I only checked the PC version files. The SFX format is uncompressed PCM with a strange, non-RIFF-like header but is trivial to convert to standard WAV. Simply put my freshly written PW3WAV.EXE in the same folder as your WAV files and run it. The source files are overwritten! Some files ending with "_r" and "_l" are supposed to be played as one stereo sample. Currently the tool does not combine the channels. I can implement that if you need it.
The speech samples are different, possibly ADPCM. The WAV files only contain the header (?) while the STR files are the actual data. The tool currently does not support that format (possibly later).
EDIT: The xbox version speech samples (STR) can be played via vgmstream by creating a TXTH file called ".str.txth" in the same directory as the source STR files. Put the following lines in the TXTH:
Try to download it again in the post above. Should work now.
The TXTH script for music is identical, just the number of channels is 2 instead of 1. I don't know the game thus I don't know if all streams are 22050 Hz or not. You can change the value in the TXTH accordingly. If they have variable sample rates you must create several header files for each file.
After further inspection it seems the music files are actually 44100 Hz. Although the script seems to work at first, there's still an issue with some if not all files. I think I have to look deeper into it. It almost looks like some streams have more than 2 channels (AKA ambient sounds and music interleaved).
If TXTH is no use I can only try write a converter which combines the info from the WAV files and the streams from the STR files into one "thing".
EDIT: ok I just found out that one TXTH for all files is not possible. We have to rely on the header info in the WAV files. Some files have cue lists for sub-songs and loop information. I think I'm going to write a converter then. This can take a while.
Hmmm, according to Google the EXE is a virus, which is not the case. I wrote dozens of tools and uploaded them here in the past to help users convert or extract stuff from other games. So far there were never any problems. I have Kaspersky installed on my machine which does not complain. I checked the EXE on VirusTotal and indeed, 3 out of the hundreds of Antivirus claim the EXE to be a Trojan/Malware. These are false positives. All the "big and important" scanners fail to see a Virus, which makes sense because it does nothing more than loading a file into RAM, adding a header to it and write it back to disk.
After dissecting the streams further I came up with a working TXTH that supports direct playback via vgmstream with the exception of sub songs. This will only play the first sub song.
First, batch-rename every .wav file to .vgmstream. Then create a new TXTH file named ".vgmstream.txth" in the same directory and copy the following lines into it:
What "loop files" do you mean? The program only works on PC version WAV files. You don't even need the program anymore because I also created a TXTH (".wav.txth") for that:
This will not work for xbox sounds. The PC sounds are better quality anyway because they're uncompressed. At least the samples you provided.
If you mean the music: the program can't deal with music. I can only try to include loop information in the TXTH or write a separate program if it can't be done using TXTH.
I was referring to the files that are labelled "loop" at the end because not all of them seem to work with your txth file, nor your program. You can download some samples here: https://zenhax.com/download/file.php?id=9861
Update: I used VGMGUI on the files. They work. I was using Foobar.
Those files contain only the header (notice the tiny file sizes). The actual stream data is missing!
by Mario123311 at 1:44 AM EST on February 12, 2021
Hey, I managed to figure out how to get it working on the PS2 sound files partially by changing the codec to "PSX_bf" but it keeps cutting off near the end. I'd love to be able to look into the demo files.