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Crisp

01-31-2008, 05:15 PM

I found out about this long ago, but decided to post about it now.

A FMV (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_motion_video) is pre-recorded animation in a video game. (example: Kingdom Hearts's openings)

All cutscenes in Re: Chain of Memories are FMV's. This includes all scenes in Destiny Island and Twilight Town worlds, and between floors in Castle Oblivion (with voice acting).
There's a total of 104 separate video files, which take up more than 2.40 GB of space on the game disk! The total size of the disk is 4.12 GB.
Anyone, with the game and proper computer programs, can rip (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping) these videos to their computer.

The thing is, is that the PAR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_aspect_ratio) is 22:15 (320x352). This means that the image would look like this (http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/3647/69175915xw6.png), instead of this (http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/9438/75596846el0.png), if the video wasn't stretched out when played. I sure this was an attempt to compress space.

I was surprised when I realized I wasn't watching real-time animation; makes me admire the animation goodness even more in this installment of KH. Square really took their time on the animation on this one (it's more than half the game, literally).

Proof of ripped video (http://s157.photobucket.com/albums/t79/Roxllen/?action=view&current=089.flv) (no subtitles)

Yay for parentheses and links to Wikipedia!

Tib

01-31-2008, 05:29 PM

But if they are all pre-recorded.
How is it possible that we can see the keyblade that me use or a other weapon?

Crisp

01-31-2008, 05:33 PM

But if they are all pre-recorded.
How is it possible that we can see the keyblade that me use or a other weapon?

This form is under Re: Chain of Memories. In this game, you always use the same weapon: The Kingdom Key

Edit: Correction, The Kingdom Key for Sora and the Way to Dawn for Riku

Catch the Rain

01-31-2008, 06:04 PM

Thanks much Roxllen (:

<3 Nice work

Crisp

01-31-2008, 10:00 PM

I will have all 104 videos uploaded for your AMV editing and viewing needs.
I don't know when it will be finished, but I probably might have the videos all in split ZIP files since there's so many.
The videos will have the same level of quality as my other videos I have uploaded (also updating those videos as well).

Destiny's Force

01-31-2008, 10:27 PM

s_rank90

02-01-2008, 01:08 AM

Crisp

02-01-2008, 03:42 AM

whats the file extension, .pss? pss video files tend to be very large to make up for high quality. but then again...the individual cutscenes aren't that long anyway. can you give a list of tools that you use to rip them?

Audio is unplayable when you extract it directly from the PSS file.
I'm going to convert and shrink them to AVI files, so that they can be a more comfortable overall file size. Extracting audio is a difficult task if you don't already know it, so I will do it for you.

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Here are the tools you would need, in the order I use them:

DVD Decrypter
TheFileSplitter
Nova Software Extractor
PSS_demux
WinHex
VirtualDub
Switch
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
VirtualDubMod
---

If you need to know about the steps taken, I'll PM you my procedure.

eastercat

02-01-2008, 04:18 AM

Crisp....you are definately the mastah of disecting games, >=D

s_rank90

02-03-2008, 12:59 AM

Audio is unplayable when you extract it directly from the PSS file.
I'm going to convert and shrink them to AVI files, so that they can be a more comfortable overall file size. Extracting audio is a difficult task if you don't already know it, so I will do it for you.

---
Here are the tools you would need, in the order I use them:

DVD Decrypter
TheFileSplitter
Nova Software Extractor
PSS_demux
WinHex
VirtualDub
Switch
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
VirtualDubMod
---

If you need to know about the steps taken, I'll PM you my procedure.

have most of the above except the sharewares mentioned above; kinda realise how i cant even carry out this procedure in the first place. oh well thanks for your time...
*by the way, are there other tools that can extract other files within the games intead like sounds and models/animations? (whats "PM" mean?)

Shiki

02-03-2008, 04:27 AM

Crisp

02-03-2008, 04:46 AM

First s_rank PM means he will Private Message you

ON topic, crisp, if you were to go to a video editing program then can't you just add the voice-over's from the subtitled ones (IE like adding some music when making videos)

I've already converted the audio and multiplexed it with the videos. I'm uploading them as we speak. It will take quite a while.

Shiki

02-03-2008, 04:27 PM

I've already converted the audio and multiplexed it with the videos. I'm uploading them as we speak. It will take quite a while.

So when I posted that you had already considered that?

Well at least I put my 2 cents in ^^;

Crisp

02-03-2008, 04:37 PM

So when I posted that you had already considered that?

Well at least I put my 2 cents in ^^;

Yes, thanks anyways xD.

My Internet keeps skipping, meaning that sometimes it just stops working for a minute, then starts working again. This is keeping me from uploading the files. =/ This is forcing me to split the file eight ways just to upload it.

And I made a short parody out of them from the boredom. =D
I'll make a separate thread for it.

Shiki

02-03-2008, 04:52 PM

Yes, thanks anyways xD.

My Internet keeps skipping, meaning that sometimes it just stops working for a minute, then starts working again. This is keeping me from uploading the files. =/ This is forcing me to split the file eight ways just to upload it.

And I made a short parody out of them from the boredom. =D
I'll make a separate thread for it.

Sorry about the internet....

Anyways....

Can you do this to other games as well? (Just wondering)

Luka

02-04-2008, 06:15 PM

Wow Roxllen that seems awesome dude 8D

s_rank90

02-05-2008, 02:29 AM

sweet!!! :) by the way, some .pss files found in other games works fully with media player classic for some reason, though i didn't test all of them.

Destiny's Force

02-05-2008, 07:19 AM

Hmm... I don't see why not. Think I should request if they could be "official?"

I haven't looked at them yet, but if these come straight from the discs without subtitles, the quality is surely better than anything else out there, right? And since all we have are Japanese subtitles cluttering up the screen, I know there's a lot of people who would prefer the non-subtitled ones to the Japanese titled.

I say go for it. ;)

Xendran

02-06-2008, 05:29 PM

thats kinda cool ^_^

Crisp

02-13-2008, 01:05 PM

Okay, I converted all the videos in WMV format so they could be added to the cutscene archive. Windows media video will still retain the good quality, but still have small file sizes. I was told that spdude will add the videos in the next few days or so, but I'll give you the download links now.

recom_opening.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+openingwmv/;9592922;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor1.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor1wmv/;9593022;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement12.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement12wmv/;9596689;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor2.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor2wmv/;9593062;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement11.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement11wmv/;9596765;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor3.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor3wmv/;9593101;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement10.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement10wmv/;9596792;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor4.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor4wmv/;9593112;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement9.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement9wmv/;9596818;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor5.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor5wmv/;9593162;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement8.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement8wmv/;9597016;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor6.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor6wmv/;9593235;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement7.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement7wmv/;9597136;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor7.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor7wmv/;9593305;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement6.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement6wmv/;9597168;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor8.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor8wmv/;9593351;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement5.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement5wmv/;9597214;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor9.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor9wmv/;9593405;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement4.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement4wmv/;9597315;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor10.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor10wmv/;9593468;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement3.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement3wmv/;9597528;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor11.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor11wmv/;9593633;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement2.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement2wmv/;9597762;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor12.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor12wmv/;9593731;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_basement1.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+basement1wmv/;9597882;/fileinfo.html)

recom_floor13.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+floor13wmv/;9598276;/fileinfo.html) · recom_rr_ending.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+rr+endingwmv/;9597965;/fileinfo.html)

recom_ending.wmv (http://files.filefront.com/recom+endingwmv/;9594245;/fileinfo.html)

Here's a comparison from the video quality:

http://img169.imageshack.us/img169/4518/snag0004tv8.png

Enjoy!

Zeftnon - The Superior

02-15-2008, 10:01 AM

Nice. Really great quality. Is this achievable with the other KH games?

Crisp

02-15-2008, 11:43 AM

Nice. Really great quality. Is this achievable with the other KH games?

Yes, but only for the game's FMV's, i.e. the games' openings and endings.

Repliku

02-19-2008, 07:27 AM

Now if only someone could do those Reverse Rebirths with some subs so I can understand what they are saying. However, I must commend you that these look much better than the videos up already. The only thing we seem to be missing really from KH-Vids section is the remaining RR in subbed. I almost had my hopes up that these were it!!! But still, I am very impressed at how much better these videos are in detail.

Destiny's Force

02-19-2008, 04:25 PM

Watch. Anyone who wants the best quality KH:Re:CoM cutscenes will come flocking over here to KH-vids, making us come one step closer to taking over the KH world! Mwa ha ha! :sly:

But seriously, that's pure eye candy. Maybe since we're the only ones who have it, this'll increase the forum's members ten-fold. :xp:

Mushi-shi

05-03-2008, 02:23 PM

Hello everyone! First of all pardon me for my english. It's terrible, I know. :stupid:

I'm trying to adjust the WMV video 'cause they are not so good. The original AspectRatio (I will refer to this concept writing "AR" in the rest of the post) is a kind of 16:9, but the linked WMV have an AR of 4:3.
As you can see thechracters seem to be "taller", and the circles (like the shield or the keybade's mouse pendant) become oval. I'm tryng to recompress these WMV using Avisynth and the XviD codec and setting the corret AR, these are the results.

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9683/khcomxvid01ir7.png

http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/6165/khcomxvid02pr9.png

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/9010/khcomxvid03kj8.png

http://img176.imageshack.us/img176/9666/khcomxvid04rh2.png

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/3324/khcomxvid05ec9.png

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/6816/khcomxvid06zh5.png

http://img396.imageshack.us/img396/9903/khcomxvid07rw6.png

Tech Datas

DivX DRF Analyzer v0.9.5 Report!
File Name: D:\KH_CoM_Floor_1_XviD_Test2.avi
FourCC: XVID
Codec: XviD0046
Resolution: [ Width: 592 Height: 352 ]
Frame Rate: 25.000 frames per second
The Video has 13114 frames [ 00:08:44 ]

Average Frame quality is HIGH [Average DRF/quantizer is 3.13]
Standard Deviation: Quality is HIGH [Std. Deviation is 0.64]
Image Resolution is MEDIUM

There are NO frame drops ( NO drops is better )

Recomended Resolution: [544x320] (Target DRF/quantizer=2.8)

Performance Caracteristics:
Macroblocks per frame: 814
The Width is not multiple of 32. May degrade performance in some systems.

Kilobits per Second: 807.29
Kilobits per Frame: 32.25
Kilobits per Macroblock: 0.040
Bits per Pixel: 0.16

Frame Type Statistics :
I Frames: 0.79%
P Frames: 35.54%
B Frames: 63.66%
S Frames: 0.00%
N Frames: 0.00%
(More Advanced Codecs use B and S frames)
Frame Quality Statistics :

DRF=1&2: 1837 14.1%
DRF=3: 7515 57.8%
DRF=4: 3658 28.1%
DRF=5: 0 0.0%
DRF=6: 0 0.0%
DRF=7: 0 0.0%
DRF=8: 0 0.0%
DRF=9: 0 0.0%
DRF>9: 0 0.0%
KeyF/DeltaF: 0.80%
KeyDRF<4: 104
KeyDRF=4: 0
KeyDRF>4: 0

AverageKeyDRF: 2.26
MAXDRF: 4
AverageDRF: 3.13
Deviation: 0.64

http://www.geocities.com/analyzerDRF/

As you can see there is a huge lost of detail, caused by the "enlargement" of the picture. But If I could use the original source of the video I think the result may be much better.
If you are interested in my project (which results I will share with you all) I ask you to let me have access to the original untouched video sources.

See ya (I hope) very soon! :woohoo:

~.Only.Twilight.~

11-07-2008, 08:00 PM

Hey, some of the downloads links don't work. :/

The ones that don't work are the opening,

floor1,
floor3,
floor5,
floor6,
floor8,
floor9,
floor11,
floor12,
floor13,
recom ending,
basement12,
basement4,
basement3,
basement2,
basement1,
And the rr ending.
Could you sort out this problem?

Repliku

11-07-2008, 08:24 PM

If you could fix some of your links, if they aren't up, I will personally bug spdude to make sure they go up. You did a lot of great work on these so if they get fixed, I'd love to see them shown on the site.

EvilMan_89

11-07-2008, 08:47 PM

having no subtitles is ideal for parodies and AMV making.

Crisp

11-15-2008, 01:53 AM

childofturin

12-06-2008, 02:31 AM

So, the links do not work right now, cause you are re-uploading them? Am I right?

Also, are these in english, or japanese?

iwantedtoexplode

12-06-2008, 08:20 PM

Nice. Really great quality. Is this achievable with the other KH games?

Actually, in a way, it can be, it won't be a direct rip, though. Don't count on this happening, because people probably wouldn't want to re-record all of the cutscenes, but there is a cheat code that can be used to remove subtitles.

Vinyourg

12-07-2008, 10:39 PM

Not to be an arse, (but I bet I am :D) but what am I doing wrong if I click the download links and get redirected to the filefront homepage? I'd like to download these cutscenes as early as I can.

iwantedtoexplode

12-19-2008, 08:18 PM

I tried to rip the video files from the North American Re:CoM, but it looks like those files, along with others, are hidden. Even though the disk is 4.12 GB, there are less than 4 MB worth of files.

All I can see is:

MODULES (folder containing "IOPRP310.IMG")
SLUS_217.99
SYSTEM.CNF

Anyone know what I can do to get the other files to show up?

EvilMan_89

12-19-2008, 11:41 PM

you need a program to do that, but i don't know which ones

TGA

12-20-2008, 05:08 AM

Sorry for not realizing that you guys posted in here!

About Mushi-shi's concerns, you're right, 4:3 is the incorrect aspect ratio. After using a video capture device to capture some cutscenes, I now believe Kingdom Hearts plays them at an aspect ratio of 1.53:1. I'll fix then reupload them at once.

I know this was over a month ago... but are you still going to re-upload these?

I had actually downloaded some of the cutscenes from this topic to watch at my leisure and they were nothing short of gorgeous. But many of my files were deleted recently, and I had been looking for this topic again, though I figured that the links would be dead anyway...

AntiWeapon

12-24-2008, 07:20 AM

Carey would know how to rip the files.

As for converting them to avi not 100% how to pull that off. But ill look into it.

Shiki

12-27-2008, 10:52 AM

I guess, we won't be able to download these then now?

Soraoscuro

12-27-2008, 01:18 PM

Carey would know how to rip the files.

As for converting them to avi not 100% how to pull that off. But ill look into it.

Those files are PSS files, they can be demultiplexed into an Avi and a Wav file in order to paste them as a perfect avi video with the maximum quality.

xCareyy

12-27-2008, 02:20 PM

square enix stores the audio for the video games as a seperate file.
the game runs the video through a pss file.
audio through a vag file.
and subtitles through bin files.

thats why there is no audio/subtitles in the extracted vids.

guardiansoulblade

12-31-2008, 09:43 PM

How do you open .vag files?

iwantedtoexplode

01-25-2009, 09:41 PM

Crisp

03-04-2009, 06:15 PM

Sorry to bump this, but I've made some progress. I've been able to rip all of the video files on to my computer in an mpeg format. As stated before, the video, audio and subtitles are stored as separate files. Can someone list the programs needed to rip the .vag files from the disk?

Heya, still need help? Seeing as you already have uploaded some ripped ReCoM cutscenes for download, it doesn't look like you do. I've never heard of such vag files for the audio, just the audio that comes with the pss file.

As a update, I've uploaded my own ripped English cutscenes of ReCoM.
You can find the English ones here (http://hosted.filefront.com/Roxllen/2375715), in avi format stored in a zipped file.
And original Japanese here (http://hosted.filefront.com/Roxllen/2322551), in wmv.

xCareyy

03-04-2009, 07:31 PM

the audio isn't demuxed i believe.
it is in a wav file, it just has no header.
incase none fixed that yet.

iwantedtoexplode

03-04-2009, 10:41 PM

the audio isn't demuxed i believe.
it is in a wav file, it just has no header.
incase none fixed that yet.

Yeah, I actually figured that out XD The thing is, the only header I found distorted the audio by decreasing the speed (affects both tempo and pitch). I had to play around with that to make it sound normal. The problem is that when I change the pitch using Sony Vegas, the audio glitches up in the first few seconds.

Thanks to both of you, but the only thing I really need help with is finding a .wav header that doesn't distort the audio.

Oh, and Crisp, is that the correct aspect ratio for ReCoM (used in your videos), or is it a guess? It looks a little off to me.

Crisp

03-04-2009, 11:00 PM

Yeah, I actually figured that out XD The thing is, the only header I found distorted the audio by decreasing the speed (affects both tempo and pitch). I had to play around with that to make it sound normal. The problem is that when I change the pitch using Sony Vegas, the audio glitches up in the first few seconds.

I have the header that you could use that will not change the speed of the wav file.

52 49 46 46 34 42 26 00 57 41 56 45 66 6D 74 20 20 00 00 00 70 02 02 00 80 BB 00 00 50 46 00 00 80 01 00 00 0E 00 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 64 61 74 61 CC 95 A7 02

Found out about that recently, thanks to AnimeMusicVideos.org.

Oh, and Crisp, is that the correct aspect ratio for ReCoM (used in your videos), or is it a guess? It looks a little off to me.

Educated guess. I studied the aspect ratio of Kingdom Hearts cutscenes by capturing them with a capture card. Though the aspect ratio used is from KHII, not ReCoM. Not sure is they're the same or not.

iwantedtoexplode

03-04-2009, 11:21 PM

I have the header that you could use that will not change the speed of the wav file.

52 49 46 46 34 42 26 00 57 41 56 45 66 6D 74 20 20 00 00 00 70 02 02 00 80 BB 00 00 50 46 00 00 80 01 00 00 0E 00 01 00 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 64 61 74 61 CC 95 A7 02

Found out about that recently, thanks to AnimeMusicVideos.org.

Educated guess. I studied the aspect ratio of Kingdom Hearts cutscenes by capturing them with a capture card. Though the aspect ratio used is from KHII, not ReCoM. Not sure is they're the same or not.

Heh heh, thanks for that, it works like a charm! ^^

And I'm not sure, but from looking at the original Japanese cutscenes on this site, the aspect ratio is a little different. *shrugs* I think I'm just picky XD

Crisp

03-04-2009, 11:56 PM

Your video's aspect ratio might be the correct one after all. I checked the cutscenes in the video archive, and I found they match closely to your AR. I used to think it was that too, why did I change my mind? It makes more sense that it would play like that, other than the random number I got. Hey, I'm the perfectionist myself.

Assuming you have the excess data on the end of your wav files, I have a solution for that as well. I used a program called Virtualdub.

The steps are easy:
1) Open, in VirtualDub, a video file of at least 50,000 frames length.
2) Go to Audo>Audio from another file...
3) Open the wav file you wanna trim
4)Go to Video>Frame Rate...
5)Choose "Change so video and audio durations match"; OK
6)File>Save WAV...
After saving, you're done!

You should have a fully working wav file ready to be combined with the videos, no more messing around in another video editing program!

iwantedtoexplode

03-05-2009, 01:11 AM

I actually took off the excess data at the end XD I deleted all of the 00's after the last significant digit.

I don't really like Virtual Dub Mod. The quality is excellent, but the files are HUGE, like a few gigabytes for a few minutes. Plus, I haven't been able to find a way to combine video files, so that there aren't about 70 different files for Sora's Story alone.

The draw back with Vegas though, is that it can be glitchy when rendering the file.

Crisp

03-09-2009, 02:54 AM

Goku1910

04-14-2009, 10:49 PM

xCareyy

04-14-2009, 11:13 PM

Hey Crisp, I came across this topic while looking on how to remove subtitles...do you have Files of KH1 and KH2 with Subtitles removed?

I'd prefer to just Download them instead of removing them and re-rendering them myself.

THANKS!

you can't rip KH1 and KH2 cutscenes. there in real time, not pre-rendered (besides CGI).
but there is a way to do it. but you'd have to re-record all the KH2 cutscenes with the no subtitle cheat code on.

iwantedtoexplode

04-18-2009, 03:18 AM

you can't rip KH1 and KH2 cutscenes. there in real time, not pre-rendered (besides CGI).
but there is a way to do it. but you'd have to re-record all the KH2 cutscenes with the no subtitle cheat code on.

Yep, I would do that, except I don't have a capture card, and I hear they're pricey >_>; Plus, I would have to hook up my PS2 (not that big of a deal), since my Codebreaker doesn't work with my PS3.

xCareyy

04-18-2009, 03:36 AM

i've recorded some of the KH cutscenes in High Definition (1280x720) with the no subtitles code on for amv's.
once i finish them all i may upload them or make a torrent of all of them.

iwantedtoexplode

04-18-2009, 03:44 AM

That's freaking huge XD But yes, that would be nice :P

EvilMan_89

04-21-2009, 02:35 AM

i've recorded some of the KH cutscenes in High Definition (1280x720) with the no subtitles code on for amv's.
once i finish them all i may upload them or make a torrent of all of them.

huh, never knew you were into AMVs