Posted on 2023-03-12, in Programming Gaming, tagged with python

Convert GTA Vice City Radio station ADF audio files

On the "Game" CD of GTA Vice City is a Audio Directory, which contains all the radio stations as .adf files. These are MP3 files "encrypted" using the sophisticated XOR algorithm with password " that is, 0x22. You can convert them to mp3 files with this python snippet.

Listening might make you nostalgic though.

import pathlib
import sys

for p_from in pathlib.Path(sys.argv[1]).glob("*.adf"):
    pathlib.Path(
        sys.argv[2],
        f"GTA Vice City Radio - {p_from.stem.capitalize()}.mp3",
    ).write_bytes(bytes(b ^ 0x22 for b in p_from.read_bytes()))

Call as python foo.py /mnt/Audio/ /path/to/your/music