how to get music off of a video game?

Question

one time my friend got music off of a video game that was in the game (i think it was a play station 2 game) and he some how got it on his computer and burned it to a cd.. does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

There are a few methods these work for almost any console video games (#1 and 2 don't work for cartridges IE N64)...not just PS2.

1) Direct CD audio copy
Just copy the CD audio tracks off the PS2 DVD (put the DVD in your computer's DVD drive). Download and a program such as CDex (completely free). Note this only works if the PS2 music tracks are in CD audio format.

2) Digital audio format copy
This only works if the music is in a "normal" digital audio format like .mp3, .ogg, .wav, or .aac. Simply put the PS2 DVD in your DVD drive and look for files with those extensions and copy them. The use a player like Winamp to play them.

3) Audio jack (analog) copy (causes some quality loss)
This basically means you take the audio cables (usually yellow and white at the ends) and use a y-adapter to convert them into a phono jack that you can plug into the line-in or microphone plugs/holes on your soundcard.
Then you use a program like sound recorder (sndrec32.exe...it comes with windows) to record the music (as you play it off your PS2) and save it to a wave sound file on your PC.

4) Software reader:
Some games have WEIRDLY named audio formats (like XM/MOD, or ones with their own extensions). To play these just copy them (like in #2), and then find software for them. For example here is a program that changes several odd audio formats to ones your PC can understand (wav, mp3, etc.):

http://www.fileplanet.com/164521/160000/fileinfo/Game-Audio-Player

5) Find the exact same song used in the game on peer-to-peer (p2p = peer-to-peer: programs like Limewire, Ares, etc.) The quality is often much worse and it does not work for songs you can not find the name of or are not popular (and unless you are looking for music from popular games, there is a good chance you won't be able to find it on p2p)

Best luck. :-)

Answer 2

File sharing programs like Limewire or Ares. I have downloaded songs from Halo and Final Fantasy that way.

Answer 3

twiddling with out music would not sense appropriate. the ambience of the sport must be "appropriate" to confirm that it to no longer sense empty with out music. some videogames have, extremely easily, very forgettable soundtracks. mutually with my contemporary playthrough of Gears of conflict 3. i do no longer undergo in suggestions a single piece of music for the duration of the great sport. yet different video games have an excellent form of paintings placed into their soundtracks. and that i'm no longer able to think of enjoying them with out any style of soundtrack in any respect. mutually with steel equipment reliable, pink lifeless Redemption, and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. In those video games, the soundtracks are finely adapted to greater healthful the ambience as an inherent part of the sound layout. The Alert music in MGS, the ambient western violin and whistling of RDR on an identical time as driving for the duration of the desolate tract, and the increasing stress music of HR while sneaking previous a team of guards. in my opinion, soundtracks can on occasion be my maximum widespread part of a sport. And is going a protracted thank you to helping the ambience to a videogame. If an excellent form of paintings replaced into placed into it, it somewhat is something that i in my opinion get exhilaration from. till the music is uninspired and forgettable, or on occasion non-existent. then I won't likely suggestions enjoying my very own music over the action instead.

Answer 4

If you know the name of the song I'd try LimeWire. I downloaded a bunch of songs from movies and stuff there. If you don't know I'd try going to the games website and then checking out their soundtrack or google what you do know, look for it, then go to LimeWire.