Open ACB files in your browser
The cue sheets of games built with CRIWARE. Open an ACB with its AWB right here as a folder of sounds named after their cues. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your bank opens like a folder of its sounds, named or numbered as the bank keeps them, and the one you pick plays at once, twice through its loop and then a fade.
- Its sounds listed like a folder • Names from the bank
- Pick a sound to play • Its waveform, speeds and tags
- Export • Save a sound as MP3 or WAV
- Save as ZIP or Extract all • Every sound as a WAV
About ACB
ACB is the cue sheet of ADX2, CRI Middleware's sound tools in CRIWARE: the cues a game plays, like a song or a line of dialogue, with their names and the waves behind them. Short sounds are kept inside the ACB itself, while music and voices stream from an AWB wave bank of the same name beside it.
Both are built of CRI's @UTF tables, which hold every row and column of the cue sheet, and the waves are HCA or ADX, or ATRAC9 on PlayStation. Many games encrypt their HCA waves with a key of their own.
Filepeek opens an ACB as a folder of its sounds, named after their cues, and the one you pick plays at once with vgmstream, twice through its loop and then a fade. Dropped together with its AWB, it lists the streamed sounds too. Export saves a sound as MP3 or WAV, and Save as ZIP or Extract all saves every sound as a WAV.
CRI ADX2 cue sheet
.acb
Format
- MIME type
- application/octet-stream
- Made by
- CRI Middleware
Inside the file
- Holds
- Cues, with their names
- Waves
- Inside it, or in the AWB beside it
- Codecs
- HCA, ADX and ATRAC9
- Made by
- CRI's ADX2 tools
Opens in every browser
Filepeek opens ACB files in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. On their own, browsers only download them.
- YouChromeOpens through Filepeek
- YouEdgeOpens through Filepeek
- YouFirefoxOpens through Filepeek
- YouSafariOpens through Filepeek
Apps that open ACB
- Windowsfoobar2000 with vgmstream, free • CRI Atom Craft, for developers
- MacNo app built in opens it • vgmstream-cli, from Homebrew, turns its sounds into WAVs
- iPhone and iPadNo app opens it
- AndroidNo app opens it
Questions
How do I open an ACB file?
Drop it on this page with the AWB of the same name, if it has one, or choose Peek an ACB. Its sounds are listed like a folder, named after their cues.
Why does it say its sounds are in the AWB?
An ACB keeps only its short sounds inside, and streams music and voices from an AWB of the same name. Open both together and they play, named after their cues.
Can I open the AWB on its own?
Yes. An AWB opens as a folder of its sounds too, numbered, since their names are in the ACB.
Why does it say a sound is encrypted?
Many games encrypt their HCA waves with a key of their own. Filepeek carries no game's keys and takes none, so those don't play.