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I recently saved a USF file to my computer. It's the music ripped directly from the N64 gold cartridge of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. The problem is no music program like Windows Media Player can read it. I even tried a few winamp downloads but that hasn't helped. Can anyone give a good way to solve this without 10 confusing steps of reformatting this file, searching this big website for the one specific plug in or converting the file to something else by undoing the driver coded flag. I'm not very knowledgeable about computers so drivers, codecs and all that stuff so keep it simple if possible.

It is a USF audio file. The file name is specifically: lozusf.rar
I found it in the music section of Zelda Legends.

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The file you are trying to play is named "lozusf.rar"? If so, what you've got there isn't a music file. Its a compressed RAR file. You'll need to download winrar or something similar to open the compressed file with, then see whats inside.
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Download WinRAR from here:
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm

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You should use Izarc, it's way better! And completely free!
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WinRar download didn't work. Operation Timed Out.

I just downloaded Izarc. It is able to separate the music files but I still can't get them to play. What do I do now?

I mean it just keeps opening up a new Izarch window with the exact same thing. Windows media still can't play it. Honestly, I had an easier time with the Water Temple.

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There's a plugin available for Winamp that allows you to play USF files. I cannot remember what it's called though, sorry. Try looking around at Zophar's Domain.

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Originally posted by: Knightmessenger

WinRar download didn't work. Operation Timed Out.

I just downloaded Izarc. It is able to separate the music files but I still can't get them to play. What do I do now?

I mean it just keeps opening up a new Izarch window with the exact same thing. Windows media still can't play it. Honestly, I had an easier time with the Water Temple.

I'd never heard of USF files before, so I figured this would come up again, after you unrar'ed them...

(If you still want Winrar, you could click the same link later. Probably several links for it).

Anyway - Did you extract the files to your hard drive with Izarc?

Winrar/Izarc can't play them. They only extract them to the drive.

Originally posted by: klokwerk

There's a plugin available for Winamp that allows you to play USF files. I cannot remember what it's called though, sorry. Try looking around at Zophar's Domain.


I found 'em. I'd googled up the rar, and there were links (mostly dead). These work:

USF Winamp Plugin version 1.1 You probably want the installer. There's a readme, for an older version, at. (Gee, what a surprise that the Winamp plugin page, for it, doesn't work when you click the download button. But the first link works fine).

I haven't got the plugin installed, yet. So I haven't tested it. It'd be great if you could use Winamp to convert them to something *normal* like Wav (not recompressed) or Mp3 (lose some quality). Dunno yet.


If you don't have Winamp, heres the Winamp download choices - I don't see any big reason to get the pay version. Its a nice little piece of software, I've used it for years. I believe this version requires XP. If you don't have XP, I'm pretty sure you can still get the old version from them (I got their newest old-version, about a year ago).

If you somehow associated the files to Izarc, then you need to hold down the shift key & right-click on one, chose "Open With" and pick Winamp. (And put a check mark in the "always open with this program). And/Or you can use Winamp's menu to open a whole directory of USF's at one time. (Which is not only quicker, but also useful if Open-With ignores you, as it does sometimes).

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Okay, at Zophar's site, do I download the installer, the binary or the source? I try to open the installer file, 64thv11 but every time it posts an option to Install Now, even though I've already selected that before.
What do I do next. How do I use that program to open the .rar files?

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So, to recap, you have:

1. Downloaded and installed something that can open RAR files (WinRAR or IZArc).

2. Extracted all the USF files from the RAR archive into a folder somewhere (e.g. My Documents\Music).

3. Downloaded and installed Winamp.

4. Downloaded and installed the USF plugin for Winamp.

Now, what happens when you try to play the extracted USF files with Winamp?

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Originally posted by: Jaiman Tuckuh
If you don't have Winamp, heres the Winamp download choices - I don't see any big reason to get the pay version.


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The download won't work. In the download window the time remaining and transfer rate have no numbers after them and there is no progress on the status bar. I don't understand why I've had so much trouble with winamp when I've downloaded larger files before.

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Cancel the download and try again. No biggie.

I've run into that before. (It's tough for a company to run their own server, without tons of cash). After you download the install file, check that it is the right size, if it's too small, download again.

It works, so it's worth the effort. I just installed the plugin, into Winamp, and I'm listening to those same USF files, right now.

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Operation Timed Out... Again.
Maybe it doesn't like downloads from remote internet connections. I don't know. If anyone downloaded the same files, would it be possible for someone to convert the files to .wma format and send them to me?

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I haven't heard of a way to resave files that only Winamp plugins can play. There might be a way, but I haven't heard of it.


I don't know of another place to get Winamp. You can hunt the software sites, but those would probably link you right back to Winamp's site.


You could keep trying to download Winamp at different times of the day/night.

Right-click and save-as?


Or you might try shutting off your firewall and antivirus. If you have a router, maybe you could DMZ that computer for a while (shut off all protection for that computer - Linksys calls it "DMZ").

(Your firewall could be keeping them from doing a "reverse DNS lookup" on you. That can stop things with some web sites, though they really should expect it, in this day and age of firewalls).


You could install Firefox, and see if that'll download it. Or, if you're running Firefox, you could temporarily try IE again (without making it default).

There's probably a timeout setting in each browser, that you could increase.

Or you could try a download manager...

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