Output Files

This page describes the types of files generated via conversion and the output location.
The file system described here represents the file types required by the sound applications. (Excluding HTML files)

By default, an output folder called "output" will be created within the project folder, but you can customize where the data is output using the Project Settings dialog box.

Sound Archive Files

Sound archive files are the body of sound data and store sound archives.
Output is saved to a file located in the output folder of the project folder. The file has the same name as the sound project file and uses the extension .bcsar.

Stream Files

Stream files store the waveform data for stream sounds included in sound archives.
Output is saved to the output directory in the specified output folder. The output file has the same name as the waveform file referenced by the stream sound, except it will have the extension .bcstm.

The location of the stream file is stored as a relative path in the sound archive file. The directory below output is the path where the stream file is actually located on ROM. This information is required when the sound archive plays stream sounds.

Sound ID Files

A sound ID file is a text file containing a list of all item names included in a sound archive.
Output is saved to a file located in the specified output folder. The file has the same name as the sound project file, except it will have the .csid extension.

「When the check box for Output Labels by Items is selected in the Project Settings dialog, the ID headers are divided into files by type and output. The following seven different types of files are output:

• *.BANK.csid
• *.GROUP.csid
• *.PLAYER.csid
• *.SEQSET.csid
• *.SOUND.csid
• *.WAVEARCHIVE.csid
• *.WSDSET.csid

Intermediate Binary Files

These are the intermediate binary files that are created during conversion, and include files with the .bcstm and .bcwar extensions.
These are all output to the "cache" folder within the sound project folder.

You can choose whether or not to output the intermediate binary files to the cache folder from Project Settings.

All files within the cache folder will be deleted if the project is converted again.

HTML Sound List

An HTML-formatted sound list is automatically generated from the content of a converted project.
From the project settings, you can freely choose the items to output to the sound list.
The list is output to the Sound Project folder using the same name as the Sound Project file but with the .html extension.

Instrument lists will not be output as HTML-formatted files during conversion.「See Outputting HTML Instrument Lists.

MAP Files

Sound archive map files are created at conversion time.

An XML format file named the same as the sound project file, and an HTML format file named with Map appended to the end of name of the sound project file, are both exported to the output folder.

The file can be structured in these ways:

• Group List
• File List
• Binary Map

From the MAP file you can determine such information as the ROM size, the header size, the bank capacity and the waveform capacity (the waveform archive capacity).
The table below shows an example of the relationship between Name and capacity for Binary Map items.

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