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cent208 Newcomer                Since: 11-20-06 Last post: 6360 days Last view: 6282 days |
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| I am a staff member at the BS Zelda HomePage and I am presently looking for a rom hacker who may help make patches for BS The Legend of Zelda: Ancient Stone Tablets (aka BS Zelda 3, or Kodai no Sekiban). This is an official Zelda game developed by Nintendo for the Satellaview add-on for the Super Famicom in 1997. Unfortunately back then, no one outside of Japan ever had a chance to play this game as it was never distributed on cartridges and, even there, could only be played for a short time while broadcasted.
Some of you may remember previous postings of mine asking for help to restore the game. I am thrilled to report that in the past 2 years much progress has been made to restore the game. A now retired patcher Dreamer Nom managed to make most of the indoor objects visible. Then David, Euclid (a member at this board) and Duke Serkol made an English patch for the game. This September Euclid and Duke Serkol made a patch that restored all of the indoors. Thanks to the Zelda no Video documentary DVD we have footage of the game with its music and we have discovered that the game downloaded from the Satellite music from the soundtrack, Zelda Sound & Drama. The different tracks were played at determined times and were not influenced by the players' location. We are able to tell to a degree what tracks were played at what times, and hope to stream Mp3 music into the game (something d4s managed to do with Breath of Fire 2). I purchased the Zelda Sound & Drama soundtrack from ebay for $200 this spring, so I could convert the tracks into Mp3’s at any quality that is needed. Our second big goal is to insert an English title screen (the game presently has none), we already have a “mock-up” title that is based on the original Japanese title screen, and lastly, we’d like to recreate the brief introduction seen in the video (Sahasrahla and Zelda walking up to the passed out protagonist). Our next objectives are therefore: 1) stream mp3 tracks into the game 2) insert a title screen and intro sequence A Link to the Past was arguably the best 2D Zelda game ever made and Ancient Stone Tablets is a follow-up with a new story, rearranged dungeons, evolving outdoors and new puzzles, so it is sure to be a classic. Unfortunately, even though much has been done, we won’t get to enjoy it in all of its glory unless we find skilled rom hackers to help us restore the game further. I would provide a direct link to our website, but I don’t want to break any of the board’s rules since it does contain roms. Please respond on this thread, email me at cent208@hotmail.com or send me a private message if you would be willing to help. I am more than willing to answer any questions you might have. Thanks for taking the time to read this long winded message. Your fellow video game fan, cent208 |
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Sonicandfails   910     Since: 11-17-05 From: Mass Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6279 days |
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| Hmm, If I had the skills, I would help. I hate to break it though, but most people that are in here are noobs, already have projects being worked on, and don't look at the threads in Rom Hacking because they tend to be of noobish quality.
Alot of our skilled hackers have also moved on. You should ask the admins if it would be alright if you could move this to General Chat so that it could get a little more attention, I mean, it's not like it's a Rom Hack release or anything, it's asking for help with something. Something pretty big I should say, as this looks very promising, and I'm sure the whole community would love it. Best of luck! Sonicandtails |
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Heian-794 Red Paratroopa Since: 01-02-06 Last post: 6280 days Last view: 6315 days |
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Originally posted by cent208 Wow. Two hundred dollars, that goes for? Just wow. You are one devoted fan. I'm not much of a hacker, but I could probably help with translation a bit if need be. (Working on a translation project for F-Zero Climax right now, so after that I'll have some time.) Is there any text still undeciphered? This sounds like a fantastic, ambitious hack up there with Radical Dreamers and Super Metroid Redesign. Good luck, and I can't wait to see the finished product! |
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cent208 Newcomer Since: 11-20-06 Last post: 6360 days Last view: 6282 days |
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Originally posted by Heian-794Originally posted by cent208 thanks for offering to help with the translation but it already done. what we really need is for someone to stream the mp3's and to insert our title. does anyone have any information on streaming mp3's into roms? i understand it is very difficult. the only person that i know that has done is d4s. soncandtails, thanks for the suggestion i will pm one of the administrators. |
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MathOnNapkins 1100  In SPC700 HELL  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6279 days Last view: 6279 days |
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| d4s did streaming music data, a feature not found in most SNES games, though it was not mp3. Mp3 is not an option at all considering the processing power it takes is well out of reach for a SNES. Basically what it comes down to is a reduced bit rate but the same essential data. I'm not even quite sure how this would work out. i.e. do emulators support the full features of the Satellaview? Did the Satellaview have stronger processing capabilities that would aid in implementing this? Do you plan on converting this to a standard SNES type image? i.e. I know there are 4 "episodes" so would you play through one episode, keep the save file from it, then rename it to the next episode's file name?
It's hard to advise you without knowing a bit more of the specifics. |
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cent208 Newcomer Since: 11-20-06 Last post: 6360 days Last view: 6282 days |
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Originally posted by MathOnNapkins That's okay, it doesn't have to be mp3 format as long as the music quality is fair and more importantly if we can play the songs from the soundtracks Originally posted by MathOnNapkins Probably not. We don't really wish to faithfully recreate the original code used by the Satellaview, just the end result, which should be something akin to what d4s did with BoF2 (except keeping sound effects). Originally posted by MathOnNapkins That would be nice if we could play the game on a copier. However we realize that the SNES most likely does not have the "horsepower" to play CD quality music without receiving it from a Satellite connection or something, so even if we could play the game with the CD soundtrack only on an emulator, that would still make us happy. Originally posted by MathOnNapkins That's what we normally do, yes. Naturally, that would make it unpratical to say the least to keep your progress when playing with a copier. Fortunately the games allows players starting anew from later weeks to catch up rather quickly and easily, so it's not an issue. |
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Heran Bago Micro-Goomba  Since: 06-13-06 Last post: 6360 days Last view: 6360 days |
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| There's an MP3 tool for Sonic 2 running in Gens/Gens+. You will be able to stream music into the game with an add-on/plug-in for an emulator, an edited emulator, or a new emulator all together.
I think high quality MP3s is a good idea. Are you hosting the sound track anywhere? |
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cent208 Newcomer Since: 11-20-06 Last post: 6360 days Last view: 6282 days |
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Originally posted by Heran Bago thanks for the info on the mp3 tool. do you have a link or more information on where i could get it? also, can it be used with a snes emulator? no unfortuantely we are not currently hosting the mp3's because we our website is hosted by a larger website (for free) and the webmaster of the site is unhappy with us adding large files. we are presently looking into putting the mp3's up on a free file hosting site like fileforge. of course if anyone is willing to help with the music I would could email them the mp3 files. (edited by cent208 on 11-30-06 12:01 PM) |
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