Old unrippable game music guide.

[EvaFan]

I'm not taking credit for this guide but i figured other people who have been wanting to edit or just even listen to the old game music that they love, like in my case the old SNES mega man X games music before the crummy music started. If something along these lines has been posted before then forgive me.

The original Guide can be found here:
http://www.geocities.com/mark7home/spctomp3.html

It's kind of outdated and stuffs but more or less follows procedure.

You can get just about any of the games that induces the nostalgia your looking for here:
http://snesmusic.org/v2/

Click on the letter at the top to navigate through the games lists. Find the game you want and click it. Then download the SPC/RSN file.

Assuming you have installed winamp and the SNESamp plugin (LamedropXPd is not needed) you are ready to begin.

Steps 5 and 6 can be skipped by just selecting the "Like the SNES bubble" and step 7 is open for you to mess with. It is for setting timelengths of endless repeating files. I suggest you leave it alone if you don’t know what your doing.

Proceed to step 8 and after clicking configure and setting the output location i suggest you use "Convert to format: IMA ADPCM 44,100kHz, 4bit, stereo" for conversion if you don’t feel like messing around yourself. Everything else can be left the same.

Ok your ready to convert.

Drag the SPC/RSN file onto your playlist and click the play button. The spc/rsn file will decompress and show all the tracks on the playlist as it generates wav files in the location you specified.

After all your converting is done press CTRL+P and set your output back to DirectSound or whatever it was on beforehand. The Disk writer is for creating files / converting only not listening to music.

Enjoy your nostalgia trip. I have been lately with megamanX music... Especially Storm Eagle D:

[EvaFan]

Guess I should mention that you can get the music from sega games and the tools to convert them here:

http://www.zophar.net/

Don't need a guide for that though. Double post due to lack of edit button.