Chain of Memories All Cutscenes Are FMV's

I found out about this long ago, but decided to post about it now.

A FMV is pre-recorded animation in a video game. (example: Kingdom Hearts's openings)

All cutscenes in Re: Chain of Memories are FMV's. This includes all scenes in Destiny Island and Twilight Town worlds, and between floors in Castle Oblivion (with voice acting).
There's a total of 104 separate video files, which take up more than 2.40 GB of space on the game disk! The total size of the disk is 4.12 GB.
Anyone, with the game and proper computer programs, can rip these videos to their computer.

The thing is, is that the PAR is 22:15 (320x352). This means that the image would look like this, instead of this, if the video wasn't stretched out when played. I sure this was an attempt to compress space.

I was surprised when I realized I wasn't watching real-time animation; makes me admire the animation goodness even more in this installment of KH. Square really took their time on the animation on this one (it's more than half the game, literally).

Proof of ripped video (no subtitles)

Yay for parentheses and links to Wikipedia!

 

But if they are all pre-recorded.
How is it possible that we can see the keyblade that me use or a other weapon?

 

This form is under Re: Chain of Memories. In this game, you always use the same weapon: The Kingdom Key

Edit: Correction, The Kingdom Key for Sora and the Way to Dawn for Riku

 

Thanks much Roxllen (:

<3 Nice work​

 

I will have all 104 videos uploaded for your AMV editing and viewing needs.
I don't know when it will be finished, but I probably might have the videos all in split ZIP files since there's so many.
The videos will have the same level of quality as my other videos I have uploaded (also updating those videos as well).

 

Too bad we couldn't just use those as KH-vids "official" videos of Re:CoM. I mean, no subtitles is like an AMV maker's dream...:huh:

 

whats the file extension, .pss? pss video files tend to be very large to make up for high quality. but then again...the individual cutscenes aren't that long anyway. can you give a list of tools that you use to rip them?

 

Audio is unplayable when you extract it directly from the PSS file.
I'm going to convert and shrink them to AVI files, so that they can be a more comfortable overall file size. Extracting audio is a difficult task if you don't already know it, so I will do it for you.

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Here are the tools you would need, in the order I use them:

DVD Decrypter
TheFileSplitter
Nova Software Extractor
PSS_demux
WinHex
VirtualDub
Switch
Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0
VirtualDubMod
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If you need to know about the steps taken, I'll PM you my procedure.

 

Crisp....you are definately the mastah of disecting games, >=D

 

have most of the above except the sharewares mentioned above; kinda realise how i cant even carry out this procedure in the first place. oh well thanks for your time...
*by the way, are there other tools that can extract other files within the games intead like sounds and models/animations? (whats "PM" mean?)

 

First s_rank PM means he will Private Message you


ON topic, crisp, if you were to go to a video editing program then can't you just add the voice-over's from the subtitled ones (IE like adding some music when making videos)​

 

I've already converted the audio and multiplexed it with the videos. I'm uploading them as we speak. It will take quite a while.

 

So when I posted that you had already considered that?


Well at least I put my 2 cents in ^^;​

 

Yes, thanks anyways xD.

My Internet keeps skipping, meaning that sometimes it just stops working for a minute, then starts working again. This is keeping me from uploading the files. =/ This is forcing me to split the file eight ways just to upload it.

And I made a short parody out of them from the boredom. =D
I'll make a separate thread for it.

 

Sorry about the internet....

Anyways....

Can you do this to other games as well? (Just wondering)​

 

Wow Roxllen that seems awesome dude 8D

 

sweet!!! :) by the way, some .pss files found in other games works fully with media player classic for some reason, though i didn't test all of them.

 

I haven't looked at them yet, but if these come straight from the discs without subtitles, the quality is surely better than anything else out there, right? And since all we have are Japanese subtitles cluttering up the screen, I know there's a lot of people who would prefer the non-subtitled ones to the Japanese titled.

I say go for it. ;)

 

thats kinda cool ^_^

 

Okay, I converted all the videos in WMV format so they could be added to the cutscene archive. Windows media video will still retain the good quality, but still have small file sizes. I was told that spdude will add the videos in the next few days or so, but I'll give you the download links now.

recom_opening.wmv

recom_floor1.wmv · recom_rr_basement12.wmv

recom_floor2.wmv · recom_rr_basement11.wmv

recom_floor3.wmv · recom_rr_basement10.wmv

recom_floor4.wmv · recom_rr_basement9.wmv

recom_floor5.wmv · recom_rr_basement8.wmv

recom_floor6.wmv · recom_rr_basement7.wmv

recom_floor7.wmv · recom_rr_basement6.wmv

recom_floor8.wmv · recom_rr_basement5.wmv

recom_floor9.wmv · recom_rr_basement4.wmv

recom_floor10.wmv · recom_rr_basement3.wmv

recom_floor11.wmv · recom_rr_basement2.wmv

recom_floor12.wmv · recom_rr_basement1.wmv

recom_floor13.wmv · recom_rr_ending.wmv

recom_ending.wmv

Here's a comparison from the video quality:



Enjoy!