Prince of Persia "Warrior Within" - How to play sf

[blbltheworm]

I wrote a litte program which reads the *.fat files of Prince of Persia - Warrior Within and extracts the selected soundfile out of the *.big file.
But now I have a problem:
How can I make this extracted files playable??

Do I have to convert the files, or are they in a playable format??

[sajad]

hello

for play extract files from big packge, you can use "mf audio" software

[blbltheworm]

Ok, thank you, I'm going to look for this program.
But if I want to program such a tool by myselfe, how do I have to konvert the files??

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Hm, is it true that MF Audio is only for Playstation Games??
I'm sorry, but I forgot to tell you that I have only the PC-Version of the Game.
If I'm wrong and the tool is also for the PC-Versien can you send me a link to a download page, because I only found deadlinks.

[sajad]

you can play files extracted with "Awave Studio" or softwares use raw method for playing unknown sound files

download "Awave Studio" from below link :

http://www.fmjsoft.com/

thus mfaudio use raw method for playing unkown sound files.

[blbltheworm]

ok, thank you
I'm going to test this little programm, thank you for the link.
Do you also know how I can watch the cutscenes??
They are *.bik, but the RAD-Tools don't play them. Where is the problem.

And how can I look at the artworks (also *.bik)??

[sajad]

all bik files played with bink player

you can download bink playes of rad game tools web site

iam play bik files prince of persia with bink player

[blbltheworm]

Well, I also tried to play the videos with the current version of the RAD-Tools but Binkplayer told me that this are no playable *.bik files.
So, where is the problem??

Furthermore I found the right wave-format for the data of the *.big-files.
These files are 16-bit mono PCM (signed),
but this are only the sfx and not the real music.
It looks like the backgroundmusic of the game is inside the *.bf file.
But how to get it??

[Rahly]

Prince of Persia files have a small extra header at the top, if you remove this header, you can play them in Bink/RADPlayer

[blbltheworm]

Thank you for the answer.
How long is this special header??
May be it's easy to find this header inside the *.bik-file but I'm not at home at the moment and so I can't try to seek this special header.

And what about the artworks?? Are they also *.bik-movies??

[sajad]

you can extract correct bik file from video folder with use software

FMV-Extractor

you can download from below link :

http://www.necrotech.de/software/fmv/index.html

you use software for extract bik from *.bik files into video folder (all files into video folder)

[blbltheworm]

It works!!!
fmv-explorer showed me where the real bik-file begins and I wrote a little program which extrated all Artworks. After all I converted them with the RAD-Tools to *.jpgs.
Great!!
Now I'm going to try to extract the music with fmv-extractor 1.3.
If it doesn't work I'll tell you .

[blbltheworm]

It's me again it doesn't work
So how can extract the music out of the prince.bf file??
Can you help me??
Any tool or any tip?

[Rahly]

music isn't in the prince.bf, like BG&E, its in the Sound.big file, i have a big file extractor on my site, eventually, i'm going to make a plugin for Mexcom.

[blbltheworm]

Oh, that's great because I already have written a *.bf-extractor.
Are the musicfiles also PCM-signed 16 bit or has the music another formate than the sfx-sounds??

[Rahly]

http://www.terrygoodkind.net/~rahly/bgae.php are programs that allow you to extract from BIG and BF files.