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JackKrowell, posted Sun Jan 26, 2020 4:06 am (53510)

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I need some advice on what program I need, or just how exactly to open/extract the .bnk file of a PS2 game. The game I'm talking about is Twisted Metal:Black, and I'm really wanting the soundtrack files for the games main menu theme.

I really need all the support anyone can lend me.

Here's a shareable link for the folder containing the .bnk files of Twisted Metal:Black for the PS2 (I'm mostly interested in the files SHELLMUS.BNK and SHELLSFX.BNK, as I believe one of those 2 contain the main menu theme for the game):

https://drive.google.com/open?id=183ates55doEiEsft52Nowf8rqJKD8LUk

JackKrowell, posted Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:56 pm (53531)

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Please, anybody, just help me out some?

BloodRaynare, posted Mon Jan 27, 2020 1:36 am (53532)

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It was similar format to the Jak and Daxter ones: https://forum.xentax.com/viewtopic.php?t=12966 (Albeit, with different extensions).

The problem with this format was it's only consist of soundfonts (and sometimes, include some sort of MIDI files). Even if you able to extract the soundfonts using PSound, you still need to convert the MIDI files to something that's readable on your OS and using those soundfonts to make it into a music. And those are beyond to what I can do unfortunately.

JackKrowell, posted Mon Jan 27, 2020 3:42 am (53533)

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O.K. then, well thanks for the advice, I appreciate your help anyway.

JackKrowell, posted Wed Jan 29, 2020 10:23 pm (53595)

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Could anybody else on this this site please help me out here, is there any tool/software someone can provide for me to extract the .bnk files of the PS2 version of Twisted Metal:Black?

BloodRaynare, I know you already gave me all the advise you had, but I'm talking about all of anybody else on ZenHax could please, give me an answer here?.

JackKrowell, posted Sat Feb 29, 2020 10:11 pm (54341)

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Say BloodRaynare, could at least tell me where I could find these Midi files to convert. Where do I find Midi within a PS2 Game, such as Twisted Metal: Black. The only clue to such files is some other file known by the name:

989SND.IRX

Could anyone help me out here please.

aluigi, posted Sat Mar 21, 2020 1:38 pm (54869)

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For those BNK files you can use this script:

Code:

get DUMMY long  # 1
get FILES long
for i = 0 < FILES
    get OFFSET long
    get SIZE long
    log "" OFFSET SIZE
next i

JackKrowell, posted Mon Mar 23, 2020 5:47 pm (54994)

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When I used the script on the SHELLMUS.BNK file, it just extracted 3 files of different formats. One being ".sbv", another one being ".dat", and the last one being ".sdb". What do I do now?

aluigi, posted Tue Mar 24, 2020 10:24 am (55035)

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I just made a script that works also with these files, open sbv and it will do everything:
http://aluigi.org/bms/twisted_metal_bnk.bms

The data is raw playstation adpcm without any header.
The script can be definitely improved but maybe that's enough at the moment.