Originally posted by DurfarC

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Hmmm, I'm sure someone has made a Sonic hack on this board, although I can't remember who...

Welcome to the board Tweaker. Have a great time, and obey the rules.

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Originally posted by Sketchie

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What's with the sudden surge of hacks featuring different characters lately?

First it was a Ninji. Then a Shyguy. And NOW a Koopa. What's next? XD

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Originally posted by Kyouji Craw

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Quite simply, unless you're DJ Bouche, you don't. What you DO do is that you make a patch from Demo World and a version of Demo World with the alternate music to give you the alternate music and apply it to your hack.

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Originally posted by Atma X

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Very good, I want to see more people like yourself. Now, you still have some learning to do,... though it shouldn't take long (I was at you stage of comprehension about this stuff just about 6 months ago,... unless you're futher behind than I think you are.....anyway...).
You will hopefully realize that you don't need any of these other people to tell you the format used for the Snes' Music. The way to understand it, is to think about computer logic intensly, and learn the Instructions of the 65816 Language.
Once you do that, you will be able to figure anything out. It doesn't matter what language you start with, or how many you learn,.. the logic applies to all of them,... getting to know a new language just means learning a new set of instructions.
Now, if you don't want to become a programmer (if you do, it doesn't neccessarily have to be your profession, or your main focus with game hacking), and you want to work with music, then you're going to have to do a lot of guessing to figure it out (which is too much guessing,... guessing is very bad,... you have a hard time finding the result that you are looking for, and guessing requires no thinking,... which is why guessing is bad), or you can have someone tell you.
Now, I can't guarantee you will be able to do it without some programming knowledge, because I remember being told that the Snes' Music is more than just Information being Interpreted as Data, but as well, it is Information that is being Interpreted to perform operations (aka, Interpretation of Instructions). I haven't found out for myself yet, because I haven't looked at any of it yet, but when I do, I'll let you know how it works (unless you decided that you want to do it all on your own).

Be aware that in order to do many things, you're going to need to be a programmer, and someone who understands the Logics of a computer very well (a programmer who doesn't understand the logics [esspecially the core/basic logics], doesn't make an excellent programmer,... or even a good one).

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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Uhm... it would be heavily confusing if Bouche's port wasn't flawless, because that would mean he converted song data from SMAS to the SMW engine's data format, which, as of now, is not possible (at least, we don't know a way to do so).
There are no such things as sound drivers for the SNES. There is a separate processor (the SPC-700) for the sound output stuff, which means the music you hear on the SNES is, in fact, being executed by a separate program.
For the sake of more or less easy handling, most music implementations for the SNES consist out of playback code, sample data and, in most cases, MOD- or even MIDI-like music data, all of which are being uploaded by the game (which runs on the 65c816) into the SPC on runtime.
What Bouche did was "simply" hacking both SMW and the music engine of SMAS so they could work together. What you hear in SMW with SMAS music is neither a port of the original SMAS music, nor is it just close to the original. It basically is the same thing as it is in SMAS, and the only difference between an SPC dump from SMAS and SMW/SMAS is the order the songs are in (and some few bytes with SMW sound effect sample data which SMAS hasn't). In other words, he exchanged SMW's music engine by SMAS's.

@CheesePie, Sawnec/Kario, I partially agree with both of you. Of course it is not nice to flame someone just for asking a thing, even if it is misplaced, and it sucks to call anyone who is against you a newb (which, in hacking-related communities, is considered a heavy offense). On the other hand, it is about time you begin to understand that I won't be able to finish SST up faster even if you mention it in every single thread that has some vague relation to music at it. I, currently, have countless things to do for school and some contests, so I have absolutely no time to work on it. As soon as things allow me to, I will certainly attempt to make a release at last.

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Originally posted by turtleman

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I'm good with music

btw:acnt u just rip music from other roms and import them with that with this mystery program?

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