Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

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Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

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Since some folk already did r3 and r2 sound effects on mediafire! now we just need the ones from arena! them voices man! them pirate voices!! :D :D :D
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How to unpack music and sound from games (esp. PSX, PS2)

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This folk was Droolie.
Try following programs to extract this SFXes by trying them on various platforms, beginning from PS2.
Scan various files inside ISOs.
But filenames or separateness of files may be not preserved.

List of software for unpacking sounds from games:

- Psound - among many others, plays .DCZ archives extension (DC/Dreamcast) and R2 PSX COMBIN.dat (low quality SFXes inside - set in options force 11025Hz).
- ADPCM Player v1.44h - found it more capable to detect loops than MF Audio. Since W10, it doesn't play files, gives error, but extracts/converts well. Generally we can use Cube Media Player 2 instead.

For extraced distorted/encrypted/unkown file formats:
- VideoGameSoundConverter_2.0
http://wiki.vg-resource.com/wiki/Video_ ... _Converter
"The conversion is actually handled by vgmstream however VGSC wraps it with a simple UI and allows you to convert multiple files quickly and easily."
or also "Watto Game Extractor" is good to see inside archieves, and then, for playing/extracting strange formats, this:
- DecUbiSndGui - decodes lots of music from UBI games extracted from game archives
- Dragon UnPACKer 5 - it has an interesting option of scanning for audio files.
- quickbms http://aluigi.altervista.org/quickbms.htm

- The program "MFaudio" may be useful in overall (doesn't detect loops, plays lot of files)
- PSMPlay - plays stream XA files from e.g. PSX discs. Files like stream.ixa in Rayman 2. But not as a file, but if I remember well - when you click on analize bin image. However on W10 it doesnt convert to wav anymore. Only plays. But you can save the file in this program again, and then it can be read by proper program and converted. Extracting of .ixa is imposible with ISOBuster, but posible by Magic ISO. Normally, copying content of R2 PSX disk mounted content by Windows, will return uncorrect ms-dos operation error.
- XA Audio Converter, though without original samplerate (files are upsampled to 44kHz from 37800Hz in case of R2).
- Cube Media Player 2 - looks for a complex tool as to support various file formats (among others IXA/XA/PS2/SS2/ADPCM RAW/ADX/PSS/SFD/VAG (interleave settings in Operations-Properties differs from values of ADPCM Player). It didn't even show that Operations-Convert is greyed out for unregistered users, I hadn't seen the reason to use attached keygen till... I guessed when nothing was able to convert, but only play. Don't only drag and drop your file. Make sure you also clicked on file>analyze file.
- PSXmc - also nice software, but I have some troubles to make it to convert files.
- Nova Extractor - Droolie recommended it for extracting .hxc files from Rayman 3
http://lotro-moonlight.clan.su/load/nov ... 5/1-1-0-23
SFXes are in the Rayman 3 directory\Gamedatabin\World\Sound\ (they are already ripped and available to download).
- VGMStream
- jpsxdec (also decodes IXA file from R2 PSX, but you need to scan whole track 1 bin file. It also scans separate chosen files, but usually it may not give the same results)
- Audacity (RAW import option)

The other nice list of software is posted here:
http://ngemu.com/threads/ripping-audio- ... st-1673495
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Re: Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

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Additionally, if you've got Rayman M on PC, you can simply find all the files used in the game (music too) inside the CD's folders. Look in the fishbin and tribebin folders after navigating through some top-level directories inside the CD.
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Re: Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

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Shrooblord wrote:Additionally, if you've got Rayman M on PC, you can simply find all the files used in the game (music too) inside the CD's folders. Look in the fishbin and tribebin folders after navigating through some top-level directories inside the CD.
Thank you. ive never extracted pc sound files, but i can give it a shot.
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Re: Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

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Shrooblord wrote:Additionally, if you've got Rayman M on PC, you can simply find all the files used in the game (music too) inside the CD's folders. Look in the fishbin and tribebin folders after navigating through some top-level directories inside the CD.
alas, i do not own the pc version. been trying the ps2 version with pssound.
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Re: Sound effects from rayman arena (yes, the voices)

Post by Sabertooth »

Admiral poison cloud wrote:them voices man! them pirate voices!! :D :D :D
Maybe you could try pirating them?
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