cooljacker
11-25-2010, 11:51 AM


So, this includes all stage music (yeah plus Star Wars stage), all menu music and all jingles.
How I made the rip:
- took the bgm.afs file from jailbroken ps3, opened it up with lafs.exe tool made by hcs and converted. The native files had AIX extension and all were very big also had 6 channels (I'm also sure that five channels are used effectively, sixth one is empty - seen it when Adobe Audition separated the channels) but I can't say they were lossless. (They had lower bit depth so that's more than probably lossy.)

EDIT 2: I've re-ripped this time from AIX 6 channels straight to OGG 2 channels with bitrate 500 kb/s, so that's the highest lossy quality I could get. AIX were decoded by VGMstream and downmixed to stereo using Foobar Channel Mixer (http://www.skipyrich.com/). Don't worry, your player can play OGG files straight away...

All music is composed by Junichi Nakatsuru, Keiki Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Fujita and Masaharu Iwata, except those pieces from Star Wars which are composed by John Williams.

Original filenames are kept.

DOWNLOAD

MY UPLOADS HAVE RECOVERY RECORDS, SO YOU CAN REPAIR CORRUPTED RAR FILES (WITH WINRAR)

Note - you must download all parts to extract files, if you have downloaded only one (or two), extraction will fail. When you have all parts, extract just the first (part1.rar) and the others will be automatically merged. All parts must be downloaded in the same folder of your choice.

Stage and menu music :

MEDIAFIRE part 1 (http://www.mediafire.com/?p41bbgj546qopuw)

MEDIAFIRE part 2 (http://www.mediafire.com/?26b44tkhqczmrk6)

OR

MEGAUPLOAD part 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZGYMUWK9)

MEGAUPLOAD part 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=C1UUT6UP)


quality: ogg vorbis @ 500 kbps

Various jingles :

MEGAUPLOAD (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DQ3GGACW)

OR

MEDIAFIRE (http://www.mediafire.com/?8gnj95dh54pg1p1)

Voices:


links are dead, will NOT reupload

quality: mp3 @320 kbps


original 6 channel AIX sound files READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW, PLEASE:

MEGAUPLOAD part 1 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=PKMET4H8)

MEGAUPLOAD part 2 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZK8OS0MT)

MEGAUPLOAD part 3 (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=G3C6FRS7)

To play native 6 channel aix files you have to do some things... You can use Winamp or Foobar. I explained earlier the procedure for Foobar in this thread:


http://forums.ffshrine.org/showthread.php?t=82906/

And now, how to set up Winamp (download the free Winamp version from the official site):


http://www.winamp.com/media-player/en

-The main thing is to get is the awesome VGMstream which enables playing incredibly large number of game sound files; choose the latest version available from here:


http://hcs64.com/files/vgmstream/

and don't forget to download these external dll files:


http://hcs64.com/files/vgmstream_external_dlls.zip

-Installed Winamp? Closed it? Good. Now go to the folder where you have installed it, default location is

C:\Program Files (x86)\Winamp (for 64 bit Windows) or
C:\Program Files\Winamp (for 32 bit Windows)

-Open the Winamp folder, and put the three highlighted files you extracted from 'vgmstream_external_dlls.zip' there (only those three from the zip file). They have to be in the same folder as 'winamp.exe' just like is shown on the pic.

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So the path should be:

....\Winamp\libg7221_decode.dll
....\Winamp\libmpg123-0.dll
....\Winamp\libvorbis.dll

-Open up 'vgmstream-r937-test.zip' or whatever newer version (when available) you have downloaded from this link (just a reminder)


http://hcs64.com/files/vgmstream/

and extract only file 'in_vgmstream.dll' (of course you can take a look at readme.txt) and put that file INSIDE of 'Plugins' folder of Winamp which is located where you already have those three external dll files. Look at the pics...

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So the correct path is:

....\Winamp\Plugins\in_vgmstream.dll

-Start Winamp and choose Options -> Preferences and on the left side of newly opened window find "Plug-ins" and select "Input". On the right side you should see list of installed plugins and if you can find "vgmstream" among them (look at the picture), all went well. You can leave default settings or you can change them how you like as shown on teh pic by marking the vgmstream plugin and choosing 'Configure'. Anyway, hit OK/Close to get back to the main Winamp window.

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VERY, VERY IMPORTANT: if you're using some DSP plugin (anything that changes sound, yeah, look at the pic) they must be turned off (set to 'none') when using vgmstream to avoid problems, however it seems that Winamp's default equalizer can be used normally.

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ALSO IMPORTANT - When you update to a newer Winamp version, almost any custom plugins (including vgmstream) will be messed up, so be ready to repeat whole plugin installation process.

-Finally extract native music files somewhere and choose (from Winamp main window) File -> Play File and browse to the folder where you extracted your music and either choose Organize - > Select all then click on Open OR you can also try File -> Play Folder and choose only the folder with the files and Winamp should either way begin playing.

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-Big thanks to hcs, FastElbja, manakoAT, bxaimc, snakemeat for the great VGMstream!

theq66
11-25-2010, 10:26 PM
Very well done.

thedenden
11-26-2010, 05:52 AM
You rock for this!!

euromax
11-26-2010, 09:59 AM
thanks

cooljacker
11-29-2010, 10:54 AM
Added more stuff.

bakabakabaka
11-29-2010, 06:02 PM
Nice work

Do you have the original 6 channel (5.1?) Audio files. Would be cool to hear them in 5.1 surround sound ;-)

cooljacker
11-29-2010, 07:50 PM
Which original files would you want? The real, native original 6 channels AIX files (you would need vgmstream plugin for foobar2000 in order to play them), or would you like AC3 converted files (Dolby Digital, 6 ch. and I could set bitrate at 640 kbps)? You wouldn't profit from FLAC @ 6 ch. because native AIX files are lossy. (I had to convert them first to flac though that the media transcoder I use could produce ogg from them).
TBH, I don't have 5.1 surround system, so I don't know if the original music files really use all six channels.

cooljacker
11-30-2010, 12:14 PM
Never mind, I've added both (AIX and AC3) in first post.

jamesbolos
11-30-2010, 11:48 PM
Thanks a lot for your work.
Much appreciated

chancth
12-13-2010, 10:28 AM
It must needed a lot of time . Thank yuo very much

doomeagle
03-06-2011, 07:35 PM
Opps, some links are invalid already... :-(

cooljacker
03-07-2011, 05:02 PM
It's not so... already. Original upload is 3+ months old. However, MU links are still good (for bgm music). Oh yeah, welcome to the forums!

xuu
03-30-2011, 09:57 PM
Chankz!

Jakah
03-31-2011, 02:47 AM
6 channel files....*grasp pathetically at the broken links, tearfully*
:( I wish that the link still worked. Anyone have it? :(

cooljacker
03-31-2011, 11:01 PM
There was a user who wanted original files, I upload them, even had a 5.1 dolby digital version of them (along with native 5.1 AIX), and since I usually upload files to my account, I saw that nobody downloaded aix files, and just one person downloaded dolby digital version (opposed to 50+ downloads of the stereo converted rip), people really don't like 5.1 files I tell you. And the hosting site kept them for a month or so and then they deleted them...
However, if the mood hits me, I could up original 5.1 files once again, just for you man, if you do plan to download them? I wouldn't like to waste my bandwidth you know... File size would be 554 MB compressed and 650 MB when extracted.

Jakah
04-01-2011, 12:18 AM
I would definitely download it. :) Whenever you want, you can upload it. (if you want. :) )

cooljacker
04-01-2011, 10:31 AM
I have uploaded files and put instructions in the first post (music players will not open these files by default, so that wall of text is needed). Have fun.......

cooljacker
04-06-2011, 02:31 PM
Stereo OGG rip done again, with better tools, it turned out great, so this is the final version.

Jakah
04-07-2011, 02:48 AM
Awesome!!! Thank you so much!!! I am downloading, currently. :3

neysid
07-14-2014, 04:25 AM
reup,please