# Extracting song list from game ## NX2 and NXA The song list is compiled into the game's executable as a big table with the following structure: ```c struct SongList_t { int IndexNum; // Index in the song list array int TrackNum; // Song ID int szArtistName_kr; // const char* to the null terminated string int szArtistName_en; // const char* to the null terminated string int szSongName_kr; // const char* to the null terminated string int szSongName_en; // const char* to the null terminated string int BPM; int ChannelInfo; int Level[6]; // Array indices correspond to the following and the content is the difficulty level for that mode // See GetRandomTrack() // 0 - eStepNormal // 1 - eStepHard // 2 - eStepCrazy // 3 - eStepHalfDouble // 4 - eStepFreestyle // 5 - eStepNightmare bool bEnable_m; bool bHidden_m; bool bEnableDemoPlay; // Allow playing in attract mode bool bCensor; // Don't show song in game (configurable) bool bPad; bool bCensorLock; // Permanently censored (not configurable) bool bEnable_play; bool bHidden_play; int TexID; bool bEnableMode_m[6]; // Modes where this song is allowed bool bEnableMode_play[6]; short unknown1; short time; // Time value used to calculate kcal and VO2 short SongMileage; // Cost to unlock this song short ModeMileage[3]; // Mileage required to play this song on the different modes } __attribute__((packed)); ``` Probably the easiest method to locate that table is to find a string that any of the entries points to using your favorite decompiler. Song names are good candidates as most of them should be unique and easy to locate when your tool can expose all strings of the binary. Follow any references to the string and you should easily find a chunk of that that looks like this: ```text .data:08130FDF db 0 .data:08130FE0 ; int g_songListWithouBlazeEmotion[] .data:08130FE0 g_songListWithouBlazeEmotion dd 0F02h ; DATA XREF: HandleSongUnlocksMaybe:loc_806A5B5r .data:08130FE0 ; HandleSongUnlocksMaybe+26Br ... .data:08130FE4 dd offset aACn ; "8¥¦ 8ûì " .data:08130FE8 dd offset aYahpp ; "YAHPP " .data:08130FEC dd offset aRieX_1 ; "8¦Édà+ X.1 " .data:08130FF0 dd offset aCannonX_1 ; "Cannon X.1 " .data:08130FF4 dd offset a185 ; "185 " .data:08130FF8 dd 0 .data:08130FFC dd 3 .data:08131000 dd 0Ah .data:08131004 dd 14h .data:08131008 dd 0Dh .data:0813100C dd 16h .data:08131010 db 1 .data:08131011 db 1 .data:08131012 db 0 .data:08131013 db 1 .data:08131014 db 0 .data:08131015 db 1 .data:08131016 db 0 .data:08131017 db 0 .data:08131018 dd 0FFFFFFFFh .data:0813101C db 1 .data:0813101D db 1 .data:0813101E db 1 .data:0813101F db 1 .data:08131020 db 1 .data:08131021 db 0 .data:08131022 db 0 .data:08131023 db 0 .data:08131024 db 0 .data:08131025 db 0 .data:08131026 db 0 .data:08131027 db 0 .data:08131028 dw 79h .data:0813102A dw 0 .data:0813102C dw 0 .data:0813102E dw 0 .data:08131030 dw 0 .data:08131032 dw 0 .data:08131034 dw 0 .data:08131036 dw 0 .data:08131038 dw 2 .data:0813103A dw 0 .data:0813103C dd 0F03h ``` Find the beginning by going backwards and checking where the first valid entry with pointers to artist, title etc start. Usually, the first entry is also the primary reference for the game to address the song list. This should allow you to find the function `GetSongRealIndex`. From there, you can easily find out the total length of the song list. ```c int __cdecl GetSongRealIndex(int songNo) { signed int v1; // ebx@1 int v2; // ecx@2 int v3; // edx@3 int v4; // eax@4 v1 = GetTotalTrackNum(); // 324 if ( v1 <= 0 ) return -1; v2 = 0; if ( g_songIdBlazingEmotion[0] != songNo ) { v2 = 0; v3 = 0; while ( 1 ) { ++v2; if ( v2 == v1 ) break; v4 = g_songListWithouBlazeEmotion[v3]; v3 += 23; if ( v4 == songNo ) return *(&g_songList[0].TrackNum + 23 * v2); } return -1; } return *(&g_songList[0].TrackNum + 23 * v2); } ``` With that info, you can dump the list straight from the binary, e.g. using `dd`: ```shell script dd if=./piu bs=1 skip=954240 count=31200 of=songlist.bin ``` Requires you to manually calculate the size by using the above struct as reference. Note: This part does not cover the dumping of the referenced strings to build a full song list. This process was mainly used to get a song index mapping table for mapping absolute indices of the song table array to the song IDs and vice versa (for pumpnet).