DKC Atlas Forum

TheUltimateKoopa wrote:If you've heard of GBAMusRiper, you'll know what I'm talking about, if not, it's hard to explain, but basically, it rips high quality samples from GBA games, makes a soundfont, rips MIDIs from the game, and then with BASSMIDI and the MIDI foobar plugin, allows you to hear GBA Music in really high quality.

I hadn't heard of that software/technique, but you described it well — I totally understand.

Pretty amazing that this can be done... so it's basically just taking what's already there in the game, and running it all through a superior sound engine, beyond what the GBA's hardware was capable of? I guess it's not too surprising that it's possible to achieve a higher quality result, as the GBA was a pretty obvious step backwards from the SPC700 sound chip present in the SNES. I would've thought the waveform samples themselves were of significantly lower quality in order to save space on those little cartridges... but apparently not!

A shame this can't be done with the DKC's I agree — especially DKC3, of course. Maybe someday GBAMusRiper will ripen further, and allow such possibilities.

Sorry for the huge bump, but this has been bugging me

TheUltimateKoopa wrote:as heard in the GSF rips

Where could I find said GSF rips?
I can only get GSFs for the first DKC GBA, the other two are no where to be found.

And I've spent hours searching for them!

DKC2:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/q17bl4lalg82x25/Donkey_Kong_Country_2_[Super_Donkey_Kong_2]_(2004)(Rare,_Nintendo).zip

DKC3:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/vjd8wea3gj45bu4/Donkey_Kong_Country_3_[Super_Donkey_Kong_3]_(2005)(Rare,_Nintendo).zip

Thanks so much!

Qyzbud wrote:

TheUltimateKoopa wrote:If you've heard of GBAMusRiper, you'll know what I'm talking about, if not, it's hard to explain, but basically, it rips high quality samples from GBA games, makes a soundfont, rips MIDIs from the game, and then with BASSMIDI and the MIDI foobar plugin, allows you to hear GBA Music in really high quality.

I hadn't heard of that software/technique, but you described it well — I totally understand.

Pretty amazing that this can be done... so it's basically just taking what's already there in the game, and running it all through a superior sound engine, beyond what the GBA's hardware was capable of? I guess it's not too surprising that it's possible to achieve a higher quality result, as the GBA was a pretty obvious step backwards from the SPC700 sound chip present in the SNES. I would've thought the waveform samples themselves were of significantly lower quality in order to save space on those little cartridges... but apparently not!

A shame this can't be done with the DKC's I agree — especially DKC3, of course. Maybe someday GBAMusRiper will ripen further, and allow such possibilities.

I myself have used it to rip theusic from Aladdin (Capcom replaced both of Alan Menken's songs with original music) and Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas Pumpkin King (TOSE did a good job adapting Danny Elfman's score)

I actually think that the GBA soundtrack is better than the original by Eveline Novakovic? What does everyone else think?

I like the original best.

Thanks for your opinion, super Luigi!

Tim Stamper released these tracks to the public! Amazing! Great find Qyzbud!

Edit: I saw that it was an anonymous RARE employee! Whoever did it, it was really appreciated!