Program crashes when extracting WWF Wrestlemania sounds

[Nikanoru86]

Like the title says, every time i try to extract the sounds, the program crashes when reaching track 1003/1004 (both with the stream and tracks option)

Edit from above = It's track 1204 causing the issue... Weirdly enough, it plays like 8 minutes of silence

In fact, program also crashes when using the "--tracks" option in the same place, track 1003 or 1004

I tried extracting the other Midway Wolf Unit games (MK3, UMK3, NBA Hangtime, Open Ice and Rampage World Tour) and i can extract the sounds no problem

Is this a known issue or...?

Thanks to everyone involved in making this program, btw ^_^

[mjrgh]

Hi - the decoder is only intended for the WPC-era pinball games, so to the extent that it can handle any of the DCS video games from the same era, that's basically a bonus. Given that it's just the one track that's crashing, it could be some little idiosyncrasy in that track that needs special-casing, or it could even be some legitimate format feature that by accident was just never exercised by any of the other material. At any rate, I'm a little busy with other things and probably won't be able to look at it in the near term - if you're able to investigate at the C++ level, do a Debug build and look at it with the Visual Studio debugger to see where it's crashing, to see if there's some simple thing that can be fixed to at least prevent the crash.

[Nikanoru86]

(i closed the thing for some reason... Sorry) -_-

Original Answer = Unfortunately, i know basically 0 of programming or C++ or anything T_T

So yeah, basically this is the issue... Weird track there playing 8 minutes of silence then it moves to the next one and they all work fine to the end

99% doubt anything can be done here unless some magic way to bypass that track is added somehow

I'm mainly interested in the streams... The autoplay and all other options play the tracks instead (there's an unused sound that i found with the -streams option and doesn't appear with the -tracks option)

[toxieainc]

I just tried to repro this. When i use the official download from the release page here, and then do e.g. DCSExplorer.exe --extract-streams=wwf wwfmania.zip, all works fine.

[toxieainc]

I get an assert when using a debug build though for track 1203. Did you mean 1203 instead of 1003??

[Nikanoru86]

I get an assert when using a debug build though for track 1203. Did you mean 1203 instead of 1003??

Yeah forgot to edit xd. It's track 12 04 the issue, as i posted in the image... Maybe my (very old) pc is the issue here when extracting it. I'll see what can i do

I did download the official 1.0 build from here so maybe the issue it's from my side. I'll update as soon as i have the time and thanks for answering :) so glad this program works with the games and not just the pinballs

[toxieainc]

Looks to me like that track is really just corrupt in the ROM itself. I will submit a PR for mjr to review.

[toxieainc]

@mjrgh In case you missed it: There is an open PR, including some other minor tweaks/corrections.

[mjrgh]

@mjrgh In case you missed it: There is an open PR, including some other minor tweaks/corrections.

Thanks for tracking it down! Just merged your PR.

[toxieainc]

@Nikanoru86 please verify via https://github.com/mjrgh/DCSExplorer/releases/tag/v1.1

[Nikanoru86]

@toxieainc sorry i couldn't answer before, life stuff xd

Yes, can confirm i can extract both the streams and tracks flawlessly (I'm mainly interested in the streams since they are the actual data)

One thing that did happen is my antivirus decided to block the DCSExplorer file, accusing it of carrying some "file rep malware" thing, so i added the program as an exception since i 99% doubt they are real positives. But just in case, i took the file, both the original and updated one, to virustotal to check it and this happens...

I'll imagine they are false positives but i wanted to mention the fact (first image is the original version and the 2nd one is the updated 1.1 version)

Other than that, i thank all of you for your work. It's amazing that a few years ago i checked how to explore the DCS games' files to see if i could unearth unused stuff but there was no way. So once again, many thanks :)