- Extension
- .bcstm
- .ra
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Audio
- Audio
- Developer
- Nintendo
- RealNetworks
- 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.
- RealPlayer created RA for audio streaming. It makes use of various audio codecs from those that deliver high-fidelity sounds to those that record low bitrate audio data. Radio stations mainly used it for online streaming, but current formats have overthrown it.
- MIME Type
- audio/vnd.rn-realaudio
