ROM Hack Ripping DS ROMs audio

[Fefo]

Hi, could someone help me ripping the music for SMT Strange Journey?

ndssndext can only rip game sfx (in WAV format). This thead http://gbatemp.net/threads/rip-music-from-nds-roms.287081/ offers 2 other tools, but vgmtrans couldn't do it (or I'm dumb and don't know how to use it) and vgmtoolbox is overkill to my noobness.

Thanks.

 

[Auryn]

I always wonder why some people want to do things that are useless

Is THIS not good enough??

 

[Fefo]

No.

I'm looking SPECIFICALLY for the MIDI, not the music.

 

[evandixon]

For getting the Midi, VGMTrans is what you want for most games.

 

[Fefo]

For getting the Midi, VGMTrans is what you want for most games.

Sure? When I tried to use vgmtrans I only got 4 "samples", which where sfx, and at least ndssndext gave me all of then. Can you help me?

 

[evandixon]

Don't have the game, so I don't know, but if that's the case, it might not have an SDAT file. What format does it use?

 

[Fefo]

Don't have the game, so I don't know, but if that's the case, it might not have an SDAT file. What format does it use?

Sorry, too noob to answer that. What is "format" and how can I confirm it?

 

[Kippykip]

There are some midi Nintendo music at:
http://vgmusic.com

Just be aware that not every song is there

 

[evandixon]

Unpack the contents of the ROM using DSBuff or DS Lazy or something similar. Look around for something that appears to be labeled sound, or music, or something ending in sdat.

 

[Fefo]

Snd folder: lots of .adx, with suggestive names as BMG_BTL_LASTBOSS (lol), some .mods files and a sound_data.sdat. What do you suggest?

 

[Fefo]

There are some midi Nintendo music at:
http://vgmusic.com

Just be aware that not every song is there

Oops, thank you, this site is bookmarked on my browser . Still, it only has fan-made MIDIs. Good, but not enough.

 

[Auryn]

adx are sounds (Criware to be more exact)
mods are the movies (not way to view or edit or rip them from my knowledge and are coded in the Moby clip encoder)
sdat are sounds again.

If my memory isn't wrong, only sdat can contain midi (for what ever reason you want them) so it's possible there are only 4 sound in midi version and the rest is on the adx.
The suggestive titles don't tell you if there is the music you want??
Anyway, adXtract is a tool to extract adx and if you really want midi, search online for converters to midi.

By the way, you didn't mention "midi" anywhere in your first post / title

 

[Mirby]

I remember when I ripped the Radiant Historia soundtrack that there was nothing in the .sdat and yet... everything else was individual .adx files

actually there wasn't even an .sdat on that, it was just one file with everything and then the .adx files

seeing as both are atlus releases, i'm sure that SMT: Strange Journey is similar in its internal makeup.

 

[Fefo]

adx are sounds (Criware to be more exact)
mods are the movies (not way to view or edit or rip them from my knowledge and are coded in the Moby clip encoder)
sdat are sounds again.

If my memory isn't wrong, only sdat can contain midi (for what ever reason you want them) so it's possible there are only 4 sound in midi version and the rest is on the adx.
The suggestive titles don't tell you if there is the music you want??
Anyway, adXtract is a tool to extract adx and if you really want midi, search online for converters to midi.

By the way, you didn't mention "midi" anywhere in your first post / title

I specified latter, sorry.

Anyway, do you know how to use adXtract? a simple drag & drop like ndssndext only generates a originalfilename0001.adx

Edit: Found some DS sound tools in this blog (portuguese, pretty straightforward) http://alizor.wordpress.com/category/nds/ to convert adx to wav. Not exactly what I want, but good enough.

Thanks for everyone who helped. If anyone has more good info to share, I'm eager to know.

Edit2: Learned to use VGMtrans, but couldn't extract everything at once, which is really a problem for games like Pokémon, with thousands of songs.

Also, found the heavy discussion (on GBAtemp) and documentation of everything about DS sounds.
Still, I didn't know simple details like .sdat files holding all sound data, so it would only cause more confusion.