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[FrenchKiss]

Yep all, another nice day on 3dsl.

Most of you knows that I'm from French Kiss abandonware.
Sometimes we need to make some rips, due to size of adventure games iso ( variable, from 50mo to 5go )

I saw you have some tips&tricks for uploaders. But the only things I can do actually is to make some dummies, removing movies or things like that. Today I've to rip audio. Especially wav files.
I already tryed using lha and a little mp3decoder dll's with a dos batch, but without result.

And in second time, compress video from huge FMV games. But finding codecs for these old games is REALLY hard. And doing a batch who decode the file seems to be impossible.

Does anyone have some nice results with these methods ? any tips ? any solution ?

Thanks a lot
Greets from France

[dead-meat]

Sorry, but we normally don't make that info poublic.

greetz
dead-meat

PS: Those FMV games are indeed a harder piece

[NE0]

FMV don't compress...just rip em

[dead-meat]

we're talking about FMV games... railshooters like Area 51 and such. If you ripped them, you'd kinda rip the whole game.

[FrenchKiss]

For the fmv, I was talking about a batch task, like this :

Encode the original fmv with a better codec ( like a divx dll codec ).
When end-user runs the batch, the fmv automaticely decode to the original.
It's juste like => get wav, encode wav in mp3. Create a batch. The user run the batch, and mp3 decode into wav.

[dead-meat]

Yeah, now I get what you meant... but I think it woun't be that easy.
Though I mean the backgrounds and stuff won't look that good anymore, since they don't really look perfect, even in the original FMVs.
Even if we don't have to follow any rules (those say that video encoding on end-user machines is strictly forbidden) I think running such a decoding process on a end-user machine wouldn't be very nice. Video encoding is almost the worst you can do to your PC, right? And so users with a slower machine would have to decode those videos... well, I don't know, maybe for days

So I presume it's better to have to upload/download a little bit more.. but to have the full quality plus you don't have to upack so long.

[NE0]

I got the PSG rip or Area51 and i don't see anything important missing ...the game is lame anyway...

[FrenchKiss]

Yeah you should be right. I sometimes forget that anybody don't have an Athlon XP or a P4.

Decoding video is very fast, but...reencoding in correct format could take some hours..

Back to the mp3 and others, where could I find informations outside the forum ?

[dead-meat]

I got the PSG rip or Area51 and i don't see anything important missing ...the game is lame anyway...

I totally don't agree with that!
Since I was able to have a look at the nfo of that rip, I can tell you that IMO many "important" things are ripped.... just take a look at it yourself:

Hidden rooms, Practice Level, 3 out of 12 levels were removed

I think that's quite a lot of the game's features... 1/4 of the game's levels was ripped

Ok, maybe you don't like it ... but better judge that playing the full version

[kenjiro-sa]

I got the PSG rip or Area51 and i don't see anything important missing ...the game is lame anyway...

PSG rip?

ur talking abaout paris saint germain rip ? lol


And area 51 its a game released for arcade u can emulate it on mame but u need the hd files (total size 130 megs) and the rom...

[dead-meat]

There's an Area 51 version for the PC, Dear Sherlock Holmes.

btw. old thread you bumped up again... "thanks"