Awesome news everyone, I've found a gentleman here in Texas that claimed he is the only one that can convert our CAVS ".ncg" files (Note: that is not ".mcg", that's N as in Nancy, not M as in Michael). And it is true!
Originally he wanted me to send him a hard drive with all the .ncg song files on it so that he could convert them back on to the original hard drive (something about copyright laws), but I talked him into letting me send him my backup files on DVD. It took about a week, but let me tell you.... It worked and works great with kJams!! His charge is 2¢ a song, yes you heard me right, $0.02 per song! His name is Frank and he's a great guy! Here is his website link and contact info:
http://www.kjamp.com/RBKP05.php
RoxBox
325 Sheri Lane
Hurst, TX 76053
USA
1-817-230-4921
frank@kjamp.com
Trust me everyone, he's the genuine article, please don't forget to tell him Christopher from Austin sent you !!!
!ATTENTION! CAVS "NCG" files *CAN* BE CONVERTED!!
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All my CAVS files have extension .MCG, not .NCG. How do the two file types differ?trippster wrote:Awesome news everyone, I've found a gentleman here in Texas that claimed he is the only one that can convert our CAVS ".ncg" files (Note: that is not ".mcg", that's N as in Nancy, not M as in Michael).
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If the differences were publicly available then I would be able to support the formats. They are proprietary formats hence their contents is hidden and not documented. As far as I know they both suck.
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So, the differences are as yet unknown? I see...or, don't see, as the case may be.dave wrote:If the differences were publicly available then I would be able to support the formats. They are proprietary formats hence their contents is hidden and not documented.
I'm in the midst of converting 42,000 or so .MCGs to .CDGs using CAVS' extortion, er, conversion tool. I notice that each resulting CDG is 5-10 times larger than the MCG it came from, which seems to prove that MCGs are compressed in some way.
I wonder if the CAVS developers simply used some off-the-shelf ZIP library to store the data, then called it a day? If so, retracing their steps could be as easy as taking the path of least resistance!
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Okay i've done a bit of reverse engineering work on MCG, it really is just a compressed version of CDG, where they simply "remove" all the records that say "nothing is happening now" and where they also compress out any redundancy. I don't have it yet and I won't be able to work on it for a while, but at least now i know that much. It is not a zip compression.
Coming RSN!
I've got code. Very soon you'll be able to play NCG and MCG files within kJams. Yay!
-dave
-dave
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kJams now fully supports NCG and MCG files, without needing conversion. Just load them up like they are regular CDG's and you're good to go, it "just works"!
-dave
-dave