Hacking extract/convert Mario Galaxy Sounds/Music ?

[Alimdoener]

Status:
- music converted to *.wav-Files

As already stated in 2 other threads, I want to extract/convert the Mario Galaxy sounds and music, but I'm running into problems with all the different file-formats :/
Here's my current progress.

1. extracted the game-partition of the PAL ISO with WiiScrubber
The unpacked folder structure looks like this:

• AllTargetAddressMap
• AllTargetModuleData
• AudioRes
• EuDutch
• EuEnglish
• *3 other languages*
• HomeButton2
• LayoutData
• MapPartsData
• ModuleData
• MovieData
• ObjectData

It's obvious that the folder AudioRes might be what I'm looking for.
It's size is around 700MB.
That one's structure looks like this:

• Info
  contains 3 *.arc files (JaiChord.arc, JaiMe.arc, JaiRemixSeq.arc)
  JaiChord.arc gives a lot of files likes this: smg_astrodome03_midi.cit
  These midi-files are stripped down versions of the streamed audio soundtrack which are for synching sound-effects and music, so they can be ignored
  JaiMe.arc gives 2 files (defaultme.bme, metable.bmt)
  no clue what it's for
  JaiRemixSeq gives 1 file (defaultremixseq.brs)
  no clue what it's for
  [*]Seqs
  contains 1 *.arc file
  extracts to 105 *.rarc-Files
  can't extract those becuase rarcdump hangs up[*]SpkRes
  contains 1 *.arc file
  can't extract that one, the console just looks like that:
  

  C:\>yaz0dec SpkRes.arc
  input file size: 0x36AE0

• Stream
  contains 75 *.ast files
  extracted them with vgmstream
  Contains all in-game music files, worth 1,34GB of *.wav-Files
  [*]Waves
  contains 50 *.aw files
  They look like that: B00mahit_0.aw[*]SMR.szs
  decompressed to 1 rarc file
  can't decompress this one further
  Command-Line output looks like that:
  

  C:\>rarcdump SMR.rarc
  /?L

So we have 3 file formats *.cit, *.aw, *.ast but no clue how to playback or convert them.
Any hints would help!

 

[ddp127]

sorry, i dont know much about that, but i just want to support your project

keep up the good work

 

[SanGor]

first step should be to look INTO the files for magicbytes not for the file extentions

 

[Alimdoener]

Using vgmstream I was able to extract all 75 *.ast-Files which contained all in-game music.
Now I still need the sounds which I was first looking for.

Here is the content of the *.bat-File I used to extract the music

test.exe SMG_astrodome02_strm.ast -o SMG_astrodome02_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_astrodome03_strm.ast -o SMG_astrodome03_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_astrodome04_multi.ast -o SMG_astrodome04_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_astrodome_multi.ast -o SMG_astrodome_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_astroout01_strm.ast -o SMG_astroout01_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_astroout02_strm.ast -o SMG_astroout02_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_astroout03_strm.ast -o SMG_astroout03_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss01a_strm.ast -o SMG_boss01a_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss01b_strm.ast -o SMG_boss01b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss02a_strm.ast -o SMG_boss02a_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss02b_strm.ast -o SMG_boss02b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss03a_strm.ast -o SMG_boss03a_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss03b_strm.ast -o SMG_boss03b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss04_strm.ast -o SMG_boss04_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss05a_strm.ast -o SMG_boss05a_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss05b_strm.ast -o SMG_boss05b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss06a_strm.ast -o SMG_boss06a_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss06b_strm.ast -o SMG_boss06b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss07_multi.ast -o SMG_boss07_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_boss08_strm.ast -o SMG_boss08_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_boss09a_multi.ast -o SMG_boss09a_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_boss09b_multi.ast -o SMG_boss09b_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_boss10_strm.ast -o SMG_boss10_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_epilogue_b_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_epilogue_b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_kinotan_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_kinotan_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_kuppabt01_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_kuppabt01_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo01_b_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo01_b_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo01_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo01_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo02_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo02_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo03_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo03_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo04_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo04_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_prolo05_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_prolo05_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_rabbit_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_rabbit_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_race02_multi.ast -o SMG_ev_race02_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_race_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_race_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_starchance02_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_starchance02_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_ev_starchance_strm.ast -o SMG_ev_starchance_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_fileselect_strm.ast -o SMG_fileselect_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_first_astro_strm.ast -o SMG_first_astro_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy01_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy01_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy01_tomb_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy01_tomb_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy02_hurry_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy02_hurry_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy02_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy02_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy03_multi.ast -o SMG_galaxy03_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy04_multi.ast -o SMG_galaxy04_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy05_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy05_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy06_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy06_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy08_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy08_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy09_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy09_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy10_hurry_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy10_hurry_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy10_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy10_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy11_multi.ast -o SMG_galaxy11_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy12_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy12_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy13_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy13_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy14_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy14_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy15_hurry_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy15_hurry_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy15_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy15_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy16_multi.ast -o SMG_galaxy16_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy17_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy17_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy18_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy18_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy19_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy19_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy20_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy20_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy21_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy21_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy22_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy22_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy23_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy23_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy24_multi.ast -o SMG_galaxy24_multi.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy25_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy25_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy26_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy26_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy27_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy27_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy28_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy28_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_galaxy_inter_strm.ast -o SMG_galaxy_inter_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_second_astro_strm.ast -o SMG_second_astro_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_staffroll_strm.ast -o SMG_staffroll_strm.wav
test.exe SMG_title_strm.ast -o SMG_title_strm.wav

 

[Mark McDonut]

Wow, looks like you're getting there

Excellent work.

 

[CasperH]

It is all on limewire/torrents?
What's the point to rip them?

 

[Alimdoener]

Getting the music was not my original aim.
Having it in full quality is nice though.

I rather want the sounds for personal use (and fun), but I have few time to work on it.

Today I recorded some of them via Line-In, but only the ones without BG music are OK.
Filtering them gives shitty results, so now my idea is replacing all the in-game music files with silence.

This is probably easier than finding out how the sequencer stuff works.

Any better ideas?