Vb2rip is a program that was developed many years ago by a guy named Neill Corlett, and can rip from Playstation 1 and 2 games various audio files, including .xa, and the vb2 format, which is used in pre-SuperNOVA DDR mixes.
This matters in my hacking research for one important reason: It is open source.
Why does this matter:
A brief story:
I was trying to extract audio with this program one night, unfortunately the Chinese food I ate for dinner wasn't agreeing with me. Whilst in the bathroom, where it seems a lot of good ideas come from funily enough, it struck me.
If the tool can extract .vb2 files from Dance Dance Revolution games, and convert them to .WAV format... then the reverse can be done too!
That means being able to convert an audio file in the same .wav format as what would be extracted into a vb2 format audio piece and inserting it over another file of the same size.
This also means that with some tweaks the program can be modified to output actual file locations, and file sizes for the vb2 format files... and even modified further to do an "export for editing" / "replace audio" [of the same size, of course]deal - such capabilities already possible when working with PSX TIM format images... or at least uncompressed TIM images.
Oh god, now I got another project I want to do. >_<
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