Tool: SongInserter Advance - A new era in GBA music inserting!

Thanks for fixing the link.

Hey guys! just keeping you updated with the app (NEW GUI!!!)

WARNING: below image may cause you to have an epicness spasm

The new inferface looks great, and I can't wait to replace my sucky Sappy with this. Thanks!

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Years later, progress is made.

My, my, my... well done.

How do you brinng the inserted song up in the game?? Or better how do I get it to the Music no. for Advance Map?

So, can I put in a music file, put the track in a free space (found in free space finder) and type in the id that the music's inserted into when changing music on Advancemap?

LOL I was about to hit back when I read that. :) I hope this thing works, cause sappy isn't conpadible with windows7.
pokemon music is my favorite thing about hacks!!!

gamesharkhacker said:

Yeah, but this function will be in a later release. Right now, I'm concentrating on the main parts of the program, aka, inserting a song.
Nonetheless, you WILL be able to export midi files (eventually).

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YES! That's exactly what I want to do. I have FL Studio, and I'd love to insert a custom MIDI remix. :D

The interface looks great, anyway I have to say a few things.

Does this also work with non Pokemon games?
Is this program limited to an anmount of 10 tracks?

I know Pokemon games are usually limited to 10 tracks (except fanfares and soundeffects), but it is actually possible to hack this and I also had already success with it.

Why is there a textbox where to insert the anmount of tracks?
I think you could make this program able to get the number of tracks by the number of checkboxes that are checked.

Another suqqestion: It is also very nesty to enter a new offset for each new track and the header. Why don't you calculate each offset of the second and other tracks out of the length of the other tracks and of the first offset?

Keep on your work^^

answers to some questions

ipatix said:

The interface looks great, anyway I have to say a few things.

Does this also work with non Pokemon games?
Is this program limited to an anmount of 10 tracks?

I know Pokemon games are usually limited to 10 tracks (except fanfares and soundeffects), but it is actually possible to hack this and I also had already success with it.

Why is there a textbox where to insert the anmount of tracks?
I think you could make this program able to get the number of tracks by the number of checkboxes that are checked.

Another suqqestion: It is also very nesty to enter a new offset for each new track and the header. Why don't you calculate each offset of the second and other tracks out of the length of the other tracks and of the first offset?

Keep on your work^^

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@ipatix

1) It will be compatible with other games in the future (near future)
2) Ten tracks is max because otherwise you will start getting problems.
3) And yes the program does get the tracks from how many tracks are loaded. And why is there a textbox? cause there can be! :)
4) Yeah there is a button for this. The "Optimize tracks for Track-After-Track Insertation" button makes the tracks insert one after another.
This optional you can put them where you want anywhere in the rom or "Track-After-Track".

Thanks, GSH.

How do you find the songs voicegroup,and header,And how do you find the tracks Offsets?

WrathOfArceus said:

How do you find the songs voicegroup,and header,And how do you find the tracks Offsets?

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You dont need to find the songs voicegroup. You just get the header from Sappy, and the Track offsets: you can use the originals (from Sappy) or find some free space in a rom with a Free Space Finder or a Hex Editor.

gamesharkhacker said:

You dont need to find the songs voicegroup. You just get the header from Sappy, and the Track offsets: you can use the originals (from Sappy) or find some free space in a rom with a Free Space Finder or a Hex Editor.

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But I have windows 7,And sappy 2006 will not work.What do i do

JinRazielGames said:

Semi Very Small Bumpy.
This tool looks good.
But i need SIA vs Sappy Comparison.
And how the friggin does it "ELF.exe with a big E that has too many ?????? letters when opened" work?

Please make SIA import .s files.
I Hate.O files.

@Other People: Will i use SIA or Sappy?
I've found a way to get the updated .xml for Sappy 2005 but features are crap.
I wanted to insert Xion's Song(KH:356/2 DAYS) in the title screen of Pokemon Decades.
And wanted Phoenix Wright for an Evil Team theme.

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.o files are made exactly the same way u make .s files.
Theres no need to hate them.

Nice. Does it support loops? If not, I don't mind offering my information to help. Also, you could make it so that you could change the instruments/volume/pitch after inserting a track too, I wouldn't mind showing you how to do that.

Basically loops work like this:

[loop command] [pointer] [0xB1]

What are the loop commands? Well...

and 0xB1, as you probably know, is just the end command. So by implementing use of these commands you could make looping easy for the common hacker!

In addition, the following commands change track properties:
So then, you could make it possible to change these things without reinserting the song. Nifty!

Anyways those are just suggestions if you didn't know about them already. This program looks pretty promising although I hope you make it compatible with all sorts of games!

I know TONS about hacking music manually so I wouldn't mind offering my expertise.

Roadblock!

Hey guys ive hit a crappy roadblock while programming this tool.

I cannot figure out how to convert the file in to hex (eg. B1 00 44 FE 67) then grab a certain part of a .o file and save that into a String.

CAN ANY VB6 PROGRAMMERS PLEASE HELP!

Thanks, GSH

agentgeo said:

What specifically do you need to be done?

EDIT: Hold on, I think I understand...

EDIT 2: Here, I know this works with VB .NET 2010...

Code:

    'One method
    Public Function GetStuff(ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal count As Integer)
        Dim br As BinaryReader = New BinaryReader(File.OpenRead("myfile.file"))
        Dim temp As String = ""
        Dim hello As Byte()

        br.BaseStream.Position = offset
        hello = br.ReadBytes(count)
        For Each b As Byte In hello
            temp += Convert.ToChar(b)
        Next

        br.Close()
        br.Dispose()
        Return temp
    End Function

    'Method two
    Public Function GetStuff(ByVal offset As Integer, ByVal count As Integer)
        Dim br As BinaryReader = New BinaryReader(File.OpenRead("myfile.file"))
        Dim temp As String = ""

        br.BaseStream.Position = offset
        temp = br.ReadString(count)

        br.Close()
        br.Dispose()
        Return temp
    End Function

They both will read a string from a file, using a BinaryReader.

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Sorry man i need VISUAL BASIC 6.0 CODE :D

Thanks, GSH