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Hi all

Complete newbie here so I apologise in advance if I make any mistakes or ask really dumb questions...

I'm attempting to rip the audio from this game but am not having any luck so far. I've tried using a piece of software called MFAUDIO but, from what I can tell, I need to enter exact settings for Frequency, Samples, Channels, Interleave + Offset - and it's a matter of guesswork as to what these settings are as they're different for every game...

Does anyone know if there's a giant list somewhere that has all these figures for each game? Or if there's another piece of software I could use that can make the task easier?

Thanks in advance

Use this QuickBMS script to extract the contents of the .ARK archives. The audio all seems to be in the .bd/.hd files, so you can use something like VGMTrans on those to get the proper audio.

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Hi, thanks for the quick reply. Have managed to extract a stack of folders with tons of files in them, including .hd and .bd ones...

Am having a go at converting them with VGMTrans right now. I'm not really sure what I'm doing but, bear with...

Nope, I don't have a clue what I'm doing. Can someone help explain what I need to do in VGMTrans? I can open the .hd and .bd files in it and it's coming up with Sample Collections and Instrument Sets, but I can't see how you convert or export to a different format...

I couldn't get VGMTrans to work properly either, so I've done this script to extract them instead. It works on the few HD/BD files I've tested, so should work for any others. Use the HD file as the input for the script.

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Thanks!

Ok...... I've now extracted a huge number of .VAG files from the .HD files - and have converted a few to WAV files. But, they just sound like individual loops, beats, etc - not actual songs. Do I need to run them through something else to put the songs together or something?

(again, please forgive my ignorance, this isn't something I usually do...)

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Still stuck on this, any further advice gratefully appreciated.

Maybe you can try ask around in HCS forum: https://hcs64.com/mboard/forum.php. Give them the sample files too don't forget (the BD and HD as well the MIDI files).

Will give it a go, thanks.