JakAudioTools

Tools for parsing and dealing with the various audio files found in Jak and Daxter games

Types of audio files

• VAGWAD.XXX - found in the VAG folder on disc and generally contain speech audio in their respecitive languages i.e VAGWAD.ENG = English Speech Audio
  • VAGWAD.INT typically contains language agnostic audio like background music Jak 1 & 2 do not have a .INT as their music is sequenced using .MUS files
  • the file is just made up of all the audio files sequentially stuffed into one binary Jak 1 uses a file signature of VAGp while later games use pGAV
  • audio can either be mono or interleaved stereo with an interleave of 2000 bytes
  • Other audio info: Sample rate: 48000, Format: Raw Compressed ADPCM
• VAGDIR.ABY - this file does not contain any audio data but can be used as a lookup table for the 8 character names of audio files found inside the VAGWAD.XXX files
  • Jak 1 - this file consists of a list of 12 byte entries that match 1-1 with the audio files from the VAGWAD
  • Jak 2 - identical to Jak 1 except entries are 16 bytes long
  • Jak 3 and beyond? - this file is obfuscated so isn't of use yet....
• XXXXXX.SBK - SBK files are like soundfonts, they contain short game sound effects as well as the sound name for each of these i.e zoomer-jump
• XXXXXX.MUS - MUS files contain sequence data (like MIDI) as well as sound bank information, this is the main format of game background music in Jak 1 & 2