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I'm trying to rip some sounds from a PS2 game, and the results are interesting. I can get the files with Game Extractor, but there is a problem with the voice lines. You see, the game supports the common five European languages, so there are five copies of each voice line. These all have the same filenames - presumably they're supposed to be in separate directories for each language, but it seems Game Extractor doesn't support such luxuries, and the files are contained within a headerless archive, so I don't see much luck of opening it properly. The result of this is that when extracting the files, it overwrites any old copies and only the final language survives - Spanish. The foreign languages are also present in a USA copy of the game.

I'd also tried PSound first, but it suffers from a more extreme version of the same problem, naming some of the files "Temp" and some of them "Test1" or something (it doesn't matter what exactly), so using that program I'm left with only two audio clips. PhotoRec wasn't much good as it doesn't pick up the sounds due to them being .vag files. It would probably lose the filenames anyway.

Does anyone have any better suggestions for extracting games that have duplicate filenames? Yes, I could go through one by one, but it simply isn't worth my while.

Can you upload the original sound archive? I can take a look for you... There's probably a # in the archive that is used as a language ID. If you can't put it up here, Google Drive should be fine!

www.vg-resource.com Wrote:You can upload a maximum of of 314.57 bytes at once.

Okay. Fortunately this seems to ZIP up really well, which is enough to make the website accept it, but after uploading it doesn't appear as an attachment? Oh well. Here's a link:

*LINK REMOVED*

Uh... I should probably have said that this archive includes more than just sounds. It appears to include everything, except the videos which are stored in a separate file. If you have an overly enthusiastic virus scanner, note that it includes fonttool.exe and raw2bit.exe.

If you need to convert VAG to WAV for listening, you can use ffmpeg. Audacity might also work via ffmpeg.