Ripping and extracting music from N-Gage games

[Igoreshazhu]

Good Day! I have a question: how extract and rip music from N-Gage games, especially games that supported NAX Sound Engine by Shin'en? I also have audio files ".o" from Payload, which uses same soundfont, that used in most games that supported GAX Sound Engine, but sound quality is even worse.

[Igoreshazhu]

Here's unconverted files from Payload: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[Igoreshazhu]

Any luck?

[marklincadet]

Hey there, I asked someone who's very knowledgable about N-Gage in general about this some time back and he suggested asking on The Nokia N-Gage Discord. There's people there who should have knowledge about ripping data, and might be able to help you out.

[Igoreshazhu]

Hey there, I asked someone who's very knowledgable about N-Gage in general about this some time back and he suggested asking on The Nokia N-Gage Discord. There's people there who should have knowledge about ripping data, and might be able to help you out.

Thanks, but i tried, it didn't helped. Nobody answered to me.

[Igoreshazhu]

Finally, i recorded soundtrack from Payload. I hope, that someone can did HQ Rip of this game.

[Igoreshazhu]

Well, i'm also tried extract XMs from Payload using GAXM by Droolie, this tool really didn't supports music files from N-Gage game, despite that GAX-based sound driver.

Also, Gaxtapper by loveemu don't supports N-Gage games, too.

[Igoreshazhu]

I have a idea. Can anyone reverse engineering of Gaxplayer ROM to insert all audio files (.o) from Payload there? Since NAX sound driver is based on GAX.

Gaxplayer ROM can be found through builds, source codes and assets from WayForward games, which uploaded at Archive.org

[Igoreshazhu]

Then I suggested Dr. RNG (aka Blingus, iDog Hacker) to do reverse engineering of Gaxplayer ROM, since he managed to transfer the audio data to the GBASS player ROM by Paragon 5. But he refused because it's not easy.

Here's example of Gaxplayer ROM. Maybe i can rip music using Gaxtapper, if it possible. But that's not possible yet.

[Igoreshazhu]

I recommend to use ROM with 3.05A version, since it seems, that Payload uses port of last-known version.

Note: ROM in previous post uses 3.05 version from The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. It's not a fact that it will work in the previous version.