Ok, to start off you're gonna need a couple things
- NCSF/miniNCSF files of the game you want to rip
[!] You can get these files on-line thru websites like Zophar's Domain or HCS (vgm.hcs64.com)
[!] If your game does NOT have any NCSF rips on the internet, you're gonna need NDStoNCSF.
- NCSF2WAV: This is the program that's gonna rip the stems as wav (duh)
[i] I recommend putting everything into a single folder for convenience.
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This is if you need to use NDStoNCSF
If not, just ignore
[!] You will need a ROM of the game you want to rip
Go to the address bar of the folder where your files are and type "cmd" to launch the command prompt.
Type "ndstoncsf.exe [gameRom.nds]"
The program will generate a folder with the name "[gameRom]_NDStoNCSF". You got your files now.
[i] I recommend shortening the names to something like "SEQ_blablabla" just so they're easier to work with (not needed tho)
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Now, make a copy/move NCSF2WAV where you got your NCSFs
This program cannot rip everything in 1 go, so you'll need to write a quick batch file if you don't want to copy and paste the same command 100000000 times
You're gonna copy this string onto a notepad and then save the file as a .bat:
ncsf2wav --solo [CHANNELNUMBER] [NAME.minincsf] channel[NUMBER].wav
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These are the most basic export settings which should be good enough to hear panning stuff, pitchbends or get some sounds that break thru VGMTrans
Here's a quick explanation of what this string does
"--solo [CHANNELNUMBER]": Only extracts the specific channel number that is given
[i] To see the amount of channels a song has you could import a midi from VGMTrans onto FL Studio and see how many channels there are thru that
"[NAME.minincsf]": Name of your NCSF
"channel[NUMBER].wav": Output file name, feel free to change it to whatever you want.
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After you set up your batch file, it should look similar to this:
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Save & close
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Last step is just launching the .bat file and it should begin exporting the stems
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and you're done.
[!] [i] Something that you need to know is that this program exports the stems out of sync so you'll have to rearraange them manually in your daw
Enjoy getting sendbacks from SiIvaGunner CoQ!
-bricklander
