Hi guys. I'm trying to open a .XA file in the game Dance!Dance!Dance!(J) [SLPM-86150]. I tried everything I could find in the Internet (jpsxdec, PSmplay, PSound, pstr, PSX Multi Converter, PSX Hacking Tools, psxplay, psxtulz, psxv120, ReVOLUX, superxa2wav, xa_audio_converter, xa2wav ...) but I simply can`t open, nor play, nor convert the file. I just want, at least, listen the musics. I used CDmage to extract the .XA file from the .bin image and It reported no errors. After this, jpsxec started to inform that the "Disc Image does not have raw headers-audio may not be detected". It report no errors during indexing, but founds no sound! I tried to open the file directly from the .bin image using jpsxdec, but It coudn`t read it well and returned errors. I searched for a player that runs on the PSX too, remembered action replay and gameshark media player feature, but they doesn`t played the .XA file, nothing again... Will I have to edit/add a header to the file to make it playable/convertable? What I do? I already spent a week searching for a solution! I would appreciate a help. Thanks.
Hi. All you need is PSmplay. Right click to open the main menu an choose File / Analyze DAO image and select your disc image (or analyze CD-ROM if you're using a disc). On the next screen, uncheck everything except XA if you don't want to rip other media. Click on Start and save the resulting file. Now right click and choose File / Open Analyze Data and select the file you just have created. Then you have to double click the file you want to open on the selector window. After this, you can play the different songs using the skip button on the main window and also convert them to wave format.
Thanks for the hint, man, although another forum gave me the same answer first a little bit before you. It worked, but only under WinXP SP2. Under Win10 x64, PSMplay hangs when I try to skip forward to the next music. And at least two in-game musics are missing. I've experimented this with Megaman X 5(U), too, where PSMplay didn't play all BGM.XA file musics, and It did only happened with the (pirated) disc; It couldn't open the file from a .bin image, something that confused me and led me to misunderstanding. PSMplay is also producing garbaged/choppy sound in Twisted Metal 4 .STRs, but It only happens during a short stretch in the beginning of the videos. Before this hint, I was trying to open the MASTER.XA file from Dance!Dance!Dance! directly from my hard disk, after having extracted It with CDmage, and I tried to open the same file directly from the .bin image, too.
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s4xuddun896od/dancewavs no other commments there's your Dance Dance Dance music.
