The music definitely can be worth it, e.g. just check out the new SINoALICE by Yoko Taro/Keiichi Okabe of Nier fame.
I personally started by network sniffing as surprisingly many games (like discontinued Skylock, Valkyrie Anatomia, Valkyrie Connect) get data from servers that are also reachable with a browser. I moved on to Bluestacks to get file system access which is way more comfortable, though quite some games seem to detect that environment and just don't start, so I guess a real Android device which can be put in development mode only when required may be more suitable. I'd love a rip of Terra Battle (by Nobuo Uematsu), Heaven x Inferno (by Yuzo Koshiro), Star Ocean anamnesis etc.
Then there's formats and encryption. My impression so far is that most games use Ogg Vorbis or CRI (mostly HCA, but some ADX) along unidentified stuff. User furrybob posted a program to get the key for encrypted ADXs, user ssh managed to get keys for encrypted HCAs. Samples can be found in their respective APK (really zip) files, but never take an APK as complete. Nowadays they are only like installers that get most of the data at a later point.
Tool wise aside the obvious VGMToolbox I suggest UnityEX as extractor for diverse Unity files (which most mobile games appear to use).
Long story short, I hope more people look at that field. Plenty traditional VGM composers are active there so I'm sure there's good stuff to unearth. Also maybe some other sites and people already did work that can be brought together here?
edited 8:26 AM EDT June 18, 2017
Tales of Asteria is completed but unplayable. The files look headerless, I guess that is a case for genh? I think if somebody manages to make it playable it can be directly uploaded to joshw.info.
Heaven x Inferno uses SPK files with headers that start with "SLZ", maybe some compression container? Two untouched samples
edited 8:50 AM EDT June 18, 2017
tri-Ace uses AAC for their PS3/X360 games too. They include loop points and stuff.
I take HxI are compressed somehow? Seems soneek was able to extract them, see here
http://www.mediafire.com/file/tp8f5wvz2yxeyos/Super+Mario+Run+files.zip
Also let's hope those ogg files use some standard tool, otherwise there'll be no chance all of those nondescript ogg files can ever be decrypted.
Uploaded Sengoku Night Blood a couple days ago, it's already up, overall nice piano centered soundtrack.
Looking at mobile games with music by Hitoshi Sakimoto, what a wasteland...
- SEGA did Chaos Dragon and The World End Eclipse, and both have service discontinued already. Anybody have full installs of these (not just APK, actual game data while those where still in service)?
- Battle Charms/Little Noah uses Unity and the data seems to stay in the UnityCache. The _data in the directories
fd79ab0a5e448742519304bca9def9fcf591b314
0cb5de5373ec18ce6e637af3ad420f91eb6f6c7a
9c0604aff2c82a2697174ddb0b5086a655d6e935
appear to contain music, but both UnityEx and AssetBundleExtractor fail to extract the content for me.
- Memories of the Blue won't start in my Bluestacks...
You might luck out and the game uses standard files. You'd be missing filenames, sure, but that's not a huge issue... :)
Onto mobile games with involvement by Yoko Shimomura...
Discontinued:
- Demons' Score, service discontinued in 2014. Game was by Yoko Taro/iNiS with plenty known composers. Maybe Square Enix can relaunch it to more success with the current Yoko Taro craze.
- Kishi to Dragon, service discontinued end of 2014.
- Chronos Ring, service discontinued early last year.
- V.D. Vanishment Day, service discontinued early this year. At least there's actually a soundtrack for that one.
I failed, somebody please take over:
- Egglia, paid game.
- Rise of Mana, won't start...
- Bravely Gate, won't start...
- Summons Board, won't start...
- Himetame, starts but no way to proceed from title screen?
- QLTON/Happy Ranch, starts but no way to proceed from title screen?
Some progress:
- Clash of Panzers, ripped and uploaded.
- Kurokishi to Shiro no Maou, ripped and uploaded.
- Tagatame/Dare ga tame no Alchemist/For Whom the Alchemist Exists, obfuscated cri stuff, needs matching awb/acb pairs. I think it's all ripped, but I'd prefer non-random file names. Anybody knows if the ACB files contain some info (like MD5 hash or something) that helps finding the matching AWB? If not I'll upload the set as is.
Btw. @Knurek - Feel free to delete the old sets of Valkyrie Crusade and Samurai Empire. The new ones supersede them.
Just use this settings in VGMToolbox:
You might have to binary join some files afterwards, but it still beats manually extracting them.
Edit: Looks like vgmstream/foobar refuses to detect/play an fsb with mixed data anyway. Wish I could get the info at what address the data starts mixing/gets invalid...
edited 8:50 AM EDT June 24, 2017
Edit: I suppose having to manually touch up 10 files out of 108 is alright, if those can be easily resolved. Though some of the broken files actually seem fine by the look of them. Does the FSB5 header set file length and/or checksum?
Edit2: deleting unwanted sfx to the rescue, only one file left to fix. =P
Edit3: Uploading set. The broken file in question is now a short jingle. If somebody wants to take a look and try to make it into a longer piece that it may or may not be, give it a try.
edited 10:13 AM EDT June 24, 2017
Note that Unity's FSB5 always seem to lack loop points. Probably extra Unity stuff elsewhere, so you may want to keep the original data for now...
See here regarding SLZ files from Heaven x Inferno.
Dragon Collection (Didn't have time to sort out the sfx, but there are a few jingles mixed in among them)
Puzzle & Dragons
DJMAX Ray
MAH-JONG FIGHT CLUB Sp
edited 7:43 AM EDT September 13, 2017
Unfortunately Sonic Forces crashes my BlueStacks on Mac during loading so I can't help out with this.
Btw. for me apkpure was vastly faster than mediafire so you could link to that instead rehosting. Even better would be posting the unique game id (in this case com.sega.sprint).
edited 11:24 AM EDT September 14, 2017
Oh, apparently it's the official rip.
Which is Vinyl, without the custom endings for some reason...?
It's warmer sounding compared to the official soundtrack as well, which is expected of a vinyl, but it came out nearly a month earlier than the official date, it's been online since the 5th while the official comes out in the 22nd?
Something is fishy here.
edited 12:56 AM EDT September 15, 2017
I have determined that the music tracks are in scenes_preboot:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/yygm776n4ne90wr/Preboot.unity3d
You can see in this uncompressed file two FSB5 headers.
However, when I try to extract with fsbext, this is the result:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/0456qabn7026ol7/Sonic_Forces_Speed_Battle_FSB5.zip
2 x FSBs
I figured how to treat these files especially ones with Unity FS header (UnityFS.....5.x.x.5.6)
, was to treat the unity3d files as a "bundle" Using Unity Studio I extracted using the "extract bundle" option on your unity3d file and it exports 11 Files. Then run again the extracted files with Unity Studio and you can see the 2 audio FSB tracks amongst other stuf..
I had to use this method for quite a few Android games recently.
Hope you can do the rest . Cheers
edited 10:14 AM EDT September 18, 2017
edited 10:36 PM EDT September 18, 2017
I suggest to back up the music here : https://vgm.hcs64.com/
Edit : Nevermind, thank you so much !!
edited 3:57 PM EDT September 18, 2017
edited 9:48 PM EDT September 18, 2017
https://www.mediafire.com/file/44tzoa330qayuz5/Super%20Mario%20Run%20updated.zip
Still can't play them, seem to be headerless vorbis.
Vector Harbor: That won't work, what I provided is what was downloaded onto the SD card when I started the game.
Here are the correct files, from the DeALProject folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/wsw8kwaujairrwi/Super%20Mario%20Run%20correct%20BGM.zip
Also, here a couple of .json files I found in the DeALProject folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/r4zxm581fy9wwd1/DeALProject.json.zip
There are at least couple of things gleaned from these.
1. The files contain 2 channels.
2. The frequency of the files is 32000.
You could try to ask aluigi in his board as he knows a lot about encryption.
"It can be anything from a fixed key xor starting with the bytes 0x8a 0xec 0xb3 0xa2 to a xor with incremental pseudo number generator.
You can verify the first idea by searching those 4 bytes in the executable of the game.
I don't know why there is a 32bit size value at the beginning at the file and what are all those bytes after at the end of the file"
"They seem to be encrypted with AES keys. There's functions like DeALSetting$$get_OggEncryptionAesKey and AssetBundleSetting$$get_SimpleEncryptionKey, as for where to find these keys, I still don't know."
edited 7:19 AM EST November 5, 2017
https://www.mediafire.com/file/f3s33n3j03ad6uc/Princess%20of%20Ice.zip
Terra Battle (mentioned in OP) - main composer Nobuo Uematsu, guest composers like Mitsuda, Shimomura and Sakimoto
Terra Battle 2 (released just a while ago) - main composer Uematsu
Granblue Fantasy - Nobuo Uematsu, Tsutomu Narita (http://gbf-wiki.com/index.php?BGM - lots of tracks, mostly unreleased)
Justice Monsters Five - many composers, discontinued, based on FFXV minigame
I am continuing to ask over at ZenHax: http://zenhax.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5038
I have also made a topic over at XeNTaX as well:
http://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=17721
edited 6:11 AM EST February 19, 2018
- Nintendo's Miitomo will close on May 9th.
marcusss, since you do a lot of mobile game rips, would you mind outlining your setup for ripping so that others can learn from you? Personally I'm especially interested in how you get access to the data of iOS games.
Actually these days I have no time so the best way is to download the .ipa images which are the iphone and ipad game images much like .apk or mac os ones which are the usual .dmg files. Usually you can unpack and explore them with 7zip or poweriso since most use zlib or similar compression.
The games are easier to rip as the music is usually in the main directory and usually mp3,caf or aac but also fsb ogg when using unity.. they do ha e their own archive formats which can be hard to figure out or encrypted but even archives with odd extensions can regularly use zip compression or if you cannot open the file you can extract with those
typical common audio format extractor programs like Raviolli Tools e.g.
Games on iOS using Unity never uses split archives like Android does like .split1 .split2 etc.. so less stressful ;)
The easiest way to rip games is just to grab the .ipa files from online..from many russian websites or.easier ones like 4pda, iphonecake etc . Some links can all be broken for certain games so you may need to hunt endlessly for them but when finally a link works it feels good. Hah.
Anyway that is what I do these days. The hardest part is finding certain games as they can be rare.
Finally the archives that are .pak .iso etc can bs anything like pc archives as a few games I haven't been able to rip. The files are online so would be good if others want to rip too
edited 8:30 PM EST March 10, 2018
And thanks for the rip of Miitomo MurraySkull!
edited 8:06 AM EDT March 11, 2018
http://www.mediafire.com/file/a780h7skcxz96i8/Miitomo.zip
Download from MEGA
Complete with every single sound effect, voice clip and music file (excluding DLC).
Changed the extension of the ".rof" files to ".ogg" as they're just standard ogg files.
Requested by @rcsb!
edited 9:34 AM EDT March 11, 2018
I've tried ripping UNO (for iOS) with success, but the audio files are MSD, which foobar doesn't support. Here are the files for anyone who knows anything about this: https://www.sendspace.com/file/miacam
(Long shot but) does anyone happen to have the old click-wheel iPod version of UNO? I remember the files being MP3 but for whatever reason I never saved a copy of them.
Download from MEGA
Regarding the iPod version: if you connect your click-wheel iPod to iTunes with the same account UNO was purchased on, there should be an option to redownload it under "Games".
Once you do that, you should have a ".ipg" file, which is just a renamed standard zip file.
Inside should be the music assets!
EDIT: Listening to the music, it's identical to the WiiWare, XBOX 360, PSP and DSi versions, so I wouldn't be surprised if the iPod version just used the same music.
edited 9:41 PM EDT March 11, 2018
Also for the click-wheel version I lost my iPod years ago, but they got rid of click-wheel games from iTunes at least like 5 years ago and they got rid of the option to redownload them as well. I've found multiple dumps of many click-wheel games but UNO never ends up being one of them. (Though thankfully Peggle was, and for some reason is higher quality than the iOS and Android version (Willing to upload as well)).
Any info on a download of UNO would be greatly appreciated.
edited 10:01 PM EDT March 11, 2018
edited 10:09 PM EDT March 11, 2018
edited 10:10 PM EDT March 11, 2018
Here's what I have found regarding Gameloft's UNO so far:
All versions use the same music.
iOS uses AAC, Wii uses OGG and I'm currently checking the rest.
EDIT: Although on second thought, the leading null bytes in the header probably didn't need to be removed, as the MP4 standard allows that.
edited 10:06 PM EDT March 11, 2018
Lastly, I'm trying to extract the game's launch icons, which are PNGs, but they only come up as black pictures. The ingame buttons are PNG as well but they extract just fine.
edited 10:18 PM EDT March 11, 2018
There is not one trace of it anywhere online, and Apple likely removed it from their servers by now.
I decided to search my old iPod Nano 5G, turns out I bought Asphalt 4 and Sonic The Hedgehog, so I backed up those for anyone interested!
So I finally dug through the mobile archive and didn't see Bejeweled (3), Peggle Classic, Plants vs. Zombies or UNO there. I've got all of those for iOS but I've never uploaded to this site yet for the archives so I'm not sure how to do it exactly.
Regarding the click-wheel games (like Peggle, I have both the click-wheel and iOS versions), should those be uploaded (knowing it's an incredibly small amount of games that are completely out of circulation), and if so, to the mobile archive or its own section? (Assuming anyone cares enough in the first place :D )
https://www.sendspace.com/file/3ercyd
Anyway enjoy ripping.
You can find lots of games on iphonecake or 4pda sites (lots more but are russian mainly. Lol), so maybe check there as well but it never hurts to rip something yourself as well. You will find images to be .ipa or .dmg normally
Asphalt 9 came out but is a bit of a pain to rip. Older ones are more than welcome
Some good ios shooter music you might like.
Quantum Revenge
Star Horizon
Walking Mars
Morphite
Operation Dracula
No Gravity
Subdivision Infinity
Robot Tsunami
Meltdown
Good music IMHO and was glad to rip them ;)
edited 8:01 PM EDT March 12, 2018
edited 8:09 PM EDT March 12, 2018
Ok so now I've got all those games ready to upload to the archive, but I'm not sure of the process to do so.
Name (yyyy-mm-dd)(developer)(publisher) iOS [MoldyPond].7z
The preferred format is 7zip compressed archives
Upload using the Upload Tool
edited 8:38 PM EDT March 12, 2018
I noticed the mobile versions of Transport Tycoon and Pokémon Shuffle hadn't been uploaded yet so that's done now too :3
Btw, Super Soviet is a mobile port of the flash port of a minigame from Alien Hominid. The results music is what eventually became the Cyanide & Happiness theme.
Just thought I'd throw that out there :)
edited 9:40 PM EDT March 12, 2018
Unfortunately, I don't own a PS3 (or any Sony console for that matter), nor know the ways of ripping PS3 games.
Honestly the only reason I'd like to know is because I can't find a single video that shows changing the backgrounds in it. There's a 99% chance it'll be exactly the same as the Wii version though.
https://soundcloud.com/rushing-ent/stuart-dubey-aces-wild
I honestly can't remember if plugging the iPod into a computer allows you to view the contents of the built in games without hacking of any sort, but would it be possible for you to check it out at some point?
edited 6:53 PM EDT March 31, 2018
Thanks for the request by the way. I'll do it.
* King's Knight (SQEX) - June 25
* Puzzle Fighter (Capcom) - July 31
In case somebody wants to do some ripping magic.
Here are a couple of samples:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/843yt311cl4pa1c/Puzzle%20Fighter.zip
edited 6:09 PM EDT April 21, 2018
Anyway, I managed to get some better samples:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ijk9r6riazf98e6/Puzzle%20Fighter%20%28Better%20Samples%29.zip
Songs seems to have "main + fast + intro" subsongs, you can create a .txtp text file like this to play as a single song btw:
#"Arena00.txtp"
Arena00__000.fsb#3
Arena00__000.fsb#1
Arena00__000.fsb#2
loop_start_segment = 3
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rwic7xmxgd67mbw/AABUCGY6opKHaSJvG2UpP_fda?dl=0 contains all of the sounds from the most recent versions of Kakao/Line Cookie Run and Cookie Run: Ovenbreak. I do intend on adding not only files from Ovenbreak and Ovenbreak 2, but the .oggs found in earlier iterations of Cookie Run. (Keep in mind the Cookie Run files currently aren't super organized, I'm planning on getting to that.)
Now, for my question: Ovenbreak does use .mp3s encrypted/stored in .fsbs for sound effects, but handles background music through .midis that seem to be...encrypted? In some way? I'm not sure. I looked at one in a hex editor and didn't see anything immediately identifying it as another kind of file, though I will admit I didn't copy/paste/research/blah blah. The soundfonts I've got both in .sf2 and .dls--in the APK itself, the .dls is disguised as a unique .crb.
The soundfonts: https://mega.nz/#!CwthiD5J!6CEWavFZUkqisI2SDPTOYtUyxzk_3TaqhyU0Gsh5w9w (I can post them in .dls if wanted)
The BGM: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/znwmi2qztlrce1w/AADg2qc3Vv--hOeLsN4dP1r_a?dl=0
Cookie Run's sound stuff in general is really great, so it'd be nice to recreate the Ovenbreak BGM however possible. All the rips on youtube are just poor recordings of game audio.
EDIT: Whoops, posted the wrong link for the BGM. Sorry.
edited 10:24 PM EDT April 26, 2018
? It got some pretty good music there.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/aaz9wi2sblf453q/Dragalia_Lost_opening.zip/file
As for the rest, it is in the cache somewhere, but trying to find it is another matter!
http://www.mediafire.com/file/egsj4pojue28ag1/Dragalia_Lost_cache.zip/file
edited 9:06 AM EDT October 5, 2018