Originally posted by Griff Morivan

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I know. It's becoming a pain, because every time I try, I wreck... something.

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Originally posted by Darkdata

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Can I fix this? edit: Nope

Anyway, to answer the question, music editing is hard. There is no known way to edit SM64's music. You could experiment and try for yourself however.

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Originally posted by Zepper

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It's been a long time, but I had no difficulties in order to find the level data. I had planned a level editor, but due to my lazyness, it was cancelled. Perhaps I should resume it...

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Originally posted by HyperHacker

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If you get that star in, say, Whomp's Fortress, which does it count as? The byte before or after the one that decides what's in the box might decide which star it is. Or there could be 6 different bytes that produce stars, did you try others?

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Originally posted by Tanks

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I'm a begginer to NSF so I'm gonna' look into at after the first release.

(unrelated to topic at hand)
*sigh* I haven't worked on the hack lately becuase of boredom issues so I have been tring to help with the Animal Forest Translatio w/ a title. I think I might just quit the Animal forest project and go back to my hack cause I keep on screwing up the title I created. I try to make it better and it only gets worse. but that's enough of my ranting.

(now back to the topic at hand)
I'm going to try to finish the title screen for my hack this week since I'm going to have so many days off from school. I'm then going to do the big mode sprites (I can tell thats gonna' be a bitch to edit) and finnish off with the in level enemies... (I try to eit them but they always come out looking like Missingno.)

Oh' and that level editor would be amazing.

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Originally posted by blackhole89

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Originally posted by mortalkenshi2

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Well, If I am understanding this correctly, if I wanted the SMB1 bowser theme into mario64, I would have to get the code of the music from SMB1 and then transfer that into an empty space in the rom of m64 and get the pointer to point to that particular music?

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You aren't understanding it correctly.

You would have to get the music data from SMB1 and then write a compatible music data player for the N64 platform; subsequently, you'd have to compile the latter, insert it and link it up with the game code.
No, nobody here is going to teach you that.

As for editing pointers, you would likely edit them in a hex editor. If you don't know what a pointer is, you probably are in the wrong forum/having set yourself the wrong goals. No offense, but you should know about pointers and the basics of programming before trying to get into hacking.

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Originally posted by Zepper

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No no no no... wait.

Each game uses a certain music engine, or a piece of program code that plays music, as another thread. It fetches sample data or music codes to play. When you want to hack music, it's a lot easy to write from scratch the music rather than pasting code from another game. Of course, you can do such thing for compatible game music engines, as MegaMan1-2 or MegaMan3-6 (NES).

Modern systems uses the entire music pre-recorded, much like a CD track, but looped. Systems like the N64 or the SNES still use tables, but with sound samples instead of wave generation, like the old NES does.

In other words, if you want to change the Mario64 music, you must find the music code (not the program code) for each track... OR to replace the instrument samples with others. With SNES was possible, no clue for N64, but I believe it is too if I'm not wrong...

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Originally posted by Yoronosuku

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And no, we aren't going to tell you how to do THAT either really. The only practical way is hex, and no offence but you barely sound like you could handle it if you have such little grasp on pointers.

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Originally posted by Yoronosuku

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Young? I learned how to code in C when I was 11. On my own. Age has nothing to do with it. Pointers a re a very easy concept, they represent and ultimately lead to an address. Really not that difficult...

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