MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics

MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics

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By Clappie
A small step-by-step guide to enjoying the audio from each game in the collection at your leisure!
   
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Introduction and preparation
Ever wanted to take yourself for a ride with your favorite game from this collections soundtrack whenever without having to boot the collection up or go to Youtube? Or maybe you just wanna take the music with you on the go?
No problem!

Preparation
First things first, make sure you are able to view file extensions in file explorer (.exe, .zip, .png, etc)

This can be done with the following steps:

  • Open file explorer (Or be a badass and Browse Local Files for the game right now if you know!)
  • At the top, click the View tab
  • On the right side within the Show/Hide group, check File Name Extensions

It should be similar to the following image (Appearance such as colors might be different, but the layout should be the same)
Accessing audio files
If you followed the first step and can see file extensions, you're ready to roll!

In your Library tab on Steam, find MARVEL vs. CAPCOM Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics and right-click it.

A menu will pop up, mouse over Manage and another menu will pop up, in this menu click Browse local files.




After clicking Browse local files, explorer will open to the main game directory where all the data for the game is stored.



From here, open the nativeDX11x64 folder, then the sound folder that's in there, then the bgm folder that's in there.

You should end up seeing three folders named the following:
  • mus
  • mvc2
  • sys

IMPORTANT STEP
At this point, make sure to make a copy of these folders somewhere else easily accessible on your computer. This can be done by right-clicking and clicking "Copy" and right-clicking somewhere else on your computer (Wherever is easiest for you to access) and and clicking "Paste"
File layout
From the bgm folder from the last step you should be in, you should be seeing three folders named
  • mus
  • mvc2
  • sys

The folders are as follows:
mus
All the music for the games in the collection

mvc2
Seems to be a duplicate of the music for Marvel Vs. Capcom 2

sys
Music exclusively for the collection (Main menu, gallery, etc.)

The mus folder

Within the mus folder, there's a wav folder, in THAT is the music for every game in this collection as labeled:



Inside each of these folders are a bunch of sngw files (Image example is from the mvc2 folder

These are simply .wav files with a changed extension!
Converting files
Now the fun part!
There are two ways to do this, one by one or at all once with a simple batch file (That you'll make!)
Make sure you are working with your copied files and not the originals, messing this up will cause your game to crash!

DISCLAIMER/REMINDER:
Do NOT download and run random batch files off the internet unless you know what you are doing!
I am providing you the steps to make your own for safety as well as teaching!


Individually (Not recommended)
Right-click on the sngw file you want to convert then click rename, the filename (NOT THE SNGW PART) should be highlighted.


To change the file extension, simply change sngw at the end and type wav instead!

You might see a pop-up similar to the following, feel free to click Yes on it and your file will now be a shiny new wav file for your enjoyment to use!




Batch/All at once (Recommended!)
If you'd rather NOT convert every single file one by one, that's also an option!

First, make sure to move all your copied sngw files into a new folder!
You can make a new folder in explorer by right-clicking, hovering over New, then clicking Folder. Rename the folder whatever you want (Example: Converted)
If you are just copying the mus sngw files, you should have a total of 245 files in one folder (No need to worry about grouping, the default filenames help with that!)


Second, we're gonna create a batch file to rename all the files at once and make life easier for everyone!
Open notepad and type the following into it (Or copy-paste the below, whichever your prefer!):
ren *.sngw *.wav

What each part of the code does:
ren - Renames the specified file
*.sngw - Targets files that end with the sngw
*.wav - Replaces the target (sngw) with wav instead

Save the file as whatever name you want, but make sure the extension is .bat
Example: converter.bat (I prefer this name since it will show up first in your list before any of the sngw files)

In your new folder, place your .bat file in here along with your sngw files, then double-click it to run it!

You should see a black window flash for a little bit, then see every single file is now a wav file!
Wrapup
Since Capcom have never released a soundtrack for these games (As far as I know) this should be the next best thing!

Jam out with your favorite tunes and rock on!
4 Comments
GRIMM 15 Sep, 2024 @ 7:33am 
@ZeR, in theory, but it wouldnt affect the games themselves. The associated music in the folders as shown in this guide is actually just for the music player within the game. Not for the individual games.
crim400 13 Sep, 2024 @ 4:10pm 
The audio files for the game use the "vorbis audio" codec, meaning that the correct file extension you should be changing to is ".ogg". If you try to use ".wav" you may run into errors when playing them using some music players (like foobar2000).
Ganolinkeld4 12 Sep, 2024 @ 6:53am 
If you use "VLC" Player, you can play snqw files directly. This is just a tip. But the tutorial is still appreciated in case we want to change the extension as you say and make them available on other media.
ZeR *BmB* 12 Sep, 2024 @ 4:23am 
Hey, is it possible to add your own tracks if you rename them to what they are in the game?