Enter the preservationists.
If you’d like, I can check the actual article if you share a link or more text. Otherwise, this sums up the gist. god of war iii audio multi8 repackages gnarly work
Standard ripping tools (like PSound or RPCSExtractor ) have existed for a decade. They let you listen to Kratos yell "ZEUS!" in isolation. But they are read-only. They break upon repackaging. They corrupt loop points 99% of the time. Enter the preservationists
For years, the game’s audio remained locked away in proprietary Sony compression formats (.MSF, .VAG, .AT3). For modders and fan-translators, it was a Hydra’s head of a problem: impossible to cut off, impossibly messy to reattach. That is, until a specific, niche toolset emerged. This brings us to the phrase that has become a rallying cry in the underground audio ripping scene: Standard ripping tools (like PSound or RPCSExtractor )