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Title: How to Rip sounds and music from Mame roms?
Post by: smalltownguy on June 28, 2010, 09:14:33 pm

Anyone have any neat tricks in ripping music and sounds from Mame roms? I'd like to use a theme song from one in my Mala boot sequence. I tried using M1, but I didn't get correct sound samples using that program.

As always, there has to be more than one way to skin a cat, so to speak. Anyone else have any ideas?

Perhaps there's some program out there that I can run in the background to capture all audio from my computer and save it to .wav or mp3 files that I can remix later? Then I'll boot the ROM, let it run until I get the desired music samples I want, and quit.

thanks!

Title: Re: How to Rip sounds and music from Mame roms?
Post by: nitz on June 28, 2010, 11:03:47 pm

Mame can record sound to a wav file.

I think at the command line you just type

mame romname -wavwrite nameofyourchoosing.wav

Let me know if this doesn't work as I may not be remembering this exactly right, but I know you can definitely do it! :)

Title: Re: How to Rip sounds and music from Mame roms?
Post by: smalltownguy on June 29, 2010, 12:13:55 am

Quote from: nitz on June 28, 2010, 11:03:47 pm

Mame can record sound to a wav file.

I think at the command line you just type

mame romname -wavwrite nameofyourchoosing.wav

Let me know if this doesn't work as I may not be remembering this exactly right, but I know you can definitely do it! :)

And THAT is why I LOOOOOOOVE this community!! Thanks a TON!  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

Title: Re: How to Rip sounds and music from Mame roms?
Post by: Thenasty on June 29, 2010, 11:24:07 am

other way (maybe from other games you want to RIP sounds from instead of MAME) is Speaker OUT to Line In and use Audacity to record the sounds.

Title: Re: How to Rip sounds and music from Mame roms?
Post by: nitz on June 29, 2010, 08:32:59 pm

Quote from: smalltownguy on June 29, 2010, 12:13:55 am

And THAT is why I LOOOOOOOVE this community!! Thanks a TON!  :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:

No prob, glad I could help! :cheers: