New in this version (1.4.9.3):
New in the previous version (1.4.9.2):
What is Telltale Music Extractor?:
A program that enables you to rip the music from all games released by Telltale Games. To date (June 2011) that includes:
It may work with future games, but will need updating if the game is encrypted as the encryption key is different for every game.
What do I need to use this?:
Just the games themselves.
How to use it:
1) Click on the top folder icon and either click on 'open folder' and choose a folder yourself or choose one of the games and the folder will be found automatically.
2) Click on the bottom folder icon and choose a destination folder.
3) Click Go.
4) If soundtrack dumping is available for a game then a messagebox will ask you if you want to dump as a soundtrack. See below for an explanation of what this means.
Soundtrack support:
Some games are able to be dumped as 'soundtracks'. This means that the music will be dumped as though it were a soundtrack cd, with better filenames and tracknames, tags in the dumped music and (optionally) - album art.
Dumping as a soundtrack is optional and not available for every game. If its available then a messagebox will ask you if you want to dump the music as a soundtrack.
Creating soundtrack files:
Soundtrack support is activated by creating an .ini file and putting it in the 'Soundtracks' folder. The format is fairly straighforward and you can get an idea from looking at the included ini's but the following is a brief guide to the structure of a soundtrack ini file.
Each ini must have an [Info Header] section that will look something like this:
[Info Header]
Title=Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
UniqueFile1=town-glass
UniqueFile2=desinge-weird
UniqueFile3=restore-winds
Album=Tales Of Monkey Island: Launch of the Screaming Narwhal
Artist=Michael Land
Year=2009
Genre=Game
Coverart=Tales Of Monkey Island- Launch of the Screaming Narwhal.jpg
UniqueFile 1, 2 and 3 are used to automatically identify the game that the ini corresponds to. These 3 entries should be filenames that are unique and only appear together in that game.
Album, artist, year and genre are used to create the audio tags in the dumped files. Coverart is optional but should refer to the name of a coverart image in the 'Soundtracks' folder.
The rest of the entries will look something like this:
[main-theme-short]
TrackNo=04
Title=Monkey Island Theme
The text between [] should be the original filename of the track.
If there are tracks that need to be merged then they need to look like this:
[jungle]
TrackNo=16
Title=Flotsam Jungle
File1=jungle-doro
File2=jungle-voodoo
File3=jungle-merfolk
File4=jungle-wind1
File5=jungle-wind2
File6=jungle-wind3
File7=jungle-machine
File8=jungle-machine-wind1
File9=jungle-machine-wind2
File10=jungle-machine-wind3
The "File" entries are the original filenames of the tracks that need to be merged. So this example would merge the "jungle" track with the other 10 jungle files listed to make one track called "Flotsam Jungle".
Certain characters arent allowed in Windows filenames (/\:*?"|) so these are removed from filenames when dumping. They are included in the ID3/comment tags though.
There are two exceptions to this:
The forward slash character "/". If this is used then it becomes "-" in filenames. Eg "Title=Guybrush/Elaine Theme" would become Guybrush-Elaine Theme.ogg
The colon character ":". If this is used then it becomes " -" in filenames. Eg "Title=Chapter One: The Start" would become Chapter One - The Start.ogg
Limitations:
The tool only rips music. If you want to rip speech then download Telltale Speech Extractor from my website.
Source:
Available from the Google Code page.
Thanks:
Many thanks to Luigi Auriemma for his work on the V7 ttarch format and his updated blowfish code.
Thanks to Laserschwert for the soundtrack dumping idea and for providing the soundtrack support and album art for Tales of Monkey Island and Wallace and Gromit.
Support:
Contact me.
All my software is completely free. If you find this program useful please consider making a donation. This can be done on my website.
bgbennyboy 27/11/11