Ripping From .awb files?

[canasniimehugh]

Heyyyy Spriter`s Resour-- errr... VG Resource? I`m back with another selfish request.

You see, I`ve been trying to rip from a Haruhi game on the PSP and managed to extract everything from the .iso.


Unfortunately, the sound files are located in a file called voices.awb and I cannot seem to find a way to convert them. There was supposedly a method found in Xentax but it did not work for me.

So my request is: can someone convert this for me or provide me with a method of doing it myself?

Thanks in advanced.

[puggsoy]

I'd like to give this a shot. If you could upload the .awb file (as long as it's not too big) I'll download it and see what I can do.

[canasniimehugh]

Cool, thank you. Here you go: https://www.dropbox.com/s/jbq0emh8miskbj8/efvoice.awb

(this was the smallest, the other two are 108MB)

[puggsoy]

OK, got it. Unpack the .awb with the program given by hcs in this thread (just drag the .awb into the .exe). You'll get a bunch of .bins, which are audio files in HCA format. You can then decompress these using HCA2WAV, which can be found near the bottom of this page (you can edit the example.bat to target your file). Funnily enough, when I saw it I remembered that I had already found it before for someone else trying to convert HCA files

Unfortunately though, you can't convert multiple files with HCA2WAV, which will probably become tedious since there are a lot of files in the .awb you gave me (and probably even more in the other two). If you like I could probably make a wrapper for it to convert multiple files (or possibly, add it to VGSC).

[Random Talking Bush]

Unfortunately though, you can't convert multiple files with HCA2WAV, which will probably become tedious since there are a lot of files in the .awb you gave me (and probably even more in the other two).

Paste this into a text file, save it, and rename its extension to .BAT. Then run it in the same folder as HCA2WAV and all the BIN files.

Code:

for /f %%a IN ('dir /b *.bin') do HCA2WAV.exe %%a %%a.wav

[canasniimehugh]

Hey, it worked! Thanks, you guys. It`s gonna take me a while to sift through these but I will definitely submit everything when I am done.


Thanks again!