MGSV Sound Replacement Tool

MGSV Sound Replacement Tool

Metal Gear Solid 5, like many other games, use a proprietary format to pack sounds along with event information into a container known as a "Wwise Soundbank", without going into too much detail, soundbanks (Created with Audiokinetic's Wwise Software) allows game developers to manage system resources as well as organize SFX more effectively by packing them in a way so that only the necessary sounds are loaded at any time.

Luckily these soundbanks (Which have the extension ".sbp") are nothing more than containers that house "RIFF" files as well as their associated event information, for example, firing a gun in-game would call the ID for the gun sound which would likely be in a soundbank loaded in memory at that time.

Update v0. 9:

It is now no longer required to use "GzsTool" to extract ".bnk" and ".stp" soundbanks as this tool will handle that for you. Be sure to read the updated guide that follows. (At the same time I have completely dropped support for the old functionality since it is no longer needed)

Requirements:

SnakeBite by Topher (Necessary)

File Monolith by Morbidslinky (Or any ".dat" archive extractor for MGSV, I prefer this one)

Wwise Authoring and SDK (2015. 1.x) (The major version is important, Wwise can only guarantee compatibility between minor versions)

Ravioli Game Tools (Recommended as it allows you to listen to sounds inside soundbanks without extracting them)

I will demonstrate a typical workflow from start to finish and hopefully, everything falls into place. I will point out significant details along the way that, when considered, increase the chances of a successful sound swap close to 100%.

For the purposes of this guide, I will be replacing some gunshot sounds; Which happen to be located in ".\Steam\steamapps\common\MGS_TPP\master\chunk0.dat". If you don't know where a particular sound is stored, a good place to start in general is "chunk0".

Tip: Downloading "Ravioli Game Tools" and associating it with ".sbp", ".bnk" and ".stp" extensions allows you to simply double click the files and from the interface, be able to listen directly to the sounds.

1. Use "Archive Unpacker.exe" from "File Monolith" to extract ".\chunk0.dat" to a folder named "chunk0" that is preferably somewhere outside your game directory. Once completed, navigate to ".\chunk0\Assets\tpp\sound\asset\" to find many S