Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition bnk files

[Xehanort88]

With ME3 tools I was finally able to get the elusive ME2 sound bank out, however wwiser doesn't seem able to make any use of them, or to generate the files even if put with the files as extracted (attached too). mus_endgm2_combat_3b_wav.zip

Default__WwiseBank.zip

Not sure if this is due to lack of overlapping transitions, which has been "coming" for like 3 years now, or due to something else. Happy to provide more files and screenshots.

[bnnm]

When you load banks there is a log that tells you what wwiser is doing and what doesn't like. It's saying that some of those bnk are not a Wwise bank.

If you open those banks with a hex editor, and remove all data before BKHD they should work. But consider checking why your bank extractor didn't get proper bnk as it may cause issues down the road or something.

[Xehanort88]

AFAIK it's the only tool available for the legendary edition that can work as ME2 non legendary somehow predates wwise , in any case I'll submit a report.

Wwiser reports the following:

Missing 3 wwise buses (init.bnk/135568291.bnk?)

Report! Transition object in playlists

Some txtp use streams

[bnnm]

Missing busses means that you need to load init.bnk. It'll still work without it but you may get less accurate volumes in resulting music.

Transition objects is an unimplemented feature which probably isn't too noticeable.

Streams is just info that I could probably remove. It just means some txtp need .wem.

[Xehanort88]

Sadly, even with init.bnk (or in ME2LE case, SFXWwise_Init.Init.bnk) the issue is still there.

generator: start generator: processing nodes generator: writting bank nodes (names: 0, unnamed: 0, filtered: 0) generator: writting bank nodes (names: 0, unnamed: 10, filtered: 0) txtp: saving 'Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming-0019-event.txtp' (-6737715692118173828) txtp: saving 'Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming-0021-event.txtp' (5762007748206317209) txtp: ignore 'Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming-0023-event' (repeat of 5762007748206317209) txtp: ignore 'Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming-0027-event' (repeat of 5762007748206317209) txtp: ignore 'Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming-0029-event' (repeat of 5762007748206317209) generator: writting bank nodes (names: 0, unnamed: 2, filtered: 0) txtp: saving 'Wwise_EndGame3_Music.Wwise_EndGame3_Music-0020-event [2737580204=_01].txtp' (7372946436794692387) txtp: saving 'Wwise_EndGame3_Music.Wwise_EndGame3_Music-0020-event [2737580204=_02].txtp' (-2158212720655105307) txtp: saving 'Wwise_EndGame3_Music.Wwise_EndGame3_Music-0020-event [2737580204=_03].txtp' (-2819533391898264983) txtp: saving 'Wwise_EndGame3_Music.Wwise_EndGame3_Music-0020-event [2737580204=_04].txtp' (-689256628823962661) generator: some .txtp (4) use streams generator: some .txtp (2) use .bnk

• Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.Wwise_Cer_Sta_NonStreaming.bnk generator: done (created 6, 3 duplicates)

Even in this case, despite all files being in the bnk folder, they don't work.

Foobar error: Unable to open item for playback (Unsupported format or corrupted file): "E:\EApp\Mass Effect Legendary Edition\Game\ME2\FINALE music\txtp\Wwise_EndGame3_Music.Wwise_EndGame3_Music-0020-event [2737580204=_04].txtp"

Attached a smaller, more manageable set of files for investigation including the generated txtp. Wwise_EndGame3_Music.zip

[bnnm]

Those txtp use streams (wem) like the log says.

wwiser can only work with Wwise numbers, so mus_endgm3_cine_1_wav.wem can't be used.

That is not a wwiser bug but just how Wwise works. You'd need to make sure those .wems are extracted and named using their original numbers.

[Xehanort88]

If the extraction method is the same how come some txtp are generated correctly?

[Xehanort88]

So, identifying the files via file ID does generate loops. but I still think there are overlapping transition issues as ther is a noticeable cut between loops, like in Wrath of the Righteous

Example here: ME2_EndGame3.zip