baten kaitos music by phanoo at 5:43 AM EDT on August 12, 2007
hi everybody (sorry for my bad english I hope you will understand me...)
I actually try to get the musics from baten kaitos.
I've downloaded the ISO then extracted it, it's not very easy to work on this game because there is no folder, and the files haven't a real name (FILE_60002C0E, FILE_60002C8E...)
But I think i've found the music files, they are from FILE_70004F8A to FILE_70004FBA. They start with the tag "CAF" (the 3 first bytes of these files). There are quite big, about 4Mb.
I've found another type of sound archive with the tag "CSL", they are lighter and seems to contain the voices.
More interesting: I've opened the music files with an audio editor, as PCM, and I can hear some music but VERY VERY scrambled, with a lot of background noise. It seems to be a sort of streamed music but divided into many parts (I looked in these files and I see many times the CAF string, separated with a lot of empty bytes). Is the main music cutted into several parts? or there is a part for each intrument? (one for the drums, one for the bass...)
I don't know a lot of things about GC music, but is it possible that the CAF archives are SSM files? I tried to use ssmex.exe to unpack them but it don't works, i tried also to read this as an ADPCM stream with cube2wav but it give only a noisy .wav file.
IT will take some poking about to figure out what exactly the files are. I don't have the ISO, time, and it's highly probable I don't have the knowledge :P
If you want to try extracting them, the source for my R:Racing ripper might be able to separate the CAF files with minor modification (needs the search string/tag changing)
As for playback, it's tricky, took HCS a while to get the WindWaker music playing nicely (at first it was playing but really crackly...)
I don't recall ever having any Baten Kaitos files on hand to poke at (it is possible that I'm just forgetting, though). If they are standardish GC audio it should be possible to tell at a glance. Want to put a few online somewhere so we can all have a look?