Music Mods!

[Aerys]

Am i the only one here who wanna hear the awesome and nostalgic Original Sound Track in game?

I know the answer. o/

When playing of Brave Soldiers in my ps3, i recorded a video with the full character list on youtube with the OST.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8_Sf1kydzg

hope you enjoy the sequence of songs by chars.

GL HF

[Luis]

Oh nice.

[universal_eternity]

I have been able to replace the main menu music of Soldier's Soul with "Blue Forever" in the PS3 (cfw), which kind of suits this menu imo.
I had to program a couple of tools, because the tools out there weren't enough. (in concret, the hca encoder out there was generating invalid files for this game due to a little issue).

I don't expect the PC version to be any different to the PS3 version regarding sound files, so you can be sure of one thing: there will be music mods since day 0 of release. I will post the instructions and the extra tools when the game is released on PC. In the meanwhile I will polish it a bit.

[Saint Shaina]

I hope its easy to modify the musics...it would be amazing so everyone of us could chose the musics we want to use.There are some SS musics that are super sad or dont fit the moment.I just hope its easy enough for us to have some awesome music mods <3

[Skiheid]

OH MY KOKORO!!! This is what I'm wating for!!!! *_*

[Aerys]

İlk olarak universal_eternity tarafından gönderildi:

I have been able to replace the main menu music of Soldier's Soul with "Blue Forever" in the PS3 (cfw), which kind of suits this menu imo.
I had to program a couple of tools, because the tools out there weren't enough. (in concret, the hca encoder out there was generating invalid files for this game due to a little issue).

I don't expect the PC version to be any different to the PS3 version regarding sound files, so you can be sure of one thing: there will be music mods since day 0 of release. I will post the instructions and the extra tools when the game is released on PC. In the meanwhile I will polish it a bit.

We TY Sir

[universal_eternity]

İlk olarak Saint Shaina tarafından gönderildi:

I hope its easy to modify the musics...it would be amazing so everyone of us could chose the musics we want to use.There are some SS musics that are super sad or dont fit the moment.I just hope its easy enough for us to have some awesome music mods <3

Well, I can already tell you that the process won't be exactly easy. To begin with, all music tracks in the file BGM.awb are divided into 4 mono files. One for left channel, another for right channel, and two low-volume versions of the previous ones, and it is like this for every track there. (I don't know if they will change that for PC).

So Audacity will have to be used to separate your stereo mp3/flac into two mono wav files, one for each channel. And then, to create the low-volume versions of those, you will have to use the amplyfy function of Audacity with negative numbers.

In addition to that, the process will involve the use of a lot of programs:
- CriPakTools, to extract the file localize.cpk
- A tool I just made today, that I callled afs2tool, to extract the HCA tracks from the BMG.awb file (or the other awb files)
- (Optional) hca_decode to convert the extracted files to wav so that you can listen to them and know what you are replacing.
- PES Media Converter, to convert wav files to HCA.
- A tool I made today called hca_ciph_change, to fix the HCA files created by the above program (otherwise garbage would play)
- Using again my afs2tool to create a new awb file, and to fix the acb file with same name.
- Repacker CPK to create again the file localize.cpk. My tests suggest that the compression option of that program must be turned off or it will corrupt the cpk (at least in the PS3).

But it is not as difficult as it sounds, once that you get used the process becomes easy.

[Deanff3]

DBX for example...

[sanorin01]

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I hope its easy to modify the musics...it would be amazing so everyone of us could chose the musics we want to use.There are some SS musics that are super sad or dont fit the moment.I just hope its easy enough for us to have some awesome music mods <3

Well, I can already tell you that the process won't be exactly easy. To begin with, all music tracks in the file BGM.awb are divided into 4 mono files. One for left channel, another for right channel, and two low-volume versions of the previous ones, and it is like this for every track there. (I don't know if they will change that for PC).

So Audacity will have to be used to separate your stereo mp3/flac into two mono wav files, one for each channel. And then, to create the low-volume versions of those, you will have to use the amplyfy function of Audacity with negative numbers.

In addition to that, the process will involve the use of a lot of programs:
- CriPakTools, to extract the file localize.cpk
- A tool I just made today, that I callled afs2tool, to extract the HCA tracks from the BMG.awb file (or the other awb files)
- (Optional) hca_decode to convert the extracted files to wav so that you can listen to them and know what you are replacing.
- PES Media Converter, to convert wav files to HCA.
- A tool I made today called hca_ciph_change, to fix the HCA files created by the above program (otherwise garbage would play)
- Using again my afs2tool to create a new awb file, and to fix the acb file with same name.
- Repacker CPK to create again the file localize.cpk. My tests suggest that the compression option of that program must be turned off or it will corrupt the cpk (at least in the PS3).

But it is not as difficult as it sounds, once that you get used the process becomes easy.

Wow... I will keep an eye on your post, it would be awesome to have SS original music :)

[Saint Shaina]

@universal_eternity wow that sounds hard to me. xD

I really tought it could be something like convert the music file from MP3 to OGG or something hahaha

But from your posts about musics,I guess we know who will be able to make some awesome classic music mods? :)

The musics from this game is so generic...really.I really want classic music from the anime..but just the concern of sad or not fitting musics at some times.SS has amazing musics,but there are a lot of sad musics also,that would work only in the right moments.

[universal_eternity]

Well, the sad music fit in the story mode, while outside battles.

[Deanff3]

İlk olarak universal_eternity tarafından gönderildi:

Well, the sad music fit in the story mode, while outside battles.

Have you tried to modify the songs in Dragon Ball Xenoverse?
:
A good playlist.

Saint Seiya OST 1 - Track 1 - Pain
Saint Seiya OST 1 - Track 03 - Galaxian Wars
Saint Seiya OST 1 - Track 34 - Hô Yoku Ten Shô
Saint Seiya OST 1 - Track 67 - Revenger Phoenix
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 3 - Watch out!
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 4 - Tobe! Pegasus
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 5 - Sacrifice
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 8 - Karei naru Ôgon Saint 2
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 9 - fierce battle
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 10 - Shikaku no Mure
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 43 - Prologue 6
Saint Seiya OST 3 - Track 14 - Seventh Senses's Theme
Saint Seiya OST 3 - Track 37 - Yomotsu Hirasaka 5
Saint Seiya OST 4 - Track 7 - Tachiki Reta Yûjô
Saint Seiya OST 5 - Track 23 - Hilda's Battle
Saint Seiya OST 5 - Track 44 - Shintanaru Sengumo
Saint Seiya OST 5 - Track 42 - Ai Suru Daichi no Tameni

Saga Poseidon

Saint Seiya - Seven Generals
Saint Seiya - Time of Destruction
Saint Seiya OST 6 - Track 12 - Hakametsu no Toke 1
Saint Seiya OST 6 - Track 12 - Hakametsu no Toke 2
Saint Seiya OST 7 - Track 03 - Another Holy War

Top :

Saint Seiya OST 9 - Track 15 - The Bell's Prayer
Saint Seiya OST 9 - Track 8 - Overture
Saint Seiya OST 4 - Track 12 - Athena no Seinto! / Godwarrior vs Saint

Menu

Saint Seiya - Intense! Cosmo!
Saint Seiya OST - Shun's Theme
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 12 - Yasuragi
Saint Seiya OST 2 - Track 20 - Kyôkô Ares
Saint Seiya OST 3 - Track 11 - Mephisto's Theme

[universal_eternity]

I don't own Xenoverse, so I can't test. But I was stuck at the same thing that the guide for Xenoverse: the Pes Media Converter files play as garbage, which is why I had to create a fix for that. Additionally, the method to reimport files in that guide was very limited and it wasn't allowing hca files bigger than the ones the game use. With my method, QuickBMS is not used at all, instead one of my tool that is designed specifically for .awb files, and which doesn't have limits with sizes (so your songs can be all the big you want, without worrying about fitting game size).

TL;DR: My tools and my method will likely work on Xenoverse, without any change.

[incoguinito]

I want Aria of the Three when Hyoga and Camus are fighting or any Hyoga moments (including Isaak). Cygnus - Warrior of Ice, or Brothers and Sisters of Asgard. Death Trip Serenade with Orpheus, Mime's Harp in the Mime battle.

Sad Brothers or Tears of the Sad Heroes for Seiya/early arc or Asgard, especially Shido and Bado. The Saint Seiya soundtrack has to be the richest and most elaborate I have ever come across, and it is so darn good. I have all my .mp3s ready to go if moding is possible.


One wish would be to have the opportunity to at least include Abel and Frey from the first two movies. Abel's Harp Theme is fantastic.