Homebrew nintendo ds music rip

[Elrinth]

there was a topic here which pointed to a proggie to rip the nds music... anyone remember which topic? I'm not the best searcher ever...

 

[dualscreenman]

It was called "DS Sound files reverse-engineered" or something.

 

[Elrinth]

thank you.. I found: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=33647

 

[dualscreenman]

Cool, you're welcome.

 

[Elrinth]

however, this is such a tedious process..
here's what I have to do:
fire up VGMtrans, open the rom... click each song and export for each song both mid and dls (that's 7 clicks for each song) (I wish there was a way to just EXPORT ALL to same folder in this proggie)

After this is done, then I rename all the DLS to match the midi songs name.

prolly takes longest... I could perhaps make a script for this.

then after that I fire up Awave Studio, open batch convertor.. Click midi. then I add all midi files... Then I export to rmi files

After that I open em up in ModPlug Tracker.. and save as .it or .mp3

I can either play the RMI songs with winamp with DirectMusic set as device for midi, then the sound is badass (then it uses soundfont of your soundcard).. Or I can convert to it or mp3, but those get a bit loss of the quality.

here's a step by step guide on another forum... http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=44850

 

[Zaraf]

DS uses midi music?

 

[dualscreenman]

.strm files basically are midi files. So kinda, but no.

 

[suprneb]

oh wow thats so awesome

 

[test84]

maybe its like .xt, when you have midi AND you have your instruments with it, like chiptunes.
there is another possibility, thats is DS has a very good wave table.

 

[arctic_flame]

Nah, the instruments are included with the files, which is why they sound completely wrong (sometimes the instruments are wrong) if you play them on you soundcard.