MIDI files from Japanese Karaoke Revolution

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  • August 21, 2014 at 7:48 pm #390928
    Dune

      As some of you may have seen, there were a lot of Karaoke Revolution games released back in the early to mid 2000’s, particularly in Japan. I have been toying with some Japanese customs and thought it would be beneficial to explore extracting the MIDIs for the vocals from the games (if possible).

       

      The Japanese versions of KR seem to use a MIDI engine within the game to produce the music instead of just recordings of anything (though please correct me if wrong). The actual game structure is very simple as you would expect (the actual contents of one KR disc I ripped was only 300 megabytes, to give you some idea). I have access to five or six volumes somewhere around here that I would be more than glad to go through if it would benefit everyone.

       

      Unfortunately, I can’t find any references anywhere to anyone exploring the Japanese KR discs. Does anyone here have any experience doing similar stuff with SIngstar that would be interested in this sort of thing?

      August 21, 2014 at 8:24 pm #427547
      Oddbrother
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        MIDI engine? Do you mean like emulated music on PC in the 80s and 90s? Is there a gameplay video of it?

        August 22, 2014 at 2:18 am #427597
        Dune

          Here’s a video of it in action, which is very basic:

           

          What I essentially meant was that I think the game uses MIDI charts to create the MIDI sounds in real-time, instead of using pre-recorded versions. There are numerous references to MIDI scripts within the disc files, so it seems pretty likely. Hopefully that makes a little more sense?

           

          The title of this edition is “カラオケレボリューション J-POPベスト vol.8” / “Karaoke Revolution J-POP Best vol.8” (Disc code SLPM-62456). You can get an idea of what kinds of songs are on the various discs on Konami’s website.

           

          Using IsoBuster, you can extract all of the disc data pretty easily but, of course, the contained files are all almost all not in their actual formats. Using TrIDNET to identify the actual file types for extraction provides some clues but I’m not sure I have the ability to extract the necessary files without the proper tools.

           

          Karaoke Revolution J-POP Best Vol.8

           

          The base file structure begins with the following folders and four files:

           

          [CNF]

          [DATA]

          [FMOD]

          [FMOD2]

          [FRES]

          [LICENSE]

          [MODULES]

          [NTCNFBIN]

          [OTHER]

          [PKF_DATA]

          [PKT]

          FEEGAGUI.ELF (7,845 K:cool:

          NETCONF.ELF (3,454 K:cool:

          SLPM_624.56 (4,832 K:cool:

          SYSTEM.CNF (1 K:cool:

           

          CNF: PS2 system files

          ICON.SYS (1 K:cool:

          SYS_NET.ICO (32.8 K:cool:

           

          DATA: Assorted game files

          CAMERA.PKF (166 K:cool:

          CHARA.PKF (75,596 K:cool:

          KREVO.ICN (7 K:cool:

          SONG.LST (7 K:cool:

          STAGE.PKF (43,168 K:cool:

          TITLE.DAT (1 K:cool:

           

          FMOD: Standard PS2 libraries

          IOPRP270.IMG

          ATAD.IRX

          DEV9.IRX

          HDD.IRX

          INET.IRX

          INETCTL.IRX

          LIBNET.IRX

          LIBSD.IRX

          MCMAN.IRX

          MCSERV.IRX

          MODHSYN.IRX

          MODMIDI.IRX

          MSIFRPC.IRX

          NETCNF.IRX

          NETCNFIF.IRX

          PADMAN.IRX

          PFS.IRX

          PPP.IRX

          PPPOE.IRX

          SDRDRV.IRX

          SIO2MAN.IRX

          SMAP.IRX

          USBD.IRX

          USBKB.IRX

          USBMLOAD.IRX

           

          FMOD2: Additional ELF for MIDI reading?

          EZMIDI.IRX (60 K:cool:

           

          FONT:

          ASCIIX_8.FNT (2 K:cool:

          ASCIIX16.FNT (4 K:cool:

          KANJIX16.FON (244 K:cool:

           

          FRES:

          BGM.BD (536 K:cool:

          EFF.BD (143 K:cool:

          JIS2UCS.BIN (128 K:cool:

          UCS2JIS.BIN (128 K:cool:

          BGM.HD (5 K:cool:

          EFF.HD (2 K:cool:

          CONNECT.M2V (1,748 K:cool: Viewable, just a background animation that plays on the menus

          ROOT_ED.PEM (2 K:cool:

          SAMPLE.PF (2,562 K:cool:

          BG.RGB (840 K:cool:

          BG_SV.RGB (840 K:cool:

          BGM.SQ (128 K:cool:

           

          LICENSE: “PlayStation 2” Programmer Tool Runtime Library Release 2.8

          LIBEENET.TXT (13 K:cool:

           

          MODULES: PS2 modules

          DNAS280.IMG

          IOPRP280.IMG

          DEV9.IRX

          MAIN_MOD.SPF

          NET_MOD.SPF

          NTGU_MO2.SPF

          NTGU_MOD.SPF

           

          NTCNFBIN:

          EFF.BD (125 K:cool:

          EFF.HD (1 K:cool:

          SYS_NET.ICO (33 K:cool:

          JAPANESE.PF (2,547 K:cool:

          BG.RGB (840 K:cool:

          BG_PAL.RGB (960 K:cool:

          BG2.RGB (1,120 K:cool:

          ICON.SYS (1 K:cool:

           

          OTHER->FONT:

          24X24X1H.FNT

          24X24X1X.FNT

          24X24X4D.FNT

          24X24X4H.FNT

          24X24X4K.FNT

          24X24X4X.FNT

          28X28X4D.FNT

          28X28X4H.FNT

          28X28X4K.FNT

          28X28X4X.FNT

          40X40X4D.FNT

          40X40X4H.FNT

          40X40X4K.FNT

          40X40X4X.FNT

          48X48X4D.FNT

          48X48X4H.FNT

          48X48X4K.FNT

          48X48X4X.FNT

           

          OTHER->GRAPHICS:

          AIDOL.BZ2

          AUDITION.BZ2

          BG.BZ2

          BOOT.BZ2

          CHARISMA.BZ2

          DEMO.BZ2

          FACE.BZ2

          HOWTO.BZ2

          K_SCORE.BZ2

          KARAOKE.BZ2

          NATURAL.BZ2

          NETOP.BZ2

          OPTION.BZ2

          RANKING.BZ2

          RAP.BZ2

          REVO.BZ2

          SCORE.BZ2

          SEARCH.BZ2

          SELECT3.BZ2

          STAFF.BZ2

          STAND.BZ2

          TALENT.BZ2

          TEAM.BZ2

          TEAMCONT.BZ2

          TITLE.BZ2

          USER.BZ2

          VISUAL.BZ2

          WALL.BZ2

          WINDOW.BZ2

           

          OTHER->PALETTE:

          001DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          002DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          003DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          004DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          005DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          006DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          007DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          008DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          009DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          010DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          011DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          012DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          013DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          014DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          015DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          016DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          017DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          018DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          019DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          020DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          021DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          022DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          023DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

          024DAM.PAL (1 K:cool:

           

          OTHER->STORY:

          STORY.PKF (1,274 K:cool:

           

          PKF_DATA:

          KBGM.PKF (19,762 K:cool:

          SYS_SE.PKF (524 K:cool:

           

          PKT:

          STEST.PKF (66,728 K:cool:

           

           

          The most important parts of data appear to be stored in these PKF files:

           

          KBGM.PKF (19,762 K:cool: from PKF_DATA

          SYS_SE.PKF (524 K:cool: from PKF_DATA

          STEST.PKF (66,728 K:cool: from PKT

          CHARA.PKF (75,596 K:cool: from DATA

          STAGE.PKF (43,168 K:cool: from DATA

           

          EDIT: I should add that TrIDNET gives a “100%” match on the above PKF files really being “Autodesk FLIC Image File (extensions: flc, fli, cel)”. I’m not sure if that’s even remotely accurate, but it seems to think so.

           

          If anyone has some PS2 tools that could prove helpful or recognize the file concealment methods here, let me know. Most other music games have been fully extracted, so I imagine it would be pretty easy for this one too (when involving actual experts, that is).

          August 22, 2014 at 5:45 am #427610
          Dune

            I took a shortcut with the above and was able to perfectly rip out the vocal MIDI on a song-by-song basis. The MIDIs are extraordinarily accurate, surprisingly. With some of the usual cleanup, they can very easily be used in Rock Band customs.

             

            If anyone is interested in how to shortcut this without breaking into the game: Use any of the games with an emulator, go to options, turn off the BGM, and just record the vocal MIDI in real time from your sound card (in Audacity or whatever is best for you). From there, just use something like Melodyne to very quickly and precisely convert the recording back to MIDI. I experimented with this a few times and got 100% accurate results on all counts.

             

            I thought of this earlier but… I wanted to see if it’d be easy to just extract all of the charts for the sake of creating a large database for fellow customs authors to use. Currently, they all have to be recorded manually. If there are any Japanese songs from the discs I have that someone would want ripped, let me know here or in a PM and I’ll get it to you ASAP. <img decoding=” src=”/wp-content/uploads/invision_emoticons/default_SA_smile.gif” />

             

            Here’s an idea of the types of artists on there: BoA, L’Arc-en-Ciel, Do As Infinity, GLAY, Bump of Chicken, B’z, SMAP, T.M. Revolution, KinKi Kids, Ayumi Hamasaki, ZARD, Morning Musume, Southern All Stars, Utada Hikaru, Mai Kuraki, Namie Amuro, Hyde, Porno Graffitti, and hundreds of others. Basically any group or artist that would come to mind for “Japanese music” in the era the games were released is probably available.

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