It's been a while since I've written something (the last time I did it I felt like it wasn't quite right to do so) But this time I won't teach you how to port your disgusting (good) rom hack from sonic 1 to the Sega CD/Mega CD, forget about that (threatens Devon to explain to you)...This time we will port music! I have nothing against the original guide, but for those addicted who want to play more specific Soundrivers/Sound Source music, they will find that Music Pointer Fixer does not let you open the music files from the valley bell package And if it does, you will most likely be bitterly surprised that the music is wrong at all. The guide would have ended here if I had written this about 6 years ago but that is not the case. A few years ago, someone created a way to transfer vgm (VGZ too) to Sonic 1's soundriver I would put a super detailed introduction but the truth is you should already know what exactly the program does and if not, then. I don't know what you've been doing with music these last few years. Attention: this guide should be used if you have difficulty porting music or using it to port music from more specific Sound Drivers, otherwise use the original guide for more normal formats List of tools we require: The smps Rips/Smps Research V5 Package From Valley Bell, any other game outside of this one can rule out a perfect port SmpsPlay 2.20 (I hope the link doesn't go down in the near future) Vgm2smps and Smps2asm I do not recommend Natsumi's Smps2asm Version for this guide, mainly because I do not know how to use it and the steps were built from the original smps2asm Step 1: Find the game to choose This explains itself, with SmpsPlay and the Smps rips that you should have, look for the game that interests you the most (for this guide I will use MJ Moonwalker), as long as it is not hell to fix it or that the program gives you broken music it should be enough Step 2: Search for the music Now with the game that interests you, open the tracks with SmpsPlay and look for one that catches your attention or that you recognize from a rom hack. In this case I will use Smooth Criminal Step 3: Record them in VGM Hey, don't get smart and access some page that has the vgm of the music you want, no. In order to use the vgm2smps DAC detection, you must record them yourself And how do I do it? Well, at least for me, press "Enter" and almost instantly "V" on your keyboard. For recording, only the song (if it has a loop) is already finished or close to the moment of repetition, Optional: check that everything is fine This is optional but opens the .vgm of the music in the "dumps" folder that is automatically created when you open a file with SmpsPlay for the first time. Now open your reference vgm player and open the file, if it repeats correctly it should be an indication that you stopped the recording at the right time Step 4: Transfer it to .bin It is as easy as dragging the file to the vgm2smps program and you will have the bin, but. If the music is very long or complex you will see the weight it has, and this will become larger when passing it to .asm, so if your music is very large then you should reduce its weight. Here is the program Step 5: Convert it to .asm To do this use Smps2asm. And if you see that nothing happens with dragging the song then put the .bin in the same folder as smps2asm, create a .bat file and insert this inside the bat: Code: smps2asm -v 1 -o $8000 NameofyourMusic.bin NameofyourMusic.asm name If the program generated the .asm file then it is time to add it to your hack (those who do not have smps2asm discover for themselves how to transfer the music to .bin again) Final Step: Putting it in, Fixing it, etc. Now if the music doesn't lose weight even by optimizing it, it will be time to put it in your hack. You try it and you see that there are some defects in it... The advantage of having the music in .asm is that it is easier to modify it inside... You will have to fix the DAC, PSG or in more extreme cases part of the FM channels And if everything went well then you will have well-ported music to your hack just using VGM. And if you wonder. Yes, you can carry music from gems, but at the time of writing this there are still no disassemblies with music from games that use gems. You can use whatever vgm they have taken from those games, but 99% of the time it will mess up parts of the song or it just won't play. For now, settle for the Smps music and then you'll see how to play Gems music. Credits: Me: Creator of this Guide Flamewing: Smps2asm Ivan Yo: Vgm2smps Valley Bell: Smps Rips and SmpsPlay
