Cave Story Wii by Splashman at 6:34 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

I just dug into the Cave Story sound files. They contain a bit of a messy collection of MID, OGG and XM.
Sadly, none of them will play. It looks like there's a bit of garbage in the first five bytes of each file, but removing them doesn't help either.

I'm out of ideas. Anybody wanna give it a try?
CaveStory-sound_unedited.rar

by hcs at 7:26 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

These are compressed with Nintendo's 'cx' stuff, seem to be LZSS. I've put a python script for it here, based on this one and dsdecmp. If you can't run python I'm sure there are a dozen programs for it, I just don't know 'em offhand.

[edit]
fixed link, server doesn't like serving up .py even if I make it nonexecutable.

I've been meaning to make the One Final CX Decompressor (now that I've added LZH8 support to the roster)... but I know there are already several tools that do everything else so haven't bothered. If anyone knows the best tool for this feel free to point it out.

edited 7:36 PM EDT March 22, 2010

by bxaimc at 8:13 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

Done :)
Cave Story (2010)(Nicalis)[WIIWare][Fasttracker 2 Module - MIDI - Nintendo DSP - Organya - PCM - Xiph Vorbis][BNS - MID+PCM+WT - OGG - ORG+WAV - XM].zip

by ZeldaDD at 8:17 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

Wow, awesome. I was having trouble getting the script to work for some reason. Interesting to me that there are XM and ORG files...I wonder which are in use? Also, wonder why the midis are there if it's using OGG files for the new music? Not that I'm complaining, interesting to have the music in so many formats in one game. :P

by ZeldaDD at 8:18 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

Oh, btw...for anyone unfamiliar with Cave Story, there are indeed ORG players. I'm willing to bet those ORG files are the same as those the PC Cave Story uses (at the very least they play fine and sound the same to me).

Hmm...the ogg files sound like the original cave story music, just like the ORG files are. The midi files sound like the new remixes, though obviously the samples are different since we don't have those samples. This game is weird. :P

edited 8:20 PM EDT March 22, 2010

by bxaimc at 8:20 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

They are the same ones from the PC version.

by ZeldaDD at 8:22 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

Perhaps the .PCM file is the samples?

by bxaimc at 8:28 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

That's for the Midi files

by ZeldaDD at 8:34 PM EDT on March 22, 2010

Ah, so it is. I'm not that familiar with soundbanks, so...now to figure get a player to play it with since I don't think Winamp can with a soundfont.

Can't say I expected to find that in the archive (midis and a soundfont I mean)

*edit*
Nevermind, it's not exactly in a soundfont friendly format I guess.

edited 8:49 PM EDT March 22, 2010

by Splashman at 7:11 PM EDT on March 23, 2010

XMPlay works pretty nice for midis with additional SF2 soundbanks... but of course it won't help much this PCM bank, yet.

Holy crap those OGG files are shitty quality! I wonder which files the game actually uses for the original music.

edited 7:11 PM EDT March 23, 2010

edited 7:12 PM EDT March 23, 2010

by ZeldaDD at 2:07 AM EDT on March 24, 2010

It must use either the XM files or ORG files, since the original music didn't sound bad to me, sounded the same as in the PC version.

by kode54 at 2:16 AM EDT on March 25, 2010

Excellent. I wonder why these files tend to loop improperly in game? Maybe they really are using the crappy Oggs?

Also, slightly off-topic, the archive filename is too long for my home directory because of ecryptfs with encrypted filenames.

by JudgeIto at 9:58 AM EDT on March 25, 2010

Maybe not-at-all-relevant-but-still-kind-of-interesting:

http://tinycartridge.com/post/469336063/cave-story-wiiwares-jacked-up-music

by SmartOne at 2:02 PM EDT on March 25, 2010

Maybe I should play this game.

by ZeldaDD at 4:50 PM EDT on March 25, 2010

Ah, so there ARE missing drum tracks? Maybe that's why the new tracks sound so much more ambient...I just assumed that was what they were going for (a bit of a different style than the original but not bad neccesarily). Now that I know they are missing I want them back though, since honestly, it IS more like the original that way.

by theRapist at 5:54 PM EDT on May 25, 2012

Could someone please reupload the uncompressed files? The link is down. I tried to use the script, but had no luck.

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