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Hi guys! First of all, since this is my first real post, I'd like to thank you for accepting me into your community. Now, down to business!

I've recently bought a brand-new copy of Sonic R for PC, not exactly because of the game itself, but because of its soundtrack. Since this is an old Sega PC release, I immediately assumed that all of the audio would be in the game's CD as Red Book Audio. Well, apparently, I was wrong. The music tracks are stored in an odd extension, .SON. So I decided to install the game, to see if the installer would decompress these files and copy them to the HDD, which it didn't. The SFX, however, are storeed in the game's folder, in .WAV, no less. I tried to copy one of these .SON files and changed its extension to .WAV, to see if there would be any results. Needless to say, it did nothing (it was a silly idea to begin with). I've also tried to open them with 7-zip, and again, no results.

Here's the rundown: the tracks don't look like they've been compressed in a lossy format, since most .SON files use 30MB of space. My guess is that they are .WAV files, packed in a way that only the executable of Sonic R can decode and play them. Maybe the solution lies within the game's executable?

Well, I don't know if there's actually anyone interested in this. Just thought I'd let you guys know. And please, don't take this as a cry for help, because it isn't.