On another forum that I visit, someone has been posting rips from various video games, saying they're real rips/re-encodes from the XMA audio. He has yet to post how he does it, if he even does.

Has any ripping software been released recently that I missed?

yess xma audio can be decoded.

http://www.ctpax-x.ru/

The towav program by xplorer.

BTW which forum was it?

Awesome! Thanks for the link...

BTW, it was a forum called AntDogs.

I cant seem to register in there, do i have the right forum? can u send me a link?