PSX Ripping Suggestions (Bust A Groove) | The Spriters Resource | Page 1

sullen sable Aug 29, 2024, 3:41 AM

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hiiii, so I already made a post on the forum asking about this but I thought I'd try here too since it seems way more active

I'm trying to rip models from a PSX game called Bust A Groove, I've already tried 2 different methods: PSXPrev and 3D screenshots (Duckstation plugin and Avocado Emulator)

PSXprev didn't pull the models out right - the bounding boxes and joints would show, but there'd be nothing else.

The 3D screenshotting did work, except it came out as an obj and even after converting to blend, wouldnt really work with blender (It'd show up as some messed up triangle way out from the work area??)

if anyone could give me advice or more directions on using either of these tools it would be super appreciated, I have practically no experience ripping anything but I seriously wanna figure these models out.

queen silo Aug 29, 2024, 6:38 AM

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If both PSXPrev and Avocado produce subpar results and you can't find a specific model extractor tool on Github or romhacking.net (i checked, neither have anything) you're pretty much out of luck.
The last method is using no$psx to sniff out the vertex info and working backwards from there, but this is usually very hard. Though sometimes you might get lucky and the model format is easy.
What sort of files does the CD contain? Can you somehow list them all here?

sullen sable Aug 29, 2024, 9:19 PM

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queen silo If both PSXPrev and Avocado produce subpar results and you can't find a specific...

as for the models it seems to only have MOD files? and all of them look like this when viewing in PSXPrev

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but I did actually get a good 3d screenshot with the models and can view it in an obj viewer, but again it doesn't work in blender and I'm not sure what to do with it at this point

sullen sable Aug 30, 2024, 2:18 AM

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also, theres a lot of these errors in the logs for psxprev, im not sure what they really mean

queen silo Aug 30, 2024, 6:00 AM

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sullen sable as for the models it seems to only have MOD files? and all of them look like thi...

Yea but like can you post a screenshot of the full disc catalog? What sort of folders and files does the disc contain?

sullen sable Aug 30, 2024, 6:56 AM

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queen silo Yea but like can you post a screenshot of the full disc catalog? What sort of fo...

I'm so sorry I'm super new to this, where can I find the disc catalog to screenshot?

queen silo Aug 30, 2024, 7:01 AM

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hmmm, i'm not sure. I'm not a Windows user.
is your game disc a .ISO or a .BIN file?

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i think windows 11 might have an option to "Mount Disc" if you right click on the disc image file... not sure.
Maybe 7z can decompress a disc to its files? wish i knew sorry

queen silo Aug 30, 2024, 7:43 AM

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okay apparently software called Any2Iso can do it, it installs a contextual menu item "Extract to"...