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It turns out that PSound, a sound ripper designed for PS1 and PS2 games, found many more sound files in BBS3.DAT than either AA3Get or Majik's Sound Extr, sound rippers specifically designed to extract PSP sounds. Sound Extr, by the way, is more accurate than AA3Get in extracting at3s, and can handle vag files as well. In BBS3.DAT, AA3Get found 385 aa3s, Sound Extr found 784 at3s, and PSound found 1682 WAVs. It appears that the only files it extracted from the four dat files were sound effects that weren't saved as at3 files.
And thus, I still don't know where the battle clips are. I think I've at least pinpointed them to BBS3, though. This is a list of quotes from said clips that I still need to find:
"Join now with your better half!"
"Show me anguish!"
"What's yours is mine!"
"Playtime's over."
"Why?" -Vanitas's last words
"Only now have I truly won."
"Let the darkness die!"
"You have lost!"
"Reload!"
"Farewell!"
"You're done."
"Into sleep you fall, forever!"

yes, it does. it tends to find many repetitions, however. no doubt because some bosses have multiple storylines versions that behave in the same way.

Where are the battle sounds? I can't find them in any of the aa3 or at3 files.
Does anyone know where they are?

you mean SFXs? like a keyblade slash?

No, I mean what they say during gameplay, like "you're done" or "show me anguish".

If you've got the Dissidia modding suite, you can rip all of the at3's using that. I've got some of the voices using that. But I used it on the full iso rather than on the individual files.

I used Sound Extr to rip all the at3 files. They comprise all of the dialogue and music played in the game's cutscenes. But I can't find any of the vocal files during gameplay. The closest I've managed are the dialogue the characters say right after the a tutorial battle, like "I'm in trouble tomorrow". If this modding suite can find more at3 files in Birth by Sleep than the others can, I'll gladly use it.

Looking at the files, the PMFs it extracts are all cut off before they should, it extracts the SSCF files but they are just background noises and such and I don't have anything that can play them, and the AT3 files still look like the same ones.

Does anyone at least know of an older version of JPCSP that extracts ALL the sound files it handles to a tmp folder? I need a way to GET THOSE FILES. Like "Only now have I truly won.", and "Why?", Vanitas's last words. They ALL elude me! I can't find any battle AT3s. Maybe someone can tell me how to read the memory off JPCSP so that I can find the files myself. There must be an answer, but I don't know what. I'm not even sure they're AT3 anymore, since every AT3 extractor hasn't shown to be conclusive.

it's weird. PSound extracts almost all of the battle quotes you want. maybe it works like the KH1 games, where you have to scan the battle model in order to find the quotes?

Devilot wrote:it's weird. PSound extracts almost all of the battle quotes you want. maybe it works like the KH1 games, where you have to scan the battle model in order to find the quotes?

Could you please give me an example of a title of a sound file that has one or more of those battle quotes? It would help me a lot.

gimme a day to return to my PC. send me a PM to remind me.

At this point, I think they're ECM files, which are in the same ARC as many PMOs are, including boss battle Vanitas. The ECM files are probably compressed or encrypted sound files, which is why PSound and ATRAC extractors can't find them.

Could I use a RAM dump to potentially obtain the sounds as they're being sent to the memory?

on that I can't tell. I did not even know of the existance of a program called soundextractor.

Thanks for the info mirrorman

Battle sounds such as "Darkness waits!" or "Show me anguish!" are inside SSCF files (.scd extension). I made a program to rip them from the game easily, the problem is that there is no SSCF player, thus, we can't convert/play them.

Truthkey wrote:Battle sounds such as "Darkness waits!" or "Show me anguish!" are inside SSCF files (.scd extension). I made a program to rip them from the game easily, the problem is that there is no SSCF player, thus, we can't convert/play them.

Is there a link to your SSCF ripper? All I have is the Dissidia Modding Suite, and the SSCF files it rips are larger than the actual files.