Dreamcast game music - Help for a newbie

[Ghaleon]

This will likely be my first post of many, as I'm just now dipping my toes into these waters.

My question is simple: I want to copy Dreamcast game music onto a CD. I've got the PC and a R/W drive, but I after spending some time digging through the site confess to being completely over my head. HELP!

To be clear, these are copys of original games I purchased, and the music will be for my own use.

Thanks to all.

[deskline]

when the games are selfboot(cdi) is hard to rip or its no way to rip!!!!just put the dc in your soundcard(auido in) and grab the sound there are many tools to rip(grap) sound....but your soundcard must can di this

[faragao]

first of all: keep this address in mind
http://go.to/selfboot

this is the best place i´ve ever found about dreamcast tools, if you really want to learn how to mess up with your dreamcast games, try to spend some time there...

well, I have played a lot with my dreamcast games, and I must confess, in the beginning it was kind of a pain, but now after a overhead of information-seeking in this site, I think I can help ya... first of all, you must know which kind of music system your game (or games) use to store their music tracks... let´s try to explain:

some dreamcast games store music in an audio track at the same way ordinary music cd do... those games are called CD-DA games, just because they have one track for CD-DA audio (the audio track), and another one (the data track) for the game files... to find if your game is a CD-DA game, try to put your dreamcast game cd in an ordinary AUDIO CD PLAYER... if you can hear the music, that means you have a CD-DA game.... in this case, you should use a program to extract your CD-DA files and convert them to .WAV files, so you can burn them using a proper burner, like NERO (ftp://137.226.161.137/pub/mirror/ftp.ahead.de/nero50.exe)... I´m not sure, but I guess CDRWIN (ftp://ftp.cdarchive.com/pub/goldenhawk/download/cdr40a-e.exe) can extract CD-DA tracks and convert them (but again I´m not sure, if it doesn´t work you should try one of the following tools:

Exact Audio Copy
http://studserver.uni-dortmund.de/~su0165/eac09pb7.zip

CD2WAV32
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~maid/fsw/cd2wav32_r316.zip

if your ordinary AUDIO PLAYER cannot play your music, that means your game has the music stored in files, inside the data track... in this case, you must put your dreamcast game cd in your CD-ROM drive, and access the CD folder to list all the files inside your game CD...

dreamcast use audio-compression formats to store the game music in files, and it depends a lot on the game... most common formats are:

adx - tony hawk pro skater, sonic series, crazy taxi 2, and the imense majority of dreamcast games (which are not CD-DA)... try to search for any .adx file in your cd folder, where your game files are located, including all the subfolders... if you find .adx files, that means your game music are inside them... the best way to convert .adx files in .wav files (to burn the .wav files in an audio CD) is using the program

CinePack ADX Player Converter
http://home.interlink.or.jp/~lcm/tools/cp100b26.lzh
(too bad it´s in japanese, but it´s very easy to use, I don´t think it´ll be a pain cause I don´t know a work of japanese and I can handle it without problem, it´s just a matter of common sense and guessing...)

afs - i.e. virtua tennis, crazy taxy 1, etc... afs is a kind of ZIP file, where all the .ADX files are store together, it´s called file system... you must first extract the afs content to access the .ADX files, then you should use the CinePack ADX to convert the ADX files to .WAV files

to access the afs content, try one of the following tools:

afslnk
http://server2045.virtualave.net/shareware2/dl/afslnk.zip

AFS Extractor
http://www5.airnet.ne.jp/########/soft/afs_extractor_003.zip

after that, you´ll probably have you .WAV files ready to be burned in an audio session CD...

I hope this information will be useful... any problem, drop me a line

[email protected]

see ya...

[Ghaleon]

faragao, thanks a ton. I'll let ya'll know how things go.

Later.

[Ghaleon]

Okay, I clearly am in over my head. I now have the understanding that I need to obtain copies of games in order to get the music. Is this correct? Is there any way for me to copy music from my original GD-ROMs at home? Please, any help from you guys would be appreciated.

[32_Pistoleta]

This question is as old as the world: I think everybody has answered this question at list 10 times so here is the answer:

You CAN'T read GD-ROM discs by any CD/DVD ROMS. The only way to rip it, is to use DC2PC cable and some ripping tools, so don't bother yourself with this, just download needed copies of the games and enjoy...

[third strike master]

ive got a question. i wanna remove my adx files and replace them with audio files from cds. how do i do this. ive even tried replacind the adx files from mvc2 with the audio files from sf3s and it wont burn properly probably cause im using easy cd creator. i tried disc juggler but it sucks. i got clone cd though but it dosent give too many options. whats the best way to exchange adx files between games and to convert normal audio files into adx