Over The Hedge (GC) *.ARC

[Mygoshi]

Hi guys. Since a long time I'm trying to extract the AUDIOSTR.arc file from this game: Over The Hedge. Is there a possibility to extract the musics from this archive?

here's the file: https://mega.co.nz/#!UEZUxSzY!iLPBMVE_3 ... db9bf8TQqM

[aluigi]

http://aluigi.org/papers/bms/others/over_the_hedge.bms

I have added the automatic building of the wav file.
It will not play with the normal players because the codec is not ms adpcm, but the RIFF format should be correct.

[Mygoshi]

Cool, but miss a lot of musics and how do I play these ?

[aluigi]

I don't know how to play them at the moment, probably it's the Nintendo adpcm if the game is for WII or Gamecube.

Regarding the files, they are all there as you can see from the size of the extracted data which is almost the size of the archive.

[Mygoshi]

This file is from the Gamecube. Do you want the PS2 version file?

[aluigi]

Yes, if the script doesn't work with the PS2 version.

[Mygoshi]

Here's the file (180mb): Uploading on mega

[Mygoshi]

AUDIOSTR.ARC (Over The Hedge, PS2, ~180mb, mega.co.nz): https://mega.co.nz/#!ANgByRyJ!QvkJUTbsU ... 7JzOj7FQOU

I think miss IMA ADPCM Header.

[aluigi]

You can try that by yourself, open the wav with a hex editor and replace the byte 0x2 (msadpcm) at offset 0x14 with 0x11 (ima).

[Mygoshi]

This is not a wav. I cant extract the files from the GC and PS2 version.

[Mygoshi]

Done. When I open the new file now I can hear the music.. but I want to convert or play it as IMA ADPCM, not as 8-bit PCM..
I got this: https://mega.co.nz/#!MExiBSSA!f7UTSOwKo ... AKxZSRze_I

[Mygoshi]

I got this: https://mega.co.nz/#!MExiBSSA!f7UTSOwKo ... AKxZSRze_I

I opened the file as raw 8 bit pcm, now I can hear the music.

How to open the file correctly ?

[aluigi]

You hear noise, not music.
It's normal to hear the very noisy original audio when you open adpcm data as raw pcm.
I don't know what's the exact codec used.

[aluigi]

That 180mb file you uploaded is not an archive like the first one.
It seems just raw audio data without headers.

[Miles2345]

I would suggest trying MFAudio if it's raw audio data

[Mygoshi]

I bet not! This is an archive

[aluigi]

There are no information about the contained data.
It's just a sequence of raw audio sounds aligned to 0x800.

Even if it's not the good way, exist a work-around to dump the data in this situations, it's the same work-around I used for some PS games: search the padding bytes (sequences of 0x00).

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math i = 0
get ARC_SIZE asize
for NEXT_OFF = 0 < ARC_SIZE
    padding 0x800
    savepos OFFSET
    for OFFSET = OFFSET < ARC_SIZE
        get DUMMY long
        if DUMMY != 0
            break
        endif
    next OFFSET + 4
    if OFFSET & 0x7ff
        xmath OFFSET "OFFSET & (~0x7ff)"
    endif

    findloc NEXT_OFF string "\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0" 0 ""
    if NEXT_OFF == ""
        math NEXT_OFF = ARC_SIZE
    endif

    xmath SIZE "NEXT_OFF - OFFSET"
    if SIZE > 0
        putarray 0 i OFFSET
        math i += 1
        #log "" OFFSET SIZE
    endif

    goto NEXT_OFF
next

putarray 0 i ARC_SIZE
math FILES = i
    getarray OFFSET 0 0
for i = 1 <= FILES
    getarray NEXT_OFF 0 i
    xmath SIZE "NEXT_OFF - OFFSET"
    log "" OFFSET SIZE
    math OFFSET = NEXT_OFF
next i

[Mygoshi]

I got 67 .dat files (musics extracted from the AUDIOSTR.ARC PS2 VERSION). How to open them correctly xD

[aluigi]

It's raw data and Miles2345 gave you a suggestion. If doesn't work, search for another solution that allows you to read raw data for that specific codec.

[Mygoshi]

Is there a way to convert the .arc archive or raw data into .genh ? If you know HCS64.com, joshw won to extract the musics from the AUDIOSTR.arc from the PS2 version of this game, and there are .genh files.