The Thread could also go into tools, but as I ask specifically around the AKAO file I'm good with either subforums. I HOPE (!!) there's maybe a way to extract the whole sound effect in a finished state somehow from the AKAO files. The psf also contained the whole sequence. So, in theory, there would be no guessing what will go into what file (as of now). It had the same 36 samples in it and with the help of tirlititi we could match that to the specific index/music from the steam version. On the music part I tried using a psf psf file from the battle, and it could also be loaded by vgmtrans. The Folder contains the two samples that I've extracted from the AKAO file. The 0 is the AKAO File and the akb.bytes is the steam version (just drag and drop into VLC, it plays without problems). The file contains two files and a folder.

What sample is played when and what effect needs to be applied. What is missing, when I convert the samples, obviously are all the information around this two samples. And it also displays information like Sample Offset, Loop Point etc. I could open them with this little tool: and see that there're two samples stored in the file and I was also able to convert the two samples into wav's samples. There's a sequencer for the music but not for the soundeffects and I GUESS that everything is packed directly in the AKAO file itself rather than using an external sequencer from the PSX itself. I want to know if there's a possible solution for converting AKAO files into finished wav/mp3/ogg. Maybe someone out there is smart enough or has more insight then me on AKAO files (and yeah start laughing as mine is almost at 0 ^^). They're stored as AKAO on the images in the PSX Version and are stored as akb.bytes in Steam. I'm trying to deepdive into the FFIX sound system (only the soundeffects not the music) as it could be rather easy to then switch out the sound effects from the Steamversion by custom made ones or the original from PSX.

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