Thursday, March 29, 2007

A Last Minute Sound Resource

For those who have been having increasing difficultly finding sounds and music for their game from standard resources (library soundbanks etc.) here is another alternative for you.

Since the only limitation we've placed on 'borrowing' sound/music from existing games has been the actual reference and giving of credit to the original source--turning to existing games is therefore a viable option. SO...for those looking for an extra resource, here is game music archive for you to pillage for your last minute needs.

Zophar's Domain

Most 8-bit, 16-bit platforms are covered here--simply download a file, use the appropriate player/exporting tool and you can essentially export music and sound effects from the games of your choice to a usable wav or mp3 file. So if the theme to Battle Clash is ideal or the pellet-shooting sound from Mega Man X fits the bill...this is your opportunity to 'borrow' it for your purposes.

Of course it's ALWAYS better if you just created your own. ;) But hopefully a way to fill in those last minute audio gaps.

2 comments:

Suen said...

Umm just out wondering if anyone knows how to convert these formats to .wav

Unknown said...

Hi there,

these are the steps I went through to get some information and possible a converter for those file types. I didn't download them and use it myself so I can't garuntee if it will work, but it's definitely in the right direction :^)

Check out the definition of minigsf first
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBA_Sound_Format

google - converting minipsf to wav
http://www.zophar.net/winamp/


read the forum, it has some good discussions on this
http://www.gamingw.net/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=7b023bb7ab5fef9872287e1ced3e3bdf&topic=55703.msg953121

check out http://dbpoweramp.com/
Apparently it has a download that converts all audio file types

cheers,

Angelus