Author Topic: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?  (Read 5043 times)

rst

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How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« on: 29 Apr '13 - 14:13 »
I have some audio files from Sega Dreamcast.
Format is .dcs and lighness .wav files.

http://www.4shared.com/archive/shdPZ1ON/test.html

I was unable to play them so can someone to help ?

thx in advance
« Last Edit: 29 Apr '13 - 14:22 by rst »

rst

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #1 on: 5 May '13 - 02:05 »
nobody were able to play the files by some way ?
..or just convert them to other file format...

Dotpitch

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #2 on: 5 May '13 - 09:50 »
Can the WAV-file be played by XMPlay? What's in the DCS-file, text and timings? Could you attach it here?

rst

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #3 on: 16 May '13 - 16:54 »
yes dotpitch, both files were attached in the first message.

dcs file seems to be something as a cue... but not sure.

lets see if you are able to play these files ;)

Knurek

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #4 on: 17 May '13 - 06:34 »
If the files are taken from Evil Twin - Cyprien's Chronicles, there is currently no way of playing them as they stand.

The .dcs files in this game are (standard?) Yamaha AICA ADPCM, you can convert them to GENH and play with VGMStream with these settings:

Input File Format: Yamaha AICA 4-bit ADPCM
Header Skip: 0
Channels: 2
Frequency: 44100
Interleave: 0x4000
No loops

Or if the file plays weird after that, try using these

Input File Format: Yamaha AICA 4-bit ADPCM
Header Skip: 0
Channels: 1
Frequency: 44100
Interleave: 0
No loops
Haven't tried all files yet, so there may be special cases requiring different Frequency/Interleave settings.

Hope this helps.
« Last Edit: 17 May '13 - 06:40 by Knurek »

rst

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #5 on: 9 Jun '13 - 15:18 »
yes Knurek, the files come from this Dreamcast game

anyways, how to convert the files ? can you explain more ?

thx in advance

Knurek

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Re: How to play .dcs + .wav files ?
« Reply #6 on: 9 Jun '13 - 17:47 »
yes Knurek, the files come from this Dreamcast game

anyways, how to convert the files ? can you explain more ?

Use this tool with the settings I mentioned earlier: http://sourceforge.net/projects/vgmtoolbox/
And this plugin to play the files: http://hcs64.com/vgmstream.html