I don't know if the game is a part of any modding scene(s) (I am finding a NFSMods[nfsmods.xyz] Site, a NFSAddons[www.nfsaddons.com] Site, there could be one on at least NexusMods or even ModDB and I know that Burnout Paradise had some notable projects prior to it's remaster, with Burnout Paradise Remastered having it's own BPR Modding Tool[bpr.bo98.uk] & other developments), but if any exist, they might be the better place to try seeking the answer to that question.

Usually, the people I tend to communicate with here are more interested in turning such files as .SPS into .MP3 or .WAV, not the other way around. Although I could usually tell you how to do that for Source games (The only game I'm personally up-to-date on doing that for is Left 4 Dead 2, but I'm lead to believe games such as Black Mesa, Half-Life 2, Insurgency & Team Fortress 2 are much less strict in what you can do in this regard, but might require an accompanying script in certain circumstances), I don't have a single clue as to how to do that for a game such as Burnout Paradise or nu-Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.

However, I can at least try and offer you this guide for getting music into Burnout Paradise that I very quickly found, as well as a mod compatible with both the original & remaster releases that may provide a relevant lead, but I fear that you might have already come across this guide for yourself:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2254830718
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3274030454
Perhaps this quick resources referral might be of some help, but being primarily for Burnout Paradise, I'm not confident that this is very helpful to you:
https://burnout.wiki/wiki/Modding/Burnout_Paradise

Hopefully, somebody wiser than myself on the matter may be able to provide much more helpful leads or even answers for you, as this is unfortunately the most that I can personally offer you on the matter.

Then consider me very relieved that my frequent recommendation of the tool, despite still not managing to have yet used it for myself, hasn't been a poor one. Cheers!

You wouldn't be alone in appreciating that. Unfortunately, I still only can refer to a previous answer I gave an identical request for now.

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Can't download, it says "temporary error, try again"
for 2 days already

I've just double-checked the MEGA link the very moment that I write this and it's still lively as it was before. Whatever the issue might be, it doesn't at all appear to be the Host's fault, at least.

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Początkowo opublikowane przez ellis3246:

Alright, it turns out what was happening was that i was putting in "Bad" (further testing & defining needed) Soundwavenode files that i presume oggextract was unable to work with for whatever reason as i have found myself with a working .ogg file after extracting a soundwavenode file from outside the levels folder

iirc the soundwave files can just be renamed to .ogg straight and they'll play fine. no need for any extraction

I've just tested changing the ".SoundNodeWave" header to ".ogg" for myself for some music & weapon files and that appears to be correct. 'dBpoweramp' was able to provide precise audio properties, foobar2000 & VLC Media Player could play it effortlessly and when I ran the same files through 'oggextract.exe' and compared them, both foobar2000 & dBpoweramp showcased that outside of a small KB difference (The 'oggextract.exe' conversion was 2KB smaller) & a difference in filename ('TAK3_Single_V1.SoundNodeWave' was manually changed to 'TAK3_Single_V1.ogg', meanwhile 'oggextract.exe' changed it to 'TAK3_Single_V1.SoundNodeWave_000000ac.ogg'), the Bit-Rate, Channels, Codec, Duration, Encoder, Sample Rate & Size and just about every other visible thing remained exactly the same between each other.

At least regarding the audio for Homefront, it really seems like any batch-renaming solution could stand in place for 'oggextract.exe' for changing them from .SoundNodeWave to .OGG. I'm not about to assume that's precisely the case for every .SoundNodeWave file extracted from the game (I still haven't pinned down where the voice files can be found, never-mind how they can be exported and/or converted) nor any other "standard" Unreal Engine 3 game such as Bulletstorm, Gears of War, Mirror's Edge, etc., but it's certainly a possible solution to add to the list.

Well, I've managed to get the game installed and I am starting to see the problems you're having with UE Viewer. Looks like you might be right about a good deal of audio, or at least voice data being bundled into, if not the .MAP files, then within the Map folder as a lot of the "LOC" (Localisation) .UPKs seem to be there.

However, I tried using UPK Extractor, and when testing 'GCGame > CookedPC > Audio > FL2 > A2_Music_S_4.upk, A2_Music_S_5.upk & A2_Weapons_S.upk', I got consistently successful results by:

• Copying the aforementioned .PUK files into a folder alongside the UPK Extractor bundle I have
  
• Editing the 'Extract.bat' file to choose the .UPK file of choice, and then running the process via the .BAT file (I did this one at a time, but there might be a way to do this for multiple files at the same time that I'm not aware of or failing to recall)
  
• Dragging 'n' dropping my chosen .SoundNodeWave files over 'oggextract.exe' (You can do this with multiple files at once, but there may be a Command or a .BAT instruction to alternatively do this too)
  
• And out came playable .OGG files for every SoundNodeWave file that I tested. I got to sit back & listen to 'M17_ShopMart_Mstr_Loop' (I remember rather liking this particular theme when playing the Xbox 360 release back around 2011), 'StandYourGround' (I don't even remember the game having a bespoke song for it, but I can see people being fond of it!) and the various "Fire" & "Reload" sounds for the 'M110', and some others.

And considering that the version of 'oggextract.exe' I recommended & used was last updated in 2012, it's had over 13 years to break. Then again, I am still running a Windows 7 P.C. from 2015, so that could possibly be a factor (I'm hoping to finally change that this year, but getting a new G.P.U. looks to be an ordeal, never-mind affordable at the moment and Microsoft is doing everything in it's power to convince me that Linux is the best choice of O.S. to move to). Like I said, there may be newer versions of it out there as it's code was released publicly.

Nevertheless, as far as I'm seeing, UPK Extractor is a good way to getting the game's Music & S.F.X. However, when it comes to Voice, I am struggling to pin down where they could possibly be stored if not in the .MAP files as you've found reason to believe. There might be other & better ways to manage it, but this is the first time that I've even tried for this game and this is the best I've gotten with the tools I have on hand.

That's probably not the case. Looking at the game files for myself (At least whilst I download & install the game from Steam to have a look for myself), all of the game's audio should be stored within .UPK files (Homefront > GCGame > CookedPC > Audio & Audio_DLC2) as is typical of many Unreal Engine 3 games that don't incorporate middleware such as FMOD & Wwise or other custom systems. It could be possible that your process is detecting what audio the .MAP files refer to or draw from, but from what little I understand, they probably don't have audio packaged within them (They would if they were .MAP files from the Blam! Engine as almost entirely used by the Halo games, but that's a very different engine and it would be audio unique to the relevant .MAP file while pulling general audio from a "Campaign.MAP" & "Shared.MAP").

Just to repeat myself:

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My two recommendations for extracting audio would be UE Viewer[www.gildor.org] (umodel.exe) or UPK Extractor (which you can find bundled in here[forums.nexusmods.com] among others) if UE Viewer has issues (It helped me with Tribes Ascend when UE Viewer could only extract one player-character's voice files while UPK Extractor managed to get the rest).

In this case, much like the issue I encountered with Tribes Ascend while using UE Viewer, it could be more reliable to use UPK Extractor for Homefront instead (Something I've been aiming to change toward doing for Unreal Engine 3 games going forward).

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Początkowo opublikowane przez ThotsBContagious:

Yeah I'm gonna have to just record audio in game, find some way to extract cause from what I can tell 360 has maps not included in PC.

Ugh.. hate that crap.

Edit - Nevermind I forgot to get oggextractor.exe so now I have audio files.
Suppose leave this up just in case anyone else gets stuck

Do you still have a direct link to where you got oggextractor.exe??
(apologies for the necrobump for anyone else that sees this)

No post is "dead" around here, so no worries!

I originally thought that they were referring to "oggextract.exe", which can still be found in the very same place as my probably-dated How to Acquire: The Audio of Mass Effect section recommends:
https://github.com/arkeet/oggextract
(See "Downloads" for the "Windows Binary" link for the .EXE or the "C Source" link for the self-compile). It is pretty old, but I believe it still works, or at least it's public nature has ensured others have provided more up-to-date alternatives.

However, looking around for an "oggextractor.exe", I did turn this up, courtesy of a Softpedia result's homepage referral, and it is very up-to-date (Latest release was 12th Feb. 2025):
https://github.com/FelixdelasPozas/OGG-Extractor
I've only just discovered it, so I cannot comment on how useful or reliable it is. However, it does have a G.U.I. and a list of 'officially supported' games running on various engines, so that's a promising start.

All I can tell you is that Tom Clancy's EndWar is built upon Unreal Engine 3 as quite a few Ubisoft games were at the time. But, recalling what Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas & Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Vegas 2 were like to extract audio, it might not be as straightforward as being able to throw commonplace Unreal Engine 3/General tools at it. While there is no guarantee if whatever methods have worked for the Rainbox Six: Vegas games would work for EndWar, it might be a productive lead to follow that I unfortunately can't get you started on (I know that people have managed it, but I haven't pinpointed how they did it for myself yet).

Such tools that could be worth trying might include:

• .UPK Extractor (An Unreal Engine 3 specific tool that unpacks the .UPK packages)
  
• UE Viewer[www.gildor.org] (An Unreal Engine 1-4 tool primarily geared up for model & texture export, but equipped to export sound when able), although I'm very doubtful this one could manage it as it can't for the Rainbow Six: Vegas games
  
• QuickBMS[aluigi.altervista.org] + A relevant .BMS script (You'd have to hunt down which one if it exists)
  
• foobar2000[foobar2000.org] + The vgmstream[vgmstream.org] component, if not other components[www.foobar2000.org] for foobar2000
  
• The tool(s) utilised by this audio extraction process for Spec Ops: The Line

But these are very off-the-top-of-my-head guesses, so it's probably not very useful advice, I'm afraid.

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Well, this time it works and works alot better then the software posted several years before. I take no credit for anything shared here, i have merely found this stuff on the internet and here to share. I can vouch that this endeed works alot better for sounds and mainly voicelines but can't tell you anything about textures and meshes, they were extracted but i simply didnt try to access them.
In short:
Here's frostbite extractor

https://github.com/NicknineTheEagle/Frostbite-Scripts

It requires Python 3 x64

https://www.python.org/downloads/

Install python 3 and run IDLE Shell, select dumper py script in frostbite2 folder and follow instructions, everything you need is written in readme on github page and in scripts.
After extracting and compiling ebx to assets you'll need to access audio, for that purpose use Foobar2000

https://www.foobar2000.org/download - download link for foobar

There's also EAlayer3 extractor but i couldn't launch it and foobar allows you to directly listen to sps files and then convert them to mp3 in batch.

https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_vgmstream - library necessery to work with sps

https://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack - encoder pack to convert sps to standart file formats like mp3

In order to unpack specific voiceover you'll need a game translated to language you desire, I don't know how extractor will behave in case if there's multiple translations installed in your game folder. you can try searcing online on "how to change language in BF3" but here's a third party site that has several voiceovers ready
https://zlogames.ru/index.php?/topic/1188/

Lastly, here's archive of VO folder, this time it contains .sps files and unlike an old 30gb BF3 sound archive it has only russian voiceover and yes, it has ru voiceover of US side.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMlYlj9leDhNUnvSl7D1a4Z06ThfoY3U/view?usp=sharing
https://www[DOT]mediafire[DOT]com/file/7b7u9y5mouf4pdu/VO.rar/file

I just saw that your post "has been reported by a user", but upon reviewing it's contents for myself, I can only guess that it was the Steam Automatic Content Checker being unhappy with your MediaFire hyperlink (Steam doesn't like MediaFire for reasons that I recall relating to abusive use of the long-gone Steam Greenlight via Free MediaFire usage and/or accounts, but maybe there's other persisting reasons as to why it still continues to forbid links for MediaFire or other cloud services besides Dropbox & Google Drive), so I've quoted your post and also made some edits that hopefully workaround the issue and will keep it as visible as it should be.

I have tried editing the MediaFire link in your own post to see if that helps get it out of "awaiting analysis by our automated content check system" (Not something I've done before now, but I thought it was only fair to you for me to try), but I can't do anything more than that, I'm afraid (I've had my own run-ins with the Steam Automatic Content Checker and all I've been able to do about it is contact Steam Support & see if they deem it reasonable to do anything other than just let it wait to do it's job, which I have rarely if ever seen it complete).

However, I did also take the time to make some further edits of my own that might make your helpful advice slightly easier to follow and/or understand, which I've provided here:

Początkowo opublikowane przez КиберХлебушек:

Well, this time it works and works a lot better then the software posted several years before. I take no credit for anything shared here, I have merely found this stuff on the internet and here to share. I can vouch that this indeed works a lot better for sounds and mainly voicelines but can't tell you anything about textures and meshes. They were extracted but I simply didn't try to access them.

In short:
Here's Frostbite Extractor:
https://github.com/NicknineTheEagle/Frostbite-Scripts
It requires Python 3 x64:
https://www.python.org/downloads/

Install Python 3 (64bit) and run IDLE Shell, select "dumper.py" script in the "frostbite2" folder and follow instructions. Everything you need is written within "README.md" on the GitHub page and in scripts.
After extracting and compiling .EBX to assets you'll need to access audio, for that purpose use foobar2000:
https://www.foobar2000.org/download

There's also EAlayer3 extractor but I couldn't launch it and foobar allows you to directly listen to .SPS files and then convert them to .MP3 in batch.
- https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_input_vgmstream - Library necessary to work with .SPS
- https://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack - Encoder pack to convert .SPS to standard file formats like .MP3

In order to unpack specific voiceover you'll need a game translated to language you desire. I don't know how extractor will behave in case if there's multiple translations installed in your game folder. You can try searching online on "how to change language in BF3" but here's a third party site that has several voiceovers ready:
https://zlogames.ru/index.php?/topic/1188/

Lastly, here's an archive of the "VO" folder, this time it contains .SPS files and unlike an old 30GB BF3 sound archive it has only Russian voiceover and yes, it has Russian voiceover of the U.S. side.
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZMlYlj9leDhNUnvSl7D1a4Z06ThfoY3U/view?usp=sharing
- https://www[DOT]mediafire[DOT]com/file/7b7u9y5mouf4pdu/VO.rar/file