11-03-2016, 02:42 PM
Apoc and RTB can attest that I've had a damnably difficult time with Punch-Out's files. Next Level Games did their stuff very good to discourage piracy, probably at Nintendo's behest, but it would still be good to utilize the assets for fair use research and educational purposes, not to mention funny parodies.
I've asked for any help ripping these files on two separate forums already, and I've seen others ask the same, with little help. I still figure that if the program itself can read these files, a human could, too. The fellows above have been able to extract texture data and capture 3D scenes in Dolphin, but the models appear to have a unique method of texturing with two layers of skin, one for base texture and one for cel shading. It would be fiendishly difficult, I imagine, to return a model to a base pose from these 3D captures, so it's important to see if there's any way of getting the original model data.
If that doesn't work at all, I would still like to know how to extract audio files; it's apparently possible, as a few game music channels have HQ rips of the soundtracks, but I'd like to extract the sound effects and dialogue, and the only extent of my abilities in this is to record them from the unlockable sound test screen. I previously did this with an RCA connector compatible USB drive, but it sounded like a videotape rip; when I tried again with Dolphin, some of the sounds were slowed and distorted.
I think this is an annual thing for me, to bug people to rip this game for me, but I promise this time, if there's ANYTHING I can do, to help out as much as possible. Right now, however, I neglected to bring an attached file with me, as I want to make sure what I'm doing is not a waste of my time before I begin with the file dumping.
I've asked for any help ripping these files on two separate forums already, and I've seen others ask the same, with little help. I still figure that if the program itself can read these files, a human could, too. The fellows above have been able to extract texture data and capture 3D scenes in Dolphin, but the models appear to have a unique method of texturing with two layers of skin, one for base texture and one for cel shading. It would be fiendishly difficult, I imagine, to return a model to a base pose from these 3D captures, so it's important to see if there's any way of getting the original model data.
If that doesn't work at all, I would still like to know how to extract audio files; it's apparently possible, as a few game music channels have HQ rips of the soundtracks, but I'd like to extract the sound effects and dialogue, and the only extent of my abilities in this is to record them from the unlockable sound test screen. I previously did this with an RCA connector compatible USB drive, but it sounded like a videotape rip; when I tried again with Dolphin, some of the sounds were slowed and distorted.
I think this is an annual thing for me, to bug people to rip this game for me, but I promise this time, if there's ANYTHING I can do, to help out as much as possible. Right now, however, I neglected to bring an attached file with me, as I want to make sure what I'm doing is not a waste of my time before I begin with the file dumping.
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