ROM Hack [Question] How do you rip sounds from a DS Game?

[MuscleMuscleHust]

Not music. just sounds.

 

[Mikemk]

Every game will use a different format, you have to reverse engineer it.

Also, this is not a tutorial

 

[evandixon]

Depends on the game.

 

[Dr.Hacknik]

Sounds (In most DS Games) are heavily compressed 128k Audio Files. They're in some weird Format, not sure how to Convert em', but it's easy to grab them from a .NDS or .BIN.

 

[MuscleMuscleHust]

Im using Ni no Kuni DS

 

[yuyuyup]

https://plus.google.com/108424999584396080405/posts/hyKHpjtHZFY

 

[MuscleMuscleHust]

https://plus.google.com/108424999584396080405/posts/hyKHpjtHZFY

I tried using that, but it seems to close whenever I drag and drop it. I think it failed to open because there wasnt any dumps in the folder.

 

[yuyuyup]

I tried using that, but it seems to close whenever I drag and drop it. I think it failed to open because there wasnt any dumps in the folder.

MikeMK UniqueGeek and Dr. Hacknick are right some games are built differently, I'll look into how to non-compatible titles at some point. But if that program works, it will put the folder of sounds in a new folder in your rom folder.

 

[FAST6191]

Most DS games use the SDAT sound format, said format containing 3 sub formats that cover the main styles of computer based music
SSEQ (along with sbnk for the sample bank) is a midi/sequencer/tracker formats.
SWAV Small wave files seen in sound clips
STRM Larger wave files that contain full songs.

There are other formats, however they are very rare (ignoring region dupes I might still be able to count games/franchises on my fingers) and I tried to document all I know of in http://gbatemp.net/threads/the-various-audio-formats-of-the-ds.305167/
Most of the time the other formats are well known or fairly close to the hardware/wave files.

Three main methods of ripping SDAT.
Old methods.
SSEQ2midi (various versions), ndssndext, crystaltile2 and so forth. Linked in various threads or just a search away. Some games will sound good, others less so. Things like crystaltile2, tinke and possibly mkds course modifier have some good stuff.

VGMtrans.
Able to make midi files and rip sbnk files to DLS (another sound bank format more common on the PC). This means you can make things sound pretty much like they would on the DS where the old methods above certainly have their uses but are not going to be exact.
https://github.com/vgmtrans/vgmtrans/releases for the newer stuff, older stuff exists elsewhere and might work if this has some unexpected bugs.

rip 2sf files with whatever, most using VGMtoolbox ( https://sourceforge.net/projects/vgmtoolbox/ and https://www.hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthread=22580 . You sort of emulate the format back on PC so you will need the 2sf playback plugins to go with them and they will only work with things like foobar. http://www.zophar.net/utilities/2sf/vio2sf.html
I am not sure how hard it is to get the extra plugins/rip kit that snakemeat and caitsith2 have for ripping 2sf files right now.

Alternative. If you want to play them back on the DS then maybe have a look at http://gbatemp.net/threads/nds-music-player.306997/

 

[Kurausukun]

Don't use 2SF, use NCSF.

 

[FAST6191]

Probably should have mentioned that. I have never quite got the need for it and though the vio2sf stuff is not without accuracy issues, though I have not tried the newer versions which supposedly sort many of those, the ncsf stuff I saw was worse for no great gain from where I sit.

That said it is another method and will more or less allow you to play back DS SDAT format music on a PC or something.

 

[Kurausukun]

It's a lot faster, for one thing. Accuracy is at least the same as 2sf, but I've run into one case where ncsf worked better.