Everything I ask here is basically so I can make collections like !!!!! does and not just to hoard them all to myself, pretty much anything I post about will be published and tagged...eventually.
Anyway, basically I'm trying to make this play since It's in 48k and that's pretty neat knowing how a small trickle of quality makes me go loco, especially with mainstream titles that are usually slightly downgraded to 44k, so what I'm asking here is if someone out there knew anything regarding this format, I got this from the PS2 version since I don't have the 360 one, I'll probably take a gamble and buy that one instead and rip it, hoping that the 360's audio extensions are different if the IMF/ISF's are TOO obscure for anyone to care.
Anyway, a bit of badly trained google fu left me defeated and I was only able to find this regarding it
Click Here ~2chan~
It seems someone else other than I has had interest in this format as well, which is all and well and grand except that I can't understand Japanese, I've already translated a bit by machine and they are on the same predicament, the way it translates is confusing, they've probably solved it for all I know, so if anyone here knows a bit of moonrunes, that would really help.
Once more, here's a sample song, I couldn't make it work with gehn very much this time, so take it from me that it didn't do much, basically stayed the same, so that being said, It probably has a header, who knows, I don't.
Make this play right and I'll suck your dick
IMF: https://mega.co.nz/#!WM1mBZKD!pD6SVkFyhtHYI8NBbYgJTFfWwUcMnpWGRehUzdZpd2o
ISF: https://mega.co.nz/#!vNkQwA4A!q60VO19CNxKobcaGmvnqxvqHisbg-Xr1lus9YK-qsTw
I'm trying everything with my current knowledge to play them, I've translated the japanese page by machine but it's a poor translation and some download links there are expired.
I'll try gehn again but that probably won't help either, I've renamed the extension to .int due to the filesize giving me a gutty feeling of it being something similar, it manages to play with horrible static ala asterix but still isn't as audible as I'd like it to be, so maybe it would improve when edited via gehn with said .int extension, It's worth a shot.
I just know it should be some sort of uncompressed format, this is all speculation by the extension change though, but progress IS progress...
I think It's encrypted.
Take your time.
edited 5:20 AM EDT March 9, 2015
I'll fiddle with it more while I see what others can do.
If you recognize several songs from these sets of sounds, I would assume it's sequenced. Also, the sample rate (speed) might be slightly off, but...
Anyway, I did what you did but to a different file and got a similar result, there IS singing so now I know it isn't sequenced, unless it's following that sequence correctly.
Anyways, here's another one, see what you can get out of it. I'll upload my own when I get close to something from an original song.
Original IMF File
https://mega.co.nz/#!HEcHUZiJ!sjTzlpLOHgFb_9MW2X1jI362Wf-fNQTyKHpolYrrDCg
Crank the Interleave up to a 0x10000 and beyond, it's slowed down and slightly normalized for me this way with the Playstation 4-bit ADPCM setting, still chopped though.
I'm adding more channels, it's becoming more steady now, It screws but now the rhythm is staying for longer intervals.
Okay, so far: they are multi-channel, 6-7 to be exact and the voices become chipmunked for some damn reason, gonna fiddle even more, we're getting close
edited every three seconds
GEHN sample
https://mega.co.nz/#!yF11CRCQ!v93CJ-s3dh8tnMHLHHJSxPDgVa0JLLMy6vpNWtdzqWU
edited 5:31 PM EDT March 9, 2015
They're stored as 48khz 128kbps MP3 files inside FSB containers.
The XBOX 360 version has 48 kHz XMA audio but don't bother with that, the compression artifacts are much more audible than the PS3 MP3s.
edited 7:35 PM EDT March 9, 2015
edited 7:36 PM EDT March 9, 2015
How about MIA files?
It has some odd aob/aos/aod extensions next to it as well, it gives me this info for them when opened in hex editor.
MIA: HVSIMIA (Whatever that is)
AOS: http://pastebin.com/kaqwL46v
AOB: http://pastebin.com/Mm7aT5AE
AOD: http://pastebin.com/uDTYmMsA
I've been able to extract .bins with VGMToolbox's built in Sony ADPCM extractor but it doesn't play right when converter to gehn, it sounds crystal clear but it skips, thankfully less worse than the guitar hero one.
I have it at PlayStation 4-bit ADPCM, 4 channels, 48kHz and 0x10000 interleave if that helps....
https://mega.co.nz/#!SBd32Y4A!Pj7sKySvu65yQGNhZXIYH4pu3ysPq9ml1UN-7Bql33w
Here's a test if anyone gives a hoot.
If this doesn't work I'll upload the gamecube one which has a .GMD file extension.
edited 4:09 AM EDT March 27, 2015
edited 4:10 AM EDT March 27, 2015