong with input data and let it skip some troublesome parts of a huge initial archive (demo.dat but maybe movie.dat as well) but it should also lead to broken files (for example the ones with lots of silence in the end, the ones I mentioned earlier and put here for anyone to inspect) and it's highly likely. Even if he did precisely that and it sorta worked I don't want to follow his example & make another faulty rip, I gotta find another, better method!
At this point I have 2 main courses of action - a) to contact author of that BMS and suggest that he improves extraction of archive contents or devises a way to process unpacked tracks to make them ultimately playable by vgmstream OR b) to turn to the man behind demux_dat_03 tools and ask him to look into DAT samples & possibly update his executables so that they're able to dump all MTA2 streams stored in DATs (my main focus is demo.dat + movie.dat but there might be 2-3 more bigfiles I'd like to unpack correctly).
That's all for now, Ultrafighter over and out!
Link
As an example, I'd like to be able to feed it some looped file (ie. BRSTM) converted to WAV with at least one loop using vgmstream and for it to identify where the song starts playing repeated data. The program's actual use won't be for cases where the loop information can be easily obtained, though (perhaps USF is a better example?)
As I said though, I'm not sure something like this exists but if any group of people have an idea, it's the hcs forum!
edited 2:15 PM EST December 20, 2018
Using the r1050 version of vgmstream.
And crap. Been away for so long that I forgot to ask in the actual vgmstream thread.
edited 1:01 AM EST December 22, 2018
edited 1:02 AM EST December 22, 2018
Is there any way to extract this? I can't exactly tell if this .bin format is similar to any others or not nor do I know of any other way to get these open. I'm really having trouble getting the English voice acting from these.
Wwise is an insanely popular middleware which is relatively easy to deal with but there're obviously some specific quirks with it as it has its own disadvantages (for example lack of "real" IE descriptive track names in newer games). Here I'll try to describe all the possible steps required to get audio streams from original WWise assets, sort & play them without transcoding / losing quality.
1) Normally all sounds used by a game are stored in archives with *.bnk or *.pck extensions (BKHD or AKPK file headers respectively) but sometimes there's multitude of *.wem, *.wav or *.ogg files in a sound folder (you may even be required to unpack these sounds from some bigfiles - PODs, PSARCs, whatever - but it's another story where to find tools/scripts to work with POD, PSARC, etc. archive formats). The latter case means you won't have to extract individual tracks from BNK or PCK bigfiles (WWise system audio banks) and you can skip step #2.
2) To unpack BNKs and/or PCKs I recommend this or that - these scripts are going to dump every piece of audio found in Wwise banks to your HDD and write them untouched & with proper names.
Don't worry if nothing is being extracted from some BNKs: they presumably have HIRC or STMG tag while only BNKs with DIDX tag actually hold sound assets.
If you get some split-second tracks from any BNKs or PCKs it's perfectly normal too, they're likely to be cached / prefetch versions of other, much longer sounds. BTW both short & long variants should have exactly the same name so that you can always check that to be sure you don't really need the former file.
3) Check contents of resulting *.wav files (or given *.wem/*.wav/*.ogg) with a hex editor: there should be either RIFF or RIFX string at offset 0 and WAVEfmt at offset 8. If it's indeed the case then change extensions of those WAVs/OGGs to WEM (this might not be necessary if you're using XMPlay player + VGMstream plugin or Winamp + VGMstream but it's very likely to be needed by Foobar2000 with said plugin) and add them to playlist.
4) If all the tracks have play length / stream specifications (frequency, bitrate, amount of channels and so on) displayed by your player then you're ready to play them right now.
If any WEMs can't be played / don't have specs you should move them to their own folder and inspect a few samples in a hex editor: it's highly probable the troublemakers aren't actual sound files but yet another bunch of BNK/PCK archives; you'll have to process them all with one of above BMS scripts to obtain WEM audio tracks stored there.
5) If the title you're ripping is quite old (like 8-9 years old) you might get a super bonus - SoundBanks.XML and/or numerous TXT docs located in the directory where you found initial *.bnk/*.pck/*.wem/*.wav/*.ogg files. These documents are supposed to contain "real" titles for every single piece of sound used by a videogame. TXTs usually represent a table in plain text format so it might not be very convenient to work with them but it's still better than nothing.
There's seemingly a BMS for batch automatic renaming but I didn't get it to work (or it simply worked too slowly and I decided to avoid using it).
I think I covered most / all available options considering the topic and there's not much to add, this is all for now. I wish you pleasant and easy VG ripping!
edited 10:04 AM EST December 27, 2018
Cheers for this new year.
Asking here for help, I hope not being bothersome.
I'm trying to rip music for this game DBGT Final Bout.
What I observed:
I have found \TITLE\VABDATA.BIN to be instruments file, a big VAB (VAG?).
But I did not find .SEQ data on any files.
File \TITLE\OPENBG.BIN may contain sequences but I do not understand this format (Psdp).
Exploring the files from the cd, I have found:
.STR has VAG+video stream (exportable to XA) or just VAG samples collection;
.DAT contains voice samples;
.BIN are binary, graphics or some VAG data not in the others.
What I found:
files
______________________________________________________________________________________
\BATTLE\BTWINV.DAT = [VAB] win phrases, 3 per character
\BATTLE\DEMOXA01.STR .\
\BATTLE\DEMOXA02.STR .= [XA] special move's phrases (16+16+4 tracks)
\BATTLE\DEMOXA03.STR ./
\BATTLE\FINISH.STR = [XA] meteor smash finisher lines, 1 per character (18 tracks)
\MENU\STEP00.BIN .
\MENU\STEP01.BIN .\
\MENU\STEP02.BIN .= [???] graphic files; 1 per screen (???)
\MENU\STEP03.BIN . |
\MENU\STEP40.BIN .
\MENU\STEP999.BIN ./
\TITLE\BTCHARA.DAT = [VAB] sfx + voices fx inbattle (260 tracks)
\TITLE\CHARSEL.BIN = [VAB] voices at character selection (110 tracks)
\TITLE\HAIKEI.DAT psdp 41 samples
\TITLE\OPENBG.BIN psdp 18 samples <--- I believe music sequence is here!
\TITLE\OPENETC.BIN psdp 16 samples <--/
\TITLE\OPENING.STR = [STR] opening video
\TITLE\TENKAWIN.BIN = [VAB] win phrases at tenkai, 17 for characters + 2 crowd cheers
\TITLE\VABDATA.BIN = [VAB] instruments + sound fx (28 samples)
_______________________________________________________________________________________
sequence number: (from the sound test [L1+L2+R1+R2 at title screen])
---------------------------------------
00= (xa) outro.1 (instr.)
01= (xa) outro.2 (instr.) : from "OPENING.STR "
02= (xa) outro.3 (instr.)
---------------------------------------
03= gt goku
04= pan
05= gt l.goku
06= trunks
07= ss2 vegeta
08= ss1 goku
09= m gohan
10= cell
11= buu : I believe sequences are stored in "OPENBG.BIN"
12= freeza
13= piccolo
14= ssgt goku
15= trunks z.ss
16= ss1 vejito
17= ss4 goku
18= ssgt l.goju
19= ss1 trunks
20= baby
---------------------------------------
21= meteor.smash 1
22= meteor.smash 2
23= meteor.smash 3
24= meteor.smash 4
25= meteor.smash 5
26= meteor.smash 6
27= select character
28= tenkai winner
29= title screen
30= baby intro
---------------------------------------
I believe \TITLE\OPENBG.BIN and \TITLE\OPENETC.BIN have the sequences in that unknown format.
I tried Eternal SPU Plugin v1.44 in psx emulator to save .spu data from the sound test screen, hoping that it would lead me to something.
Here are 2 .spu files I created with that plugin, for the same music track (seq.#=03):
1 run, 2 runs or looped once.
I opened .spu file in hex editor. The arrangement of the data makes me believe that this .spu format file created by Eternal plugin is some form of SEQ, so I hope this could be converted to a .SEQ file together with its .VH header.
If that would be the case, how do I convert these .spu files to SEQ/VAB ??
Thank you for your atention.
edited 6:34 PM EST December 31, 2018
Proofreading is a little bad on my side, forgive me please
edited 6:40 PM EST December 31, 2018
I really need the PSF2 files from Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix. Especially "The 13th Reflection", "The Other Promise", "Rage Awakened" and the two Christmas Town songs "Happy Holidays" and "What a surprise".
Only the MIDI files would do it too...
If someone could rip those for me (as I can't do it on my own due to missing knowledge...) it would be HIGHLY appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
edited 6:22 PM EST January 5, 2019
And here's what I 'm stuck on. I don't know how to deal with them, vgmstream reported that it failed to read frame size: could not seek to 13215.
https://mega.nz/#!iWI0xKJZ!jX3yfi-d0Alncw_-DVNRx2dVK4QG_0NJ9Dv0nqXoxBM
I was thinking something like $15 per game if that sounds fair. Also, let me know if any of the below titles are currently unrippable for whatever reason.
Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance[Beat Down](2005-11-2)(Cavia)[PS2]
Beat Down: Fists of Vengeance[Beat Down] (2005-11-3)(Cavia)[Xbox]
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth(2005-10-24)(Headfirst Productions)(Bethesda Softworks)[Xbox] (I'd like to have the cutscene audio included in this one.)
Chaos Legion(2003-3-6)(Capcom)[PS2]
Daemon Bride: Additional Gain(2011-11-24) (Examu)[Arcade] (NESiCAxLive)
Dokapon Kingdom(2007-11-22)(Sting)(Examu)[PS2] (I'd also like the opening cutscene audio included with this one, it'll probably need to be demultiplexed though.)
Dokapon Kingdom(2007-7-31)(Sting)(Examu)[Wii]
Mister Mosquito[Mosquito](2001-6-21)(Zoom)(Sony Computer Entertainment)[PS2]
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game(2010-8-10)(Ubisoft)[PSN]
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game(2010-25-10)(Ubisoft)[XBLA]
Short Peace: Ranko Tsukigime's Longest Day[Short Peace: Tsukigime Ranko no Ichiban Nagai Hi](Crispy's Inc., Grasshopper Manufacture)(Bandai Namco Games)[PS3]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic(2003-7-15)(BioWare)(LucasArts)[Xbox]
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - The Sith Lords(2004-12-6)(Obsidian Entertainment) (LucasArts)[Xbox]
The Operative: No One Lives Forever(2002-4-8)(Sierra Entertainment)(Monolith Productions)[PS2]
The Transformers(2003-10-30)(Winkysoft)(Takara)[PS2]
Yu-Gi-Oh! Capsule Monster Coliseum(2004-7-29)(Konami)[PS2]
Edit
Contract J.A.C.K. & Under the Skin have been ripped by Vector Harbor.
AceK apparently already ripped Melty Blood Actress Again Current Code some time ago so I took it down from the list as well.
I'm putting Battle Moon Wars The Best(2009-4-26)(Werk)[PC] & Rose Guns Days - The Best(2016-08-31)(07th Expansion)[PC] to the side for now until I can provide the files from the discs myself.
edited 3:57 AM EST January 12, 2019