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Ookay, I wanted to rip the music from Grandia 3 but had no idea how to do it...
So I learned in a few hours... WHEEE!
HOWTO
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1. Get MFAudio 1.1.
2. Put your Grandia 3 disc (preferably disc 2 with the ending theme - In the Sky (English version) by MIZ)
3. Fire up Isobuster (or your favorite ISO extracting tool)
4. Browse to the MUSIC folder and extract the GR3_STR.STZ to any foler on your HDD.
5. Now on to Part 2...
PART 2 - Avoiding the crash in MFAudio
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If you try and open the STZ file in MFAudio, it will analyse half of the file, then crash! So...
1. Rename the file to GR3_STR.000
2. Open it in MFAudio and set the options as follows...
RAW - Raw Sound data - Compressed ADPCM
Frequency: 24000
Interleave: 800 [stereo separation for L/R audio]
Offset (bytes): 0 [start playing from point 0 in HEX]
Samples: 16 bit (default)
Channels: 2 (default)
Now, you can preview the Grandia 3 music (and cutscene audio no less) from any point in the whole game by changing the offset.
You can also save parts of it in WAV format by setting that as your output format.
In case anyone is wondering, I'm looking for the English version of the song "In the Sky" by MIZ. It should (maybe) be in here... but more than 500MB of audio data is a LOT to search on my own.
So the more the merrier! Get searching folks!
(alternatively, if someone knows of another program that can analyse .STZ files - without crashing, let me know!)
Note that the Interleave value sometimes varies from 800.
It's MOSTLY 800 all the way through the file, but sometimes it's not.
That's all for now!
-=3Dfx still rox!=-
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