Ghostbusters Video Game - PS2 Audio Extraction

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* Game: Ghostbusters: The Video Game   *
* System: PlayStation 2                *
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* Title: Audio Extraction Guide        *
* Version: 1.0 (7/2/2009)              *
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* Author: Paul Rudoff                  *
* E-Mail: [see Contacting Me section]  *
* Website: http://1shop.bravehost.com  *
* Website: http://spookcentral.cjb.net *
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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01. Introduction & Special Legal Information
02. System Requirements
03. File List
04. Extraction Walkthrough
05. Audio Credits
06. Contacting Me / Quick Answers
07. Revision History
08. Copyright Notice & Disclaimer
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INTRODUCTION
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   *****************************************************************
   *  This guide will only tell you how to extract the audio for   *
   *  your listening pleasure.  It won't tell you how to rebuild   *
   *    the game with new music, because I don't know how to do    *
   *        that, and I don't care to know how to do that.         *
   *****************************************************************

I have been a Ghostbusters fan since I was a little kid, which is going back
over 20 years.  I have run a website entitled "Spook Central: The Ghostbusters
Companion" since August 1996.  I have played just about every Ghostbusters game
ever made.  I am beyond thrilled that Ghostbusters: The Video Game had been
made to finally do justice to the franchise.

I've written several PlayStation 2 audio/music extraction guides, such as for
the Grand Theft Auto games (except for San Andreas), and some of the WWF/WWE
SmackDown! games.  This guide lists of all of the audio I could find on the
game disc, including audio that most people probably could care less about.

* SPECIAL LEGAL INFORMATION *

As far as I know, this is perfectly legal.  You are merely making a backup
copy of what you already own and leaving it on a storage device (hard
drive, CD, etc.) for future use.

However, it is ILLEGAL for you to put any of the audio you have copied
onto the Internet.  This includes, but is not limited to, placing the
sound files as downloads on your personal homepage or a corporate music
collection or sharing the files on a peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing
network such as Kazaa, iMesh, Grokster, etc.  You may NOT distribute these
files between you and other acquaintances through any means whatsoever.

Anything you do as a result of this guide is completely your
responsibility, and neither the author nor any other third party will take
responsibility for your actions.

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SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Along with the Ghostbusters: The Video Game game disc, you will need the
following on/in your computer in order to do the music extraction.

1. A DVD-ROM drive, or any other optical drive that is able to read DVD
   data discs.
2. Microsoft Windows 95 or higher.
3. Three gigabytes of free space on your hard drive.  I don't know what's
   the least you could have to do this, but three gigs would give PLENTY
   of room to do everything with space left over.
4. A copy of the Ghostbusters Pod Unpacker, which you can download from my
   PlayStation page: http://spookcentral.cjb.net/playstation.htm

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FILE LIST
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In the root directory (that's the upper-most area) of the game disc you will
find several files with a .pod extension.  These contain all of the game's
assets: audio, text, textures, etc.  For the purposes of this guide, we are
concerned with the five that contain audio, and the one that contains text
transcriptions of the dialog (assuming you might want that information too).
You should be aware that each line of dialog is stored separately, organized
by who's saying the line.  If you're trying to nab all of the audio from a
cutscene, you'll likely have several files to deal with, each named by speaker,
and thus located all over the place.

* language.pod (6,140,825 bytes) (387 files) (subtitles and other in-game text)
* ps2ensnd.pod (238,299,872 bytes) (6,419 files) (dialog audio in English)
* ps2essnd.pod (243,780,723 bytes) (6,431 files) (dialog audio in Spanish)
* ps2frsnd.pod (247,340,427 bytes) (6,541 files) (dialog audio in French)
* ps2musnd.pod (247,665,175 bytes) (490 files) (background music/score cues)
* ps2sound.pod (64,480,274 bytes) (1,728 files) (background sounds)

[PLEASE NOTE: ps2sound.pod contains a mix of MP3 and SMP audio files.
192 MP3 files and 1,536 SMP files.  We'll ignore the SMP files as I don't
have a proper way to play them yet.]

As you can see, there are a LOT of files contained in each of these .pod files.
There's way too many to list them all here.  Luckily for you, I compiled such a
list and put it on my website, on the page I have devoted to the game.  The link
for it is in the info box at the top on the line "PS2 Version Notes".

http://spookcentral.cjb.net/games_gbvg.htm

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EXTRACTION WALKTHROUGH
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**  MAKE SURE YOU'VE READ THE "SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS" SECTION  **
** NEAR THE TOP OF THIS GUIDE BEFORE YOU PROCEED ANY FURTHER **

This walkthrough assumes that you have a decent knowledge of how to use a
computer.  You don't need to be an expert, though.  I certainly am not :-)

1. Put the game disc into your DVD-ROM drive.

2. Create an empty folder/directory on your hard drive (name it whatever you
like), preferably in a spot that's easy to get to.

3. Extract a copy of the Ghostbusters Pod Unpacker to this directory.

4. When you run the program (Gibbed.Ghostbusters.Unpack.exe), press Extract.

5. Navigate to the game disc and select the .pod file to extract.

6. Now select where on your hard drive you want to extract it to.

Repeat steps 4 through 6 for each .pod file you want to extract/unpack.

The program will extract/unpack ALL of the files in each .pod file using the
directory structure contained therein.

If you want text transcriptions of the dialog, extract/unpack the language.pod
file and open the text files that start with "diag_" in their file names.
The text files, which includes some for languages that don't have audio in the
game, are placed in these directories:

* world\de - German text
* world\du - Dutch text
* world\en - English text
* world\es - Spanish text
* world\fr - French text
* world\it - Italian text

Luckily for PS2 owners, almost all of the audio used in the game is in MP3
format.  Only ps2sound.pod contains a mix of MP3 and SMP audio files.
We'll ignore the SMP files as I don't have a proper way to play them yet.

Most audio programs can read the MP3 format, so you should have no problem doing
a variety of things with these files.  For example, you can use them "as is"
for listening on your computer or a portable MP3 player; or if you have a
CD-RW drive (or "CD burner" as it's sometimes called) and a CD making program
(one probably came with the drive when you bought it), you can put them on an
audio CD so that you can listen to them on an audio CD player.

** REMEMBER **
These files should NOT be shared with friends, uploaded to the Internet or
shared on peer-to-peer networks.  Everything I've told you in this guide
is for YOUR USE ONLY!

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AUDIO CREDITS
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These are the credits as written in the game's end credits.  Compiled from the
PC (realistic) and PS2 (stylized) versions into one central list.

-- VOICE TALENT --

Bill Murray
Dan Aykroyd
Harold Ramis
Ernie Hudson
Annie Potts
William Atherton
Alyssa Milano
Brian Doyle-Murray
Joel Murray
Max von Sydow
Erin Gray
Andre Sogliuzzo (realistic version only)
Fred Tatasciore
Keith Fergusen
Vanessa Marshall
Troy Baker
Travis Willingham
Colleen Clinkenbeard
R. Bruce Elliot
Christopher Sabat
Yuri Lowenthal (realistic version only)
Jason Liebrecht

-- ORIGINAL MUSIC --

Kyle Richards (realistic version only)
Matt Chaney (stylized version only)
Chris Rickwood

-- LICENSED MUSIC --

"Ghostbusters"
Written by Ray Parker, Jr.
Performed by Ray Parker, Jr.
Courtesy of and under license from Raydio Music Corp. and EMI Music Publishing.
All rights reserved.

"Ghostbusters Original Motion Picture Score"
Music Composed and Conducted by Elmer Bernstein
Courtesy of Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc.
Under license from Sony Pictures Music Group and EMI Music Publishing
All rights reserved.

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CONTACTING ME
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For spam reasons I no longer include my e-mail address in my guides.
If you wish to e-mail me, you can easily find my e-mail address here:

http://spookcentral.cjb.net/email.htm

Sorry for the inconvenience.

QUICK ANSWERS TO FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

* No, you may not put this document on your website.  I have decided not to
allow websites other than GameFaqs to host my documents/files.  Please don't
ask, because I will not grant permission.  In order to make sure that my work
is always available in it's most up-to-date form, it is necessary for me to
limit it's distribution to just one site.  I just don't have the time to give
updates to multiple sites. If anyone sees this document on any site other than
GameFaqs, please let me know and I will take care of the situation.  Thanks.

* Everything I know about audio extraction is in this document.  I can't
provide you with any technical support if you run into any problems because, to
reiterate, everything I know is already in this document.  Maybe someone on the
GameFaqs message boards can help you.

* Do not e-mail me asking if I will share any audio files with you.  It is
illegal to do, plus I don't have any files to share.  Everything I extracted
to make the guide has long been deleted.

* I can't help you with audio extraction for any games I did not make guides
for.  If the files on the game disc look similar to the ones used in the games
that my guides cover, then you can try the techniques found in my guides.
Otherwise you're out of luck.  Sorry.

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REVISION HISTORY
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Ver. 1.0 (7/2/2009)
The very first version of this guide.

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COPYRIGHT NOTICE & DISCLAIMER
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This document is copyright 2009 by Paul Rudoff.  Ghostbusters: The Video Game
is copyright 2009 by Atari Interactive, Inc. & Columbia Pictures Industries,
Inc.  This document is not associated with or endorsed by Atari, Columbia
Pictures, Sony, or anyone else involved in the making of the game.

This document may NOT be reproduced, redistributed, sold (in any way,
shape, or form), published in a magazine, or put anywhere on the Internet
EXCEPT at GameFaqs.com.

This copyright notice and disclaimer may be updated by me from time to
time without notice to you.

Any rights expressly and not expressly granted herein are reserved.

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