The problem

Original Neversoft's Tony Hawk's Pro Skater titles were released for the original PlayStation and the sample quality was atrocious. However, there were higher quality ports for next generation consoles by Treyarch. Those ports provide higher quiality samples and store them in a small container called either KAT or XSB. This tool supports both KAT and XSB containers found in Treyarch console ports. XSB files also support original filenames. It is recommended to use THPS2x XSB files, since it contains both THPS1 and THPS2 samples, however some samples are still THPS1 exculsive and only obtainable from Dreamcast version (i.e main menu loop).

Supported games

• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (Dreamcast)
• Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2x (Xbox)
• Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX (Dreamcast)

Even though THPS2 on Dreamcast was ported by Treyarch as well, this tool won't work with it. THPS2 uses 4 bit ADPCM compression instead of 8 bit, hence if you'll try to convert it, you'll only end up into bunch of distorted WAVs. ADPCM support is unlikely to be implemented, since you can get all the sounds from other ports in raw formats anyways (PC, Mac, Xbox).

Usage

You can either use it as a GUI tool or a command line tool.

GUI:
1. Run the exe
2. Pick the KAT/XSB file
3. Wait for "Done" message
4. Check for the new folder, called as the container, but without extension (i.e. "roswell.kat" -> "roswell" folder)

CMD:
1. Drag-drop KAT/XSB files on the tool icon or use it via CMD: kat2wav_x64 C:\kats\file1.kat C:\kats\file2.kat

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