Guide to selfbooting 45000 LBA DATA/DATA images

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Originally Posted by --=FamilyGuy=--

As far as I can tell, shenmue II speech files are in *.ahx, the ahx code is already know ( to play it, not encode) and it looks like *.adx there's softwares I don't get floating around that can create them. They are pretty much some high;y compressed adx files, wich can,t sound as good as adx for music, but wich are perfect for short speech, since there isn't a billion of notes in 2 or 3 sentences.

you didn't get my point. of course you can extract the adx from the ahx files. but the adx only contain samples of music and speech! yes even the speech is broken down into short samples as it seems. the file that contains the music is only 5MB in size. the rest is all speech and sfx. go ahead and extract free01.afs and you'll end up with 25,000 small sample files for the npc-speech. be my guest and downsample all of those :P

Originally Posted by --=FamilyGuy=--

Maybe to resize/recompress some textures might aswell help.
My motherlanguage is french, so I wouldn't want to rip the french par of it :P

lol i'm german, but i still prefere playing this game in english

anyway, i don't get while people try to cram this and other games on 80min discs. almost all new writers can go beyond 90 or even 95min. 99 and even 100min discs can be easily ordered online and they are dirt cheap!

[--=FamilyGuy=--]

Just to clarify, I meant AHX, not afs, AHX are highly compressed adx and can be even more compressed now with gamecube tools (sega games on GC use ahx and the quality is better fopr a lower bitrate, and someone I know amde a rip of SA2 using the GC files intead of the DC's one to save space)

Also, I think it would be easy to re-encode them all, simply extract hem all, then run like : ahxecoder *.ahx \encoded\*.ahx

Note: ahxencoder isn't a program which exist, it was just a exemple of how I actually often encode files in batch.