Secret of Mana Sound SPC

Alexander_Q · Post by **Alexander_Q** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:09 am

I've been trying to dump the sound effects from Secret of Mana but have found it exceedingly difficult. I've already downloaded al the spc packs there are but none of them include and of the sword swishing sounds or other varrious sounds I'm after.

Does anyone have these sound effects or could someone with more skill dump them for me?

Cheers.

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:27 am

Have you tried isolating the sound by disabling the sound channels (the F5 to F12 keys) and see if you can just get sound effects?

Alexander_Q · Post by **Alexander_Q** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:30 am

Nice timing, I just finished trying to do that. It seems that some instruments of the bg music and the sword effect are on the same channel, so the spc just dumps the song.

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 2:45 am

Alexander_Q wrote:Nice timing, I just finished trying to do that. It seems that some instruments of the bg music and the sword effect are on the same channel, so the spc just dumps the song.

Yeah. Secret of Mana shares sound channels extensively, and not very well either.

You try SNESSOR?
http://www.snakeyes.org/util/snes.php
I don't think it works excessively well, but it's worth a shot.

Alexander_Q · Post by **Alexander_Q** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:20 am

Thanks, but I tried that too. Strangely, it returns about 42 sounds none of which I recognise from the game at all. Any other suggestions?

juef · Post by **juef** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:14 am

What I'd do is isolate the correct sound channel and record your sound output with any sound recording program, then cut what's before / after the sword sound. Since the sound channel is shared, the musical instrument is gonna stop just for the duration of the sword sound, and you'll only get what you want.

Probably not the best solution but at least it works...

Gil_Hamilton · Post by **Gil_Hamilton** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 5:39 am

juef wrote:What I'd do is isolate the correct sound channel and record your sound output with any sound recording program, then cut what's before / after the sword sound. Since the sound channel is shared, the musical instrument is gonna stop just for the duration of the sword sound, and you'll only get what you want.

Probably not the best solution but at least it works...

Actually, if I recall correctly, it stops for some time afterwards, as the sound effects cancel the music voices they overlap instead of just over-riding them.

Alexander_Q · Post by **Alexander_Q** » Wed Nov 28, 2007 9:24 am

juef wrote:Since the sound channel is shared, the musical instrument is gonna stop just for the duration of the sword sound, and you'll only get what you want.

Cool, that's good news if that is indeed the case. I'll give it a whirl, thanks.

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Yeah, like you said the other sound waits, so I guess that's how I'll have to do it. If anyone comes up with a sound pack or something in the mean time let me know.

BTW, I'm trying to remake Secret of Mana in GameMaker.