Im assuming the majority of us know that if you have a pc game (at least the oldones) that in its folder were a bunch of audio files with which you could use in your music, i was wondering what youve found over the years and have thought to be cool.
The two that come to my mind are : Carmaggeddon ( a massive 3.71 mb if audio, bout 200 diffrent shouts screams car noises and cars hitting people/zombies)
and the original GTA , which only had about 6 audio files but they were the intro gansgsta speechs
So what have you enjoyed? i reckon the halflife series has some good audio folders
i was going to suggest swaps but i think that may break forum/ethichal rules
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:46 pm
by Sinisterbeats
if anyone has a decent DL link to the half life sounds please post it, Im desperate to get it again but cant find it anywhere. Someone posted it not long ago but it was a painfully slow link, got to about '50 days remaining' and I just cancelled it.
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:59 pm
by krispy
Carmageddon was so bloody awesome, they need to remake that game for PS3
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:36 pm
by ojsmooth
Sinisterbeats wrote:if anyone has a decent DL link to the half life sounds please post it, Im desperate to get it again but cant find it anywhere. Someone posted it not long ago but it was a painfully slow link, got to about '50 days remaining' and I just cancelled it.
Dead space has great horror sounds. Amazing overall sound design.
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 5:22 pm
by Mannyyyyy
thor_beatz wrote:Dead space has great horror sounds. Amazing overall sound design.
have you ever found a dl link for dead space?
i've been searching for so long
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 6:45 pm
by thor_beatz
just get the PC version and find the right folder i'd say. I never ripped any samples from games tho. I like to make them myself these days (in fact it's what I do for a living)
Well.. it really depends on the game, sound formats, compression used, etc.
You can just open files as RAW files in a lot of sound/sample editors. Problem is, you have to try different formats for the data:
-128 - signing on bits with 8-bit samples
-32768 signing on bits with 16-bit samples
stereo or mono samples??
and you've also gotta remember that the developers of games will often use compression tools that are either in-house or not that well known. (Unlike quake's "pk3" files a.k.a - "ZIP" files!!)
If you want to rip stuff from the majority of games you'll need to find data unpackers and all sorts. For some you'll get away with just finding the right file, reading it as raw and getting the data format correct. Some games, hell.. just grab the WAV files
But the all-round answer is... it's not that easy with all games and often requires some games-ripping experience.
Another option (and probably a bit easier) is to try and find a sample ripper that will let you play memory-ranges as if they were samples, and extract them that way. - but i can't find many apps to do that.
Seems like a bit of an ordeal in some cases, no clue about DS(2)
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:12 pm
by Sinisterbeats
ojsmooth wrote:
Sinisterbeats wrote:if anyone has a decent DL link to the half life sounds please post it, Im desperate to get it again but cant find it anywhere. Someone posted it not long ago but it was a painfully slow link, got to about '50 days remaining' and I just cancelled it.
yeah thats the one that got posted last time but its painfully slow, sure last time I got it it didnt take over a month to DL. Anyone got a better source or care to upload it somewhere with a quicker DL?
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:40 pm
by Kamex
Ive found a decent enough sound pack for
Drgaonball z - all the charging noises , move shouts and sound effects
and sonic the hedgehod have used them in a couple of songs very good sounds
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 8:43 pm
by barbearik
I've had a lot of luck with the transformers game series with their sounds
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:52 pm
by Debaser1
This is the one
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 11:28 pm
by darkartois
The Mario anniversary game for the wii comes with an audio cd of all the samples and 8bit soundtracks
lol dbz i make those charge sounds at home microphone in the bathroom and feeding people kebabs
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 1:16 am
by Wrigzilla
Word on the sound design in deadspace, some seriously sick stuff there.
Morrowind had an easily accessible sound folder but most of the sounds were complete arse with maybe one or two lines of dialogue worth sampling. Sacrifice had some cool music/drones to sample (serious respect if you know sacrifice).
Half life has a special space in my heart sampling wise cos I was in this joke band with a couple of mates; we used to stick this mp3 player with a record function in the corner of the room and trigger samples from half life 1 through windows media player while playing really shit guitar stuff.
Wrigzilla wrote:
Sacrifice had some cool music/drones to sample (serious respect if you know sacrifice)..
yeah there's some great stuff in sacrifice but holy hell its such a bitch to extract the sound effects from whatever weird ass format shiny was using back then
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:46 pm
by HomeNoiseRecord
i remember old PS one games, when they were on CD and not DVD, you could load them into a HiFi and play the audio tracks, so if u have old games just try this and trip them to your computer. I know if defo worked with Tomb Raider.
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:02 pm
by sefs
i will literally kill for the sound database from dead space 2.. i tried reading into how to be able to extract the .DAT files that come with dead space.. but i had no succes so far.. if anyone finds it out how to.. please.. please... do tell!
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 10:23 pm
by upstateface
Wrigzilla wrote: Sacrifice had some cool music/drones to sample (serious respect if you know sacrifice).
I just got this a few days ago
Re: Video Game Samples youve found
Posted: Sun Feb 06, 2011 11:45 pm
by Wrigzilla
upstateface wrote:
Wrigzilla wrote: Sacrifice had some cool music/drones to sample (serious respect if you know sacrifice).
I just got this a few days ago
One of my favorite computer games I've played, proper hard learning curve though. Charnel and Stratos are bare jokes.
