Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts FMV Extractors

Note: This topic is assuming you have bought your copy of Kingdom Hearts, stealing is bad mmk. Also this topic is probably only for tech-savvy individuals or those willing to learn.

This post is for the video and audio -philes out there that want to get their video and audio from the source, as far as I know these are the first extractors to be made that extract this many of the FMVs straight off the original game discs.

Thank you KHVids for supplying a wonderful cutscene archive, but understandably for the sake of bandwidth usage and getting the videos to as many people as possible, the video isn't identical to the source in quality.

Since release, I've been trying to extract the major (non in-game rendered) cutscenes from my copy of Kingdom Hearts, and since they used Huffman Compression instead of the normal PSS this was quite a challenge, but thanks to fao project, ffxdean (user from another forum), and myself; there is now a set of extractors so you can finally have those FMV's you've wanted from your NTSC-U copy of Kingdom Hearts and NTSC-J Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix.

Kingdom Hearts (NTSC-U) and Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix (NTSC-J) Extractors:
>>Download Here<<

Extracts:

--Kingdom Hearts (NTSC-U) (Original North American release of the first game)
---Intro
---Ending
---Secret Ending
---PreIntro

--Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix (NTSC-J) (Original Japanese release of the first Final Mix game)
---Intro
---Ending
---Secret Ending
---PreIntro
---FFX2 Trailer

The programs belong to fao project and myself for authoring them.

These are extractors for the original US Kingdom Hearts and JAP Kingdom Hearts: Final Mix, despite the misconception that it says "kh2mov" that means "kh to mov" just in shorthand since the second Kingdom Hearts wasn't even released before the first extractor was made.

Note: For both they extract to the wrong resolution, also some playing speed and duration time issues occurred, which also happens with KH2 FMV's but once the video files are re-encoded this is all fixed. (For example: I converted the video file to AVI in Megui making sure to also resize to the correct resolution, then muxed the AVI with the WAV audio using Megui and it all played at the correct speed, resolution, and showed the correct play time. The quality was well retained even at 2x resolution in Media Player Classic.)
Re-encoding Programs to look into:
MeGUI (to AVI) - common video format
TMPGEnc (to MPEG-2) - retains original MPEG-2 format
Resolutions:
Intro, Ending, PreIntro and Secret Ending JAP are PAL 4:3 resolutions
Secret Ending US is PAL 16:9 resolution

Extracting the FMV's from KH2(US/JAP/PAL), KH Re:COM(US/JAP/PAL), and KH2FM+(JAP) is possible, but the process is entirely different, if requested enough I'll post a tutorial.

Also Feedback encouraged, even just confirmation that they are in fact working.

 

Alright, thanks. I haven't tried it yet but I'm sure that it works.

 

Thanks, somehow i thought this would get attention from a forum based around a website devoted to KH-Vids. But I guess there aren't enough people interested in this kind of thing.

 

Well people don't look in here much for tech stuff.

The "Movies and Media" board might give you more hits.

 

Hi Rathaeum, I have also been into ripping media from the KH games.
I built my own extractor for KH1, Re:COM, and KH2.
Though, my aim was for the sound not the cutscenes.
Right now I have finished NTSC/UC KH1 and KH1FM (im working on adapting the spanish and afew other PAL versions)

If you are intrested in other KH games and are having any trouble with the archive or formats you can contact me.
Though i have more experience with KH2's formats and compression than the others.

Good to hear other people are intrested in this :noworries:

 

Nice except this doesn't help the people who have the PAL version (like me)

 

I've actually become more and more interested in this lately, so I just thought I'd post saying that I'm going to try out your extractor and see how it goes for me. I have really no background doing this sort of thing so I thought I'd be a good judge of whether your program is user-friendly. :]

Edit: I've extracted the introduction already, very fast and easy. The only thing I'd suggest is that you label the buttons -- right now they're just question marks instead of words. It seems you're still improving upon the program though, so that might be something you're planning on fixing. Either way, it's very easy to use. The speed thing is a bit of an issue but nothing huge.