.gin and .abk sound formats (Need for Speed mw 2005)(help)

[Zpectre87]

Ahhh, I got it. It means your WAV file has some additional properties that neither my tool, nor SX.EXE can understand.

Please use only 16-bit WAV files with no additional segments.

Weird, I saved it as 16-bit PCM. Will double check, thanks.

EDIT: It keeps crashing... I'm using Audacity, exporting as WAV PCM 16-bit signed.

[zimex25]

I read this topic and I have problem: How use abk_insert ?

[id-daemon]

Weird, I saved it as 16-bit PCM. Will double check, thanks.

EDIT: It keeps crashing... I'm using Audacity, exporting as WAV PCM 16-bit signed.

Send me your WAV file

[zimex25]

@id-daemon2 I have sx.exe and abkins.exe when run abkins.exe nothing work... Maybe I doing wrong few stuff

[id-daemon]

@id-daemon2 I have sx.exe and abkins.exe when run abkins.exe nothing work... Maybe I doing wrong few stuff

How do you run it? Are all parameters correct?

[zimex25]

@id-daemon2 I have sx.exe and abkins.exe when run abkins.exe nothing work... Maybe I doing wrong few stuff

How do you run it? Are all parameters correct?

I don't know what parameters...

[Zpectre87]

Send me your WAV file

In the attachment.

[id-daemon]

Send me your WAV file

In the attachment.

This file works OK at my side.

Run this

sx.exe -raw -eaxa_blk 993_onhighnewsmall.wav -=xa.raw

and tell me the result

[id-daemon]

I don't know what parameters...

Find my post where i explain how to use it. I don't have time for this now.

[zimex25]

It's time to try the first public version of ABK encoder. I played the very first Need for Speed long ago in 1995, when it was all new, then NFS 2,3,4 and Porshe. I'm glad I can do something for the community, hope you'll like it.

Usage:

ABK_insert [ABK file] [wav file] [sample № to replace]

Use it on engine ABKs. Never tested on anything else. Use mono 16-bit files only.

Numbers correspond to those we found before. 1,2 = idle, 3,4 = down throttle so on. Also note that 2000/4000/8000 rpm nominals may not be the same for all cars.

SX.exe must be in the same dir.

You need to run the tool several times to replace sounds you want. Every time it will output a file with additional "m" in the end, so you won't lose the original file. Make batch files if you need.

still do not understand...

[id-daemon]

Run it from command line, with 3 parameters. Example:

ABK_insert CAR_21_ENG_MB_EE.abk new_sound.wav 5

[Zpectre87]

Send me your WAV file

In the attachment.

This file works OK at my side.

Run this

sx.exe -raw -eaxa_blk 993_onhighnewsmall.wav -=xa.raw

and tell me the result

If this doesn't work, I'll do a system restore and try from there. I think there may be something wrong with my system. Weird, though, gin_tools work fine...

EDIT: sx.exe crashed. Which libraries do you need to run sx.exe? I think that's the problem. I'm on Windows 10, that may be another problem too.

[id-daemon]

EDIT: sx.exe crashed. Which libraries do you need to run sx.exe?

How exactly it crashed? As far as I know, it doesn't need any libs.

[Zpectre87]

EDIT: sx.exe crashed. Which libraries do you need to run sx.exe?

How exactly it crashed? As far as I know, it doesn't need any libs.

Gives me that msgbox that it stopped working. No error message in prompt.

Running as admin doesn't work either. Which date is your file? Mine is from 10/2004.

[id-daemon]

sx v3.01.01 (Sound eXchange) Sep 22 2004 by Dave Mercier, EAC

i give up, we're wasting time

[Zpectre87]

I'll do a complete refresh of my system (it's been due). If it STILL doesn't work after that, then I'll give up and see what else I can do.

sx v3.01.01 (Sound eXchange) Sep 22 2004 by Dave Mercier, EAC

i give up, we're wasting time

Mate, you don't have to get angry... The tool (Sound eXchange) simply won't work on Windows 10. That's it.

I ran it on Windows XP and it worked flawlessly. Thanks!

[spider91]

It works well on windows 10

http://puu.sh/n7if7/bcdd9141f8.png

[id-daemon]

Mate, you don't have to get angry...

I was not angry at all, I was sad

[id-daemon]

gin_tools work fine...

It works fine, because it was made by me in 2015 with .net

And that SX.EXE is an Electronic Arts tool made in 2004.

[Zpectre87]

id-daemon2, have you been able to pinpoint which rpm are the game's samples? You said something about 2000, 4000 and 8000, and I'm not exactly sure it's like that, but some sounds seem to obey these criteria despite not reaching such rpm in the game (ID 44 for example, which is 911 GT2 sound).

There are a lot of unknown parameters in attributes.bin relative to sound. I believe those may be the solution to my earlier problem with the ABK files.

It works well on windows 10

http://puu.sh/n7if7/bcdd9141f8.png

Hence why I think my Windows 10 install is missing something, a redist or whatever crap that stops me from running sx.exe.

For now, though, sending files to and from Windows XP is working, so there's that I guess.