VGM-Tools/neotools/README.md

Neo-Geo VGM tools

A hodge-podge of tools for working on NG VGM files, these files are provided in the hope that they may be useful to someone.

Included tools (sources included).

• adpcm: ADPCM Type-A to WAV converter.
• adpcmb: ADPCM Type-B encoding tool that also does decoding to WAV.
• neoadpcmextract: Scans a .vgm and dumps all ADPCM type A&B data to raw .pcm files.
• autoextract: Convenience shell/batch script that uses the above tools to dump all samples to WAVs.

Building

Linux:

make -f adpcm.Makefile
make -f adpcmb.Makefile
make -f neoadpcmextract.Makefile

Windows:

• The updated Makefiles haven't been tested on Windows yet.
• Working Windows binaries are available from the Releases tab.

How to use

Linux:

• Run ./autoextract.sh from this directory with a path to your .vgm or .vgz, a directory for the song will be created containing wav samples.

Windows:

• You will need gzip.exe (provided with the aforementioned release).
• Copy your .vgm or .vgz into this directory, drag it onto autoextract.bat, the script will create a directory of the same name and dump all the converted samples there.

That's all there is to it.

TODO

• Unify all tools into one & obsolete the crappy glue scripts.