ROM Hack Nitro2DLS - new tool for making DLS files from SDAT.

[FAST6191]

Just saw this on the new applications feed on romhacking.net, I will try to get a version up on filetrip at some point but in the meantime it is available on RHDN
http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/915/
SVN for it
https://www.assembla.com/code/nitro2dls/subversion/nodes

It is coded in adobe air so you will need some form of runtime to get it going on ( http://www.adobe.com/products/air.html - available for windows and OSX, linux support was dropped some time back so you might be out of luck there).

DLS is kind of the rough equivalent of SBNK files as it contains mappings and the relevant samples to make tracker/sequence music play. DLS is then one of the more notable formats for doing this and the normal tool that made them was vgmtrans ( http://filetrip.net/nds-downloads/utilities/download-vgmtrans-92909-f27960.html ) which did not make DLS files that played well with openmpt (worked great with Awave Studio though). I have yet to see whether this changes that (and it would be nice as openmpt is far nicer to edit things in).

One readme

Nitro SDAT to DLS converter

This little application converts the instruments from a Nitro Composer archive (known as a "SDAT") into the standardized DLS file format that professional synth software understands.

Known limitations:
* Pulsewave and noise instruments are not converted
* ADSR curves are not converted
* nds files with more than one sdat file will need to be manually unpacked if the first found sdat file is to be converted.
* Sequence specific settings are not converted

Made in 2012 by Henrik "henke37" Andersson.

Remember that instruments and their samples are copyrighted material.

 

[pasc]

Yeah, just what I have been waiting for.

Looking forward to the possible filetrip dld.

 

[FAST6191]

I am genuinely interested to see if it works with openmpt, alas I try to keep all adobe software off my machine and installing their runtime for a bare handful of applications* does not seem like the thing to do (though if I force myself to be objective it is a fairly nice programming language seemingly made by some people with a clue) so I will have to clone a VM and test it out.

Anybody can download from RHDN but filetrip upload as I ended up having a few minutes to spare
http://filetrip.net/nds-downloads/utilities/download-nitro2dls-04-f31312.html

* http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=1 which is a nice counterpoint to http://forum.goldensunhacking.net/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=3 and together are two great little tools for GBA audio ripping as well as a few other things from henke37 (should be on the SVN above if you go up a few directories).

 

[Gericom]

You can always use mkdscm to do it.

 

[K_kip515]

Tried it with a couple of titles and it seems to have extracted them fine. I wasn't expecting it, but it also appears to extract the sound effects.

Unfortunately, since it doesn't rip them with the sequence settings (as noted above), it's of a slightly more limited use than I'd hoped for...

It does not work for some ROMs; returns Error #1009. If I had to guess, it's likely the program trying and failing to interpret the .strm files, as the titles that gave the error have those in their respective .sdat files.
It also won't read ROMs that compress their data like 'Super Robot Wars OG Saga Endless Frontier EXCEED' does.

I suppose I could find more things to test, but this is what I found within about 5 minutes or so of tinkering with it.

 

[FAST6191]

Tried it with a couple of titles and it seems to have extracted them fine.......

Thanks for the extra info, I tend to be more about editing than ripping which means I tend not to get the chance to push these tools all that hard.

Just in case you missed it there is also a new format as of a couple of months back if you are only after rips, it is aimed at a fairly high level emulation (higher than Caitsith2 and snakemeat's stuff) and early reports are it works on a few troublesome games.
http://gbatemp.net/threads/new-ds-sound-rip-format-ncsf-to-succeed-2sf.348902/
http://www.hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=34052&showpage=0