sound ripping

[sirgalahadwizar]

Does anyone know of a way to rip sounds from actual memory.
I mean like some primitive programs would let you take screenshots.
Are there any programs that would allow you to just start recording, give you time to go make your noises, and then ahve them captured?

The reason is that I have a program that I really want sounds out of but can't rip them out because they are is some customized format.

[Guest Fanatic]

If you have a descent sound card, you can select WAV output for your recording source.

I can just open volume control, select WAV as the source to record from, open Sound Recorder (comes with Windows), hit record, play my WAV sound effects and I have them recorded, then clean them up and save.

What sounds areyou trying to record? What are they from? Chances are you can find some editor to extract them or find them already recorded on the net.

[sirgalahadwizar]

I don't *have* a sound card par-se, nothing fancy. I don't know what it is but it's built right on to my motherboard, guess I now have BOTH virtual video and virtual sound.

WAV doesn't appear, and there are only a few options, I tried all of them and they don't EVEN work, so I can't even record form a mic.

I wanted to rip sounds out of "Xcom 2: TFTD", I tried a ripper (ripper500 I think), but it only got about 5 files out of there and they were in a really weird format (.8sx I think).
All the rest must be encripted or were totally custom sound format. And no, the 5 files I got were not the ones I wanted.
The sounds in that game are pretty cool and I want to use some of them for my xcom 2 partial conversion (hmm, guess what port will be used...).

There is hardly anything even on the net about TFTD, must-less the sounds. Just the other day I hacked some positions of some really interesting variables - I think I am the only one who has got those yet so that tells you how obscure this thing is. Chances are not in my favor here.

[Guest Fanatic]

I did a quick search and found all kinds of editors for it.

Try these page's editors, they may allow you to extract sounds as easily as Wintex:

http://www.geocities.com./SiliconValley/7176/xcom.html
http://www.gamesdomain.com/directd/pc/dos/tools/xcomedit.html
http://www.pugetsound.net/leslie/down/xcom2editors.zip

[bitstate]

sirgalahadwizar said:

... think i've typed in the following info too many times.. ;o)

the best way is really getting a dedicated editor as fanatic says but still... using the vac (virtual audio cable) at http://www.maz-sound.de (in the utilities section i believe) the recording of wav output can be achieved on any card (even if you manage to dig up a digital driver for the pc-speaker), the thing is that you hook up the applications to run the audio through vac and vac then mixes all inputs and sends them to the output (the soundcard).

using vac any card will have multiple inputs (even built in ones and pc speakers...) :O)

[sirgalahadwizar]

Fanatic said:

I did a quick search and found all kinds of editors for it.

Try these page's editors, they may allow you to extract sounds as easily as Wintex:

http://www.geocities.com./SiliconValley/7176/xcom.html
http://www.gamesdomain.com/directd/pc/dos/tools/xcomedit.html
http://www.pugetsound.net/leslie/down/xcom2editors.zip

Thanks for the searching, but I already have those and they don't even get near the sounds.

I have some more ideas for the edge engine - but they are just some feature freak things.

[Guest Dream Destroyer]

There is a program somewhere on www.softseek.com that will do exactly what you want. I had it once. You run it in the background, play your game (in my case doom) and I had a wave file of battle sounds which I put at the beggining of a nice little acoustic guitar peice my friend played. :) hahaha. yes.

[Guest Dream Destroyer]

Dream Destroyer said:

There is a program somewhere on www.softseek.com that will do exactly what you want.

My mistake, it doesn't do exactly what you want. What it does is it records all sounds that you sound card sends to your speakers. It is a sound driver that sort of catchs the sounds before they get to the speakers. Real cool anyway. :p