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Xenesis

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Since: 11-19-05
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Posted on 01-24-06 07:14 AM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
Okay, so I got my hands on the midi2agb converter tool. Anyhow, it nicely makes .s files from midis for me. But I'm having a few problems when I get Sappy to import the .s file and compile it to tracks. Now I made sure that the midiplaydef.s was renamed to mplaydef.s, too.

Basically, it comes down to this:

1) I'm still not quite sure what I should enter for the first hex address. Should it be the header address of another song, the place in the song table, some blank space in the rom or what?

2)Compiling the song into the game destroys the ROM. I figure it's caused either by my incompetence due to 1) or by the midi files themselves, but I have attempted it with a few different midi files.

Any help would be nice.
Xenesis

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Posted on 01-24-06 09:58 AM, in Semi-Advanced GBA Rom Hacking Link
Yeah, it looks a little beyond my ability at the moment. I really need to buckle down and really learn ARM Assembly before I can really do what I want in GBA hacking..

Still, starting with some NES Assembly might be the way to go, except there's nothing really that I'd want to hack too much on the NES....except maybe Balloon Fight...
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Posted on 01-24-06 10:09 AM, in Original Starter Pokemon of Choice? Link
I was always a Bulbasaur user. Always. Then again, I liked all three of the starters.

Anyway, my preference for all of the series...

Bulbasaur > Squirtle = Charmander

Cyndaquil > Chikorita > > > > Totodile

Mudkip > Treeko > > > > Torchic


Damn, I hated Totodile.
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Posted on 01-25-06 07:52 AM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
The assembled song causes Sappy to crash with a runtime error in Kernel32.dll when played, as well as whenever the assembled song is accessed in-game, the game freezes as sound initialises.
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Posted on 01-25-06 12:00 PM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
Well, the ROMs I've been using are Advance Wars 2 - Aus (AW2E) and your Jukebox demo. Although the Jukebox demo was fiddled around with before I knew I needed to use empty space. In AW2, I've been sticking the songs in 617F1F, which is just where the free space in the ROM starts. Midis I've been using are:

http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/JakesThemerev1.mid (Jake's Theme By ThreeHeadedMonkey)
http://www.vgmusic.com/new-files/KoalTheme.mid (Koal's Theme By ThreeHeadedMonkey)
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/somcontn.mid (Sunken Continent - Star of Darkness (2))
http://www.vgmusic.com/music/console/nintendo/snes/sombest.mid (Mana Beast - Meridian Dance by Nick)

Yeah, yeah. I know I'm Advance Wars obsessed.

Regardless.

And from what you've told me, basically a track can't end on a chord. Hmm. Still, that's reasonably helpful.
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Posted on 01-27-06 01:20 AM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
Awesome. Seems I wasn't just making a colossal idiot of myself then.

Alrighty, time to fiddle around with this the next chance I get to use my PC.

Edit: Okay, I've had quite a fiddle around with it, and got lots of songs to work with it. You're right. Jake's theme does sound really weirdarse with the AW2 voice sets.

Basically, apart from a few, most Midi files I've been using have worked fine. I also discovered a bug, too. If Sappy can't assemble a song because it has an extended chord, then all songs attempted to be assembled afterwards will be given the error, regardless of whether they're okay or not.

Thanks for all your help!

(edited by Xenesis on 01-27-06 03:57 AM)
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Posted on 01-28-06 01:01 AM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
Oh, right. Regardless, if anything causes a subscript out of range error, then all songs attempted to be assembled after that will get the same error.

And one final thing, I've noticed that a lot of Assembled midis will play perfectly fine in Sappy itself, but they won't play at all in game, and instead just flatline with silence. The Jake's theme I gave you for example, won't play at all in game, but works fine in Sappy.
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Posted on 01-30-06 10:28 PM, in Snes9x 1.3.9b Doesn't exist anymore Link
Uh, well. I have Snes9x 1.3.9a.

Would you like it? I've put it up here
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Posted on 01-31-06 06:46 AM, in Snes9x 1.3.9b Doesn't exist anymore Link
Er...you're welcome? ;
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Posted on 01-31-06 12:57 PM, in Program Trouble Thread Link
Originally posted by Kyoufu Kawa
Was there a Voicegroup setting in the Importer? I should check.

Regardless, you can see where the header's at. Change it by hand until it's done for you.


There is a voicegroup setting there....although I have to admit, the option to save a voicegroup pointer would be nice. But then, Copy + Paste works perfectly fine so far.
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Posted on 01-31-06 10:08 PM, in Snes9x 1.3.9b Doesn't exist anymore Link
I have Snes9 1.43 as well. Big deal. Like I said, it was just sitting around on my HD.

Whatever works, works....
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Posted on 01-31-06 10:12 PM, in Original Starter Pokemon of Choice? Link
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
I remember in RBY when going through with a single pokemon was completely impossible


Speaking of which, I heard of someone who soloed Blue with a Weedle. Not a Beedrill, but a Weedle.

That was nuts.
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Posted on 02-01-06 03:26 AM, in Original Starter Pokemon of Choice? Link
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
Originally posted by Xenesis
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
I remember in RBY when going through with a single pokemon was completely impossible


Speaking of which, I heard of someone who soloed Blue with a Weedle. Not a Beedrill, but a Weedle.

That was nuts.
Impossible. Weedle learns no HMs.


Oh right. Yeah, the guy did use a HM slave for the required moves, but the were never used to battle in any capacity.

Regardless, you know exactly what I mean.
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Posted on 02-01-06 05:50 AM, in Snes9x 1.3.9b Doesn't exist anymore Link
I guess so.

I was probably feeling a bit grumpy this morning.
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Posted on 02-03-06 03:43 AM, in Super Smash Brothers Revolution Link
Originally posted by Alastor the Stylish
Originally posted by cpubasic13
Either him or Flak would be best for Smash Bros. I can't really see anyone else fighting... unless you let Andy attack with his wrench, but his specials? At least Sturm could use some sort of powers. Nobody else would actually work from the game...
Grit has a gun.


Well, and Olaf has his Chair. Max could work too. Actually, I could see Nell or Sami in combat too. The only COs I really couldn't see going at it are Sonja and Von Bolt.
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Posted on 02-03-06 03:50 AM, in Super Mario Kart Music editing... Link
Well, it's probably not that practical, but if you really want to design a 2D Mario Kart hack, you could always try Super Circuit...It's basically the SMK engine, and it uses the Sappy music engine, so you could use Kawa's Sappy 2005 to edit the music.

Just a thought.
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Posted on 03-13-06 03:09 AM, in Favorable Hacking Techniques - Hacking For Dummies Link
I think one point that's important but hasn't been mentioned is this:

Know as much as you can about the game before you begin hacking. Eg: When I learned to hack Advance Wars 2, I already had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the commander's stats and abilities. That made discerning a lot of things a lot easier, as I could link back numbers and data that I'd found to specific places. Also, think about ways that data for something could be stored. Would it just be a string of numbers, or an ID number or something like that.

A little foresight and knowledge can make hacking a lot easier because it makes it easier to notice changes, details or find nuances you wouldn't notice otherwise.

It's a lot harder to work on a game that you know very little about, because it takes longer to notice any changes you've made because of a lack of familiarity.

Now, I've kinda mangled my wording, but you get what I mean.
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Posted on 03-17-06 09:27 AM, in How long has Twinkle Star been back? Link
One thing I've been wondering all this time is where the heck is Twinkle Star originally from anyhow?
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Posted on 03-26-06 01:40 AM, in SuperMetroid: Redesign Size comparison to original Link
It's impressive in scale, I'll give it that.

It's certainly something I want to give a look to. And from what I can tell from the screenies at your page, it still has a 'Metroid' design to it, which is promising. Just don't make it fiendishly hard or abuse Sequence breaking tricks, please?
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Posted on 03-28-06 06:45 PM, in SuperMetroid: Redesign Size comparison to original Link
Originally posted by Drewseph
Hmm, what exactly do you mean by Abusing SB tricks? you mean making a section only passable if you use, say, speedball? or Grapple and go through a wall?

If so, then No, my hack has no moments like that.... And most 'bugs' have been fixed/removed from the game.


Yeah, or even just really stupid bomb jumps up a really high area or insane walljumping. I mean, with just the basics the game gives you (Manual Stuff), plus anything the game teaches you (Shinespark, Walljump) should be basically all you should need.
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