Ripping Audio off of PS2 (Bemani) Games

CatchyPhraseOwen

Hey, I want to get some songs off of my Pop'n Music 8, but I have no idea how it's done. I know you can do it by using some program of sorts and getting the songs off of the game, but I really have no clue as to how I'd go about doing this. I've Googled it too, but no luck. Any help?
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dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003

You'll need a program like Goldwave

and a thingamabob to take those audio plugs from your PS2 and plug them into your mic-in headphone jack on your PC. Radio Shack has 'em.

Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:42 pm Post subject:

As a veteren ripper, I'm sorry to tell you that the Pop'n games are pretty much impossible to rip from.

First of all, you can't just "rip" the whole songs off of ANY Keysounded Bemani (like Pop'n, BM, or IIDX, etc where you PLAY the notes).

The farthest you would get would be ripping the "background" music. It would sound like as if you played the song without pressing any of the keys.

Aside from that, people have tried (including me) to rip from the Pop'n games, to make BMS files for the simulators.

When you rip the sound.dat pack from Pop'n 6 and above, you get about 100,000+ dummy files that ARE meant to freeze your computer. Only about 1,000 of those files are actually sounds used in Pop'n. With Pop'n 8, you can probably triple this amount.

I'll spare you the rest of the technical info and just end it with this:

You're better off to buy the OSTs, as rare as those are.
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StarCreator · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jan 2002 Location: Maryland, USA

You can still get some of the osts from, say, cdjapan.co.jp or yesasia.com.

The best chance of ripping music directly from pop'n 8 is to set it to auto play in free training mode, then record it via line-in. Optimally, you'd want some way to get a digital audio capture for this - I'm not sure what exactly would be involved in getting output from that optical port into a PC though, unless you have a sound card that has an optical input.

Bemanistyle already did this for all the console-exclusive songs, though, and the rest of the songs are on the OST. The songs sound much more balanced in the OST anyways...
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dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003

Who needs output from an optical port?

Every sound card has a mic-in jack. Buy a prong that'll take the L and R Audio plugs from any ol' PS composite cord set and use that convertor to put the plugs into the mic-in jack.

Set the game to auto-play and play the music on Goldwave. That easy.

No need to buy soundtracks.

djp -bemanistyle- · Trick Member Joined: 15 Aug 2002 Location: Anaheim, CA

Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:17 am Post subject:

dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003

Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Syxx · Trick Member Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Location: Chicagoland

65 bucks for a game then then 25 to 30 bucks for the soundtrack isn't my idea of a good time. Rip away.
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Larrikin · Contributor Joined: 17 Feb 2002 Location: Illadelphia

The ripped versions sound terrible compared to the real thing
Compare DJ B's 9th style game version to the real thing. DJ's are all off sounding and alot of song I hated from 9th are actually really good songs when you hear the OST. Just suck it up and spend the money.
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dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003

SLdK · Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2004 1:07 pm Post subject:

i know this thread is old but i want to know how to rip the music off DDRE import and not pop'n if that makes any difference at all using a program of some sort on the computer. If it's possible
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dog$ · Trick Member Joined: 02 Jul 2003

SLdK · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

is there any other ways?
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Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 11:50 am Post subject:

SLdK · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 2:29 pm Post subject:

i cant seem to find it on zophar, matches for "ps2 and ps2 ripper" came out to zero matches
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Andy the happy mod-man · Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

Catastrophe · Trick Member Joined: 04 Mar 2002 Location: Worcester, MA

If you're too poor to spend just $1/song importing a Bemani OST then I think that ripping/recording the music from MAX2US and buying a copy of TaQ's Bounce Connected album from Bemanistyle would also be acceptable. Just at the very least keep buying KOA's games so that they can make more and hopefully someday also their matching soundtracks. And the same for IIDX 7th CS. Support Naoki, Taka, or whoever makes your favorite music.

And this ripping question has been answered in the console forum no less than half a dozen times by myself and surely dozens of times by lots of other people as well. Long story short, vb2rip works on just about every modern Konami game and especially on the Bemani series.

And if you want to buy TaQ's album I'm sure its still $35. PM DJP. *points up*