- Extension
- .bcstm
- .mp2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Nintendo
- Moving Picture Experts Group
- 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.
- Audio format that uses MPEG-1 Layer II compression to reduce the file size; mainly replaced by the ubiquitous .MP3 format, but is still used for digital radio and digital television broadcasts.
- MIME Type
- audio/mpeg
