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Promithius

Apr 23 2009, 05:40 AM

How does one extract video game sounds from PC games?
In older games there used to be a "sounds" folder or something like it but now as games become more complex manufactures are using some sort of compression.

Does anyone have a detailed method that works for them as to how to do this?

The game I'm looking at right now is Battle for Middle Earth II.

Thanks all.

Clayman

Apr 24 2009, 07:45 AM

QUOTE(Promithius @ Apr 23 2009, 06:40 AM)

You usually need a so called "extractor", which is a small tool that can handle the sound file format of certain game. Since almost every game uses different schemes of storing its data, there's no such thing like a general approach to extracting sounds and other files from games.

Your best bet is to search google in a way such as "<game name> <file format> extractor" and the like. Chances are you may come across an extractor. If you're skilled at reverse-engineering, you may lend a helping hand to people over at

CODE

http://forum.xentax.com

HTH

MartinezZ

May 2 2009, 01:08 PM

@Clayman - Thank you for Xentax forum link

@Promithius - look at Xentax forum, "more heads, more knows"

(translate czech proverb, maybe little wrong translated

)

OR use

Extractor 2.5

CODE

http://www.volny.cz/nova-software/extractor/index.html

Download

CODE

http://www.volny.cz/nova-software/download.htm

Game Audio Player

Mostly for older games, somewhere are, maybe, modules for new games (i dont't know...)

Download

CODE

http://sharebee.com/a7fc09de

Modules for GAP

CODE

http://sharebee.com/d62354a3

http://sharebee.com/5b3119ab

http://sharebee.com/9f11aa4b

Game Extractor

Info & Download

CODE

http://www.watto.org/extract/info.html

MultiEx Commander

- info on Xentax forum

RAD Game Video Tools

Playing, convert and extract music (and others) from BIK and SMK files (mostly movies and intros in games)

Download

CODE

http://www.radgametools.com/bnkdown.htm

SpellForce unPAKer

Extract music from SpellForce

Download

CODE

http://sharebee.com/aa72679b

Two.Worlds_xwb2wav

Extract music from XWB to WAV

Download

CODE

http://sharebee.com/5e4218c1

UT3 OGGExtract

Download

CODE

http://sharebee.com/ed6bea78

Mafia DataXtractor

For Mafia 1, ofcourse

Download

CODE

http://sharebee.com/f93b80cf

etc, etc, etc... for more info look on Xenas or Google

Every day is out some game, mostly with own music in own packed files...

LamboReborn

Jul 14 2009, 05:01 PM

i learned something new out of this topic..thanks for info..

Promithius

Oct 19 2009, 02:34 AM

Thanks so much for all this help and all the links to the tools.
You guys are awesome!!!

Nikopol

Oct 19 2009, 01:44 PM

Originally posted by Promithius

QUOTE

Thanks so much for all this help and all the links to the tools.
You guys are awesome!!!

Indeed!

RadeonX1950

Oct 19 2009, 09:06 PM

I use Dragon UnPacker

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