Dreamcast Game Sound File Extraction: How? - The House of The Dead 2

The House of The Dead 2 on the Dreamcast has some pretty funny SFX sounds.

Zombies dying, people screaming in gorifying agony etc... Brilliant stuff :encouragement:

I'd like to know how i can extract them from the DC discs. This one game in particular... I have accessed the disc and copied over the files from an ISO. I have extracted various ADX and AFS files etc... Played a few of the ADX files with VLC.

I have yet to locate the SFX files i'm after however. I have played hundreds of audio clips of people screaming and various pronunciations of "NOOOOO! Don't come!" (Hilarious). But i cannot locate the stuff like crates smashing, zombie moans etc... I am looking for the Chainsaw SFX file in particular (for the PC version has a, for want of a better definition, 'faulty' chainsaw SFX file). I'd like to replace it with the DC file.

I have looked high and low to no avail. Where the hell are they? And to clarify, i am a layman when it comes to ripping DC audio.

 

There was a few games that used the ADX format, which can be converted to mp3/wave from memory, not sure if this game was one of them

 

This is one of those titles methinks. Loads of files with the ADX suffix.

The filing system is what i can't understand. I am 99% sure i have looked into every nook and cranny (but obviously they have to be here somewhere, the files i can't find).

I am using a program called Puyo Tools to extract from the AFS files. But when i do, i am most times left with a half dozen files without a type.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Thanks btw

 

Use a clean gdi dump. Rips found online are often "afs-shrinked" which breaks the filenames when extracting with the tools we hve, but the DC handle it well for some reason.

This way you should get the right filenames, hopefully with the extension.

Another thing you could do is the check the first few bytes of each files, this header depends on the file type, you should be able to identify adx files this way, look up a known adx for reference, I don't remember the ADX header but I think it's "ADX*" where * is anything.

 

Ok cool. Thanks for the quick reply

I have ISO Buster and, what i think is, a clean GDI dump. Gonna do some tinkering.

I have:
- House of the Dead 2, The v1.000 (1999)(Sega)(PAL)[!].gdi - 1kb
- track1.bin - 1,034kb
- track2.raw - 13,667kb (I now know this is the "Dreamcast Disc" warning message. Played on Audacity)
- track3.bin - 1,157,970kb

 

Maybe AFSExtractor will do the job for you (Extract AFS, only auto-detected formats are ADX, AHX and PVR)
This is from redump in the tools section
http://vigi.dremora.com/dctools.rar

 

To extract the data from it, I suggest you use my selfboot pack or my gdi2data script. The link is in my signature, there's a script to extract gdi automatically.

Then the resulting afs should be readable with any good afs extractor/parser.

Cheers!

 

I'll give it a shot and post my results. Thanks! :smile-new: