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Shantae and the Pirate's Curse SFX (.wave conversion?)
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I've been trying to get the sound effects from Pirate's Curse for the longest time, but I know next to nothing about ripping assets. A few months ago, @nichijouforever on Twitter managed to extract the game files for me, and all the audio files are there, as expected, however they're all in a .wave format. Not .wav, .wave, for both music and sound effects, and it can't be opened normally.

It's possible to open all the music in Audacity, and then convert them to another format. But this doesn't work for the sound effets, which is really puzzling to me. It's possible to import them as raw data, but they sound garbled. Messing with the import settings can sometimes get them closer to what they're supposed to sound like, but the quality is awful.

I've tried all I could think of to convert these files to an usable audio format, from simply renaming the extension, installing ffmpeg, and using all kinds of audio converters, but no matter the program, it always displays some kind of message saying that the file type is either invalid or not recognized.

The files, which are from the PC version, can be found here: https://mega.nz/file/FsMDiCab#tZTZCI5X4-...KNcWURtfTA
There are sound effects all over the folders, but for a quick example, go to ShantaePC_Extracted\ANIM\BossDoor\gate - there are 3 sound effects there.
If anyone knows what to do with these .wave files, please let me know.
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Seems to be IMA ADPCM. You can load this in foobar2000 with vgmstream plugin installed.
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(06-10-2025, 01:12 PM)ikskoks Wrote: Seems to be IMA ADPCM. You can load this in foobar2000 with vgmstream plugin installed.

Oh my god, it actually worked. I can't thank you enough for this, I'll get to work on converting them right away!
Seriously, thank you, I don't think I would ever have found this solution on my own.
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No problem, good luck with conversion Smile
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