What did that update give ;o

[Pebbles]

Re: What did that update give ;o

The listed sound effect file is indeed a new format - the filetype field used to be 0 for ADPCM (same encoding as music files) and 1 for pure PCM data.
The crashing file has that field set to 3; probably the same format as that .at3 music file. Regardless of whether or not this is ATRAC-3, it'll take a little while to add support for this format.
For now I'll update POLUtils (and foo_pol) to complain if the file type field is not 0 or 1.

[Yossar]

Re: What did that update give ;o

The listed sound effect file is indeed a new format - the filetype field used to be 0 for ADPCM (same encoding as music files) and 1 for pure PCM data.
The crashing file has that field set to 3; probably the same format as that .at3 music file. Regardless of whether or not this is ATRAC-3, it'll take a little while to add support for this format.
For now I'll update POLUtils (and foo_pol) to complain if the file type field is not 0 or 1.

Good, I'm glad the problem wasn't on my end. ^^ I am curious as to what those sound effects are, though. One was like 30 seconds long.

[Pebbles]

Re: What did that update give ;o

The .at3 file is actually a WAV file (with ATRAC3 audio data), "encoded" by a simple XOR key.
So my hunch about ATRAC3 was right it seems. My guess is that the SFX are pure ATRAC3 data (there was no immediately obvious XORing present there). I'll play around with it a bit later - if it is ATRAC3 tho, it's unlikely that POLUtils will ever support playback (Managed DirectSound only supports PCM data (no ACM codecs), and there is no public ATRAC3 spec so I cannot write a decoder myself).

[Kuro Kaze]

Re: What did that update give ;o

all the new music in the expansion is in ATRAC3, whcih means we're screwed.. no offline ability to play the music ; ;

Bet SE picked this compression on purpose to stop people from listening to the music outside of the game. Promathia battle music and end cutscene are like this already. Simply trying to open this file as if it was an ATRAC3 results in no help either.

[Dark Raz]

Re: What did that update give ;o

.....anyway

It's still possible to listen to it.

[Omniblast]

Re: What did that update give ;o

Wohoo contribute to the Necro thread! This is to an OLD UPDATE BACK IN JULY OF 2005!!!!! WTF!?!?

[tomfin10]

Re: What did that update give ;o

all the new music in the expansion is in ATRAC3, whcih means we're screwed.. no offline ability to play the music ; ;

Bet SE picked this compression on purpose to stop people from listening to the music outside of the game. Promathia battle music and end cutscene are like this already. Simply trying to open this file as if it was an ATRAC3 results in no help either.

Ugh... that sucks. I don't understand why they'd do that. ; ;

[Blazehiruzo16]

Re: What did that update give ;o

Wont let me register something about pol-0011 is the update still going on and if so how long will it take to complete..

[Caspian]

Re: What did that update give ;o

EDIT: I really should read the second page before making a post regarding someone else's negligence.

[neighbortaru]

Re: What did that update give ;o

just so there's no confusion, this thread is olde and not relevant to the 4/17/2006 update