ALMOST got Quiet to be quiet!

[dancinninja]

I have been trying to do the impossible: silence Quiet. If you like her humming, that's great. I'm happy for you.

Anyway, I have painstakingly gone through the archives to find the exact file, and I did it. I FOUND it.

I found a way to make Quiet actually live up to her name!

But I ran into a problem.

Short answer: The program Wwise (non-commercial version) that I used cannot pack more than 200 sound files for one archive (soundbank). Quiet's is 330.

Long answer:

[Tools]

1. MGSV QAR Tool
2. Ravioli game tools (http://www.scampers.org/steve/sms/other.htm)
3. ww2ogg (https://github.com/hcs64/ww2ogg) [Optional?]
4. Audio editing program of your choice [Optional?]
5. Wwise (https://www.audiokinetic.com/download/)

[steps]

1. Extract Chunk1 with QAR

2. Copy this file: "se_b_qui.sbp" to somewhere else to work on it

3. Rename it to: "se_b_qui.bnk"

4. Open it with Ravioli RExtractor and check "Allow scanning of unknown files"

5. There's two ways to proceed: make Ravioli do the conversion or use ww2ogg

5.A. Ravioli Method [This could result in corrupted(?) sound files]

5.A.1. Check "Convert sounds to:" and select "Wave"

5.A.2. Extract. You should now have a bunch of wav files (if you get .wwise files go to 5B.1.)

5.A.3. The generated file you are looking for is: File0206

5.B. ww2ogg Method [This is how I did a lot of these with]

5.B.1. Do NOT check "Convert sounds to:" in Ravioli

5.B.2. Extract. YOu should not have a bunch of .wwise files

5.B.3. Open a command line/powershell and navigate to where your files are stored

5.B.4. type in: .\ww2ogg.exe File0206.wwise --pcb packed_codebooks.bin

Note: packed_codebooks.bin might have numbers behind it, replace it with the version in that directory

5.B.4. type in: .\revorb.exe File0206.ogg

5.B.6. Convert the .ogg file into a .wav file with your audio program (I did not end up having to do this so I can't help you here)

6. Take your .wav file and edit it to be silent

Note: File0207 and File0208 also have a different kind of humming, so you could tackle those as well if you like

7. Here's where I couldn't get any further because of the limitations of the software. Follow this video:

But, unfortunately, the free version can't pack more than 200 sound files. I don't know if there are alternatives out there or some other way, but there it is. If someone does manage to get something working/have an alternative, could you let me know? Please? Edited January 27, 2016 by dancinninja

[Tikkidew]

Great work so far!! Hope you can figure out the problem. ;)

[dancinninja]

I've hit the wall. The reason I posted my findings here was because I can't continue. Unless someone out there has an alternative to wwise or the ability/software to somehow join several .bnk files together, I don't know how to proceed.

[Tikkidew]

I wish I had the ability to try and give it a shot. Darn. Still, you made good progress thus far, that's something at least. ;)