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Mygoshi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 3:05 pm (1261)

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Hey I'm trying to rip the .rws substreams from Madagascar. I tried and it works with MFAudio but I have all of the songs in one file (cutscenes, intro..) and I would like to seperate them. I tried to scan these files with PSound, ADPCM Player.. but found just 1 file.

Samples: (expired)

Thanks if you can help me.

aluigi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:08 pm (1271)

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No idea.

Mygoshi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:11 pm (1273)

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You can open the RWS files as raw compressed ADPCM, 22050 Hz, 1 channel (Mono) with MFAudio.

aluigi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:36 pm (1276)

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Regarding Renderware RWS I remember only RW Analyze:
http://www.steve-m.com/downloads/tools/rwanalyze/

Mygoshi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:41 pm (1277)

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I tried and it doesn't work :'(

aluigi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:51 pm (1282)

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Unfortunately the RWS files have ever had lack of support.
The first problem is the format that is not just a classical archive, it's a sequence of chunks of data (example http://rwsreader.sourceforge.net/).
The second problem is just the lack of just one format, there are differences between some games and so it's difficult to make "one tool to rule them all".

Another resource is http://oezmen.eu/gameresources/ (bs3.zip)

Mygoshi, posted Mon Oct 27, 2014 4:55 pm (1284)

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I tried to check the GC and Xbox versions and the music uses a different codec.

Mygoshi, posted Wed Dec 03, 2014 9:29 pm (2088)

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Do you think people on hcs could help me?

aluigi, posted Thu Dec 04, 2014 10:10 am (2093)

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Probably yes but it's not us.

All your posts are about:

• raw audio embedded in information-less archives without details about them (samplerate, channels and so on, nothing)
• an archive (rws) that doesn't have a fixed format and the only extractors available are those made for some specific games

It's perfectly normal that you don't receive solutions, because don't exist.
And those work-around that I provided were not enough for you.

Mygoshi, posted Sat Dec 06, 2014 2:36 pm (2115)

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PS2:
Codec: Sony ADPCM
Channels: Mono
Freq: 22050

Gamecube:
Codec: DSP ADPCM
Channels: Mono
Freq: 22050

PC:
Codec: IMA ADPCM
Channels: Mono
Freq: 22050

Xbox:
Codec: PCM
Channels: Mono
Freq: 22050

Mygoshi, posted Tue Dec 30, 2014 11:59 am (2391)

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Edited

Mygoshi, posted Thu Jan 08, 2015 9:45 pm (2582)

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No idea, still?

aluigi, posted Thu Jan 08, 2015 10:09 pm (2583)

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I think that nobody is looking at this thread so it's not necessary to bump everytime or I need to lock it.

Mygoshi, posted Sat Apr 25, 2015 2:22 pm (4809)

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Ok, understood.

SeriousNorbo, posted Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:07 pm (68493)

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If someone is still looking at this thread, Foobar with VGMStream plugin can open PC version RWS.

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:33 am (68578)

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Can you upload some dsp examples? I'd like to see how the header is constructed. Doesn't seem all too difficult to get single streams after some tests with a script I wrote.

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:59 am (68579)

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Uh, why doesn't "padding 0x10" work here when I try to get the file names?



QuickBMS states the names as

Code:

music_outro
tro
_trans2
_trans1
cvolume
rt1
rt2
rt3

AlphaTwentyThree, posted Sat Jan 01, 2022 9:23 am (68582)

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SeriousNorbo wrote:

If someone is still looking at this thread, Foobar with VGMStream plugin can open PC version RWS.

Well, that's now what OP was after - he wanted to extract the substreams from the RWS files - a much harder endeavor...