Hi guys,
after more than 2 years desperately looking for ways how to extract the ISO and get to the actual files, Louigi was that kind, wrote the script and make it happened in a few days!
What we discovered is that there are not exactly files what we expected unfortunately. There is no DDS, PNG...etc or known audio files or any other "game" extensions that I could work with.
Just 2 folders: "0A" and "0B"
I found that "0B" is full of audio, but just as ".dat"
I tried to import those files as raw data in Audiacity. I can hear the game files somehow, but the quality is just very poor. Voices full of distorted noise in wrong speed.
Here are the settings in Audiacity that gives me best results:
edit: Photobucket is not working, so I made a short video with the screens, so please take a look below...
Louigi already suggested that it might be ADPCM codec.
THE VIDEO with screens:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OeTH8SPaGk
I'm looking very forward for all your suggestions guys. Any ideas how to make those files editable is greatly appreciated!
Thank you very much.
PS here's little showcase of the game with new textures and post fx, if is anyone interested:
https://youtu.be/fR1Bzua7Aas
Extracting a disc is quite easy thanks to Dolphin. Dolphin recently added support for extracting GameCube and Wii discs in their proper format (as described here:
https://wit.wiimm.de/info/composing.html). Even before that could Dolphin already extract disc files.
https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/5573 will make GameCube/Wii games loadable in their extracted form (if the directories are set up properly of course). It will take a while (or even longer) for pr-5573 to be finished. Even then there are other tools such as the GameCube ISO Tool or GCRebuilder which might allow for reconstruction, replacement and extraction. But those are GameCube tools, similar tools exists for Wii games.
What of course is harder is extracting the extracted files. Basically every game has a different method for storing and using data. There is no universal tool that can extract files that works with every game. There are tools to do so for New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as far as I am aware, but that isn't exactly fair either since both games are extremely popular for the Wii.
I used to extract discs and remove additional content such as movies and languages all the time since I play my games from a SSD disk (saving bytes matters!). I still keep fully-intact backups for my games on my massive but slow HDD disk through.
If the format is not already known/documented, you'll need to reverse engineer and figure it out on your own, unfortunately. Since you can recognise part of the audio, are you sure it's really a proprietary format and not another audio format?
Hi, thanks for the quick response.
Well ya, I was successful with extraction of the ISO just using the Dolphin.
The problem was that the extracted files were basically 2 big files called A0 and B0.
In these big files all game files were hidden.
Now we finally managed to decompress these 2 big files and have 2 folders with these names (A0 and B0) in which are all needed game files.
The problem is that these files comes without names (just some numbers and letters) and are all with ".dat" extension.
I already discovered that in in B0 folder are all audio data. As I said they are audible as is. Just in very poor quality.
So I think I need some codec, plugin or converter?
I would love to make own sounds, just like with textures and let the game use them. That would be fantastic!
Thanks again
At least for the music, go over to hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php?showthreads and ask about it. Anyway, those two files are likely big archives of some sort; I don't know if it's some sort of middleware or if they made their own proprietary format.
(07-28-2017, 12:17 AM)Admentus Wrote: [ -> ]Extracting a disc is quite easy thanks to Dolphin. Dolphin recently added support for extracting GameCube and Wii discs in their proper format (as described here: https://wit.wiimm.de/info/composing.html). Even before that could Dolphin already extract disc files. https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/pull/5573 will make GameCube/Wii games loadable in their extracted form (if the directories are set up properly of course). It will take a while (or even longer) for pr-5573 to be finished. Even then there are other tools such as the GameCube ISO Tool or GCRebuilder which might allow for reconstruction, replacement and extraction. But those are GameCube tools, similar tools exists for Wii games.
What of course is harder is extracting the extracted files. Basically every game has a different method for storing and using data. There is no universal tool that can extract files that works with every game. There are tools to do so for New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Super Smash Bros. Brawl as far as I am aware, but that isn't exactly fair either since both games are extremely popular for the Wii.
I used to extract discs and remove additional content such as movies and languages all the time since I play my games from a SSD disk (saving bytes matters!). I still keep fully-intact backups for my games on my massive but slow HDD disk through.
Hi Admentus,
are there any tools that allows the reconstruciton for the Wii games?
Thanks!
(08-01-2017, 08:04 PM)djneo Wrote: [ -> ]Hi Admentus,
are there any tools that allows the reconstruciton for the Wii games?
Thanks!
Yeah, same as JosJuice said. Through I am not very familiar with it.