Entries from 2013-01-01 to 1 year

IDA Pro - How To Load Game ROM

PS1: As The Open PSF ripping guide said, open PS-X EXE as "Sony Playstation PSX image". Then load PsyQ sigunatures. GBA: Read IDA Pro Tutorial - The PokéCommunity Forums. You may want to add IO (4000000h-4000800h) segment and identify IO x…

Example Of Sequenced VGM Analysis: PS1 Hokuto no Ken

Have you read How to Analyze Sequenced Video Game Music? This article is an actual example of it. Note that this is a sort of platform-independent tip. Here I analyze sequences without disassembly.

How to Analyze Sequenced Video Game Music

This document introduces my generic analysis method for sequenced video game music. I hope this will help your research. Prerequisites The following knowledge is necessary to understand this document. Bit, byte, endianness Decimal number, …

How to Analyze Sequenced Video Game Music

This document introduces my generic analysis method for sequenced video game music. I hope this will help your research.日本語に翻訳する Prerequisites The following knowledge is necessary to understand this document. Bit, byte, endianness …

My Favorite Tools For Video Game Music Analysis

This article shows what I use/know in my VGM analysis work. Tools If you know a good tool, let me know, please. :)

Memory Addresses Of Emulators

This is the list of addresses where emulators have their ROM/RAM. All the following formulas are for MHS's "Complex Address".By attaching MHS (or similar debugger tool) to an emulator, you will be able to add some debugging functions, such…

The Open PSF ripping guide 12/05/03 日本語訳

PSX

My Japanese translation: http://loveemu.yh.land.to/docs/psfrip_ja.md Original English text: http://www.angelfire.com/tx5/someone42/psfrip.txt 私の翻訳能力の乏しさと怠慢につき、翻訳が正確でない箇所は多々あることと思います。しかし、ガイドの…

XEBRA(プレイステーションエミュレータ)の使い方+αメモ(なんちゃって TAS 機能とか)

PSX

知っている人には今さらだと思いますが、XEBRA / ARBEX というエミュレータが互換性・速度の面で非常に良かったです。本体にマニュアルが付属しているので、その通りに使えば良いのですが、若干落とし穴や目立たない機能もあるのでメモしておきます。だんだ…

Rare SNES SPC Sound Engine (Donkey Kong Country, etc.) Specification

This document explains about Rare's sound engine for SNES and its music format.MIDI conversion tool (rarespc) is available at https://code.google.com/p/loveemu/ Also, I work on VGMTrans port of it.SNES SPC700 Player and SPC700 Memory Viewe…

VGMTrans is now hosted on GitHub!

As the title says, VGMTrans is now hosted on GitHub.I've been trying to contact the author to realize this idea. It wasn't easy because we haven't talked for a long time, and he was busy and rarely saw emails. Anyway, I've succeeded in con…

VGMTrans Improvement

How To Build VGMTrans?

It is not so much difficult, but there are several points need to care.This document targets VGMTrans_src_and_bin_9_29_09. Situation might be different when you try any other versions. Requirements Visual Studio 2008 Express Edition is oka…

MIDI Converter Runs On Emulator

Gocha, who is one of the coder of TASVideos, has made a few of emu2midi EmuLua scripts. These scripts can run on a rerecording emulator.At present, the following scripts are available. emu2midi nes2midi (NES / Famicom, runs on FCEUX) gb2mi…

VGMTransコーディングメモ - 基礎・シーケンス変換の初歩

VGMTransはゲーム音楽をMIDIやDLSに変換可能なGUIツールです。多種多様なフォーマットに対応しているのが本ツールの特長のひとつです。ソースコードには多様な状況に簡単に対応するための便利な機能が多く含まれています。プログラマはアドオンを開発するよ…

akaospc - Square AKAO SPC2MIDI Released

I released a new tool, akaospc, which can convert all AKAO driver SPCs into MIDI file. The driver has many variations and it was hard to handle it by one tool, but the tool supports all of them by searching a lot of code segments and gathe…

Square AKAO SPC Version Difference Notes

Every normal SNES titles seem to be slightly different each other. (see op length table) ff4 (Final Fantasy 4) Info: NoteLen=FF4, VcmdASM=FF5, SongLdASM=FF4, VcmdLenTbl=FF4, ARAMBase=none, VCmdStart=$D2 rs (Romancing SaGa) Info: NoteLen=RS…

HUDSON SFX SOUND DRIVER (Super Bomberman 5, etc.) Specification

This document explains about Hudson SFX SOUND DRIVER, through my Super Bomberman 5 analysis knowledge. It also mentions other versions of the driver.MIDI conversion tool (hudspc) is available at https://code.google.com/p/loveemu/SNES SPC70…

GBA2MIDI is now deprecated

GBA

I removed my gba music tool from download page, because it has some conversion bugs and it will never get updated.Today, there are some nice tools which can replace old gba2midi tool. I recommend GBAMusRiper, which can convert GBA sound in…

mp2ktool - A tool for AGB MP2000 / M4A (2013-02-02), and M4A Realtime Monitor Lua

GBA

mp2ktool is a small CUI tool for AGB MP2000 / M4A. It is only able to search table offset at present. It will have MIDI/WAVE conversion function in someday, hopefully... mp2ktool-20030202.7z By the way, a memory viewer script for M4A engin…

AGB Music Player 2000 (M4A/MP2000/Sappy) Specification

GBA

Abstruct: this article explains about the structure of AGB Music Player 2000 (aka. M4A, MP2000, Sappy), which is the official GBA sound engine by Nintendo.There are some differences among the different versions and customized engine of M4A…