Here is the game's folder. It's compressed, so you'll need to extract it before you can check the files.
edited 2:02 PM EDT June 14, 2020
https://www.mediafire.com/file/e7wpiwnj6456pad/pacintime.zip/file
Could someone clarify to me if is possible to rip sounds from the games from this series, or if not, what are the general reasons? I wasn't able to emulate it on MAME, even though I found videos of people being able to emulate it. I've searched everywhere I could, even on this forums, which game me 0 results, so I'm trying to ask directly from people that probably already investigated the subject before.
Why rip this if you can found the soundtrack in much better quality from the official CD releases? Well, I'm curious to know that the games function as the Guitar Hero series, given the similarities, having isolated drum tracks and without-drums tracks.
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to extract the FSB files here:
http://pc.joshw.info/h/Hob%20(2017-09-26)(Runic)%5bPC%5d.7z
I've tried Aezay's tool, Luigi Auriemma's tool, and the guessfsb tool from this site. I haven't been able to get anything to work.
Can someone please let me know if extracting these FSB files is possible?
Thank you
I wanted to play Pac-Man: Championship Edition NES outside of the compilation, so I figured out how to extract the ROMs from the alldata.bin package that contains the game's files.
For the most part, you can follow this guide which covers extracting M2's Castlevania Anniversary Collection:
https://github.com/farmerbb/RED-Project/wiki/Castlevania-Anniversary-Collection
But you need a different value for the "codec" used by M2ArchiveBatchTool. That value is "+6ZU4rBUftNHH" (without quotes). So the command you need is:
Windows
MArchiveBatchTool.exe fullunpack --keep alldata.psb.m zlib +6ZU4rBUftNHH 64
Linux
./MArchiveBatchTool fullunpack --keep alldata.psb.m zlib +6ZU4rBUftNHH 64
After extraction, you can navigate to the /system/roms/ directory to find all the extracted games, including "pacman_ce.nes". This is a normal, headered NES ROM, so it should work on any half decent NES emulator.
I even have the English atlantica songs from hd remix.
The one thing I'm missing; and that the internet doesn't seem to have; is the English version of "any time, any place"
This is the short diddy that Sora and crew sing just before sealing atlantica.
If anyone can extract those lines from hd remix, I'd be vary happy, as my full hd remix english soundtrack would be truly complete.
I'll take the lines from ps2 kh2 if need be, but I'm looking for isolated lines, not the ingame versions with water and such.
I'm not sure how hd remix has these lines encoded, but the soundtrack only have the singing lines, not the interjecting lines in between.
I know the ps2 kh2 has them separate, as Sora and crew sound different when singing as opposed to talking, so I know that the singing lines must be in ram or something.
Can anyone here help me out?
If not, can anyone point me to somewhere that has these few lines?
Thanks for reading; at the vary least.
-pert :)
edited 6:22 PM EDT June 29, 2020
Currently, I've been able to take raw IMA ADPCM audio data, attach the header as seen in the picture, rename with a hwas file extension, and get it to play with vgmstream. Vgmstream is the only program that has been able to correctly play the native hwas files I've sent at it, and so these hwas files having strange volume issues make me think that 4 byte header is missing. However, I have no idea what is supposed to be in this header, and attaching a static header every 0x8000 bytes has only had marginal results. Since vgmstream decodes it correctly, I was wondering if someone could explain what is contained in this 4 byte header, and hopefully, how to write the header given the raw IMA ADPCM data?
Thanks for your help.
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"The application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail."
Not going to lie, I have no idea what it's referring to or how to fix/work around this issue. If anyone could give me a hint or a hand for what to do (or not do), I'd greatly appreciate it!!! Thanks in advance for any and all information.
And in case you are wondering, these samples are from the PS2 port.
edited 12:52 AM EDT July 6, 2020
I only really plan to do this for the Dreamcast port of Gauntlet Legends, though, and when I downloaded the files for it from http://dsf.joshw.info, I got the files as .stg, .str or .stn-- something like that. I'll go back and edit this once I find out for sure what the files were called, but I've never encountered them before, and I was wondering if these were a streamed audio format that the Dreamcast uses, or if these are still sequenced files.
Any and all help is appreciated as always!
vgmstream is awesome, but I'm also intrigued by whats happening to make this work.
I would like to know how the contributors to vgmstream got to understand the various file formats that vgmstream is able to decode.
I'm not talking about reading a table of the file memory-map in some wiki and then writing the vgmstream plugin for that. I'm asking about how to understand the file by yourself, effectively reversing the file format without any given specification.
E.g. if a new game comes out and uses a completely unknown file format for their music, how do you approach this and reverse it?
Maybe the game uses cache for it's data, or the data is in the ARSC file? Any help would be needed if you know the right tools/programs for ripping stuff from this game.
Here's it's APK link.
edited 4:01 PM EDT July 13, 2020
or
Yu-Gi-Oh! - Dark Duel Stories (USA)
(not to be confused with "Duel Monsters II: Dark Duel Stories from 1999")
Tried them both through GBgbs V1.0 (japanese software), turned them both into a .gbs format that foobar2k plays and skips to the next track everytime.
Haven't ripped other games but the one on joshw is doing the same thing! And other Duel Monster rips work just fine.
Any help?
JAPAN .gbs: GDrive
USA .gbs: GDrive
Not sure if I'm allowed to share my ROM dumps.
Can anybody develop and/or provide to me a Nintendo 64 romc type 2 compressor for compress the N64 ROMs to romc but in type 2 in order for be able to use in new Nintendo 64 Wii Virtual Console WADs like Zelda: Majora's Mask, Paper Mario 64, Mario Party 2, Bomberman Hero and others? If anybody is able to make a compressor for this type of romc I will be very happy. Thanks in advance :D
The game I've been tirelessly trying to get this from is Crash of the Titans on gba.
I have absolutely no need for the soundfont, just the sequences- the notes themselves.
L-CD701 Rhythm Section Volume 1
L-CD702 Orchestral Families Volumes 1 & 2
L-CD703 Modern Sonics
L-CD704 World Music
L-CD705 Rhythm Section Volume 2
L-CD706 Orchestral Families Volume 3
I'm new around here and hope I can contribute something to the community sooner or later, for now excuse me that I have to kick things off with a question from my side.
So as a fan of the Idolm@ster franchise I was digging through all it's console games the past few days with the main goal to extract all of the BGM soundtracks. While the vocal tracks are pretty much all released on CDs these days the BGM of the newer and spin-off games are not. So that's why they have been my main focus.
Just as a quick rundown for those interested, I give a overview of the games and formats used for it's BGM (format for vocal songs might differ):
- THE IDOLM@STER, THE IDOLM@STER Live For You (XBOX 360): CRI ADX 4-bit ADPCM format
- THE IDOLM@STER 2, THE IDOLM@STER GRAVURE FOR YOU (PS3): ATRAC3+ format in nub2-container
- THE IDOLM@STER ONE FOR ALL (PS3): ATRAC3+ format in nus3bank-container
- THE IDOLM@STER PLATINUM STARS, THE IDOLM@STER STELLA STAGE (PS4): ATRAC9 format in nus3bank-container
- THE IDOLM@STER SP, Shiny Festa (PSP): ATRAC3+ format (very low bitrates)
- THE IDOLM@STER Must Songs (PSV): ATRAC9 format (dump available on the forums)
And now the one I'm stuck with:
- THE IDOLM@STER Channel/Shiny TV: Unknown .zwv format?
Tried to search for any info regarding this format but sadly haven't found a thing aside from some references to the wavpack format. Also the header might look similar but something seems off since all tools I've tried didn't want to load the files properly.
Files for reference
If anyone has a clue what this format could be any help would be much appreciated!
edited 11:44 AM EDT July 27, 2020
Could you help me to detect audioformat/parameters from the game Flower, Sun and Rain (ps2). There is PCM0.BIN, i used FlowerSunRainLFExt utility to split the datafiles, bit they are some unknown/mixed PCM.
examples:
0-30.bin
0-32.bin
unpack-util:
FlowerSunRainLFExt
PS2 iso could be downloaded from:
Flower Sun, and Rain PS2 ISO Jap:
ISO
edited 4:57 PM EDT July 28, 2020
Recently I was able to look into Insomniac Game's Marvel's Spider-Man, Game Archives and came across some split around 2GB files containing the assets for the game. The problem is, nothing has an extension.
Upon closer look with HXD, it seems some of the archives have readable code such as Textures, face rigs, sound bank paths etc.
Is it possible for someone with more experience to assist in a script or something to aid in the extraction process?
Will include full archive split below;
a00s019-022 +dag&toc.7z : http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=08451099146345567855
g00s000-006.7z: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=00130822635829624271
g00s007-013.7z: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=09512526722906740456
g00s014-018.7z: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=99643822497830275629
Use QuickBMS script, Filecutter_Rebuilder to get the full, original copy for copy files back.
Cheers and any help is appreciated.
edited 4:44 PM EDT July 28, 2020
The developers used it to play the music on the game's sound engine.
I had no idea MIDI files were playable in Cocos2d-x!
Someone wrote a tool to decrypt the music.
https://github.com/simontime/gbsalsa
And of course, I encrypted all the MIDI files! Click here.
You can also download the CROB soundfont by clicking here.
For example:
On 10.PSF there is no start-up synth as there is in the game
On 13.PSF an instrument is very low in volume compared to how it sounds in the game.
On 30.PSF the synth lead is also very low in volume compared to the game, everything else sounds okay.
Many other similar problems as well.
The RIP is also not tagged, no song titles, no durations, no composers who are the following: Naoko Ishii, Hiroshi Tanabe and Waichiro Ozaki.
Song titles are available here
At first I thought they were MIDI, but they are not (fake/remnant header maybe?)
Battle Heat music data (?)
Tengai Makyou music data (?)
Thanks in advance.
edited 2:02 AM EDT August 1, 2020
So Brizzo, who is part of the MAME community, got a random Memory Board for an arcade machine off of eBay. and that board turned out to be SpongeBob SquarePants: Ticket Boom, a Ticket Redemption Game published by SEGA in 2007. I was able to talk to Brizzo through Discord, and he was kind enough to send me the audio which was extracted from the data. and from what i can tell, the Sound Effects & SpongeBob's voice lines play at the same Frequency for the most part, while the Music on the other hand is different. Brizzo also provided a link to a .zip file which contains the game itself. however, the game is in a format that I myself have never seen before (.ic1, .ic2, .ic5). He also mentioned to me that he and whoever was helping him extract the audio from the board, discovered that the audio samples were for a "Yamaha YMZ770C SPU". He also added that converting the audio to a .wav was just to "check the data format, and to get a clue about Hardware & Emulation". He also recalls "one of the guys who wrote the driver outline was able to pull the sound files out of the rom dumps and convert them to wav files, hence verifying the audio system used". Below is the games ic files and the audio rips that he provided to me. If anyone could be of assistance, that would be great!
SpongeBob SquarePants - Ticket Boom:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-P0wuJMbiikCUDmcSV5k0IcSbK-BJnZG/view?usp=sharing]
Ticket Boom - Audio Rip [Provided By Brizzo]:
https://mega.nz/#!9Z9CEQKJ!UzdMC6TCUyvXwv5psMafoiLOHfDByUMqSBZJL5u4lAE
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SEGRP.MRG (351MB)
Can anyone figure how to rip this out?
Or if it has been ripped out? (Not afaik)
The header is the following:
0F 00 00 00 00 B1 01 00 46 C0 50 10 00 24 00 00 46 90 50 10 00 24 09 05 46 88 50 10 00 24 C2 08 3C 8C 50 10 46 26 5A 0C 64 1C 00 00 46 26 7A 10 50 40 28 10 00 21 64 11 78 48 32 20 00 24 D4 12 78 68 32 20 00 1E D4 12 78 5C 32 20 00 26 C5 14 78 DC 32 20 00 17 C5 14 64 B4 32 20 00 2B 75 17 64 B4 32 20 00 28 75 17 64 B4 32 20 00 24 75 17 64 B4 32 20 00 21 75 17 64 B4 32 20 00 1E 75 17
Random HEX code, might be a small SFX:
0F 00 00 00 60 73 01 00 50 40 28 20 00 21 00 00 5A 60 50 10 46 26 7D 01 5A 44 50 10 46 26 6C 04 64 18 32 10 00 24 73 06 5A 34 50 10 46 26 30 07 6E 74 50 10 46 26 C3 08 5A 5C 50 10 46 26 4C 0C 64 28 32 10 00 1C 73 06 3C 18 00 20 00 29 09 0F 32 1C 00 20 00 26 09 0F 64 28 64 20 46 20 F8 0F 3C 0C 28 30 00 1C E0 10 50 10 50 20 00 24 27 11 78 24 28 30 00 0D E0 10 64 0C 50 30 00 24 62 13
Based on the pattern from all the other tracks, it should be called "030_cliff_boss_rythm_cmp_wav.aax" but that's nowhere to be seen in both the Gestalt and Replicant rips, and none of the other drum tracks matches it either.
I've been trying to dig around in the ps3 iso to find it myself, but with no luck in regards to decrypting the data. Anybody know if such a file even exists somewhere there, or how to decrypt/extract the audio in the first place?
How can i get it? Any help?
edited 4:32 PM EDT August 16, 2020
Dark Athena sadly doesnt include the music from Escape From Butcher Bay. There is also no extracted music for the game available here, only for Dark Athena. I also played around with quickbms and that Dark Athena XWC script but obviously didnt do anything. I was able to extract the big XWC packages which are named DVD0.xwc (~300mb) with Dragon Unpacker but I cant playback them and they have no file ending. I got files like "mus_pa2_ev11" or "trks_pa2_hangar_amb" but cant play or convert them, even with VGMStream foobar plugin.
Does anybody here know something? Would really like to check out the music quality of the music and compare it to the PC ogg versions. I wanna provide the best soundtrack rip ever so far for these games. The music from Gustaf Grefberg is just amazing.
I know I could just use the PC and ogg files, which I already extracted and work fine. The way how you extract music from the PC and XBOX version is very similar, files are even named the same but the PC version has directly playable ogg files while the XBOX version has the same files but without file ending or codec name to them. Maybe they would playback fine but I dont have a working plugin for it. VGMStream should be able to handle it but it doesnt for some reason. If not VGMStream what else...
Maybe its a waste of time to some people but I just want to check out the spectrums and see if the XBOX has higher quality audio files. Its just curiosity.
edited 6:33 AM EDT August 18, 2020
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Testing edit.
edited 11:48 PM EDT August 18, 2020
They're not straight rips; PrimeBlue apparently fixed several issues with the source files from the disc.
The rips are still pretty easy to find, with the exception of the FLAC variant of MP2. It's completely disappeared from the Internet as far as I can tell.
It seems like at least one person (jurassicPieter) that responded in that thread is still active here, but it doesn't seem like this forum has DM's. I can't find any recent activity from PrimeBlue anywhere. I'd love any help in tracking down this soundtrack before it's gone forever.
I am not sure if that is just how these files were encoded or if I did something wrong ripping them. Both Fallout 3 and Riddick Escape From Butcher Bay are glorious examples. The audio files have higher quality than their PC counterparts but they just sound awful. It would probably even hurt my experience when playing on the XBOX, that is how bad they are. Kinda weird when a MP3 128kbit from the PC version sounds better than the lossless wav from XBOX.
I just wanted to ask here if this is normal and known. Or if some of the rips floating around on this website are just bad and broken (or the tools used for ripping are). But I even tried to rip some stuff myself from xbox iso images but same result. Some games such as Riddick Assault On Dark Athena weirdly enough sound just as good or better than the PC files but it really seems to be a hit or miss.
Its also both with the XBOX and XBOX 360. I am really not sure why this happens. Either the rips are faulty or the developers failed at encoding their music into this xbox wav format.
edited 10:19 AM EDT August 22, 2020
I ripped the soundfont using N64 Sound Tool along with the midis (which work fine) but a lot of the instruments are way too quiet and I don't know how to fix it. Can anyone help me or provide a better copy of it?
Thanks a bunch!
However, I hit a brick wall (go fig). These odd archives were extracted from the .pkg file with names like g10s000 or g00s001, and the like. I'm convinced that these hold all of the files. My research indicated that using edge_of_nowhere.bms should extract the files, but I can't work with the files that come out (.dat files and .kb2 files). A hex editor doesn't clear anything up, so I'm stuck.
How can I rip the music and SFX. Any tools for this?
Any help would be much appreciated.
edited 5:45 AM EDT August 26, 2020
I wasn't sure where else to ask and google/duckduckgo wasn't giving me any joy but have any of you guys found a solution to stream your VGM collections over Plex or similar?
In trying to extract audio streams from FFXI I was happy to find that AnonRunzes already did the research and released a QuickBMS script (announced in this thread: https://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=52887 and found here: https://github.com/RetingencyPlan/le_quickbms_script_compendium).
However, when trying to apply it to the opn.dat in the original release FFXI, no files were found. This opn.dat was specifically mentioned as a basis for the findings in this script, so I was a bit surprised. Looking in an hex editor, the file seems to have the expected formatting and some debugging of the script indicates that it find several video frames and both ac3 and pcm audio. However, nothing is extracted.
Someone had better luck or knows of a solution?
Cheers!
The Sounds Resource (for voices and SFX only): https://www.sounds-resource.com
The Sprite Database: https://spritedatabase.net
The Internet Archive: archive.org
As a quick repository solution, I've shared a Google Drive folder with public read/write permissions (for now anyway). Some of the tags on there may be incomplete and require community support.
Since I don't think I'll be that active with tagging, my hope is that hcs or others would come up with a more permanent formal solution at some point, as was being discussed in an older thread that died off. hcs has a placeholder vgm wiki location for example.
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So far it seems to be the original PS3 version of the game.
However, I also tried to look into Remastered but the OGG files I extract are unplayble and nothing can open or access them including VGMStream.
Anybody knows how to make them play or even just open? I wonder if the audio quality is any different from the other platforms or if these are just converted OGGs of the original WAV files.
When I tried to download the files, it said that it couldn't securely downloaded, or something like that, so I ended up discarding the file.
Could any of you help me out with this issue please?
Only asking for help, thanks.
edited 3:58 AM EDT October 9, 2020
I'm aware that I can get the intro via:
test.exe -l 0 -f 0 -o out.wav in.dsp
But what I'm not sure about is how to get the loop section on it's own, without the intro. Can anyone help?
In most cases, I was able to fix the sets with broken timers by simply redownloading them from joshw or snesmusic, however some files (e.g. these sets for Leading Company and Special Tee Shot) have broken timers in foo_snesapu from the word go. Another fringe example is this set for Utopia, where despite track #2 clocking in at 18:02, the default of 15:59 is again returned.
I don't know enough about the intricacies of the SPC tag format to know what's amiss, and my usual tactic of deleting external tags and reloading tag information has not helped. In these minority of cases where redownloading files isn't an option, what should I do to get the timers read correctly by foo_snesapu?
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I would like to know, what is the process that the uploader follow to convert extracted files (sequence + samples) from their ROMs, to a module format?
I'm interested. I'm asking because I can see these module formats as a "catch-em-all" (?) solution for MID/sequence gripes. Also, because as modules that they are, they are of high interest to musician programmers - the people that professionally USE soundfonts.
edited 9:13 PM EDT October 20, 2020
For example, the snu files you get when extracting the bigfile packages, are unplayable and trying to convert them with that wav.exe method just doesnt work and CMD says something about wav.exe not being recognized.
I sadly wasnt able to find any other way to make these snu files into playable audio files and VGMStream also cant work with them. Which means I hit a border and I cannot really get access to the audio. I wanted to make a soundtrack rip and also get ahold of some great audio sfx and ambient samples. For some reason there isnt even a basic soundtrack rip for Dead Space 3 on joshw.
edited 9:33 AM EDT October 22, 2020
I was listening to the Super Mario World SPC set and noticed many of the tracks have the first audible note reversed on speakers. It doesn't show on tracks where the note is mono, but if an instrument is left speaker and is the first note, it'll be in right speaker. Same goes the other way. It seems to be set wide.
I also noticed that the Doom SPC set has a sort of fade in at the beginning for the first note which is noticeable on percussion.
I was wondering if these are known, intentional, or issues with the sets, plugins or SPC format in general or if anyone had insight
wwiser releases (needs python3 installed).
Download wwiser.pyz + wwnames.db3 to some folder. Open (double click) wwiser and use it to parse and convert .bnk (Wwise sound info) into .txtp that handle Wwise's dynamic songs. You need the latest vgmstream. Should be easy enough to figure out but:
***
Quick guide to get decent Wwise rips
- get latest wwiser: wwiser releases
- put all .bnk and .wem in a dir
** .bnk/wem may be in other bigfiles like .pck, use this: wwise_pck_extractor.bms
- put SoundbankInfo.xml/(bankname).txt/Wwise_IDs.h/etc together too
** you want ALL of those, SoundbankInfo.xml doesn't have every name
** if you don't have those it's still possible to get names, see: NAMES.md
- open (double click) wwiser.pyz, make sure you have "wwnames.db3" in wwiser folder
- press LOAD and choose some .bnk (bgm.bnk or just all of them), check "move .wem"
** It's recommented to load `init.bnk` too if you have companion files.
- press GENERATE to get .txtp (pay attention to log, you may need to tweak things manually)
** this creates /txtp folder with .txtp and /txtp/wem folders with .wem
- test .txtp with vgmstream (you may need to tweak some manually to improve)
** if you change .txtp also change the filename so it doesn't get overwritten if re-generated
** ex. from "blah {r}.txtp" you may need to make "blah {r1}.txtp" "blah {r2}.txtp"
- remove unwanted .txtp (like voices)
- use this python script to move .wem not in .txtp to /unwanted: wwise-cleaner.py
** check if /unwanted does have wanted music (may have removed good .txtp)
- check if there are .wem in root (before /txtp folder) not moved with have useful/unused audio
** put in "/unused" folder
- include companion files (.xml/.txt/etc) + .bnk in some /extra folder or !extra.7z
** you may need to re-generate when new features/fixes are added (!!!)
** some .bnk may need to go to /wem folder instead (see log!), might as well put files there
- 7zip files and folders (with .txtp in root) + upload rip somewhere
Note! .txtp are Good Enough but not perfect in all cases. This means you may need to generate them again later when I fix bugs. I wanted to make them future-proof and avoid re-generating but it was too time-consuming, sorry.
NOTE ABOUT WWISE
Wwise never, ever plays *(number).wem* directly. Instead, it uses .bnk to indirectly play one or many .wem, through "events", with config. wwiser creates .txtp that simulate that so results are as accurate as possible. Loops and other audio info is in the .bnk, not the .wem. Please Understand.
This tool doesn't and won't modify .bnk.
***
If you are interested also check:
- full guide
- readme
- advanced docs
edited 3:49 PM EDT October 26, 2020
Listening to the soundtrack for the old PC game "Claw" and using the soundfont available on the DVD version, it sounds EXTREMELY loud. Exporting the files to WAV shows that they are around 6dB too loud and are clipping like crazy. Just wondering if this can be done within foobar or if I'll need to fix them in a sound editing program like Audacity. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks :)
I've always noticed how the past music in the Sonic CD game was sequenced(specifically on the Ricoh RF5C164 audio chip that was included in the Sega CD addon that the game took advantage of), and I've always wondered if it's possible to extract the music from it. Thing is, I've tried EVERYTHING I know from over the years, and none of them have worked to provide some sort of midi/soundfont combo or a MOD/XM/IT file that I can actually mess around with, extract samples from, and see the notes.
I've already tried vgmtrans, but that didn't work:
It just shows some incomplete samples.
I know that the past music uses:
1. Samples(since they are extractable)
2. Sequenced music(since the music is contained in a .vgm format).
If anyone has any way of turning either the .vgm files or the game rom into midi/soundfont combo(like what vgmtrans does) or MOD/XM/IT, I would be greatly appreciative.
VGM files: Download
Game ISO: Google it since I can't give a link to that
I have a problem that for days has had me on the verge of impatience.
I installed "Love Live! All Stars" and so I was in awe of the BGMs in the game menu.
The issue is that I moved the downloaded packages (Pkg0 to Pkgz) from my Android mobile to the PC.
I managed to convert several of those ".acb" files to ".hca" using VGMToolbox, but they are only the SFX sounds of the game, not the BGMs.
When converting, some files returned ".bin" files, which I tried to examine with MagicISO but had no success.
What can I do to be able to unpack all the Assets that are inside those packages? Or is this a problem that VGMToolbox cannot handle?
EDIT : the path of the files that the game downloads (1.7 GB) are in Android/data/com.klab.lovelive.allstars.global/files
edited 5:24 PM EDT October 30, 2020
Previously I used ww2ogg with the alternate packed codebooks which worked fine. But after a recent update to the game that changed the sound banks, this no longer works.
Perhaps the codebooks were changed? Does anyone know how I would go about converting these files now?
edited 8:31 PM EST November 4, 2020
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11m0ud5mLkvLUs2U9-35Z9vdncnQwBKAM/view?usp=sharing
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How can I make these music files playable?
edited 9:49 AM EST November 10, 2020
I wanted to find out because the game Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne features rather compressed audio, here's a comparison for those who are unfamiliar with the game. Recently there was a new CD release titled "Rare Soundtrack" which featured some previously unreleased tracks, but unlike the first two soundtracks (which were uncompressed) the audio on this release appears to sound the same as the in-game audio. As a result I'm led to believe that the original files may have been lost which is extremely disappointing if that is the case, but it got me wondering if the psf2 files could be updated or not since it be nice to have a version of the unreleased audio that doesn't suffer from compression.
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I am currently attempting to play every game of the Mega Man X series. I'm just done with X3, and I am trying to find a new link of the Undub patch for Mega Man X4, which replaces the American dub from cutscenes and gameplay with the original Japanese voices, while adding subtitles (link here). If anyone has the patch file, please give me a link.
Otherwise, I also tried to edit the audio of the .h4m files in Mega Man X Collection, although I've only been able to extract the audio with h4m_audio_decode. Does someone know how to edit said audio ?
While trying to edit the audio I also tried to open the sound effects files which, I presume, contain voice clips, with VLC and it worked fine for the musics, but not for the sound effects, even though these two are in the same format : .bin
If anyone could suggest me a tool that can play these files, I'd appreciate it.
In case the sound files not extracted and converted jet it would be a pleasure to do it.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/4h0w5so3c760zhy/Zahir_attack_1_%7B919a9da3-19a2-4ed5-9806-59c832458f81%7D.wav/file
https://www.mediafire.com/file/lb22f6yh78df1vi/00000006.sib/file
edited 6:20 PM EST November 17, 2020
Seems ADPCM
Game Arcturus:
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/mus/gam/Arcturus/0_02.adp
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/mus/gam/Arcturus/0_13.adp
http://coraksoft1.narod.ru/mus/gam/Arcturus/0_20.adp
This is Real Version of Strikers 1945 PS Version VGM RIP.
Formally Strikers 1945 PSF Rip is NOT 1945. Its 1945 II. Because 1945 II Was Released in US by Strikers 1945 in PS.
So I Made my own version of Strikers 1945 PSF Came on 1996. Have a Fun.
So I would like to compile a list of music file locations for certain Mario, Zelda, Kirby, Mega Man, etc. games on NES, Super NES, and N64. The problem is, I have very little knowledge of how to obtain such info. To give you an idea of what I'm wanting to do, here is the N64 spreadsheet I'm putting together:
Google Spreadsheet
I only have info for Zelda: OoT & MM thanks to lists I found here and here, respectively.
My question is, how can I locate the music in the ROMs of other games, not only for N64 but also NES and Super NES? It's not that I want anyone to find these for me (though if anyone knows of any other lists like what I linked above, that would be awesome), but I'd like to learn how to find this kind of info for myself. But I have minimal hacking/datamining experience. What do I need to get started? How exactly do I begin? I know each game stores its music differently, even on the same system. I guess I'm looking for a starting point to looking for the tracks.
Here's what I already have:
- Hexadecimal editor
- ROMs of most of the games I'm interested in
- NSF, SPC, & USF plug-ins for Winamp, plus rips of most games of those file types (though I don't think the ROM locations of the tracks are embedded in these ripped music files anywhere that I can see?)
Now I don't have any great, overarching purpose to this project. I'm not interested in rips of the music itself (as I already have most of those). It's just the way game ROMs store their data and how it's all ordered--particularly text and music--has long been strangely interesting to me. So I'd like to compile track lists for all the games I like on these three systems.
Thanks in advance!
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If anybody could help with this, it would be greatly appreciated.
EDIT: My mistake. It works on Incognito mode. It must be one of my browser extensions fault.
EDIT 2: "Save as..." on a direct link works, also copying the direct link and opening it on another tab works too. Problem solved!
edited 12:08 PM EST December 2, 2020
Now i want to recreate the structure of the sound file but i am a total noob regarding that and everything i try like to use VGAudioCli to create .dsp dont work.
Here a sample of the sound file i really hope somebody could help me with that.
Sample Link: -> https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O5zzn ... t4QzHzX3IX
https://ibb.co/wpb0Q1J
I'm trying to extract the soundtrack from the Konami mobile game Dankira: Boys Be Dancing. It's an offline game that clocks in at about 3.2GB, I'm afraid. Its id is jp.konami.dankira
The audio files are encoded and just end up playing shrill buzzing in vgmstream. I've been pouring over a hex editor trying to figure out the decode keys but I haven't been able to figure it out.
https://apkpure.com/%E3%83%80%E3%83%B3%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A9-boys-be-dancing/jp.konami.dankira
The audio files are in the file patch.20010.jp.konami.dankira.obb inside of the xapk. The OBB is extractable as a CPK.
If it's helpful, here's a sample acb/awb pair.
https://easyupload.io/dqivps
Thanks for any help that you can give. I'm very appreciative.
edited 6:58 AM EST December 9, 2020
You can extract the folder and its respective .bin with CDmage, but beyond that...
edited 9:08 AM EST December 11, 2020
a sample rate of ~14000 and no endianness yielded the best results… yet not a clear one.
This is what I attempt to do:
https://little-scale.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-extract-pcm-samples-from-gba-rom.html
PSX games can go up to the classic 44.1 kHz but that seems too much for VFlash
I want to know if there is progress since I have used the rom2gsf tool and only the title song comes out.
I have succeeded in ripping the SMD/SWD of NDS Fuurai No Shiren 5(Shiren the Wanderer 5).
Could anyone please convert it to 2sf and post it on joshw.info Archive?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/05pzsfo3t56e2qx
edited 4:09 AM EST December 26, 2020
I've been trying to find a way to rip vgm from obscure nds games. I understand that there are archives that collect nds vgm already like Zophar's Music Domain but vgm of the game I'm trying to rip isn't on there. I have VGMToolBox and I'm trying to use the function NDSTo2SF but I don't have testpack.nds. I've been searching for it but it's been at least 4-5 years since testpack.nds's last discussed. I asked FAST6191 and kode54 about it, to which they replied that they don't have access to the file anymore. If anyone still does, would you mind uploading the file for me?
Thanks in advance for your replies.
Thank you for any help or insight and I apologize for bother you guys over such a trivial question!
I'm not sure that can be done since I went here: https://www.zophar.net/music/sega-dreamcast-dsf/soulcalibur (Dreamcast version) but the size of the original file music is too big that let me think about streamed music, but I am asking anyways
So I searched for another way and I found the Vgz for the arcade version of the game: https://vgmrips.net/packs/pack/soulcalibur-namco-system-12
The problem is that I don't know how to convert the vgz to sequence (midi)/sf2, trying to extract with 7zip will get you a file with no extension. Tried using Vgmtrans and vgmtoolbox with no success
Any help?
Thanks!
Is there any ways or cannot be done?
Thanks
I've done some digging in the game's FS, and was told to look at srst and srsa folders for them. I'm assuming srst is music, which according to your rips, are kns files wit KTSS headers. I'm told the sfx and voices are adpcm files? I'm looking for the Warriors' voices as well as common fight sfx. Would anyone know how to assist me here? I use VGMToolbox as well as foobar2000 for this stuff.
Thanks,.
I assume the audio data in the sbao files isnt OGG. I tried OGG conversion, Hyperriper, DecUbiSndGui-0.81. Nothing works.
I mean surely someone must know since someone uploaded the rip to joshw. There are also no instructions how to convert or play them in the download.
I also wanted to rip the xbox360 version after it but didnt bother yet. I just try to make all versions ripable and also want to compare audio quality but so far I only managed to work with the PC version.