HCS Forum - What's going on in other xsf formats

regarding snsf by unknownfile at 10:03 AM EST on March 7, 2009: Hi, I ripped a set. I'm too lazy to work on anything regarding 2sf today.

i am a test rip

edited 10:20 AM EST March 7, 2009
by SmartOne at 6:23 PM EST on March 7, 2009: You're a set of ripped.
by manakoAT at 6:51 PM EST on March 7, 2009: nice, i want more SNSF :o)
by unknownfile at 11:28 PM EST on March 7, 2009: Might i also add that this set isn't the cleanest ever, it still has to run past the Konami logo and everything, luckily in_snsf includes silence detection so I removed the logo sound to get stuff seeking past there.

But yeah, will rip some more snsf sets eventually.
by SmartOne at 1:52 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: What's the advantage of SNSF over SPC?
by Camo Yoshi at 4:31 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: *never mind, shoulda just started my own thread*

edited 4:42 PM EDT March 9, 2009
by unknownfile at 4:39 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: snsf allows rips that can't be done on SPC, in addition to possibly reducing filesize when optimized.

unfortunately I dont know of an optimizer for such a thing
by marioman at 5:16 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: @SmartOne: You can finally rip Wario's Woods. That's about it.

(Speaking of Wario's Woods, there are playback speed issues with the current set...)
by Knurek at 6:16 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: @marioman: and about 20 or so other games listed here: http://snesmusic.org/v2/wiki.php?iRequest=wiki/ViewPage&iPage=Undumpable
by unknownfile at 6:19 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: it's actually a problem with the player
by marioman at 6:35 PM EDT on March 9, 2009: Now that you mention it, I do seem to remember that it ran fine in the snes9x player...
VGMTolbox r285 by snakemeat at 12:17 PM EDT on March 14, 2009: VGMToolbox has been updated again, of relevance to this thread is the Psf2Timer. Drag and Drop PSF2s (or folders full of them) onto the textbox and VGMT will output a batch script in each folder with a timing script (it will make sense when you see it). It probably only works on CSL PSF2s, but you can try others. Thanks to kingshriek for the initial help with my questions and Knurek for beta testing.

There are plenty of other changes, some under the hood, some in the commandline tools (which are around here somehweres...), please read the release notes if you are interested.

You can grab the executable and source on Sourceforge.

edited 12:51 PM EDT March 14, 2009
FF2 SNSF by manakoAT at 7:01 PM EDT on March 18, 2009: Final Fantasy 2 SNSF Set

not cleaned, except some umcompressed graphics removed...
by marioman at 7:08 PM EDT on March 23, 2009: NEZPlug 0.9.4.8 + 2 + 17.02 released. If anyone is interested...
by Omochao at 1:48 AM EDT on March 25, 2009: manakoAT, think you can do Super Mario Kart? I'm curious to know if any of the beta music is still in there.
by marioman at 9:29 AM EDT on March 25, 2009: Finally figured out how to view the Japanese characters in the NEZPlug readme. Here is a Google translation of what the new version has to offer:

Version 0.9.4.8 + 2 + 17.02
NES
- Fixed FDS sound portion of the frequency modulation.
Game Boy
- Fixed stops are open to multi-core environment memory viewer.

edited 1:14 PM EDT March 25, 2009
by Knurek at 2:36 PM EDT on March 25, 2009: Two new SSF rips, to relieve boredom from all the 2SF reripping:

Tactical Fighter (1997)(TamTam)(Media Rings)
Takuramakan - Tonkoudenki (1996)(Interserv)(Alfa System)(Patra)

http://ssf.hcs64.com/

edited 2:42 PM EDT March 25, 2009
by manakoAT at 5:33 PM EDT on March 25, 2009: Omochao, it was only a test rip, i need a cleaner for the snsf sets, if i have one i can try to work on other games! :)
by Knurek at 3:46 PM EDT on March 28, 2009: Two new SSF rips:

Irem Arcade Classics (1996)(Irem)(I'Max)(I'Max)
Winning Post 3 (1998)(Koei)

http://ssf.hcs64.com/
VGMToolbox r320 by snakemeat at 10:18 PM EDT on March 28, 2009: I've updated VGMToolbox and 2SFTools. Of relevance to this thread are the following:

- A PSF Timer has been added. Please see the note inside the timer app about bad rips and issues regarding SEQ extraction from PSFs. It seems to be working very well with proper SEQs. Please let me know if you have any issues with correct SEQs.
- The SDAT Extractor (and sdatext.exe) now extract SWAVs from SWARs in case you want to listen to them.
- The SSF Tools now have logic to make sure python.exe is present in the PATH environment variable to let the user know he needs to add it.
- I've also added a CD-XA extractor that seems to work pretty well in tests.

You can get the latest binary and sources at the Sourceforge page.

EDIT: r320 now available

The PSF Timer has had some drastic improvements for handling bad rips and some minor fixes for good rips. Thanks to Knurek for helping flush out these issues.

Also added some nice new features to the Simple Cutter/Offset Finder. The cutter can now use a terminating string to determine the cut size (good for PSX SEQ and many others). A static byte size can also be added for those headers that have slightly inaccurate size values. Thanks to manakoAT for demonstrating the need for these new features and testing them as well.

edited 7:52 PM EDT March 29, 2009
VGMToolbox r322 by snakemeat at 8:05 PM EDT on March 30, 2009: Made some changes and forgot to test them (breaking anything that used unpkpsf2.exe). Maybe I'll make a test suite someday. For now, since Sourceforge is down so grab the fixed release here.

edited 8:05 PM EDT March 30, 2009
by Knurek at 1:14 AM EDT on March 31, 2009: Some new Saturn and Dreamcast uploads:

Saturn:

Assault Rigs (1997)(Psygnosis)(Soft Bank)
Cube Battler - Story of Shou (1997)(Yanoman)
Hexen (1997)(Raven)(Atod)(iD)
Kyuukyoku Tiger II Plus (1997)(Takumi)(Naxat)
Pyon Pyon Kyaruru no Mahjong Hiyori (1996)(Natsu System)(Natsume)
Sky Target (1997)(Sega AM3)(Sega)
Vatlva (1996)(Ancient)(JVC)

Dreamcast:

Cleopatra Fortune (2001)(Taito)(Altron)(Altron)
Doki Doki Idol Star Seeker Remix (2002)(G.rev)
Godzilla Generations - Maximum Impact (1999)(General)(Sega)
Hanagumi Taisen Columns 2 (2000)(Overworks)(Sega)
Majo no Ocha Kai (2003)(FrontWing)(HuneX, S-Neo)(NEC Interchannel)
Puyo Puyo Fever (2004)(MileStone)(Sega)
Seireiki Rayblade (2000)(Winkysoft)

http://vgm.hcs64.com/
by Warpstar at 10:58 PM EDT on March 31, 2009: Here's a Pokemon Crystal m3u for the GBS archive: http://www.sendspace.com/file/mmn00y
by Knurek at 12:16 PM EDT on April 1, 2009: Thanks, updated the archive.
by Lunar at 4:18 PM EDT on April 1, 2009: it's such a shame there's no arbitrary NSFE equivalent for GBS files, I'd really welcome such a thing. m3u is horrible. i've got link's awakening, oracle of ages and oracle of seasons tags pretty much ready to go. no times though.
by Knurek at 5:24 PM EDT on April 1, 2009: There are tags, timers, fades and all that jazz... What more would you want?

If you want single tracks, I think VGMToolbox can split the M3U playlist, so you have something like minigbs then (or at least I recall talking with snakemeat about this once).
by marioman at 10:24 PM EDT on April 1, 2009: IMO, M3U is the best way to go when listening to NSF, GBS, KSS, etc. There is no clunky NotSoFatso interface to use, and the M3U does not need to be rewritten if the set is updated. (Provided the track order is the same.) And, like Knurek said, you can split the M3Us so you can load one track at a time in a playlist without having to load and sort through all of the songs in the file.

edited 7:48 AM EDT April 2, 2009
by unknownfile at 8:32 AM EDT on April 2, 2009: M3U split anyone?
by snakemeat at 10:26 AM EDT on April 2, 2009: If you want single tracks, I think VGMToolbox can split the M3U playlist

This is not entirely accurate. VGMToolbox will create some "skeleton" M3Us for GBS files. There is an option to create one .m3u per track, but it cannot split existing .m3u files. The same goes for the NSFE to NSF + M3U tool.
by Knurek at 11:17 AM EDT on April 2, 2009: dsf.hcs64.com updated:

new:

Cherry Blossom (2004)(Derl)(Takuyo)(Takuyo)
Renai Chu! Happy Perfect (2003)(Saga Planets)(Fupac)(GN)
Roommate Asami - Okusama wa Joshikousei Takao (2002)(Fupac)(Datam Polystar)

split bonus CD encodes to separate archives, added a few new ones too:

DiGi Charat Fantasy (2001)(Westone)(Broccoli)_bonus CD - Sound Track Arrange CD
Shikigami no Shiro II (2004)(Alfa System)_bonus CD - Special Sound Track
by marioman at 12:48 PM EDT on April 2, 2009: @snakemeat: Then can we put that in the form of a feature request?

edited 2:09 PM EDT April 2, 2009
by snakemeat at 6:03 PM EDT on April 2, 2009: Here's a little tool that just got thrown together. Please don't ask me to rename the output files according to content since the wide variety of m3u formats makes it more work than I care to put into it. Source is included if it is worth it for someone else though.

edited 6:05 PM EDT April 2, 2009
by marioman at 8:17 PM EDT on April 2, 2009: Looks good to me. Thanks.
by Lunar at 11:44 AM EDT on April 3, 2009: Knurek: http://snesmusic.org/hoot/gbs/Doki%20Doki%20Sasete!!%20(2001)(Victor).zip - 404
by unknownfile at 11:48 AM EDT on April 3, 2009: and nothing of value was lost
by Lunar at 11:51 AM EDT on April 3, 2009: I just got it from zophar. strange to hear arpeggiation in a japanese soundtrack.
by Knurek at 12:13 PM EDT on April 3, 2009: Lunar, http://gbs.hcs64.com/
Can't even login on the Hoot account (for the last 4 freaking months) so I can't fix anything there, sorry.

Also, Manabu Namiki FTW. :)
by Knurek at 3:15 AM EDT on April 5, 2009: So, uhh, new stuff in the Saturn Music archive.
Shitloads of stuff actually, 220 sets, ~10GB total. Do enjoy.

http://ssf.hcs64.com/

edited 3:17 AM EDT April 5, 2009
by marcusss at 1:38 AM EDT on April 6, 2009: Anyone able to somehow get this music playing.. Its sequenced right? The custom .lcd music from doom is all like ~200kb in size each and there's a doomsnd.wmd which is probably driver right? (I'm no expert :P )

I always ripped this game's music from wave up but yeah always wanted to see if the music can be emulated like with all the sequenced, psf music formats all working in vgmstream lately :) Can anyone get it working. I own the disc if its required but pretty much zipped the music files here
~10mb

HERE

And yeah thanks for those new ssf sets.. Cool stuff :)

edited 2:14 AM EDT April 6, 2009
by Knurek at 5:18 PM EDT on April 6, 2009: Small Dreamcast update:

2009-04-06

new:

Aikagi - Hidamari to Kanojo no Heyagi (2003)(Fairytale)(HuneX, S-Neo)(NEC Interchannel)
Happy Breeding (2003)(Princess)
Pachitte Chonmage @VPACHI - CR Hissatsu Shigotonin (2001)(Hackberry)
Pizzicato Polka - Ensa Genya (2004)(PajamasSoft)(KID)
Sweet Season (2003)(Takuyo)

http://dsf.hcs64.com/
by Knurek at 1:15 AM EDT on April 9, 2009: Another one:

2009-04-09

new:

Kidou Senkan Nadesico - Nadesico the Mission (1999)(Will)(Kadokawa Shoten)
Metal Wolf (2002)(Princess)
Sentimental Graffiti - Yakusoku (2003)(NEC Interchannel)
Tamakyuu (2004)(Fairytale)(HuneX, S-Neo)(NEC Interchannel)

http://dsf.hcs64.com/

edited 1:15 AM EDT April 9, 2009
by marcusss at 12:26 PM EDT on April 9, 2009: I was just checking some saturn images I have and Marvel SH vs SF has .adp files in the image but play as static any ideas how to get em working?
Here is an example..

Would be nice if they worked if they are indeed music files :)

HERE

HERE

:D
by Knurek at 12:31 PM EDT on April 9, 2009: This is Yamaha ADPCM, not Gamecube ADPCM (and vgmstream treats .adp files as the latter).

You'll need to put them in GENH (though if IIRC, GENH only supports AICA ADPCM, which is a bit different than the Saturn one).

edited 12:40 PM EDT April 9, 2009
by marcusss at 1:27 PM EDT on April 9, 2009: Thanks for that.

I was looking at Sexy Parodius for the sega saturn and its interesting.. I think maybe someone already ripped it , but yeah on the saturn each song has 2 files.. (.1 and .2 extensions) part 1 is the intro and part 2 is the last 90% or so of the song but at the beginning and end are the loop points. Just joins them together when it needs to otherwise keeps looping part 2.

It uses wav/aiff 44100hz audio format.

Link

It actually works for all the parodius series games and so can have pretty much lossless audio instead of mp3s that are on the net especially for gokujou etc.. Music from that game are split into 3 PARTS ! hah. But with editing its fine.. Pity they only use 37800Hz instead of 44100.. Still great sound tho :)

Here is a song from gokujou Parodius I pieced together :P

Link

If i was good with genh it would be cool to loop the songs from this series.he he

edited 12:16 AM EDT April 10, 2009
by Knurek at 1:55 PM EDT on April 11, 2009: Special Naomi Dreamcast update:

2009-04-11

new:

Beach Spikers (Naomi 2)(2002)(Sega)
Chaos Field (Naomi)(2004)(MileStone)
Confidential Mission (Naomi)(2001)(Hitmaker)(Sega)
Jingi Storm - The Arcade (Naomi)(2005)(Atrativa Japan)
Karous (Naomi)(2006)(MileStone)
Kuru Kuru Chameleon (Naomi)(2006)(Able)
La Keyboard XYU (Naomi)(2001)(Sega Rosso)(Sega)
Lupin The Third - The Shooting (Naomi)(2001)(WOW)(Sega)
Maze of the Kings, The (Naomi)(2002)(Sega)
Monkey Ball (Naomi)(2001)(Sega)
Psyvariar 2 - The Will to Fabricate (Naomi)(2004)(Skonec)(G.rev)
Puyo Puyo Fever (Naomi)(2003)(MileStone)(Sega)
Tetris Kiwamemichi (Naomi)(2002)(Success)
Trigger Heart Exelica (Naomi)(2005)(Warashi)
Usagui - Yamashiro Mahjong-hen (Naomi)(2003)(Warashi)(Sega)
Virtua Tennis (Naomi)(2000)(Hitmaker)(Sega)
Virtua Tennis 2 (Naomi)(2001)(Hitmaker)(Sega)

http://dsf.hcs64.com
by marioman at 3:30 PM EDT on April 11, 2009: Am I the only one that hears mostly static from BGM_01.SPSD in the Monkey Ball set?
by Knurek at 6:11 PM EDT on April 11, 2009: Ah, forgot to mention here... SPSD is mostly unsupported in VGMStream (Monkey Ball is the only set from 3 from this update that plays anything resembling music).

You'll have to wait for someone to take a stab at it.
by marcusss at 1:05 AM EDT on April 15, 2009: edited

edited 1:08 AM EDT April 15, 2009
by Knurek at 2:35 PM EDT on April 18, 2009: Part deux of Naomi fiesta:

Cannon Spike [Gunspike] (Naomi)(2000)(Psikyo)(Capcom)
Heavy Metal - Geomatrix (Naomi)(2001)(Capcom Production Studio 1)(Capcom)
Outtrigger (Naomi)(1999)(Sega AM2)(Sega)
Power Stone (Naomi)(1999)(Capcom Production Studio 1)(Capcom)
Power Stone 2 (Naomi)(2000)(Capcom Production Studio 1)(Capcom)
Samba de Amigo (Naomi)(1999)(Sonic Team)(Sega)
Spawn - In the Demon's Hand (Naomi)(1999)(Capcom Production Studio 1)(Capcom)
Typing of the Dead, The (Naomi)(2000)(Smilebit)(Sega)

http://dsf.hcs64.com

Pretty much everything (sans Samba de Amigo) sequenced this time. Pity there's no autotimer for AM2 driver files...
by Knurek at 7:45 PM EDT on April 21, 2009: http://hoot.hcs64.com/ is GO!

Just a up-to-date snapshot of Hoot Archive. Useful for mass leaching (be warned though, more than one connection per IP == autoban) and stuff that wouldn't fit on snesmusic.org server (arcade/snes/genesis sets).

Oh, and since snesmusic.org is down ATM, it's not like you have much choice. :)

Changes since the last Hoot Archive update:

4 new X68000 sets
2 new X1 sets
4 new PC88 sets
225 new/updated PC98 sets (132 from those are NAX driver sets which had a patch change. Still, there's loads of new stuff here as well).
132 new PC sets. From Western PC games, so if games like Ultima or Privateer or Budokan or Might & Magic mean anything to you, you will like this.

Stuff below might've been in previous XMLs, but wasn't available on site:

1098 arcade sets
73 Genesis sets
279 SNES sets
14 NES sets
15 Game Boy sets
by hcs at 11:10 PM EDT on April 21, 2009: Sorry to push this onto a new page (regarding Knurek's awesome collection at hoot.hcs64.com), but it requires emphasis.

be warned though, more than one connection per IP == autoban
be warned though, more than one connection per IP == autoban
be warned though, more than one connection per IP == autoban

It's been only a few hours there are already two IP bans in place. I understand that it's a lot of files, guys, and I fully support using a download manager to handle it, but if it uses as many connections as it can gobble up it will very quickly consume all RAM on my server.
I will happily unban you if you can demonstrate that you have tamed your client.
by nensondubois at 6:51 PM EDT on April 23, 2009: Almost all of the files need updates.
by Knurek at 7:13 PM EDT on April 23, 2009: This is probably caused by the fact, that I've torrentzipped all the sets.

In other news spc.hcs64.com is GO...er.
Full SPC reorg, including all files from snesmusic.org plus about a hundred of other dumps (untitled, but timed).

Other difference between this and snesmusic is that SPC files inside RSN archives were renamed from 8.3 format to proper song names.

Example:

Tales of Phantasia (1995)(Wolfteam)(Namco):

top-101.spc -> 101 Decisive.spc

And of course, this one works ATM.

edited 7:16 PM EDT April 23, 2009
by Lunar at 10:26 AM EDT on April 24, 2009: To hell with 8.3 naming. That makes entirely so much more sense. That said, I like keeping my sets rar'd.

This has arrived at a perfect time, considering snesmusic is shitting itself at the moment. What's up with that? Datschge forget to pay his bills? I still have to run off a whole bunch of SPC set corrections at some point. I wonder if the site will ever have any locally hosted forums...
by marioman at 1:45 PM EDT on April 24, 2009: Nice. It also has SNSF rips. Now if we could get a more decent version of in_snsf...
by Knurek at 7:08 PM EDT on April 24, 2009: Special Naomi Dreamcast update part 3:

2009-04-25

new:

Death Crimson OX (Naomi)(2000)(Ecole)
Dengen Tenshi Taisen Mahjong Shangri-la (Naomi)(1999)(Marvelous)
Derby Owners Club (Naomi)(1999)(-)(Sega)
Dynamite Baseball (Naomi)(1998)(-)(Sega)
Giant Gram - Zen Nihon Pro Wres 2 in Nihon Budoukan (Naomi)(1999)(Scarab)(Sega)
Giant Gram 2000 - Zen Nihon Pro Wres 3 Eikou no Yuusha-tachi (Naomi)(2000)(Scarab)(Sega)
Guilty Gear X (Naomi)(2000)(PicPac-Airreal)(Arc System Works)(Sammy)
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 - New Age of Heroes (Naomi)(2000)(Capcom Production Studio 1)(Capcom)
Quiz Ah! Megami-sama - Tatakau Tsubasa Totomo Ni (Naomi)(2000)(SIMS)(Sega)
Virtua NBA (Naomi)(2000)(-)(Sega)
World Series '99 [Dynamite Baseball '99] (Naomi)(1999)(-)(Sega)
Zombie Revenge (Naomi)(1999)(Sega AM1)(Sega)
by marcusss at 1:24 AM EDT on April 25, 2009: Nice additions :D
by Knurek at 2:36 PM EDT on May 5, 2009: Dreamcast update:

2009-05-05

new:

Aoi no 6-gou - Saigetsu Fumahito - Time and Tide (2000)(Sega)
Comic Party (2001)(Aqua Plus)
Nishikaze no Kyoushikyoku - The Rhapsody of Zephyr (2001)(Soft Max)
Panzer Front (1999)(ASCII)
Prismaticallization (1999)(-)(Arc System Works)

Dreamcast music archive

Gameboy Advance update: Banjo-Kazooie - Grunty's Revenge (2003)(Rare)(THQ) tagged by Mastery

Game Boy Advance music archive

NES update: Three new NSFE->NSF+M3U conversions (all tagged by Teppic:

Anticipation (1988)(Rare)(Nintendo)
Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves (1991)(Sculptured)(Virgin)
Rollergames (1990)(Konami)

NES music archive

---

Genesis/Mega Drive music archive up: http://smd.hcs64.com/

Whole Project2612 collection (reorganized as usual) + few sets from their forums that haven't been added to the site + about 5 GB of redbook music from SegaCD games.

Sadly, most SegaCD games used sequenced music, which isn't properly logable to VGM ATM, so some CD sets are pretty bare bones.

Enjoy.

edited 3:57 PM EDT May 5, 2009
by Richter X at 12:14 AM EDT on May 6, 2009: Let's just hope the ripped Megadrive format gets done soon. I'd love to hear some SegaCD rips someday.
by arbingordon at 1:11 AM EDT on May 6, 2009: canoe-wreck, do you have some sort of program that organizes (well renames, and so forth) folders and files, or is it all by hand?
by Knurek at 1:55 PM EDT on May 6, 2009: Psfpoint for tagging xSF, rest done manually.
by arbingordon at 9:37 PM EDT on May 6, 2009: ah, ok, so I guess I wasn't missing any special tools for it.
by Knurek at 11:21 AM EDT on May 7, 2009: Dreamcast update:

2009-05-07

new:

Dreamcast VM Data Shuu (2002)(-)(Enterbrain)
Pia Carrot he Youkoso!! 3 (2003)(F&C)(Alpha Unit)(NEC Interchannel)
Shiro Tsume Souwa - Episode of the Clovers (2003)(Littlewitch)(HuneX)(NEC Interchannel)
Sorcerian - Shichisei Mahou no Shito (2000)(Falcom, Media JuGGLer)(Victor)
Virtua Fighter History (2001)(Sega AM2)(Sega)

Dreamcast music archive

edited 11:22 AM EDT May 7, 2009
VGMToolbox r363 by snakemeat at 10:47 AM EDT on May 9, 2009: I've updated VGMToolbox with the following changes, maybe some will affect you:

Been a lot of changes "under the hood" to make certain developments easier.

[BIN2PSF]
Fixed incorrect label.
[SDATEXT]
Fixed loop information in SWAV header. Thanks hcs.
[OFFSET FINDER/EXTRACTOR]
Add preset loading and some presets. More to come and Save feature will be added soon.
Fix issue with Terminator Bytes overflow.
[GENH]
Added GENH creator.
Added GENH to formats for DAT file use and examination use.
[CHECKSUMS]
Added a simple checksum calculator for drag and drop CRC32/MD5/SHA1. The VGMToolbox CRC32 will also be calculated for supported formats.
[NSFE]
Fix bug for empty init banks.
[FILESEARCH]
Added a file searching tool that will search for files in folders and archives. It's useful for looking in directories full of game packs for a specific game.
[HOOTXML]
Added HES and KSS to the Hoot XML creator. An .m3u is required. Also added a search for .m3u files if the source is GBS/NSF.
by Knurek at 5:37 PM EDT on May 9, 2009: Drill Dozer GSF set now with tags:

Game Boy Advance Music Archive

edited 5:38 PM EDT May 9, 2009
by Knurek at 5:37 PM EDT on May 15, 2009: Two new archives went live:

PC Engine/TurboGraphx-16 Music Archive

MSX/Sega Master System/Game Gear Music Archive
THP Ripper by CapComMDb at 9:00 PM EDT on May 16, 2009: Wasn't sure if this was the best place for it, but as thp's were mentioned earlier... vgmstream (r651) isn't supporting Metroid Prime THP files. They'll play in THP Player, but when I extract the dsp's, they're not supported (note Prime 2 and 3 work fine). Is Prime using a different format? Otherwise, loving thp ripper!
by Knurek at 4:45 AM EDT on May 17, 2009: 2009-05-17

Game Boy Music Archive

Uploaded all the recent ugetab's rips.
Added m3u playlists for Wizardry Gaiden 3 - Scripture of the Dark (1993)(-)(ASCII) and Chikyuu Kaihou Gun ZAS (1992)(T&E)

Dreamcast Music Archive

new:

F355 Challenge - Passione Rossa (Naomi)(1999)(Sega AM2)(Sega)
Wind & Water Puzzle Battles (2008)(Yuan Works)(redspotgames) - provided by kami68k

F355 streams aren't playable right now IIRC.

Saturn Music Archive

new:

Fire Pro Wrestling S - 6 Men Scramble (1996)(Human)
Ginga Ojousama Densetsu Yuna Remix (1996)(Will)(Hudson)
Master of Monsters - Neo Generations (1996)(TamTam)(Toshiba EMI)

edited 5:33 AM EDT May 17, 2009
by Lunar at 6:09 AM EDT on May 17, 2009: woh. I didn't realise Master of Monsters had sequenced tracks as well - strange how they're just sequenced versions of the streamed tunes. Knurek once again delivers! Your rip is slightly higher quality than mine too. Great soundtrack, this one. Thanks~

EDIT: oh yeah, one thing i'm wondering about this soundtrack -- the intro music is missing (you can hear it here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Pt5paHORx8) - I guess that means it's embedded in the FMV?

edited 6:11 AM EDT May 17, 2009
by Knurek at 7:32 AM EDT on May 17, 2009: Damn, didn't notice any movie files while browsing. Will reget the game and see if it's anything that we can demux...

EDIT: Here you go: http://www.sendspace.com/file/ctlctk

edited 4:26 PM EDT May 17, 2009
by Lunar at 7:02 PM EDT on May 17, 2009: cheers~
by Dais! at 3:44 AM EDT on May 19, 2009: Hey, are there any archives focusing just on music ripped from pirated games and romhacks?
by snakemeat at 10:07 AM EDT on May 19, 2009: Hey, are there any archives focusing just on music ripped from pirated games and romhacks?

I've noticed that some of the sites at vgm.hcs64.com have a separate "zzz_unlicensed" or "zzz_homebrew" section (SMD, NSF, SPC, GBS, GSF).

Gil_Galad has an "NSF Hacks" (Music > NSF Central > NSF Hacks) archive on his site. Note that the bottom of the "NSF Central" page has an additional hack (Zelda 2), that may or may not be included in the "NSF Hacks" page (I haven't done the comparison).
by Dais! at 11:18 PM EDT on May 19, 2009: geez, I had forgotten all about the zzz folders when I made that post >_<

thanks for the link!
by Knurek at 5:25 PM EDT on May 23, 2009: New Saturn rips:

Mr. Bones (1996)(Zono)(Sega)
Paneltia Story - Karen no Daibouken (1997)(Shoeisha)
Pinball Graffiti (1996)(Pack-In-Video)
Pup-Breeder (1996)(Sonnet)(Sai-Mate)

Saturn Music Archive
by Lunar at 6:50 PM EDT on May 23, 2009: knurek, any idea why tenpei sato is credited instead of yasuhiko fukuda for Emerald Dragon PC-Engine set? as far as i'm aware, sato only worked on the PC-88 / x68k versions.

insanely good soundtrack anyway.
GSF request by ray at 12:09 AM EDT on June 3, 2009: Hi,

Love the work you guys are doing!

I have one request for a GBA game called "Racing Gears Advance".

It's by renowned composer, Neil Voss, who scored Tetrisphere and The New Tetris on the N64.

If anyone can do a GSF rip of this game, that would be super!

Thanks for reading. And I apologize ahead of time if this is the wrong place to request rips.
by Mugendai at 12:37 AM EDT on June 4, 2009: When the MDSF format is finished, will it support Sega 32x music as well? I'd love to listen to the music without having to use .wavs.
by Lunar at 7:57 AM EDT on June 4, 2009: i think the question is if rather than when :( but i think it was going to support 32x and sega CD PCM
by Dais! at 4:18 PM EDT on June 4, 2009: This is a bit weird. I emailed Neil Voss, both to ask him about Orbital and to see if he could release the music from Racing Gears. I hope he won't mind me reposting this excerpt from his reply:

"
As far as I know it would be (legally) possible. I've definitely considered circulating it online in MP3 format. There are also people ripping GBA soundtracks, so I am wondering if it has been ripped in an emulated format yet.

Honestly it was a title I always felt the music worked best during the gameplay but was a bit thin to stand alone. So I never really put forth time to record it and package it up.

I'll let you know if it gets posted and where, or if I come across an emulated version. Meanwhile if you want to follow our studio updates, where anything released would be announced you can follow or occasionally check out http://twitter.com/alinear
"

Unfortunate, but also kind of amusing.

edited 4:18 PM EDT June 4, 2009
by arbingordon at 4:50 PM EDT on June 4, 2009: just see if caitsith2/unknownfile[/any other gsf rippers I may not know of] can rip it
(it doesn't use the sappy driver so it needs to be custom ripped I think)
by ray at 11:26 PM EDT on June 4, 2009: @Dais - Nice to read that excerpt from the man himself!

@Mastery - Where can I contact either Caitsith2 or unknownfile?
by arbingordon at 12:57 AM EDT on June 5, 2009: you can reach caitsith2 @ http://hcs64.com/irc/

havent seen unknownfile in forever though, so I don't know about contacting him (in a timely manner at least)
VGMToolbox r384 by snakemeat at 11:06 PM EDT on June 10, 2009: I've updated VGMToolbox, you can grab the latest version on SourceForge. The changes include:

[MAKE2SF]
- Added 2SF Maker. Automatically rips, optimizes, tags, and times 2sfs from an SDAT. Also allows the user to choose which tracks to optimize the SDAT for (good for weeding out SFX).

[PSFTIMER/PSF2TIMER]
- Removed Ceiling functions from the timers to get more accurate end times.
- Added an option to PSFTimer to automatically double the timed value for tracks that do not contain loop markers, but instead loop the entire track. The tool cannot detect if the entire track is looped, only your ears can tell you.

[XSFRECOMPRESS]
- Added xSF Recompress tool. Allows for auto 7-zipping the output set. Works well for creating xSFs in "Store" compression and then 7-zipping for ultimate compression.

[OFFSETFINDER]
- Added some more presets: PlayStation SEQ, PlayStation 2 SQ/HD.

[SEARCHFORFILE]
- Changed to allow multiple search strings.

[CRCCALCULATOR]
- Added MD5/SHA1 for VGMT checksums.
- Added checkbox for generating VGMT checksums or not.

[HOOTXML]
- Updated to modify GBS info if (GBC) is in the file name.
- Modified Company name to use second to last field if it is not "-" or a number.
-Modified to use real tabs in output instead of spaces.

[GENERAL]
- Cleaned out a lot of the old 2sf format stuff and any unused .exe files. They should still live in SVN land if you desperately need them.

edited 11:22 PM EDT June 10, 2009
by Muzer at 11:57 AM EDT on June 11, 2009: Wow, looks awesome! Does this mean I can rip the NSMB music without proprietary software? Excellent!
by Muzer at 2:38 PM EDT on June 11, 2009: Where can I find testpack.nds? A quick google returns nothing. Do I just use any NDS ROM?

EDIT: Never mind, I found out that it didn't seem to work anyway, but then I found that 2sfs already existed for the game I wanted (I had misunderstood http://2sf.hcs64.com/ )

edited 3:28 PM EDT June 11, 2009
by bxaimc at 3:40 PM EDT on June 11, 2009: testpack.nds is in the ripkit.
by Muzer at 3:58 PM EDT on June 11, 2009: Yeah, but when I ran the 2sf convertor, it just gave me back the sdat (although it had been changed). I found a pre-made rip of it, anyway.
by bxaimc at 6:07 PM EDT on June 11, 2009: What 2sf converter? O.o
by Muzer at 7:04 PM EDT on June 12, 2009: This is what I was referring to:

"[MAKE2SF]
- Added 2SF Maker. Automatically rips, optimizes, tags, and times 2sfs from an SDAT. Also allows the user to choose which tracks to optimize the SDAT for (good for weeding out SFX)."
mdx.hcs64.com Updated by snakemeat at 9:37 PM EDT on June 12, 2009: Added some updates to mdx.hcs64.com over the past week, enjoy!

[2009.06.12]

-= NEW =-
Dai Makaimura (1988)(Capcom)(HiroHiro)[ARC]
Dai Makaimura (1988)(Capcom)(MA2LON)[ARC]
Dai Makaimura (1988)(Capcom)(Saito, Akira)[ARC]
Dai Makaimura (1988)(Capcom)(YST)[ARC]
Dai Makaimura (1988)(Capcom)(Zeg)[ARC]
Dark Storm - Demon Crystal III (1987)(Dempa)(Waiendee)[X1]
G-LOC - Air Battle (1990)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[ARC]
Jewel Master (1991)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[MD]
Metal Black (1991)(Taito)(Veyrlen - unicco.t)[ARC]
Ninja Warriors (1989)(Taito)(A.D.)[ARC]
Ninja Warriors (1989)(Taito)(Css)[ARC]
Ninja Warriors (1989)(Taito)(Saito, Akira)[ARC]
Power Drift (1988)(Sega)(Junchan)[ARC]
Rent-A-Hero (1991)(Sega)(Fu-)[MD]
S.D.I. (1986)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[ARC][v2.0]
S.D.I. (1986)(Sega)(Yuraysan - YST)[ARC]
S.D.I. (1986)(Sega)(Yuraysan)[ARC]
Shinobi (1987)(Sega)(Yuraysan)[ARC][v3.0]
Strike Fighter (1991)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[ARC][v1.0]
Strike Fighter (1991)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[ARC][v2.0]
Super Star Soldier (1991)(TinyTomo)(-)[X68]
Terra Cresta (1985)(Nichibutsu)(Css)[ARC]
Terra Cresta (1985)(Nichibutsu)(Hayou)[ARC]
Terra Cresta (1985)(Nichibutsu)(Poko)[ARC]
Terra Cresta (1985)(Nichibutsu)(Ray-Axe)[ARC]
Terra Cresta (1985)(Nichibutsu)(Uchida, Kentaro)[ARC]
ToeJam & Earl (1991)(Sega)(Yukihiro)[MD]
Warning Type 68 (1987)(Cosmos Computer)(H.F.2)[X68]
Warning Type 68 (1987)(Cosmos Computer)(Syochi)[X68]

-= UPDATED =-
Metal Black (1991)(Taito)(Veyrlen)[ARC] => add readme and additional .PDX

-= NAME CHANGE =-
Ninja Warriors (1989)(Taito)(Marube) => Ninja Warriors (1989)(Taito)(Marube)[ARC]

[2009.06.10]

-= NEW =-
Fatal Fury (1991)(SNK)(Tamagawa, K.)[ARC]
Fatal Fury 2 (1992)(SNK)(Tamagawa, K.)[ARC]
Galaxian 3 - Theater 6 (1990)(Namco)(-)[ARC]
Galaxian 3 - Theater 6 (1990)(Namco)(Chaos)[ARC]
Genocide 2 (1991)(Zoom)(DIS)[X68]
Mirai Ninja (1988)(Namco)(-)[ARC]
Mirai Ninja (1988)(Namco)(Kintarou)[ARC]
Mirai Ninja (1988)(Namco)(Saito, AKira)[ARC]
Phantasy Star (1987)(Sega)(Onishoji)[MK3][v1.0]
Phantasy Star (1987)(Sega)(Onishoji)[MK3][v2.0]
Phantasy Star (1987)(Sega)(TEM - ZXF)[MK3]
Samurai Spirits (1993)(SNK)(-)[ARC]
Samurai Spirits (1993)(SNK)(Accept)[ARC]
Samurai Spirits (1993)(SNK)(Michiman)[ARC]
Samurai Spirits (1993)(SNK)(Munenori, Yaguu)[ARC]
Samurai Spirits (1993)(SNK)(Yukihiro - Arai)[ARC]
Thunder Force IV (1992)(Technosoft)(Kaze, I.C.)[MD]
Thunder Force IV (1992)(Technosoft)(Saito, Akira)[MD]

-= UPDATED =-
Thunder Force IV (1992)(Technosoft)(Beauty Planets)[MD] => add BBS ad.

[2009.06.09]

-= NEW =-
Ashura (1986)(Sega)(Tarach)[MK3]
Ashura (1986)(Sega)(Waiendee)[MK3]
Bare Knuckle (1990)(Sega)(Veyrlen)[MD - PC88]
Dunk Shot (1986)(Sega)(Bepsu)[ARC]
ESWAT (1989)(Sega)(Yuraysan)[ARC][v1.0]
ESWAT (1989)(Sega)(Yuraysan)[ARC][v2.0]
Family Games (1987)(Sega)(Css-DEF)[MK3]
Final Fight (1989)(Capcom)(YST)[ARC]
Flicky (1984)(Sega)(AuAu)[ARC]
Gunhed (1989)(Hudson)(Waiendee)[PCE]

-= UPDATED =-
Fantasy Zone (1989)(Sega)(Yatsube)[X68K] => add readme and extractor

-= NAME CHANGE =-
Astro Warrior (1986)(Sega)(Waiendee)[SMS] => Astro Warrior (1986)(Sega)(Waiendee)[MK3]
Glitch. by Electric Keet at 5:08 PM EDT on June 13, 2009: oops, found what was causing this glitch of accidentally-added posts. Trying to fix, sorry.

edited 5:10 PM EDT June 13, 2009
by hcs at 8:24 PM EDT on June 13, 2009: Oh, what is it? I've never been able to tell, and if there's something I can do from my end I'd like to fix it.
by JILost at 11:05 PM EDT on June 13, 2009: What is the best player for all these MDX files being added? I tried googling a while back and got a bunch of empty links to in_mdx.
by Mouser X at 1:13 AM EDT on June 14, 2009: Really? The XMPlay link doesn't work? When I searched "in_mdx" that was the 3rd link down, and it works fine. I didn't check the first 2 links. Are you perhaps searching from some different country, or with strange Google settings (maybe you have some weird cookies enabled?)? I'm not 100% certain, but I'm pretty sure that the link XMPlay is the plugin you want, and the most recent version. Hope that helps. Mouser X over and out.
VGMToolbox Bug Fix by snakemeat at 2:43 PM EDT on June 14, 2009: Rebuilder would delete files even if the move to output failed. If you use the Rebuilder DOWNLOAD THIS NOW! to help prevent lost files. Thanks to manakoAT for finding the bug.

As always, be sure to backup your files before using the tool.

edited 2:45 PM EDT June 14, 2009
The glitch, revealed. by Electric Keet at 7:19 PM EDT on June 14, 2009: It turns out to be my fault in entirety, by which I mean that my ages-old habit of using Ctrl-LeftArrow and Ctrl-RightArrow to navigate sequential webpages is being strangely interpreted on these forums as "Auto-fill and submit form", and since my handle and password were auto-saved along with, oddly, the most recent subject line I used....

Well, it's hard to say if the problem is Opera (for taking the "Next" command to mean "Fill form and submit") or the design of the web form (for somehow letting that be the default action of the page), but I'm inclined to blame myself more (for being a ditz) and I'll just have to try to be real careful about not using that shortcut on this site.
by anewuser at 9:22 PM EDT on June 14, 2009: opera test1

Electric Keet: couldn't make it happen here on my 5 minute test. However, I do not use wand or forms autofill addons.

edited 9:28 PM EDT June 14, 2009
by BtEO at 1:45 PM EDT on June 15, 2009: Yeah, it's a wand thing. A quick look in the defaults directory in an Opera install finds this line in fastforward.ini:

Wand login=300

Removing that line and restarting Opera should stop fast forward (ctrl+right, or in my case a mouse gesture to the right) triggering a wand submission.

Although Opera will replace that file with each reinstall but you can duplicate the file elsewhere and point Opera to the right location.

edited 1:47 PM EDT June 15, 2009
by iloveyou at 1:48 AM EDT on July 11, 2009: !!!!!Knurek!!!!!
What's the matter? ¢½ ^^

edited 1:53 AM EDT July 11, 2009

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