Edit Infobox Switch Homebrews: BARS-to-BWAV Switch

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This code extracts BWAV files in BARS containers and saves them into respective folders (based on their names). You can run it against a single BARS file or multiple BARS files in a folder. BARS files are usually used as sound containers in newer Nintendo Switch games (e.g. [https://www.animal-crossing.com/new-horizons/ Animal Crossing: New Horizon]). They can usually be found in the <code>Sound/Resource</code> folder in the game's extracted ROM. The extracted BWAV files can then be opened or converted to other more common format elsewhere ([https://github.com/losnoco/vgmstream vgmstream] is recommended), they are essentially a new container for sound data encoded in one of the two ways, either plain 16-bit little endian PCM (usually shorter sound effects), or Nintendo's DSP 4-bit ADPCM (longer ones). The code is written in C++, should be cross-platform (only tested it on Ubuntu). ==User guide== <pre> Usage: bars-to-bwav <bars file or folder containing bars files> [bwav output folder] [--no-overwrite] or: `bars-to-bwav -h` to bring out this menu. add `--no-overwrite` flag to prevent from overwriting files with the same names. </pre> ==Changelog== '''v0.1.2 2020/07/21''' *Change the build to static link, removes the need for DLLs on target machines (especially MinGW on Windows). '''v0.1.1 2020/06/17''' *Use C++17, add Windows (MinGW) support. Now deals with illegal characters in file name and inconsistent file structures. '''v0.1 2020/05/20''' *Release for Linux. == External links == * GitHub - https://github.com/jackz314/bars-to-bwav * GBAtemp - https://gbatemp.net/threads/bwav-extractor-bars-to-bwav.565555/