Dimwit Posted June 14, 2005 Share Posted June 14, 2005 what files types are these stations? i wanted to replace some of them with ones from gta3 and vc. is there a way to convert the older files to the kind in sa. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playbahnosh Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I'm no expert on this, but it would be good to figure out that. I really like to listen to WCTR and the chatter of Radio X, outside the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikehair Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I would love to bring in Flash FM, Wildstyle or Wave into San Andreas...Forget exporting from SA, how can we import to SA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumper3D Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 I dont think that there is a way to import radio channels yet... I also think that they are in some of those files with no extensions... A little offtopic but, I'd like to see a tool for this stuff too. I'd love to export some cool sentences that peds say... They would sound awesome on my mobile phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playbahnosh Posted June 16, 2005 Share Posted June 16, 2005 exatly, but we need some exporting tool for that. I know one, but that only usable for the PS2 DVD version. We need a PC extractor for that one, the pedestian speech is cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AttroPheed Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 i just want to replace the country music station and whatever station it is that plays that damned rod stewart song with something less annoying... like the sounds of screaming infants. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Yeah I'd say that because of the dynamic radio stations the audio is more deeply rooted in other files meaning we would need a tool of some sorts similar to the PS2 version tool that reads the PC files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwit Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 yeah, i just want to bring back Flash, Flashback, Chatterbox, VRock and other ones from GTA3 and VC. but i can't convert those files if i don't know what to convert them to. all we'd have to do is convert those stations and rename to take the place of the ones in SA and then once a GXT editor comes out, we can rename them in the game. so if anyone knows what the files are, like maybe we could find out in the main.scm. it has to read those files and they have to have some kind of extension. or maybe if we just take off the .mp3 or whatever of a song and rename it to a SA station it might read it. it might just read any music file with no extension. if anyone tries this or gets successful at anything, please let me know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwit Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 i forgot to add that we need a no-dvd crack (available at gamecopyworld.com) for the game to read the music off our computers and not the dvd. thanks for helping. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwit Posted June 17, 2005 Author Share Posted June 17, 2005 i just replaced almost all of the files in the streams folder with one of my mp3 files. i took off the mp3 extension and made many copies of it and renamed them to the two letter file names that were in the streams folder. at first nothing happened. then as i replaced more files, i got WCTR to play Bush's glycerine somehow. i don't know how this happened b/c that was not the song i copied into that folder. but its in my custom soundtracks. anyway, the next time it wouldn't play any of the radio stations. all i got was static and i couldn't go to the main menu. i had to select "radio off" before it would allow the escape button to work. then when i tried to close the game out, i just got a black screen. nothing would work; not alt+tab, windows key+d, or ctrl+alt+del. so i just shut off my computer illegally. i guess i didn't get too far. good luck everyone else. but i believe that each of the two letter files in the streams folder are not individual stations b/c i replace like four of them before i got the WCTR thing to work and that was the only stations i think that worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Playbahnosh Posted June 17, 2005 Share Posted June 17, 2005 Um...what exactly did you do to those files? As far as I know the SA sound files has no extension at all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwit Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 i know they don't have an extension, so i just took an mp3 files and erased the .mp3 part to the name so now it has no extension. after that, i renamed the file to one of the file names in the streams folder. ie: i too the file "CO" and renamed it "COoriginal" and then i renamed the "song .mp3" to just "song" and from there renamed it to "CO". but the game didn't recognize it so i don't know what to do. i hope that made sense cause i just wrote another bloody paragraph on this sh*t. good luck everyone. and have fun, something i'm not very good at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTA3Freak-2001 Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 Yeah it doesn't work like that, you would need a proper converter to achieve anything worthwhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GodGell Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 I'm no expert on this, but it would be good to figure out that.I really like to listen to WCTR and the chatter of Radio X, outside the game. i like wctr and x too, but with the dynamic radio stations it'd be much harder to really listen to them outside the game, even if we'd understand the format they're in. and btw, i'm from hungary, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dataschmuck Posted June 18, 2005 Share Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) The radio stations in SA don't work like they did in vice and gta3. They aren't single files for each station. I'm not sure, but here's how I think it works. In the streams folder, each file holds a certain category. Obviously adverts holds all the commercials you hear. Another file holds all the music, another holds all the DJ banter, another holds all the station identifiers, another holds the weather and time specific announcements, etc and so on. Then there is another file somewhere that tells the game how to mix all the files together for a particular station, and it does it randomly. This means the station plays things in a different order all the time. Its never the same. It doesn't repeat itself in a loop like in previous games. This makes it harder for us as modders to rip a station to mp3 or CD or whatnot. It also makes it very hard to replace the ingame music. The only thing to really do right now would be to put shortcuts to your gta3 and vice mp3s into the user radio folder, then use the "next user track" button to scroll through them in game. I deduced this information after using the radio ripping tool for the PS2 version of San Andreas. Using that program its easy to see how it all works. It doesn't really "rip" the station, it gives you all the elements that would play in the station, and YOU build your own playlist out of those elements. Then the program builds a .wav or CD Image out of that playlist. I e-mailed the maker of the program a few days ago, asking him to if he plans to make a PC and XBOX version, but he hasn't responded. Edited June 18, 2005 by dataschmuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dimwit Posted June 18, 2005 Author Share Posted June 18, 2005 yeah, you're right about that b/c it does play the commercials randomly and the dj says different things before certain songs. but the music should be in a separate files somewhere, even if it is split up, i just wanted to replace some of the stations like wctr and master sounds with the ones from previous games. but i guess it's a little more complicated than we anticipated. oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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