Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS

Extraction and unpacking of game archives and compression, encryption, obfuscation, decoding of unknown files
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Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS

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I would like please to extract the PSS archives from Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2 version) because I suspect they contain the music.

Samples: (expired)

Thanks!
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Probably encrypted, there is nothing readable inside that file.
Maybe it's a mistake but the name of the file you linked is "c" and not 99_99.pss.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Ah indeed, that must be because the filecutter script didn't work properly and gave a corrupted file, which is the one I shared.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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A bug in the filecutter script (now updated): string VAR = VAR is bad, set VAR string VAR is good :)
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Are other samples needed?
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Oh no no.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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I realized there are other files which could give info about the format
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Could they be of use?
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Try to upload them.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Right, here they are: (expired)
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Definitely not useful :) that's enough for me, maybe someone else is interested.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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It's weird because I remember another thread linked to it that I posted. I searched on the forum and I can't find it...
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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search sux on all the phpbb forums. Better to use google with the site:zenhax.com keyword
Anyway I remember a Ben 10 request many months ago but I can't find it too, probably you used a different title?
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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I will try what you suggested.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Found it, apparently it's about the game "I-Ninja". The format used in this game seems to be close to the one used in this game for these PSS archives.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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In this game it uses an offset that must be multiplied by 0x800 while in Ininja it was already correct.
I added a way to "guess" it, script 0.1.1
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Thank you so much! It's working correctly now :)
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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The music was extracted but I can't figure out the codec used, could you please help me?

Here's the link: (expired)
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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It's VAG raw audio.
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Re: Ben 10: Protector of Earth (PS2) - PSS with music

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Oh... you are right. Except I have a problem with the interleave :/
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