Pesky WEMs by omzdog at 8:57 AM EDT on September 10, 2013
ww2ogg spits the "Parse Error: missing RIFF" and I'm embarrassed to admit I don't know how to use the other tools although I assume xmash might work.

Dropbox

What tool can be used for these files and how do I use it?
Also how do I look inside them to spot headers if that is relevant?



edited 8:59 AM EDT September 10, 2013
by Alpha23 at 12:54 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
Huh... which game are these from? I'm not sure if I've seen those before.
by omzdog at 2:58 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
Rome II Total War.

I just realized this forum might be for older games. My apologies if that is the case.

This game was released last week.

edited 2:58 PM EDT September 10, 2013
by dissident93 at 4:18 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
"I just realized this forum might be for older games."

not at all.
by omzdog at 5:41 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
Then gentlemen what seems to be the issue with my .wem files?

Take note that ww2ogg does work with the games non-music non-ambiance sound files. Short clips of yelling and bird chips are able to be converted.

But the music doesn't go and I'd like for it to be investigated.
by Alpha23 at 6:56 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
Then gentlemen what seems to be the issue with my .wem files?
Well, in this case the issue might be your attitude. Just a wild guess though...
by omzdog at 8:55 PM EDT on September 10, 2013
Good guess, but apparently the encryption sticks regardless of whether I tone down the English on my speech.

If motivation is need I can provide a batch of fresh warm cookies to the person who decodes these files. They'll most likely be in jpeg format if you're not allergic.

edited 9:37 PM EDT September 10, 2013
by Alpha23 at 2:22 AM EDT on September 11, 2013
;)
Have the game image here, will take a look later. But as far I can see... I've never seen anything like that, and I've been around for quite some time now. :-\
Could this be a case for HCS?
by omzdog at 10:14 AM EDT on September 11, 2013
Sound the trumpets.
Turn on the bat-light.
by omzdog at 5:51 PM EDT on September 12, 2013
Has there been headway on this?
I only ask because I'm unfamiliar with audio-engineering.

edited 6:11 PM EDT September 12, 2013
by omzdog at 2:17 AM EDT on September 22, 2013
Is this still being worked on?
If not I'd like to know how I can do it myself.
by omzdog at 2:30 AM EDT on September 29, 2013
Hello, I will wait patiently for a solution but I'll warn you that I'll be persistent with this request.
by omzdog at 4:23 AM EDT on October 26, 2013
Hello?
by omzdog at 10:30 AM EST on December 15, 2013
nothing?
by manakoAT at 12:26 PM EST on December 15, 2013
seems... so...
by omzdog at 10:20 PM EST on December 20, 2013
But I've waited so long.
I even came here to ask the great audio wizard hcs himself.

My community will be disappoint.
Very disappoint.
by nothingtosay at 1:42 PM EST on December 21, 2013
hcs is pretty busy nowadays. He's not personally ignoring you or anything, so don't take it too hard.
by hcs at 4:37 PM EST on December 21, 2013
It is "encrypted", and it seems like a very simple scheme, a lot of structure (RIFF header and probably seek tables) shows through the XORing. Not understood yet to the point where I can meaningfully decrypt it.

So far, the key stream starts with

F2 60 59 BF
A6 67 BB B0
82 DD 24 BA
6C 14 62 31

It appears that each of these is a 32-bit little endian integer, this appears to repeat for the next 16 bytes with a constant (?) added to each. For the first column (0-3) it looks like around -0xA692000 and for the last column I'm seeing 0x14D5000 or so. You will note that there is a nice -8x relationship between these, so there is probably some simpler bit twiddling going on that I haven't penetrated yet.
by omzdog at 10:42 AM EST on December 22, 2013
By all means please do penetrate.
by omzdog at 8:40 AM EST on January 14, 2014
Progress?
by plpl3000 at 11:14 PM EDT on March 28, 2014
bump!


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