How do I rip music from games?

I’ve heard about game rips, and I wanted to learn how I can rip music from games.

I’n no expert on this subject at all, but from what I’ve found it really depends on the game. Some games just have the .mp3s or .oggs in a folder unarchived, however most games will keep the music with an archive which you have to find a program or some way to extract the songs. Example:
Any Source based game keeps the game data within .gcf files. In order to open up and view the contents of these files I use a little program called Gcfscape. It not only opens up the gcf file but also allows you to extract the music from them. Again I’m not an expert so I’m sure there are much better and easier ways to do this, but I just do what I know best.

If any of the games are ADX format supported (you can tell by the back cover of the game) download the program called ‘adxutil’ off the internet by a yahoo search or something, hope that helps

And with such programs your PC is able to "read" gamediscs?
Or how does this work?

Simple, take a PS2 disc for example, if its ADX audio formated (You can tell by the back cover or when the game loads in the beginning). Download the program ‘ADXUtil’ from this website http://www.geocities.com/sakura_br/

Now heres the steps

1. Insert PS2 game disc into the dvd/compact disc drive (the very top cd-drive in your computer harddrive. DO NOT put it into the CD-Burner drive if you have one or else you will slow your computer down)

2. Launch the ADXutil program

3. Use the ‘open archive’ feature under the files tab in the program, go to ‘my computer’ and click on where the disc drive your ps2 disc is in (either E:, F: or G: I forget)

4. Search for the sound files in the cd, find the file that has ADX and click on it

5. Let ADXutil load all the sound files, now you will have to painstakingly search your desired music under all those unnamed sound files and bits.

6. Go to the Commands tab and click ‘Extract to folder’ to extract your song

Now if you want higher quality or want to convert the song from WAV to MP3, find the LAME.dll off the internet and extract it to the same folder where the ADXutil program is, go to the files tab in ADXutil and click on ‘Batch encoder/decoder’ to convert the songs. Dont forget to go to settings and set the convertings from MP3/WAV.

If you want more simple help, just read the website that lets you download ADXutil in the above link 😉

Ok, thanks 🙂

@mugen02: Thank you for the good tutorial, but i don�t get the "higher quality "-part. With this >Lame.dll< i can convert adxfiles to mp3 right? But do i need it when i rip the music, so that it can enhance the soundquality, or what did you mean? http://www.smileygarden.de/smilie/Fragend/17.gif (http://www.smileygarden.de)

@mugen02: Thank you for the good tutorial, but i don�t get the "higher quality "-part. With this >Lame.dll< i can convert adxfiles to mp3 right? But do i need it when i rip the music, so that it can enhance the soundquality, or what did you mean? http://www.smileygarden.de/smilie/Fragend/17.gif (http://www.smileygarden.de)

Nah, ADX to WAV will be lossless. So ADX to MP3 will have the same quality as WAV to MP3. But WAV is just a lot easier to work with.

Hmm, ok thanks.
I�ll give it a try when time allows.

If you want to convert ADX/WAV to MP3 though, download the lame_enc.dll off this website http://www.dll-files.com/dllindex/dll-files.shtml?lame_enc

Then extract it to the same folder where ADXutil is, got under the file tab in ADXutil, go to the settings menu and set the output format for ADX stream to L.A.M.E MP3 (CBR/VBR). Now you can convert all sound bits and songs into the MP3 format!

Now if you want higher quality, in the same settings menu go to MP3 output and set the desired quality (normally its already under the best quality so dont need to change that)

hope that helps

audacity is the best.

excuse me fer reviving but @Mugen02 i’m gettin a little sideracked here.
what if most games don’t support the ADX music format? is it still possible to get a crispy rip outta those?

And this may not be the right place to ask, but do you know how to rip video from games?

And what about games that are not on a disc? Like Nintendo 64 games? How do you rip those?

digimon world 1 has a few files in VHB 🙁

i wanna listen to its music!

Connect the audio of what you want to record to the input hole (the blue one) on your soundboard and record. That’s it.

For PC games I use this:
N�23 Recorder (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fno23.de%2Fno23web%2FMP3_O GG_Aufnahme_Player_Download.aspx&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)

audacity is the best.

It is bad because it mixes the volume of the left and right side together and you have no stereo sound.

Connect the audio of what you want to record to the input hole (the blue one) on your soundboard and record. That’s it.

Are you saying that the red or white audio cords from the AV cable on the 64 will connect with the computer that way?

digimon world 1 has a few files in VHB 🙁

i wanna listen to its music!

Yeah, I have no idea how to get them to work. If anyone wants a challenge, here are the .VHB files:

http://www.mediafire.com/?9dtljg2x3mx

For PC games I use this:
N�23 Recorder (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fno23.de%2Fno23web%2FMP3_O GG_Aufnahme_Player_Download.aspx&langpair=de%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools)

Originally Posted by Music_Lord View Post
audacity is the best.

It is bad because it mixes the volume of the left and right side together and you have no stereo sound.

Errr… you did put it on stereo, did ya? Well, I haven’t worked with it much myself, but it seemed fine.

Are you saying that the red or white audio cords from the AV cable on the 64 will connect with the computer that way?

Well, not directly. Those are 2 plugs. Only when you have both of them you’ll have stereo. So you need to put a block between them to convert them to a stereo jack. It costs like one buck. But just jamming one of those in your PC *might* also work. Definitely not recommended, though.

Also, for anyone who wants to rip music from PC games, recording it in real time is not the answer. It’s so much easier to just browse through the files and extract all the archives to find the music.

Errr… you did put it on stereo, did ya? Well, I haven’t worked with it much myself, but it seemed fine.

It puts it automatically into stereo. 😉

What program would I use to rip from Xbox 360 games?

"1. Insert PS2 game disc into the dvd/compact disc drive (the very top cd-drive in your computer harddrive. DO NOT put it into the CD-Burner drive if you have one or else you will slow your computer down)

2. Launch the ADXutil program

3. Use the ‘open archive’ feature under the files tab in the program, go to ‘my computer’ and click on where the disc drive your ps2 disc is in (either E:, F: or G: I forget)"

Hey, i doesn’t find anything in it..i’ve tried 3 different games and it’s always the same thing.
I cannot find a single audio file!

You can use Bgm 2 Wav to rip music , but it runs in CMD , thats how I got my AC2 AA games from , it’s a good program .

Are you saying that the red or white audio cords from the AV cable on the 64 will connect with the computer that way?

You’ll of course need something like this:

http://i1.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/aa/bb/c2ff_1_bol.JPG

Just a quick question, has anyone tried this program with Nintendo Gamecube discs yet? I’d like to try extracting the music from Wario World, but I wanna make sure it could work first.

"Bgm 2 Wav"
i’ll try that right away.

Any program that rips directly in mp3?

Anyone know how to rip music from XBox game discs?

Just a quick question, has anyone tried this program with Nintendo Gamecube discs yet? I’d like to try extracting the music from Wario World, but I wanna make sure it could work first.

A gamerip for that game has already been made. It’s pretty good actually.

If you would like this gamerip, PM me. (Unless other here are interested, but it would throw off the overall subject matter of this topic.)

What do you do or what program do you use to extract music from an ARK file?

by the way i tried to download No23 player and it doesn’t work. using DownthemAll (Download Manager for Mozilla Firefox)

What About Wonderswan Games (If there is a way to rip game music from them

How about a .XH or .XA file? The music file on the cd is listed as "MUSIC.XH" and "MUSIC.XA".

How about a .XH or .XA file? The music file on the cd is listed as "MUSIC.XH" and "MUSIC.XA".

I believe you need to use CDmage & VGMtoolbox (for XA, I don’t know about XH). Is it from a PS1 image/ISO?

I tried to download VGMtoolbox and when I extracted the file I opened the folder and there didn’t seem to be anything in there except a bunch of folders that did not contain anything useful. I extracted everything I could find in the folder and there wasn’t anything in there either. I don’t know why someone would put up a download for a program on a website if the program is not in the download. Perhaps I am overlooking something? I’ll admit I am very new to this. I had no problems with downloading a program called Game Extractor but I don’t know how to use it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Also I am using a Mac so that may complicate things.

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Sorry I did not answer your question. It is from Jet Moto 3, a PS1 game. I don’t know what an image/ISO is.

I tried to download VGMtoolbox and when I extracted the file I opened the folder and there didn’t seem to be anything in there except a bunch of folders that did not contain anything useful. I extracted everything I could find in the folder and there wasn’t anything in there either. I don’t know why someone would put up a download for a program on a website if the program is not in the download. Perhaps I am overlooking something? I’ll admit I am very new to this. I had no problems with downloading a program called Game Extractor but I don’t know how to use it. Any tips would be greatly appreciated.

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Also I am using a Mac so that may complicate things.

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Sorry I did not answer your question. It is from Jet Moto 3, a PS1 game. I don’t know what an image/ISO is.

I’ve no idea about how things work on a MAC. What you could do is upload the files you have from that game to MEGA and I can take a look with VGMToolbox.

And this is a image/ISO: Disk image – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_image) 😉

I’m not sure I can even upload them. I tried to drag the files from the cd to my desktop and it gave me an error message. I tried this with both a PC and a Mac and the same thing happened with slightly different error messages.

I’m not sure I can even upload them. I tried to drag the files from the cd to my desktop and it gave me an error message. I tried this with both a PC and a Mac and the same thing happened with slightly different error messages.

I have found the PSF files from Jet Moto 3, which should contain all the music. Or are you looking for anything specific not found in the PSF set?

EDIT: Nope, thought they were PSF’s but they are separate XA files, so I think this is what you’re looking for. I’ll upload it in a bit. Should I convert them to FLAC or MP3? (BTW..it’s not a lot of music, only 13 files)

Yeah it is from an image/ISO. I can’t get the correct file to upload but I was successful with other files.

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O yes thank you! Umm Flac is probably better. Thanks.

Hey, were you going to post it? I actually found it on youtube but there are a couple tracks missing. (ugh!) So yeah I guess I’ll settle for the tracks I ripped there but I’d really like to have the whole thing.

Hey, were you going to post it? I actually found it on youtube but there are a couple tracks missing. (ugh!) So yeah I guess I’ll settle for the tracks I ripped there but I’d really like to have the whole thing.

Don’t settle with some downgraded Youtube quality tracks! They’ve probably been compressed several times! 😉

Here’s the link I promised:

Link = https://mega.co.nz/#!1MkjVLgL!QC6tUC8KQSa2mHWD_atbKkb-i72t63jAg2w7Il1A8Yw
Password = PCP&L

Thanks for posting this. Sorry I’ve been busy for a while and haven’t had time to reply.

Anyone know any good software for extracting files from a .bnk or a .upk file? I’ve tried googling it, but nothing helpful seems to come up… (I’m trying to extract the music from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock (Steam version))

Anyone know any good software for extracting files from a .bnk or a .upk file? I’ve tried googling it, but nothing helpful seems to come up… (I’m trying to extract the music from Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock (Steam version))

From what I notice when googling these type of files they could probably contain .ogg files. Have you tried oggextract yet?
http://moriya.ca/oggextract/oggextract.zip

Just drop those files into the exe file and it should create a output folder. From what I’ve read you should have the ogg vorbis codec installed on your PC for it to work….I’m not sure. Haven’t tried all of this myself since I don’t have any .upk or .bnk files to try it out.

From what I notice when googling these type of files they could probably contain .ogg files. Have you tried oggextract yet?
http://moriya.ca/oggextract/oggextract.zip

Just drop those files into the exe file and it should create a output folder. From what I’ve read you should have the ogg vorbis codec installed on your PC for it to work….I’m not sure. Haven’t tried all of this myself since I don’t have any .upk or .bnk files to try it out.

Thanks for that suggestion, but it doesn’t seem to have worked… If I were to upload the files, would be willing to see if you could extract the music? I’ve tried a few things, and well, I managed to get the .upk file down to a bunch of random files with extensions that I’ve never heard of, using a method I found on another site, but still, I have yet been unable to successfully extract the music.

If I were to upload the files, would be willing to see if you could extract the music?

Sure, no problem!

Sure, no problem!

Thanks. Here are the files (https://mega.co.nz/#F!kQQTHRhI!6QOJSQ1whs9vw8IobfxY9g).

Thanks. Here are the files (https://mega.co.nz/#F!kQQTHRhI!6QOJSQ1whs9vw8IobfxY9g).

Those are some extremely small files. I doubt they contain any music. Or is it 8-bit chipmusic or similar?

Those are some extremely small files. I doubt they contain any music. Or is it 8-bit chipmusic or similar?

Well, those are the only files that look as-though they might contain music, this (https://mega.co.nz/#!lBhB3bwA!oOgfDYVplVoHGN4nBX2lKqK20mZYv5uQlc1okSe BVEo) was located with those files, it seems to indicate that those are the contents of one of the files.

Well, those are the only files that look as-though they might contain music, this (https://mega.co.nz/#!lBhB3bwA!oOgfDYVplVoHGN4nBX2lKqK20mZYv5uQlc1okSe BVEo) was located with those files, it seems to indicate that those are the contents of one of the files.

Since I knew those files couldn’t be the music, I downloaded and installed the game myself. I actually found and converted all the music (and ambience/SFX).

Like I though….the music files are ogg vorbis files, which you can play with Foobar2000 (and many other mediaplayers) and can be converted to WAV or FLAC (I wouldn’t recommend MP3 since you’ll be going from a lossy source to another (worse) lossy source).

I’ll be uploading the music later on, since it’s getting late. I’ll be back with a downloadlink tomorrow!

Since I knew those files couldn’t be the music, I downloaded and installed the game myself. I actually found and converted all the music (and ambience/SFX).

Like I though….the music files are ogg vorbis files, which you can play with Foobar2000 (and many other mediaplayers) and can be converted to WAV or FLAC (I wouldn’t recommend MP3 since you’ll be going from a lossy source to another (worse) lossy source).

I’ll be uploading the music later on, since it’s getting late. I’ll be back with a downloadlink tomorrow!

THANK YOU! Could you please convert the music to FLAC? (Where was the music actually located?)

Alrighty! Here we go:

Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock

FLAC
Link = https://mega.co.nz/#!8VthlLoJ!lVoMrToIC3pZ3cWJ58IbRD8nn1bMu2A9PdJVsAm XaBQ

OGG VORBIS
Link = https://mega.co.nz/#!cM0QgC7b!3gwXQQzey0Z4DQu19I-biQs63QvBIef8UX6CqljBLMs

Password for both = MattSMith

All the .wem files in the program files were audio files.