- Extension
- .bcstm
- .aac
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Nintendo
- Bell Labs, Fraunhofer Institute, Dolby Labs, Sony and Nokia
- Description
- BCSTM (Binary Cafe Stream) is a streamed audio format used by Nintendo on the 3DS platform. It stores compressed or PCM audio data optimized for streaming playback in games, as opposed to fully loading into memory. It is commonly extracted from game files for audio modding or playback with specialized tools.
- Compressed audio file similar to an .MP3 file, but offers several performance improvements; examples include a higher coding efficiency for both stationary and transient signals, a simpler filterbank, and better handling of frequencies above 16 kHz; maintains quality nearly indistinguishable from the original audio source.
- MIME Type
- audio/x-aac
