MAME/SNES Sound & Music Rippers

[LaPorta]

Hey everyone,

I remember 15+ years ago, there were programs that I found somewhere on the net that allowed you to open MAME ROMS (and, I think another that works on SNES/Genesis ones) to be able to play and copy their sound and music tracks. Does anyone know what they were and where to find them? They worked under early OS X (probably 10.4 and the like).

 

[uyjulian]

vgmtrans? https://github.com/vgmtrans/vgmtrans

Or https://code.google.com/archive/p/loveemu/

 

[LaPorta]

Hm, no , that wasn't them. I wish I could remember the names. They were polished, finished GUI programs as well.

 

[LaPorta]

Oh, of course I just managed to answer my own question (to a degree): Audio Overload by Richard Bannister. That does the SNES/Genesis stuff. I can't remember the arcade ROM one...

 

[Arbee]

M1 was the arcade one. It was a command line app as I shipped it, but there was a really nice GUI version on Windows called BrodgeM1.

 

[LaPorta]

Thank you! Were you the developer?? I still have MP3s of arcade games from a good 15 years ago from the program! Richard Bannister just got back to me and reminded me it was M1.

Are you sure there wasn’t a GUI version for Mac? That was all I had back then.

 

[Arbee]

Yeah, I made the original M1 (and contributed a lot to Audio Overload), and Richard made the Mac version. (I've met Richard IRL, he's cool).

Unfortunately M1 was based mostly around repurposing code from MAME right before that became a moving target (C -> C++ -> C++11 -> C++17 over the last 5 years) so updating it in any way would be a *lot* of work.

Fortunately, since then, the .VGM music logging format has greatly expanded to cover dozens of sound chips and more precise timing. So many arcade and console games have music in that format (see vgmrips.net). The player situation outside of Windows isn't currently great - I'd like to solve that for Audio Overload once I'm done porting Richard's latest back to Linux and Windows. Until then, the most complete VGM player that's cross-platform is MAME's "vgmplay" pseudo-machine (it even has visualizers).

 

[LaPorta]

I actually found the Mac GUI M1 version in Richard's archive, so I am all set! Thanks for your work: I never figured I'd meet anyone who made this stuff. It will work just fine on my G4...that's why we have these old machines, isn't it?

 

[Arbee]

That's cool, I forgot it was long enough ago to work on PPC!