Joe Budden - Walk With Me (Unreleased Def Jam FFNY Extended Mix)

This is the original and dub instrumental from Def Jam FFNY mixed with the uncensored original song.

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Alright, so how did I even do this? Let's go way back. So on Dolphin I redownloaded Def Jam FFNY because I wanted to make a really bad Cirno costume for Ice-T with the texture modification abilities of Dolphin. The new 2hu game is coming out soon after all and it has (tan) Cirno as a playable character, why not commemorate? But I got a little nosey and started poking around with the game's file system, and I thought it would be cool if there are any moddable files in the game.

As it turns out, a ton of the files are EA's standard VIV files. I downloaded Dragon Unpacker and looked through some of them, first of which are the music files. I extracted the files for Walk With Me, and lo and behold, I found something particularly interesting and it is a "dub" version of the instrumental that is never seen in the original song. It fits well too, so why not try to create a listenable version of the song with these extra elements? Keep in mind that all software used is on (Antergos) Linux and if it is a Windows program it works well on Wine.

First is the main.mus ASF file to comb through. The game's music is stored in hundreds of "blocks" for each song. The first program I used to go through this file is NHL 07-06 ASF Player. All this does is play and extract individual audio blocks, useful for checking audio but not extracting since there is so much. I moved on to yet another ASF program, this time NHL 07 ASF Exporter, which lets me extract audio blocks en masse. How are we going to easily edit these then? WAV conversion, that's what. I used Video Game Sound Converter for just that with the hundreds of blocks.

Now to the tricky part, putting it all together. Since the GameCube version has lower quality audio I downloaded the PS2 version which has higher quality audio and repeated the previous steps. Since the version of the song used in the game is censored I downloaded an uncensored version of the song. I put together a audio block that has the last few seconds of the censored song (which it does not effect) and the first few seconds of the instrumental and matched it with the original song and de-amplified it a few decibels to even it all out. Now it is time to put everything together. I deleted a block that is the fade out point for the original instrumental so it can cut to the dubbing, and surprisingly enough it works well, no clicks whatsoever although a little whiplash. At this time Audacity is done, it can't auto merge hundreds of blocks of audio. I researched a method on how to merge audio with no gaps and I found a program called SOX. SOX brands itself as the "Swiss Army Knife of sound processing programs" but it is as intuitive as a Senran Kagura game with a plot since it exclusively uses the terminal. At the same time it is super easy to merge stuff.... just not with hundreds of blocks of audio unless you are familiar with wildcarding. Thankfully SOX does support wildcarding, so using this command: "SOX * output.wav" I am able to get a great result. All is left is cutting out the last few seconds which is the victory music and adding a fade out in Audacity. Next is actually making the video. I used ffmpeg, another terminally utility which is good for making simple videos, even if it isn't intuitive just like SOX. Tried to combine picture and audio with this command: "ffmpeg -loop 1 -i image.jpg -i audio.wav -c:v libx264 -tune stillimage -c:a aac -b:a 192k -pix_fmt yuv420p -shortest out.mp4" and it failed.... because you can't divide the picture resolution by two. That sounds like a needless hurdle, but it is a needless hurdle you can fix with GIMP. After that it worked and so ends this story of discovery and success.

Programs:
https://www.elberethzone.net/dragon-u...
http://forums.nba-live.com/downloads....
http://forums.nba-live.com/downloads....
https://wiki.vg-resource.com/wiki/Vid...