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Question on the sounds

Submitted by Raymus on Sat, 2015-08-15 20:32

I know it's possible to just un-tank most of the files in DS, but... Where do I find all the sound effects? I need them for a project I'm working on (Involving replacing most/all of the cartoony sound effects in another game I play)
Moreso, will I need to convert them to a format that I can use? .Wav or .Mp3 are what I'm looking for. Anyone help with this..?
Yes, I want most if not all of the sound effects. All I need his help finding them and, if I can't do it myself with the program I have, converting them.

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Submitted by iryan on Sun, 2015-08-16 06:40

All the sounds in the game can be found in the Sound.dsres for DS1 or Sound1.ds2res for DS2 located in the resources folder of each game.

Simply untank them like any resource tank with Tank Viewer or the Toolkit. All the sound effects are already in wav format and are found in sound/effects folder for DS1 and sound/environmental/sub-folders for DS2.

The wav files are at 352kbps which may or may not be suitable for what you want. Certainly when using sounds from other sources in DS2 I've often had to convert them to the right format (even if they were already wav files). There are a number of programs available on the net for this but one I've used is Switch Sound File Converter, which is free to use for non-commercial use (the program asks you to confirm this everytime it starts). It can be downloaded from here http://www.nch.com.au/switch/support.html and seems to work fine in Windows 10.
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Submitted by Raymus on Mon, 2015-08-17 23:42

It really helps a lot.
Although I can't believe I forgot the Sound1/2.ds2res was right there waiting for me to crack it open. I guess it just didn't click for some reason, Lmao. And it's convenient as hell that they're already in .Wav for me. Too bad so many of the effects aren't named anything specific so I really have to go rooting through them in the thousands to find what I want. Worth it, though. Just a lot of clicking.
A funny note.. Why in the DS2 sounds are the original main menu sounds from the first game still there? I swear, I don't remember hearing those in DS2 but there they are in the GUI section.
Lot of neat sounds, I honestly believe there is enough here to totally replace the Sound Effects for the game I'm playing.

It's called Wonderland Online, by the by. VERY anime MMO, and the only MMO I ever liked (Funny considering I don't like MMO's nor anime) just the music has gotten old and so have the sound effects. Time for something cooler. I eventually plan to also replace the GUI in that game with a Skyrim-Esque one (Only because Skyrim's UI is easy to copy/paste wherever I need and is incredibly basic) however I have no idea what to do for most of the Icons in the game. Might just recolor them black/white and leave it at that? We'll get to that eventually, I suppose.

Again, thanks!
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Submitted by iryan on Tue, 2015-08-18 03:46

Raymus wrote:
It really helps a lot.

A funny note.. Why in the DS2 sounds are the original main menu sounds from the first game still there? I swear, I don't remember hearing those in DS2 but there they are in the GUI section.
Lot of neat sounds, I honestly believe there is enough here to totally replace the Sound Effects for the game I'm playing.

Again, thanks!


You're welcome.

As for the unused sounds, DS2 includes a lot of assets from DS1 that aren't used anywhere. For instance all the terrain textures from DS1 are there but not the actual nodes. I guess a lot of it was place holders while they made better textures? Which was then left in the game rather than being removed? Possibly the retail release of DS2 could have been smaller than it ended up if they removed every last piece of unused legacy DS1 assets.
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