RIP MUSIC & VIDEOS FROM GAMES IN LOSSLESS

Anyone know how to rip music and movies from games in lossless format in the most possible quickest and easiest way?

PC, NES, SNES, N64, Genesis, Xbox/Xbox 360, PS1, PS2, PS3 – The bold ones are the important consoles and the one underlined is most important and top priority. I wanna do this without any SFX/dialogue whatsoever & wanna get every bgm and cue in the game. I do wanna get SFX and dialogue too. Just not in the background of the music tracks.

For videos, same exact deal as music. I wanna get me playing through the games as well as certain cut scenes. Cut scenes without the gameplay. You know like just the cut
scene itself.
Example of gameplay – basically a walkthough or a certain level.
Example of certain cut scenes – "The Eyes Of The Watcher" cut scene from Ultimate Alliance 1

If all of the above (except for the walkthrough bit) could be done without having to actually play the game, that’d be even sweeter.

I’m asking for a tutorial – supplies/material, software/programs (free, non trial ones), and of course, how to do it.

I don’t know of the videos will have lossless picture quality. But hope I’ll be able to rip them with lossless sound.

Zophar.net (http://www.zophar.net/music.html) can get you started on soundtracks. There’s also lots of good info on ripping soundtracks, etc on the site and forums.

Foobar2000 is great for converting music, and there are plugins to play most if not all of the files in the link i gave you.

thats great & i thank you for you help. but by the look of what i saw when i clicked the link, i am not sure that is quite what im looking for.

i want to rip music & videos (gameplay & cutscenes) straight from the aforementioned consoles themselves.

thanks for the foobar suggestion. i will try that out.

The files there are soundtracks ripped digitally from the games.

Are you saying you want to hack the console hardware itself and record from there?

Ok, first of all we need to clarify something here: to extract lossless music and movies from old console’s games like NES, SNES, N64, Genesis is not possible.
Because those games used MIDI audio format, so very little tiny bits of separate sounds were played in a certain/sequenced order, as it was programmed in the code of the game. That’s how they created background music back in a day. It was this way because of the severe data limitations that could fit on a cartridge, plus the consoles themselves weren’t powerful enough to play anything other then MIDI.
Now, to export it the music – yes, it is possible and that is achieved through reverse-engineering of the inside code of those games, which gives us all those "unofficial" USF, 2SF, NSF formats that andrew_berge was talking about.

Aside from that, X360: that’s where you can get truly lossless audio and video, directly from the game’s files.
First off, to get to those files, you need to extract the Iso of the game.

Any of these tools will do: Xbox 360 PC Tools (http://www.xboxscene.com/tools-xbox360.php) (click ISOtools)

There video is usually easily identified and can be played without prior conversion in any powerful media player (e.g. VLC, Media Player Classic).

But the audio can be in many different types of formats/containers, and to cover all the ways to convert them here would be just too much.

Find the game you want to work with, extract the contents of an Iso, locate the audio files, see what’s the name of their file type and search for tools to deal with those specific files.

Sites like Xentax.com and Luigi Auriemma (http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CBoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Faluigi.altervista.org%2Fpapers.ht m&ei=eLKLTsG3CMrI0AGz6MzWBA&usg=AFQjCNHDZYrMIL9J7KqNWE-FHQoOIx1vBA) are extremely useful.

"Are you saying you want to hack the console hardware itself and record from there?"

@andrew berge: You know how this site has a lot of gamerips in FLAC? THat’s what I’m trying to do. Rip music straight from games in FLAC.

As for what I mean for videos, you’ll see walkthroughs that are taken straight from the game as they are playing it are on youtube. Certain cut scenes taken straight from the game are also on youtube. That’s what I wanna do.

I don’t really know how else to explain it.

"Ok, first of all we need to clarify something here: to extract lossless music and movies from old console’s games like NES, SNES, N64, Genesis is not possible."

@MiLO: What I mean by lossless in this very case is that I don’t want to lose audio quality when ripping music. If it isn’t possible, then how does EmteCoke have lossless SNES music ripped? All his gamerip posts are in flac format. They sound as if they really are lossless. To test this out, I listened to his Turtles In Time rip while playing the SNES game. The rip is the BEST gamerip of that game I have ever heard in my life in all seriousness. THat is what i mean when I say I wanna rip in lossless – for the rips to come out like his does. Maybe I’ll ask him.

Thanks for your help guys.

You can ask EmteCoke how he does it, but everything’s easier than it seems.
I don’t think he actually does the rips, instead he gets the USF, NSF, SPC or other sets from Zophar.net and then transcodes it to FLAC via Winamp or foobar2000.
All it takes is a specific plugin for those players.

That’s what he does, that’s what I would do and anyone else should do if they want to listen to the music from good old games (exactly) the way it sounded in the game.
To create a new SPC set (SNES music format) from scratch can be incredibly difficult unless you have programmer’s skills or plan on spending weeks/months learning all the necessary stuff.
All those formats (USF, NSF, SPC etc) are not official unlike ADX, XWB, AC3 etc, and are created by the fans/rippers/programmers. It is reverse engineered from the source code of the game, so to speak.

So my advice is just get the music set of the game you need and convert it to any standard audio format.

Music – Zophar’s Domain (http://www.zophar.net/music.html)