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jPSXdec: cross-platform PlayStation 1 audio and video converter
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Armored Core missing music #46

Closed Meerkov closed 2 years ago

Meerkov commented 2 years ago

Environment

jPSXdec version: 1.00 Operating system: Windows

PlayStation Game (if applicable)

Name: Armored Core

Description

1) Extract all the music. Notice that you have 16 song files starting with "BGM". Two of these are some announcement made during one of the levels(?not sure?). That leaves 14 legitimate songs. 2) Notice that the song "Shape Memory Alloy" (the shopping music) is not present. The official sound track seems to indicate there is supposed to be 19 songs.

Result: At least 1 song is known to be missing, and possibly as many as 5.

Since all the other music, and dialog files are all extractable, I don't think it's an unknown-format issue. I'm not sure why it's not finding that song.

Meerkov commented 2 years ago

Ok, I checked into this, and it turns out that Shape Memory Alloy is the only song on the disk that's in MIDI format.

So, looks like this issue can be closed, as it's known that jPSX Dec doesn't export VAB/SEQ sequences. (VGM Trans is another tool which can be used to get those sequences out, with a little extra work).