Using Video Game Footage - Part 2

Examples of Ripping/Converting/Capturing the Videos

 

Sega Saturn - Shoujo Kakumei Utena

The Shoujo Kakumei Utena game is a bit hard to find for me, but I was able to aquire one on Ebay. Sometimes that site can be expensive. The game comes in a double thick CD case, and includes two CDs, an instruction manual, and an art book full of sketches and art from the game. The first thing I did was put the CD in a computer and I explored the contents of disc 1. On disc one I found a MOVIE directory with the following files.

 Volume in drive D is UTENA
 Volume Serial Number is 371C-537F

 Directory of D:\SSCD\MOVIE

04/20/1998  10:23p                .
04/20/1998  10:23p                ..
04/18/1998  01:01p             778,404 CBAR.CAK
03/26/1998  05:25a           4,514,364 LOGO_ETC.CAK
04/18/1998  01:01p           6,978,396 MVA01.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p             618,676 MVA03.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p           1,114,432 MVA04.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p           2,597,764 MVA06.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p             577,520 MVA07.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p           3,206,920 MVB02.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p           1,346,372 MVC01.CAK
04/18/1998  01:02p           3,581,044 MVC02.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p           4,578,048 MVC03.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p           2,043,080 MVC04.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p           2,250,428 MVC05.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p             128,688 MVD15.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p             129,364 MVD16.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p             126,440 MVD17.CAK
04/18/1998  01:03p             127,388 MVD18.CAK
04/19/1998  06:30p          24,011,584 OPENING.CAK
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_00.ACX
03/26/1998  05:49a             297,756 SL_01.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_02.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_03.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_04.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_05.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_06.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_07.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_08.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_09.ACX
03/26/1998  05:47a             297,756 SL_10.ACX
              29 File(s)     61,984,228 bytes
               2 Dir(s)               0 bytes free
Most Sega Saturn movies are in a CPK format, and it was my guess that the CAK files were the equivalent. I was not able to determine what the ACX were; my guess due to their smaller sizes, is either audio or text. The first thing I did was copy the MOVIE directory to my hard drive. I placed it in V:\Utena\MOVIE. I then copied the cpk2avi.exe application into this directory. Once there, I tried to convert one of the CAK files to an AVI… since my guess was those were the video files.

V:\Utena\MOVIE>cpk2avi MVA01.CAK MVA01.AVI
(370/370)

It worked, the program found the video within the CAK file, and converted it to an AVI. The audio was messed up in the conversion, so I redid the conversion with the “-V” option… for video only.

V:\Utena\MOVIE>cpk2avi -V MVA01.CAK MVA01.AVI
(370/370)

I now have an “original” AVI file. I repeat the process for all of the other CAK files, and move them into their own directory: V:\Utena\Original. These all use the Cinepak CODEC, and I updated the DLL (Iccvid.dll) to the older one found at right step into my System32 directory.

Part 2 continued :  Playstation Example