Operation Stealth
Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:31 am
Hi,
Maybe this is more addressed to Kyzer ...
Anyway, I have tried my luck at ripping the musics from the game "Operation Stealth". Spent a couple of hours on it, wrote a file extractor, manually rebuilt a couple of Sound FX 1.3 and ... and, well, the music plays wrong . In fact, the notes are wrong. I checked UnExotica and, guess, it was already ripped . Great, let's see .. hum .. ok, note frequencies are changed. hum .. what ?
I almost gave up, thinking it was a replayer hack which I couldn't handle, when I noticed the comment in the UnExotica page. I checked up the Aminet archive and it appears the notes are "fixed" with the extractor done by Kyzer.
So, if I read correctly, the samples were physically "halved" and the note frequencies were also halved (although realtime for those). Wouldn't it have been possible to "double" the sample data ?
Also, not all sample name without the first letter are available. I don't understand how you can "fix" this. I believe those are not used and could be set as empty in the rebuilt header.
Ah, well, this sounds just like a blog . Anyway, I'll try this on my own and will let you know if something comes out.
Sylvain
Maybe this is more addressed to Kyzer ...
Anyway, I have tried my luck at ripping the musics from the game "Operation Stealth". Spent a couple of hours on it, wrote a file extractor, manually rebuilt a couple of Sound FX 1.3 and ... and, well, the music plays wrong . In fact, the notes are wrong. I checked UnExotica and, guess, it was already ripped . Great, let's see .. hum .. ok, note frequencies are changed. hum .. what ?
I almost gave up, thinking it was a replayer hack which I couldn't handle, when I noticed the comment in the UnExotica page. I checked up the Aminet archive and it appears the notes are "fixed" with the extractor done by Kyzer.
So, if I read correctly, the samples were physically "halved" and the note frequencies were also halved (although realtime for those). Wouldn't it have been possible to "double" the sample data ?
Also, not all sample name without the first letter are available. I don't understand how you can "fix" this. I believe those are not used and could be set as empty in the rebuilt header.
Ah, well, this sounds just like a blog . Anyway, I'll try this on my own and will let you know if something comes out.
Sylvain