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DukeNukem007

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Posted on 08-15-05 09:48 AM Link | Quote
Anyone know how to hack the background graphics from the game? They appear to be compressed, although it seemed that DeJap inserted some graphics that used the algorithm in a few places (like the title screen.) And anyone know how to hack the map areas?

At times it seems like hacking would be ruining a perfect game, but in light of all the "10th anniversary Chrono Trigger" stuff the 10th anniversary of ToP is only 4 months away to the day, so I'm surprised I haven't seen much hacking besides translation and voice-dubbing.

(BTW, the voice dub on Zophar crashes the rom, presumably because the data is stored in the wrong places. I could fix that, but the amount of time would be unbelievable due to the way the game stores short samples and swaps them on the fly rather than full voices, with the "flexible voice driver." And speaking of the FVD, it's why ToP and Star Ocean .spc sets have many songs that don't sound right; only the initial samples are stored. A thought for future music hacking in any game would be to implement the FVD and swap instruments in the middle of a few songs...)
d4s

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Posted on 08-16-05 04:08 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by DukeNukem007
A thought for future music hacking in any game would be to implement the FVD and swap instruments in the middle of a few songs...)


great, go ahead then.

btw, the top voice dub patch works fine, you just have to apply it to the correct rom.
i prefer the original japanese voices, though.



(edited by d4s on 08-15-05 07:10 PM)
FloBo

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Posted on 08-16-05 03:15 PM Link | Quote
where to get this patch, you're talking about?!
DukeNukem007

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Posted on 09-02-05 07:39 AM Link | Quote
Originally posted by FloBo
where to get this patch, you're talking about?!


*old bump*

http://www.zophar.net/trans/download/topdub999.rar

The patch almost immediately crashes "Tales of Phantasia (J) [T-Eng1.2_DeJap].smc," which I'd think would be the version of choice for anyone not ultra-fluent in Japanese. I'm surprised it doesn't just work in any version because I didn't think text patches moved the sounds around. I've opened the IPS in SNESSOR and it sounds poorly synthesized (I dislike voicedubs in general unless it's absolutely needed,) but it might help from the standpoint of hacking.

Anyhoo...I'm going to start tearing the ROM apart myself and seeing if I can't find a way to hack the maps or motivate others to do so...
200-FC00 code
FC00-10200 a few gfx
10200-21600 probably code
21600-22100 text tables?
57000-B3200 = various forms of junk. Are those tile formations near the start?
B3200-1A4B10 = more alternation between compressed/uncompressed gfx
1A4B10-1A6000 = some header table?
1A6000-210200 = graphics both packed/unpacked
210200-280200 = mostly sound effects
280200-2E3000 = junk
2E3000-2F1600 = some gfx both compressed/unpacked + junk.
2F1600-300200 = junk
300200-30C000 = fonts and a little junk on the side...
30C000-310200 = junk...
310200-3F4000 = loads of sound data, with some other stuff (music/sound header data?) in between.
3F4000-3FAB00 = junk then some uncompressed gfx
3FAB00-400200 what IS this? looks like stripes in a tile editor.
400200-420000 mixture of uncompressed & compressed gfx
420000-427000 what IS this?
427000-4A1C00 lots of uncmpsd actor sprites and some (compressed?) junk
4A1C00-4BC000 some uncompressed gfx, what's the other junk?
4BC000-5F0180 = lots of compressed gfx and looks like some tiny sound segments
5F0180-eof = some gfx, both compressed & uncompressed
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