Mygoshi, posted Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:40 pm (12363)

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It does that for every game. The quality in the game is good, and when I just PLAY, not CONVERT, just PLAY the data, it's just lower quality. I use Foobar2000, is there some settings that make the player decreases the quality?

id-daemon, posted Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:56 pm (12364)

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Does your sound card or driver has some "game enhanced sound" options? "game mode", or something like this?

id-daemon, posted Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:31 pm (12365)

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Nowadays every player and game has its own idea how audio should sound. PC automatically detects that you're playing a game, and tunes all of its sound enhancers to the roof. Whatever.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:55 am (12371)

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listen to this for example. After adding some reverb, exciter, and treble boost:

http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/j6CLNFte/file.html

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 12:44 pm (12372)

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Can you upload the normal theme?

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 12:51 pm (12373)

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I took it from PS2 rip

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:01 pm (12374)

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But can you upload it please? Just to see if this is the same quality for me.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:04 pm (12375)

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Maybe I don't understand. What do you want me to upload?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:06 pm (12376)

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Just want to see if I have the same quality as your converted file.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:19 pm (12377)

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ok i took the file from here: http://downloads.khinsider.com/game-sou ... -theme.mp3

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:28 pm (12378)

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Thank you.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:39 pm (12380)

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here, i made a decoder for you. So you can see its the same audio as on PS2

the difference with xbox was in nibble order and history use

ima_decoder.rar

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:38 pm (12381)

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Wtf? It works without noise. How did you do it? Awesome. Thank you very much.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:41 pm (12382)

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You know, I can code.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:43 pm (12383)

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Can you make a program like this to extract the .stripped archive with exact names of each file in the archive? They're written, I see, on a Hex Editor? Thanks

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:46 pm (12385)

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Well, now I see what did you mean about difference.

1. Xbox uses xma, its frequency-based codec, so sound has artifacts.
2. PC uses IMA-type ADPCM, that is 1-sample prediction, so sound is a little buzzy or crackling.
3. PS2 used XA-type ADPCM, 2-sample prediction, so sound is smoother.

But this difference is really small.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:55 pm (12386)

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And can you please help me to get original named extracted files please?
(sorry to ask another thing each time)

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:18 pm (12388)

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But you said you got a tool from Activision to do that?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:41 pm (12389)

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I was joking lol.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 6:58 pm (12393)

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Well, after studying the format, I think I can extract them all with names.

But still, do you think PC version is better?

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:26 pm (12394)

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Iirc PS2/Xbox have the best sound quality.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 7:43 pm (12396)

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Then you don't need to extract PC version. Or you need names from PS2? Then give me PS2 files.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:16 pm (12397)

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I'm sorry but I think you'll need to DL the iso, because I can't upload each files, that would be very long you know... I don't have such good connection.

id-daemon, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:20 pm (12398)

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So you need names from PS2? Why? You already ripped all files from there.

Mygoshi, posted Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:26 pm (12399)

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Yes, but I want the original names, that is interesting for me. Basically, I need to name the tracks correctly, because I will release a soundtrack.