D2k Sardaukar Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Hi,I can't find the soundtrack of Dune 2000, but I did found something with better quality than the game. What do you think: link, sample robotix. -removed-I found the music on Frank's website (the creator of the music) and I just recorded it. :) http://www.frankklepacki.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Oh, actually, you can just rip it from the flash files that download into your browser's cache when you play them from the site. Then you got the original MP3s, without recoding quality loss. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Great idea. I can only get the .fk files. How do I change them?P.s. Do you agree that the quality is better? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 The quality of these files is definitely better than those ingame, yes.the .fk files are actually .swf Flash files. There are tools (like SWF Scanner) to get the MP3 file out of them. I think I already got all the Dune 2000 ones. Not sure.Still, not as good as the soundrack CD :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 The quality of these files is definitely better than those ingame, yes.the .fk files are actually .swf Flash files. There are tools (like SWF Scanner) to get the MP3 file out of them. I think I already got all the Dune 2000 ones. Not sure.Still, not as good as the soundrack CD :PThere is no soundtrack, right? I can't find it...I will see if that SWF scanner works. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted January 6, 2010 Author Share Posted January 6, 2010 Edit, got it working with SWFRIP. Works great! http://sourceforge.net/projects/swfrip/files/swfrip/0.4/swfrip-0.4-install.exe/downloadI'm gonna listen to some nice songs. ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 Ah, no, that official soundtrack CD was of EBfD, not D2k. My bad -_-Ooh, nice find on the open source SWF ripper :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Doesn't the PlayStation version have CD-quality music? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruntlord6 Posted January 8, 2010 Share Posted January 8, 2010 Doesn't the PlayStation version have CD-quality music?The playstation version had crappy audio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D2k Sardaukar Posted January 8, 2010 Author Share Posted January 8, 2010 Is it an idea that I give you the .mp3's gruntlord6 and you put them in your dune 2000 installer so people have better audio? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruntlord6 Posted January 9, 2010 Share Posted January 9, 2010 Is it an idea that I give you the .mp3's gruntlord6 and you put them in your dune 2000 installer so people have better audio? :)sadly the format the game uses reduces audio quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 10, 2010 Share Posted January 10, 2010 Theoretically (according to Hyper) it's perfectly possible to make hi-quality stereo AUD files, but no one ever made an AUD converter that can do that, and I don't know if the game would support it without additional hacks either. But the format itself supports it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruntlord6 Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 Theoretically (according to Hyper) it's perfectly possible to make hi-quality stereo AUD files, but no one ever made an AUD converter that can do that, and I don't know if the game would support it without additional hacks either. But the format itself supports it.I thought AUD files were highly compressed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvi Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 There are two types of .AUD file, one for the SFX, one for the music. These systems are different. The SFX .AUD files are fairly low quality and similar to wav files I believe. I however don't know about the music .AUD files, but would assume they'd be superior at quality Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 The SFX .AUD files are fairly low quality and similar to wav files I believe.Are you talking about the files inside sound.rs (or whatever that file is called), or about the .AUD files with unit speech that just lie in the SFX folder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 15, 2010 Share Posted January 15, 2010 mvi, I'm not talking about any existing AUDs. The music is pretty crappy quality too; that's the whole point of this thread. I'm just talking of what the AUD format itself is theoretically capable of. No such hi-quality stereo auds exist in any of the games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvi Posted January 16, 2010 Share Posted January 16, 2010 Are you talking about the files inside sound.rs (or whatever that file is called), or about the .AUD files with unit speech that just lie in the SFX folder?Well the ones in sounds.rs actually are wav files Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nyerguds Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Well we were actually talking about the Westwood AUD file format... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvi Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Correct, but I didn't bring up the subject of sounds.rs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Well, you said AUD files for SFX, and all SFX is inside sounds.rs (and is in WAV format, as far as I can tell). The AUD files are used for unit speech, but I never noticed them to be any different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvi Posted January 17, 2010 Share Posted January 17, 2010 Well, you said AUD files for SFX, and all SFX is inside sounds.rs (and is in WAV format, as far as I can tell). The AUD files are used for unit speech, but I never noticed them to be any different.It is WAV yeah, they've got RIFF headers, I made an extractor a while back which generated the WAV files from the sounds.rs, although I never released that extractor since I thought no one would want it. Sorry, I thought the AUD files were more SFX not just unit speech Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrFlibble Posted January 19, 2010 Share Posted January 19, 2010 It is WAV yeah, they've got RIFF headers, I made an extractor a while back which generated the WAV files from the sounds.rs, although I never released that extractor since I thought no one would want it.I remember Stefan asked me to extract all the sounds from Dune2000 for his project a while ago. I had to use Dragon UnPacker to do the job with sounds.rs, and as some of the files were incorrectly extracted, I had to fix their headers manually with a hex-editor.So if you still got your extractor, I think it would be nice if you made it public :)Sorry, I thought the AUD files were more SFX not just unit speechUnit speech and vocal announcements, to be precise. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
topos84 Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 Here you can download the WAV2AUD and AUD2WAV converter: http://rapidshare.com/files/338487412/audwav.zip.htmlHere - AUD plugin for WinAmp:http://rapidshare.com/files/338488318/audplay.zip.htmlHere - the program for playback AUD files:http://rapidshare.com/files/338489202/auplay10_32.zip.htmlI believe, all music in AUD format in old Westwood games has crappy sound only because of 8-bit compression. If it had 16 bits it would have CD quality (or almost CD quality in case of 22 KHz sample rate). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruntlord6 Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Here you can download the WAV2AUD and AUD2WAV converter: http://rapidshare.com/files/338487412/audwav.zip.htmlHere - AUD plugin for WinAmp:http://rapidshare.com/files/338488318/audplay.zip.htmlHere - the program for playback AUD files:http://rapidshare.com/files/338489202/auplay10_32.zip.htmlI believe, all music in AUD format in old Westwood games has crappy sound only because of 8-bit compression. If it had 16 bits it would have CD quality (or almost CD quality in case of 22 KHz sample rate).care to test it? if so thats good news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mvi Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 Here you go, just brought the RS extractor up to release quality. This tool could easily be made to load in new waves too.Some release notes:Error handling should be working fully on both loading and saving files, if it throws any fatal exceptions (those are errors which force the entire program to close) please let me know.Only extraction is currently supported. No editing.How to use:Click the open button, then navigate to find your SOUNDS.RS file in the d2krootDataGAMESFX folder and open it.The program will now process this file and display the number of sounds loaded. For an unmodded Dune 2000 installation this will be 57.Now click the extract button, pick a directory to extract to and click ok. The files will now have all extracted. Done :)Download:Two download options:1. Download attached to this post (you must be logged in to see to the link)2. Download from my site hereRSExtractor.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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