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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Tyrian on February 02, 2008, 11:30:54 am
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Me and a couple of my friends at university are working on putting together a music video utilizing Chad Kroeger's song "Hero." For the video part, we want to use the cutscenes from AceCombat 04, 5, and Zero. I own all three games legally.
What we want to do is figure out how to get the cutscenes off the PS2 DVD and into a format that we can use. AC04's intros are in .smv format. AC5's are inside a what looks like some kind of archive, a .pac. The intros themselves I'm guessing are also in .smv format. AC Zero's are in a .pac archive, with the intros again in .smv format. We've been all over the internet trying to find a converter for .smv -> anything we can read on a PC. We found a converter that will do anything -> .smv, but not the reverse. The .smv extension stands for SigmaTel Motion Video.
Essentially what we need is either something that can read .smv or a converter that can get it to a format we can read. Or is what I'm asking illegal, even if I legally own the games? :nervous:
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You might want to try SUPER (http://www.erightsoft.com/SUPER.html).
This is what I use to rip the music off of music videos I download from Youtube.
Umm... I don't do anything bad with this. Not at all. Never.
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Holy ****!!! IT WORKS!!! You just saved us several hours of searching! You're getting a spot in the credits!!! :D :D :D :D
Now we just need to figure out how to open a .pac file...
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Will this help? (http://filext.com/file-extension/PAC)
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Me and a couple of my friends at university are working on putting together a music video utilizing Chad Kroeger's song "Hero." For the video part, we want to use the cutscenes from AceCombat 04, 5, and Zero. I own all three games legally.
What we want to do is figure out how to get the cutscenes off the PS2 DVD and into a format that we can use. AC04's intros are in .smv format. AC5's are inside a what looks like some kind of archive, a .pac. The intros themselves I'm guessing are also in .smv format. AC Zero's are in a .pac archive, with the intros again in .smv format. We've been all over the internet trying to find a converter for .smv -> anything we can read on a PC. We found a converter that will do anything -> .smv, but not the reverse. The .smv extension stands for SigmaTel Motion Video.
Essentially what we need is either something that can read .smv or a converter that can get it to a format we can read. Or is what I'm asking illegal, even if I legally own the games? :nervous:
Wait a second...how did you...can you please UL all cutscenes so that I can DL them?
And what if I want ACX's intro cutscene? How do I extract files from a PSP game?
And what if I want to do something similar with PSX ACs ?
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@thesizzler -- That was one of the first places we looked. We think it might be the first type .pac file, but we're not sure.
@Mobius -- I can't do that. I believe that would be copyright violation.
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Where did you get the .pac file?
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Right off the game disc. I own all three games.
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My best guess would be to try with 7z or something, first, then go off on your hunt.
Is it an actual archive, or just storage?
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We've tried 7z and WinRAR. We're actually not 100% certain it's an archive. We have good reason to believe it is though, because I know that Sony uses a .PAC archive for it's Vista/Vaio system recovery discs. That archive contains all the Vista bloatware. We were thinking that they might be similar in structure. As a result, we tracked down kcap, which is a really old command line utility used for decompressing .PAC files. It didn't work for our .PAC file.
One thing we think might work is a program called CrossePAC. I think it was made my a company called Digital Strategies. We can't find it though.