No other GBA games music, including Golden Sun 1, exhibits this behaviour.
I finally got this into a working state, so here you go.
Source code is available here
https://github.com/XAYRGA/BMSXPX
a video of a slightly older version of it in action is here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to8L9zhrV8k
Anybody help?
Scare Me XBLIG.rar
https://anonfiles.com/w231Y2q1b6/Scare_Me_XBLIG_rar
Scare Me XBLIG.rar virus scan results for the cautious out there
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/be4bcb83fad4a7802c6747f7c43c397db87b55cccf5780f30c8b3191269a305b/detection
I got someone brendan19, to look at it on zenhax.com and they said that They're definitely XMA.
They stripped away the XNB header, added an XMA header and it played back just fine using vgmstream. They said hard to tell exactly what it should sound like due to the nature of this title.
Support for this might be added to vgmstream if I submit a bunch of samples over on the HCS64 forums for some people to take a look at. Thanks.
edited 6:28 PM EST January 19, 2019
I can't find any information on this, and I'm wondering whether this is an issue with these rips in particular, or if the problem lies elsewhere.
http://loveemu.hatenablog.com/entry/Conversion_Tools_for_Video_Game_Music
by loveemu
It would rid me of the horrendous task to cutting synths out of a single file and be a godsend for mixing music from Genesis games at minimum.
I also wonder if there's a program that can automate the process of muting active samples in SPCs though I can already do that manually fortunately with SPCTool.
edited 6:09 AM EST January 25, 2019
Day1_sgt - https://anonfile.com/s8ZeE7reb4/Day1_sgt
GUI_sgt - https://anonfile.com/v4Z8E6r4b4/GUI_sgt
fe_hard_01_sgt - https://anonfile.com/NbZfEerfb4/fe_hard_01_sgt
fe_hard_02_sgt - https://anonfile.com/PeZ8E3rebd/fe_hard_02_sgt
fe_hard_04_sgt -
https://anonfile.com/OcZ1Eerfbd/fe_hard_04_sgt
fe_hard_03_sgt -
https://anonfile.com/QdZ8E5r8be/fe_hard_03_sgt
waves_sgt -
https://anonfile.com/S9Z0Edrbb1/waves_sgt
VIRUS SCAN RESULTS: 1st File: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/6acdfc5fe8a977917e788c33a16f8e31d2764419ba074243cc088597a5494f71/detection
2nd file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/d828be440793bd6443077c6a522af3de4f17a43a38ad7530395ca40088d5509b/detection
3rd file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/42fac7f77be315973b3f82c73e6436ad9644225d52befc0e7a3489b07d298a63/detection
4th file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/9a639f91e0f11351f2b224d9173b521239a5b13a1684293f0dddeef1887a4e89/detection
5th file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/e38beefcf0ac9922a0794567062e2f30400a8bb9b7c9b92f24ee0242cb6eecd0/detection
6th file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/d6c3eb34bd7b1fdc90f50a86bfd3b68f6f62af5a5dba1b757fd48fe00f4a5957/detection
7th file: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/10653728080da4f41221c8c463da7aa561047d39c0f4bdc4ecafdaf89ee9fd30/detection
EDIT: These are the DLS Files soundfonts, the instruments for the midi files of the game.
fe_hard_dls - https://anonfile.com/rff3F4r5bf/fe_hard_dls
club_dls - https://anonfile.com/vefeFar6b0/club_dls
Mission2_dls - https://anonfile.com/5df6F0r7b5/Mission2_dls
Stalag1Path_aud - https://anonfile.com/6ff5F8r7b2/Stalag1Path_aud
Mission2_dls - https://anonfile.com/Edf6Fbr7b4/Mission2_dls
Mission3_dls - https://anonfile.com/H0f6Fcr7b5/Mission3_dls
Mission2_dls -https://anonfile.com/Icf5F1r7b9/Mission2_dls
Mission5_dls - https://anonfile.com/P7f0F6r9b2/Mission5_dls
Stalag1_spt - https://anonfile.com/a6g0F4rbbb/Stalag1_spt
All these new files scanned into one for ease: https://www.virustotal.com/#/url/45873e1c06bfc392ad5ef8ade74c318e5b792d3047234a63b1fdd091e8b22573/detection
edited 5:32 PM EST January 25, 2019
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I'm having a bit of trouble on a .miniusf from Pokémon Stadium 2, i'm maybe wrong, but i'm entirely sure that there is two songs from this single .miniusf, as there is no loading screen between both, and the partitions are the same, like, if FLStudio would have been playing correctly those .midi files, i could create both songs from the same files.
And before ya'all scream to me, yes, i verified every .midis from the game files, and there is only a single one that sounds the same as the one i'm looking for, which makes me really wonder if there is two songs in the same file.
Lemme explain :
When the N64 would play the midi, it would cut like 2-3 tracks of the song, and when you get to the other screen, it would cut 2-3 others tracks of the song while restoring the 2-3 ones from before, and vice-versa.
For anyone who wants to know, it's the Elite 4 variant from the Johto Castle theme.
So i wanted ot know, how could i trick Foobar2000 to play the other song from the .miniusf ... ?
edited 2:44 PM EST January 26, 2019
So long!
Also, I apologize if HCS isn't the right forum to ask this question.
edited 6:09 PM EST January 27, 2019
Prisoner of Azkaban was ripped ages ago so, why not the others?
Today, I present to you the entire Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga soundtrack in the best quality it will ever be heard in.
I made this rip, thanks to a modified version of the tool known as GBA Music Studio. The modifications to work with Superstar Saga were done by a generous user known as Xayr, so major shout-out's to his hard work to make this possible.
I should note, some songs have issues, and said issues have been noted within a notes file in the archive. If there are anymore issues found, do let me know.
With that out of they way, here is the download: The Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga Soundtrack in High Quality
acorn_meadows_apartment_autumn_T033.sdat
https://anonfile.com/zcH4S6q8be/acorn_meadows_apartment_autumn_T033_sdat
homesquare4_edit01_christmas_T040.sdat
https://anonfile.com/25HdS3q1b1/homesquare4_edit01_christmas_T040_sdat
windmill_apartment_5e5_e0fa_T031.sdat
https://anonfile.com/65H6Sbq7b2/windmill_apartment_5e5_e0fa_T031_sdat
siren_hos_1f_e_T032.sdat
https://anonfile.com/B1H5S8q6b9/siren_hos_1f_e_T032_sdat
siren_hos_entrance_scee_T034.sdat
https://anonfile.com/CbHeSdq2b6/siren_hos_entrance_scee_T034_sdat
gothic_cathedral_apt_9221_e8b5_T032.sdat
https://anonfile.com/P6H2Sbqfbc/gothic_cathedral_apt_9221_e8b5_T032_sdat
acorn_meadows_apartment_birthday_T033.sdat
https://anonfile.com/S3HdSbqabf/acorn_meadows_apartment_birthday_T033_sdat
asia_mall_2_T037.sdat
https://anonfile.com/T9HeS3q3b8/asia_mall_2_T037_sdat
Hoyle PC Game Music Files
Then, there is a midi file and png file.
If necessary use X-Ripper.
Success example: Puyo Puyo, FINAL FANTASY, Taiko no Tatsujin, Dance Dance Revolution,　Ridge Racer Drift
however, I do not know how to dump ROM from mobile phones!
I have a mobile phone with an app pre-installed, what should I do?
It would be highly appreciated! =)
Thanks in advance!
I'm looking for a javascript USF player to put music on my website. Do you know if one is existing ?
Regards,
Dams
edited 5:30 AM EST February 8, 2019
dax_encode.bms
keep in mind that this can only encode 1-channel WAVE files and does not support .dax decoding
edited 5:08 PM EST February 10, 2019
People from this thread three years ago were talking about similar stuff and I'm wondering if anyone has gotten any more info since then?
https://hcs64.com/mboard/forumlong.php?showthread=44576
Honestly I found no place on other forums for asking this and I'm seeing other game rips being on topic here.
I've noticed there is quite a lot of PS1 soundtrack rips that have no loops and considering the sites it is a well known fact for everyone. Every game I still have for PS1 however was lucky pick as every one of them had loops when I downloaded the soundtrack, except for Chou Kousuku Grandoll. Is it possible to edit the tracks for looping? Or is this require the re-ripping of the soundtrack?
It has a gap around 1:35, when it starts the loop. Somebody know how can this issue be fixed? Thanks
edited 11:31 AM EST February 14, 2019
-Batman Vengeance
-Naruto: The Broken Bond
I have the actual files that contain the music files but I don't know how to crack them. Vengeance has this file name STREM.SM0 or in the xbox version STREM.SM2. I cracked most of the files from the PS2 version with Cube Media Player but some are still missing. Naruto has the files under a PK file format but its under these file names naruto_stream.sra and naruto_sound.sra. Someone had actually tried to rip the game before but only got a small percentage and gave up on it. I was able to determine that files exist by using the PK files through Foolbar2000 and contains some of the music and sfx with voice over cues. But again it wasn't complete.
I can post them if anyone can take a look or could give me idea on how to extract them.
I had asked in other places, and the answer I got was to use the soundbanktool from GitHub. However, not only does the version from GitHub not have 64dd support, but loading the ipl4rom crashes the program immediately.
So I was wondering if anyone had an updated link/ copy of either the Mario Artist Studio soundfont or a patch I could use to get the soundfont myself?
i decide to release a beta version of my new adpcm ripper to see if someone is interested in and if i should continue to develop on it ...
here is so the v2b3
<b>when you open a file it make a quick search (depend of header of each file).
to make a deep search click on the glass when file is loaded</b>
it should open as native :
ISO File (PC, PSP, etc...)
XBOX ISO File
X360 Iso File
WII Iso File
NGC Iso File
and can search (at the moment) for (ADPCM Format) :
ADX (All platform)
CAF (NGC)
THP (NGC/WII)
ADS (PS2)
AUS (PS2)
NPSF (PS2/PSP/other?)
SFS (PS2)
SVAG (PS2)
VAG (PS2)
VIG (PS2)
VPK (PS2)
XVAG (PS3)
BRSTM (WII)
AT3 (PSP/PS3)
FSB4
FSB5
RIFX (PSP)
MIB (PS2)
Can extract audio from :
PMF (PSP)
SFD (PS2/DC)
PSS (PS2)
Can handle some container :
AFS
BIGF
IPK
ARC(Lumines)
XAST
PAK (Motorstorm PSP)
i begin develop this tool a long time ago ... but have no times or motivation to continue ...
i would like to work again on this tools if there is an interest for you (at least it has some for me ;) )
please test it (should be a lot of bugs !!) and help me to make it grow ;)
thx
PS: This the re-rip of motorstorm - articedge
edited 3:46 PM EST February 21, 2019
This site also contains additional data of the .snd files: http://wiki.xentax.com/index.php/The_Last_Express_SND
edited 12:01 PM EST March 7, 2019
I'd like to present a complete (and fixed) Soundfont/DLS & MIDI pack for Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga.
All instruments were extracted using a hacked variant of GBA Music Studio.
Props to Infomaniac95 for motivating me to finally finish this.
Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/v007g1byu9jxa0r/AAC54TN2CdLVHYdaiy_PTpcEa?dl=0
There's already a thread about a high quality ML:SS soundtrack, but I wanted to post a seperate thread since this is pretty much the completed product.
IMPORTANT NOTE!: The MIDIS and SOUNDFONT included in the Dropbox link are NOT the same ones that Infomaniac gave.
The PSG patch number and sound channels were modified, so that they now work in General MIDI 1 players (such as VirtualMidiSynth).
So the soundfont from Infomaniac's pack won't fully work with the midis from my pack, and vice versa.
Enjoy, everyone!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ifvQb56ggQEqdazpGIRH7P38bbeo3P4u
I've recently came across the game data files for Condemned 2: Bloodshot or otherwise known as the hardest gamerip ever. The files were extracted from the XBOX360 iso which contain I do believe the music files as well as the SFXs and voice overs. Yet the files are under a format ARCH.02 that after further research is a Monolith Archive File mostly used for games like the FEAR Series. Is there any program or BMS script that could help with extracting the music files. I can PM the files if anyone needs them.
Thanks
-Dexter-
What I just wanted to do is to have custom music applied to the game, and I was able to perform some workarounds. The game's audio files are located in its "Res\x64\sound\bgm\" and "Main.g1l" is the one I'm using since it contains all of the game's background music files.
I'm able to confirm that the game's music is possible to be modded because I tried copying another game's "Main.g1l" file (from the same series, which is Atelier Meruru DX) and Totori DX was able to play the songs from the .g1l file of Atelier Meruru DX.
From what I understand so far, the structure of the .g1l file is:
.g1l archive > .kvs (or more likely looped .ogg) files inside the .g1l archive
I used 2 programs which are "KVS2OGG" and "KVS Tools" (KVS tools has 2 .exe programs, one is for extracting .kvs files and the other one is for archiving .kvs files into a new archive file called ".ktsl2stbin")
For "KVS2OGG", I only did this process:
- Rename "main.g1l" into "main.kvs"
- Open KVS2OGG
- Open "main.kvs"
- Select the extract location for the .ogg files the program will extract
- Results to "<filename of kvs file>_00001.ogg" (and is arranged in some order)
The thing about this program is that it's able to extract the .ogg files from the KVS files but when I want to export multiple .ogg files into a single KVS file, it wouldn't be possible. I tried renaming it into .g1l and inserted it into the game's files but didn't work as well
For "KVS Tools" (which was for Attack on Titan 2 but since Atelier Totori DX is also ported by Koei Tecmo to PC I assumed it would work), I did this process:
- Rename "main.g1l" into "main.kvs"
- Use the "kvs_extract.exe" file from KVS Tools through dragging "main.kvs" onto the .exe file
- After the extract process is done, the files from "main.kvs" is placed into the "out" folder the "kvs_extract.exe" generates
Afterwards, I tried using the archive tool included with this and dragged the folder where all the extracted kvs files are located and it resulted to "mod.ktsl2stbin". I tried renaming it into .g1l and inserted it into the game's files but didn't work as well
Is there a program/tool that allows multiple .ogg files to be compiled into a single .kvs file or .g1l file? Thanks!
Hello all. I've browsed this site many times and have enjoyed it especially the thread that covers discovering the original samples of various games! Anyways... lets get down to business.
I've been trying so hard to figure out how to rip the MIDIs from Cruis'n USA for the N64. This is where I'm at...
What I've already tried:
N64MidiTool can only get the sample data.
The old VGMTrans that works with some N64 ROMs couldn't get them.
Converting the Miniusf/usflib OST sequence data to MIDI doesn't seem to be possible from what I've researched. (Even though the source USF rip already has both the sample data and the sequence data in it? Shouldn't there be a way?)
What I've experimented with:
I messed around a little with the N64MidiTool files that tell the program where sequence data is located in various ROMs by adding Cruis'n USA to the directory then taking stabs at trying to narrow down where its located in ROM but to no avail.
By using Bizhawk and its various debug features, I tried to see if I could find where the music was being loaded from by following various hex values that updated along with the music when I played music in the options menu of the game. I thought I found the spot but when I tried to edit or freeze the hex values in that spot then go back to the game and turn off the music or play a sound effect, no evident change was shown.
My next idea was to use the data from the miniusf/usflib OST rip and the original ROM to see if I could find the hex location by matching hex values with both of the files but of course N64 ROMs have swapped characters. (Is there a way to permanently swap the characters? Then maybe this method could work?)
So my last resort was to type in random amounts of hex locations-(Realistic amounts of course. Not something absurd like the whole ROM.) just to see if the N64MidiTool would somehow rip something, anything from the sequence data. But when I type in a location, it will display as a MIDI song and when I try to convert it to MIDI with the program, it crashes.
The only last bit of notable information I have is that there is some unused debugger messages in the game ROM and there is a section of it dedicated to audio. Maybe the name of the sound engine is SN64?
https://tcrf.net/Cruis%27n_USA_(Nintendo_64)
Summary:
How would I go about figuring out where music sequence data is stored in an N64 ROM so I could extract it and convert it to MIDI?
My reason for wanting to know how is because I would like to transcribe the music correctly so it could be remixed, remastered, covered/played or performed, or studied by other people. I've sequenced many video games songs and have put them on VGMusic with the correct tempo, instrumentation, and quantized notes so that it can be at least 99% accurate to the original songs. I could transcribe it by ear like I've had to do with a couple songs but if there is an option to rip the original MIDI then it definitely makes things easier.
Welp, if you have read all of this then thank you for bearing with me. Now I just hope I can get some sort of answer.
edited 8:06 AM EDT March 17, 2019
As I remember there was an old SuperStar Saga + BK Grunty's Revenge MIDI exporter, and it made me wonder if they used similar enough sound drivers that the music could be exported.
I was wondering this because I've always wanted SNES-quality versions of the DKC3 GBA OST.
If possible, it'd be a huge thanks.
Edit: I might be able to do this using AGBPlay to get the sound table offset + GBA Music Studio, but I'm unsure on how to compile AGBPlay.
edited 7:32 PM EDT March 17, 2019
https://mega.nz/#!U0FmUAiD!ew_pZ1xAIYwoD7ObAAtshNSM79v2YGiKdksIio5xUFk
I tried extracting every single one of the .app files to no avail.
One of my ideas is app 58(in version 20 of the shop channel decompressed wad) since it's 3.375 megabytes but both ArchiveExplorer and ShowMiiWads say that they can't extract it.
edited 2:34 AM EDT March 21, 2019
https://ghidra-sre.org/
(P.S.: This is developed by NSA - paranoids be aware)
I haven't tested it extensively, but I did try decompiling some raw PS1 (MIPS R3000) code (it doesn't support PS-X EXE files natively from what I can tell) and was surprised how well it worked. I mean, IDA Pro has been around for decades, costing a boatload of money, and to this day doesn't even have a decompiler for MIPS.
Part of what I tried decompiling in Ghidra looked like this:
lui $v0, 0x3E0F ; Load Upper Immediate
ori $v0, 0x83E1 ; OR Immediate
multu $v1, $v0 ; Multiply (Unsigned)
mfhi $v0 ; Move From HI
srl $v1, $v0, 4 ; Shift Right Logical
As complicated as it may look, the C equivalent is just a simple unsigned division, which it correctly interpreted:
v1 = (unsigned int)v1 / (unsigned int)66;
I've confirmed that this will in fact compile to the assembly above with Psy-Q's official toolchain (at least with -Os switch). So it seems rather promising.
Anyone else had any experience with it? Plugins? Other resources?
.cast files: https://zenhax.com/download/file.php?id=6548
.trak files: https://zenhax.com/download/file.php?id=6547
edited 7:57 PM EDT March 28, 2019
https://github.com/arookas/flaaffy
There's also some documentation on the custom assembly language used:
https://github.com/arookas/flaaffy/blob/master/cotton.md
There's also an older utility by the same person that might contain some more information:
https://github.com/arookas/MIDItoBMS
edited 5:59 PM EDT March 30, 2019
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They had one thing in comon: Percent % symbols in the filename, for example "Asuka 120%".
I guess it trips the percent encoding converter or something.
They can be downloaded browsing to the corresponding JoshW.info server, but it won't work from the indexer site.
That also made me curious about how many other filenames contained a % symbol, but neither the internal search or any of the usual webcrawlers services will take +"%" as a meaningful search string xDD, which, I suppose, is to be expected.
edited 11:20 AM EDT March 31, 2019
I'd like to know if any of you here may be interested in giving a look to it.
Someone did created a tool to decrypt its format but when Square updated the game to its 2.0 version it got outdated and now the tool doesn't work:
https://github.com/GovanifY/khuxdecrypt
If any of you would like to take a look to them please tell me and I'll upload al the game files to MEGA.
Thanks in advance!
edited 10:40 PM EDT April 4, 2019
AFAIK, the audio files inside the UPK are WAV ADPCM (Bioware...).
Any ideas, please? Here is the file.
I'm trying to use VGM toolbox advanced cutter to scan for ADPCM files, but I don't think there is any working preset.
I'm also happy to pay a fair commission, if someone can and is willing to do it.
EDIT: so, I managed to get the PSarc files out. But, but, now it's time to get both cutscene (the ones with the in-game engine, not the movies) and battle audio out. It's certainly hidden in the PSarc, but how to get it out?
EDIT2: So I got the Psarc files out with Noesis, but nothing works.
EDIT3: I got SOMETHING to work, yay!
But, unfortunately, there's still things that don't work.
edited 7:55 AM EDT April 13, 2019
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DJ Hero Wii uses FSB4 files containing 6-channel 160kbps 32khz MP3. Does anyone have experience with creating multichannel FSB files like these?
My current plan is to look at the vgmstream code in order to figure out how DJH FSBs are constructed; is there a better way to do this?
I have the latest version of foo_gep (1.213).
It works fine with MSXplug under XMplay.
Example here:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0ekbvZ3GMVA
Compared to the original:
https://vocaroo.com/i/s0SwRz6TXgMk
edited 9:33 PM EDT April 16, 2019
P.S.: this is the first PSF file that I can't play on AO. Mega Man 8, Alundra, even Crash Bash plays totally fine and I can isolate them all. Don't really understand the problem.
First, I extracted the content of the MUSIC.000 archive which contains the music package files with a BMS script (http://aluigi.org/bms/area51.bms)
The music files are inside the *.AUDIOPKG archives. The sample below comes from this archive: https://mega.nz/#!L5Ei1aoa!8EUkE-l6y_-VC1vSxTRGQP1OJzZPh3A6fQOeSfAT6d0
To extract them, I used AlphaTwentyThree's script https://mega.nz/#!vxdgmCZK!9YG3xc7HQ_OYehgDD72jE6ggk0UKJO87jSr8Gj63Nr8
There's no issue until this point because the problem is to rebuild a correct header in order to play the music files with vgmstream.
Apparently, the music uses the Xbox 4-bit IMA ADPCM codec, at 32000Hz, stereo, with a blocksize of 0x8000.
Here's my TXTH script which doesn't work (the music can clearly be heard without any static at the beginning, then garbled noise, then music, etc.)
codec = XBOX
codec_mode = 1
interleave = 0x8000
channels = 2
sample_rate = 32000
num_samples = data_size
Could anyone please help to write a correct TXTH script? Thanks in advance.
Sample: https://mega.nz/#!X1EGwSJB!hKgNK6QVIPpjWRyaPQ2D155dbaPX-lI6DEm9e_MVzoU
edited 5:42 PM EDT April 21, 2019
I like the GameBoy Turok soundtracks. Reading an interview with the composer some years ago (which I can't seem to find again), something was said about Turok 2's music lacking stereo effects even though it was composed with them, because someone didn't configure the sound engine properly, so everything sounds in both channels.
This got me thinking that, if the music data still contains the stereo information, assuming the compilation didn't hardwire it to mono, perhaps the ROM, or even the GBS could be hacked to get the stereo effects back.
Regardless of that, reading on this story this made me curious about stereo effects in other games of the series, listening to the GBSs, and that's where I started having unpleasant surprises.
This is supposed to be an unadultered hardware recording of GB Turok 1. There are mp3 and flac links in the description. Not mine.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLF369B4981FD2E272
In this recording, there are many clear stereo effects and panning, and they are richer and more complex than merely remixing the chip's channels to go to different side, so I don't think it's one of these pseudo-stereo "remasters".
When playing the GBS rip or even the full game in an emulator (BGB, mGBA), as I don't have the cartridge, most of that is completely lost and only some things here and there remain, usually hardly noticeable.
It would seem gb sound emulation is not accurate enough yet?
Is this known to happen in other GB games?
In case someone wants to try listening from the game, there's a level select, but gamefaqs has the cheat wrong, even though I sent them a correction ages ago.
The correct way is, in the title screen, highlight the "OPTIONS" item and then press and hold UP, which will highlight the "START" item. Without letting go of UP press START.
edited 8:49 PM EDT April 21, 2019
edited 1:50 PM EDT April 22, 2019
Sega Ages 25: Treasure Box has a real cool gallery and I would like to extract images from it.
I open the bin/cue file with AnyBurn, these are the files showed
I supose the image files are encripted in any of these files (Probably Data.CCF), but I don't how to decrypt it
Could you please help me with that? Thanks
See ya
- I'd probably be providing a HTTP gateway, so mirroring would be mostly theoretical
- I probably want an approval queue, so links wouldn't be immediately useful without being edited (or without some dynamic redirection or db editing), though I guess I could have a separate Dat for each upload and just stop hosting the ones I reject (and then have a Dat that is just an index of active links, for mirroring?)
Anywho, just something I've been thinking about.
I'll start, my main focus is on RuneScape (mostly 2, HD and 3). So here all the resource I have:
-RuneScape on Decrypted Roms Wiki
-rs-hacking
-3D-ALOG Script
-NXT Launcher on Linux (3rd party)
-Some list related to sounds
-Some list related to instrument
-Bunch of online cache-read tools (RS3)
The rips in question are:
Mickey's Racing Adventure
Mickey's Speedway USA
These two rips throw the following error:
Emulation warning: Invalid load/init/play address
Shantae
This gives the error:
Emulation warning: Invalid timer mode
Also while I'm here talking about Mickey's Speedway USA, I thought I'd share my tags for it, as joshw doesn't currently have any.
I noticed that there are two Donkey Kong 64 USF sets and one has a cut off at the start of each miniusf but the other does not. The one that works says [rr] but is fine. I can only find Banjo-Tooie with the same problem.
Could you tell me where to find Banjo-Tooie [rr] or show me where the rr tool. I can fix the set for you if I get it to work. It is my favourite soundtrack and I want to hear it again without the cut off
Latest version.
SOA_spk_example
For more information, click
here
Us Version
Version with another singler
See here a gameplay with the original game min 13:10
Someone can rip only the original version? Its only 1 track that i need.
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The PSF Data Finder in VGMToolbox is known to be buggy, so I didn't think too much about it and tried to find other ways to extract .SEQs, .VHs, and .VBs, ending up with VGMTrans. It was a slow process, but I cannot find the .VB file for Dot Dash. Using PSound shows that the samples are in the .DAT file I am extracting from, but I can't seem to find the .VB using the other programs. (Files extracted from PSound are here)
edited 3:56 PM EDT May 11, 2019
To use the Netlink, each one of the few games has XBAND bundled with it.
I was wanting to rip the music used in these XBAND menu, but am having some issues with it.
When i get my SSF made, it sounds... off.
Here is what it sounds like, for anyone wondering.
EDIT: Incase anyone wonders, when ripped correctly, it should sound something like this.
Im not quite sure what I can do to fix this, and was wondering if anyone here could find a way to fix this.
You can find the XBAND files here, if anyone wants to take a shot at it
edited 5:21 PM EDT May 11, 2019
Pretty please?
edited 5:17 AM EDT May 12, 2019
(truth be told I totally forgot about this site, sorry guys)
Anyhow, I've reversed most of the HOWL sequence pack format, you can check it out here (tool download in link, releases tab)
HowlDataExtractor on Github
I'm still working on the tool but it should be good enough to rip midis! :D
I'll probably need help with researching different event types and sample packs too...
Have fun!
Here are some demos:
Hot Air Skyway SCVA (Soundcloud)
N.Gin Labs SCVA (Soundcloud)
Intro cutscene CT4MGM (Soundcloud)
edited 9:40 PM EDT May 13, 2019
I was pondering where the source samples came from, as the VGM source thread doesn't list.
Compressed: https://zenhax.com/download/file.php?id=6830
Decompressed: https://zenhax.com/download/file.php?id=6831
I have a follow-up with my previous attempt on my rip of Condemned 2: Bloodshot
After weeks of research, I found out through the game's sounddb.gamedb on Notepad that the music are not on the global.SND file as previous suspected based on the FEAR 1 and 2 game files. The files for the music are actually in the game's sp(Single Player)/mission0* folders under an bndl file. Through the mission0*.gamedb shows that the music file are within the m0*0000.bndl yet its a part of a single file split into multiples. I was able to deduce that the file name its under is something of a compression file mostly common in games like Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit (2010) and Shadow of Mordor.
I have tried Aluigi's QuickBMS script for Shadow of Mordor but doesn't seem to work. If someone could take a look at them I would greatly appreciate it.
Here are the files 2.Gb
-DeXter-
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I'm trying to make a better release of the game's soundtrack using the PC game's data. I found the data through the game's HOP file but don't know which one contains the music itself or which format its under either as snd, sndi, or snds.
Any help with this would greatly appreciate.
-DeXter-
I found the music cues to the Enter The Matrix game on PC under adx file. Tried using it through Foobar2000 but only get noise.
Any help would be awesome:)
-DeXter-
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while trying to extract data from the Family Guy Video Game, developed by High Voltage Software, i noticed that the data was packed in a .wad file. so i tried looking around for bms scripts for the games file type and no luck.
Due to the lack of my internet's upload speed, i cannot provide a link to the .wad file specifically. However, i can provide you with Thisthat contains the .wad fie.
This archive: https://mega.nz/#!ZsBz3Q5C!0B2QKIYu21W6LCsNrpWpYuIhWarGBKtnQ7DpLAZ-Hjk
contains the files:
test.fsb5: the file I'm trying to decode
test.vag: my failed attempt to convert into VAG format
test.ogg: what it is supposed to sound like
i found it
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- The Life Mushroom jingle
- The jingle that plays when switching to Luigi on the Starship Mario
I know it's not in the sequenced data, and I've tried looking in the thousands of sound effects for them, and I can't for the life of me find them. If anyone could help me, I would appreciate it.
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As for Sly 3, what would be recommended to extract the contents of the SLY3.WAD file?
Here are some samples: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q9bNalm09-lD-9SBgUUNVJ_JZqa7Ur2Y
However, there is one track in specific I've been looking for that is not with the rest of the music and I cannot find anywhere. There is a jingle that plays in-game whenever picking up a letter tile, the main collectable of the game. Here is an example of the jingle. Since it's not with the rest of the music, I have to assume it's stored alongside the game's sounds, which I have not been able to find. I've checked both the GameCube and PS2 versions and I've not been able to figure out where the sounds are stored, let alone how to play them.
I've tried using Dragon UnPACKer's HyperRipper and PSound on the PS2 version to see if it could locate the sound effects but all it could find was the aforementioned WAVs and what I'm assuming are false positives as none of the rest played any sound. The game has a lot of files which I'm unable to figure out how to open, specifically .DPS, .NPS, .IRX, and .SPS files. The game is made up of mainly .TSC files which are viewable in text editors, so those seem to not be of any use to me.
If anyone has any ideas as to how I can rip the sounds from either version, I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you!
edited 11:36 PM EDT June 10, 2019
I started working on this tool when I spotted a demand for isolating instruments in PSFs. The idea had also been in the back of my mind for quite a few years, as I knew that a universal solution was somewhat feasible (being that all sequenced PS1 games use Sony ADPCM samples.. at least AFAIK), but I never really got around to it until now.
With that said, this tool doesn't technically isolate instruments, but rather the samples. So, for multi-layered instruments, such as drumkits, the output might be a bit awkward/unexpected, but it ultimately does give you more control.
The initial version of the program was rather 'dumb', and you would actually have to manually specify a start offset (and yeah, only one) for sample data, and it also didn't support minipsf. Now it will automatically detect samples, and minipsf support has been added (the output format can also be set). Simply drop a PSF file onto the program, and it should (hopefully) do the job.
At this point, I'm hoping to get some feedback on stability/bugs, suggestions, and any PSF sets on which it fails somehow. The default settings for the sample detection algorithm (can be changed via commandline) may not be optimal for all sets. But if they can be tweaked further without compromising on other sets, it would be helpful. I have really only tested this with around 10 PSF sets so far, so please do test it on your favorite PSF soundtracks and let me know how/if it works.
Future ideas (any help with these would be greatly appreciated):
* Custom selection of tracks to mute/isolate
* Mitigate false positive samples by excluding CPU instructions, strings, etc. from the search space