Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (PS2)

[Mygoshi]

Hello, seeking help regarding the .mus files from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PS2.

Link: (expired)

Thanks.

[Mygoshi]

Added samples.

[aluigi]

I think this is a thread for the Audio section, correct?

[Mygoshi]

I think the .mus are archive. But I'm not 100% sure.

[aluigi]

Honestly I'm confused.
If MUS is an archive and it can be correctly extracted with my script or other programs, now I think that your problem is with the extracted audio files, right?

[Mygoshi]

The problem is that there are silences/or noises between the tracks, so I have to remove the silent sections.

[aluigi]

One thing you can try is adding some zeroes after each track.
Maybe the decoder wants some padding/alignment between each audio frame.

Another hypothesis may be related to some additional bytes at the end of each track, something like additional information or headers.

The problem related to the "order" of the files is probably caused by the dynamic music that changes depending by the scene.

[Mygoshi]

Yes, but it's pretty hard to work on this.

[Mygoshi]

Here's the result with Awave studio, I opened the original archive (exterior.mus): https://mega.co.nz/#!cAQRQDaK!HhbM8LfwQ ... XdvL_d5qjc

[Mygoshi]

Is there a way to make in order the files and have the original filenames?

[TGE]

Only if there are filenames stored in the file itself.
The files should be ordered from top to bottom though using the index number.

[Mygoshi]

How the PS2 can merge the files without noises between them?

[Mygoshi]

I think I found an index file that can help you, aluigi

Link: https://mega.co.nz/#!BAI01ILT!DxIgS2tJ6 ... K5mXo3mXq8

[aluigi]

It's just a text file without useful information.

[Mygoshi]

But how the PS2 works without noise between the seperated tracks?

[Mygoshi]

Here's the SOUND.BIG bigfile: https://mega.co.nz/#!lAJFUDhC!0T9u_GNno ... 0iwBLQ49C4

[Mygoshi]

Is a "vssever.scc" file would help? And can you get a look at this please?

https://mega.co.nz/#!QAAkmZoS!XGS0pZo6M ... BdvB4P2mZQ

[flo94cody]

I'm glad to see someone is interested by HP2 musics.
There is a thing that I don't understand, you're looking for .asf that are in the .mus archives but what about .asf that aren't in ?
Because I have 2 directories (Gamecube but I suppose it's the same) :
"EA Musics" who contain the .mus files and .mpf/.scc
and "EA Sounds" that contain about 61 .asf that are the files you should be looking for, no ?
I'm not english, sorry if I misunderstand.

[Mygoshi]

.mus are archives of .asf segments in them for EAMusic
EASound contains the amb/sfx and because ambience aren't archives they're directly .asf and .sdt are sounddata but I can't open them from the GC/Xbox version than I can with the PS2

[Cameron007]

I'm going to resurrect this thread, because I'm having some good luck with VG music right now. I tried a script to extract the .mus files, but it didn't work. Is there anything else that can do it?