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(I'm not trying to be mean or nothin but it's true) Many people (Including me) have read magnius tut and can't get past "assemble that ugly thing". Atlast, i have a solution.
This is incredibly easy and so easy in fact i doubt you will need scrennies.
The only tools i can post links to are sappy and anvil studio
so here is sappy LINKY
and here is anvil studio LINKY
You will need
A) Hackmew's thumb.bat
B) well as mid2agb.
Neither of which i will post links for, the thumb.bat can be found in hackmews knowledge thread and look around magnius tut's for a link to mid2gba&sappy in a combined rar package.
Now the fun starts.
Step 1) Obtain your midi file.
Step 2) Open your midi file in Anvil Studio
Step 3) Delete all but one track in your midi file then file->SAVE AS and for sake of ease, name it trackx.mid (where x is the times you repeat, you'll understand if you keep reading)
Step 4)now, odds are that your midi file has more than one track, this is where the emphisis of the words save as came in.
Re-Open your file in anvil studio (the original midi file) and this time repeat step 3 with a different track to not delete.
Step 5)When you have separated all the tracks into seperate midi files, drag all the trackx.mid's into your mid2gba folder.
Step 6) Now drag each individual track.mid file onto mid2agb.exe
Step 7) Now you have a bunch of trackx.s files. Copy your trackx.s files into hackmew's thumb assembler folder. Also VERY IMPORTANT you also need to have mplaydef.s in the same folder as the assembler.
Step 6) Here comes morefun repetitive actions.
Now I am going to show you how to assemble asm stuff with hackmew's thumb.bat
6.a) push windows flag key+r
6.a.b)type cmd and push enter
6.b)type cd[space] then copy the address of your thumb assembler folder.
6.c)Rightclick ->paste then push enter
6.D)now that you have the cmd prompt working in the right spot, type "thumb trackx.s trackx.bin"
7)Repeat step 6 for every trackx.s file.
8)Now you have several trackx.bin files, move them into the same folder as your ROM.
9)Open your ROM in sappy.
10) Choose a song to replace
11) Click "Import tracks"
12) Check all the tickboxes next to trackx.bin files then click "OK"
13) Push yes.
14) Now it works in your gba that easy ;)
OK now i know how to fix the funky sounds xD.
In FR (only know how for FR sorry :\) open your ROM with sappy.
Go to the song that sounds all GBC-ish and look at the header offset
write it down
Look at the voice group offset, write it down as well (remember to label them!)
Open ROM in hex editor, then go to your header offset
Next search for the pointer of your voice group.
How to find a pointer from an Offset
[/mini tut within a tut]
Now highlight the pointer (four bytes btw) and minimize your hex editor.
Open your song (the original midi) in Anvil Studio
And look at the instruments it uses.
now find the voice group you need from the list in the spoiler
(Credits to Magnius for this amazing list)
So now make a pointer from the offset of your VoiceGroup containing the nescesary instruments
Restore your hex editor and REPLACE the highlighted four bytes with your new four bytes (the new pointer)
and you have repointed your voice group
Now your song DOES NOT SOUND LIKE CRAP! YAY!!!!!!!!
What's this?
I can't find a voice group with all the instruments i need!
Don't worry
Find a voice group with most of your instruments repoint like above
then export the tracks that don't sound right (they sound like GB/GBC)
and open them in hex editor, and change their instrument to a different one.
How to do this?
save the track file
Now rename it "Fixed track x"
export the tracks in sappy (all of them)
re-import them but instead of importing "track x"
import "fixed track x"
and select all the other original track x's except the one that sounds funny
and your song is fixed
to confusing for you?
skip the above.
Open your rom
go to the offset of your weird sounding track
look for the byte BD (that is relatively close to the offset)
and change the XX to the correct instrument number.
This is incredibly easy and so easy in fact i doubt you will need scrennies.
The only tools i can post links to are sappy and anvil studio
so here is sappy LINKY
and here is anvil studio LINKY
You will need
A) Hackmew's thumb.bat
B) well as mid2agb.
Neither of which i will post links for, the thumb.bat can be found in hackmews knowledge thread and look around magnius tut's for a link to mid2gba&sappy in a combined rar package.
Now the fun starts.
Step 1) Obtain your midi file.
Step 2) Open your midi file in Anvil Studio
Step 3) Delete all but one track in your midi file then file->SAVE AS and for sake of ease, name it trackx.mid (where x is the times you repeat, you'll understand if you keep reading)
Step 4)now, odds are that your midi file has more than one track, this is where the emphisis of the words save as came in.
Re-Open your file in anvil studio (the original midi file) and this time repeat step 3 with a different track to not delete.
Step 5)When you have separated all the tracks into seperate midi files, drag all the trackx.mid's into your mid2gba folder.
Step 6) Now drag each individual track.mid file onto mid2agb.exe
Step 7) Now you have a bunch of trackx.s files. Copy your trackx.s files into hackmew's thumb assembler folder. Also VERY IMPORTANT you also need to have mplaydef.s in the same folder as the assembler.
Step 6) Here comes more
Now I am going to show you how to assemble asm stuff with hackmew's thumb.bat
6.a) push windows flag key+r
6.a.b)type cmd and push enter
6.b)type cd[space] then copy the address of your thumb assembler folder.
6.c)Rightclick ->paste then push enter
6.D)now that you have the cmd prompt working in the right spot, type "thumb trackx.s trackx.bin"
7)Repeat step 6 for every trackx.s file.
8)Now you have several trackx.bin files, move them into the same folder as your ROM.
9)Open your ROM in sappy.
10) Choose a song to replace
11) Click "Import tracks"
12) Check all the tickboxes next to trackx.bin files then click "OK"
13) Push yes.
14) Now it works in your gba that easy ;)
OK now i know how to fix the funky sounds xD.
In FR (only know how for FR sorry :\) open your ROM with sappy.
Go to the song that sounds all GBC-ish and look at the header offset
write it down
Look at the voice group offset, write it down as well (remember to label them!)
Open ROM in hex editor, then go to your header offset
Next search for the pointer of your voice group.
How to find a pointer from an Offset
Spoiler:
[/mini tut within a tut]
Now highlight the pointer (four bytes btw) and minimize your hex editor.
Open your song (the original midi) in Anvil Studio
And look at the instruments it uses.
now find the voice group you need from the list in the spoiler
(Credits to Magnius for this amazing list)
Spoiler:
So now make a pointer from the offset of your VoiceGroup containing the nescesary instruments
Restore your hex editor and REPLACE the highlighted four bytes with your new four bytes (the new pointer)
and you have repointed your voice group
Now your song DOES NOT SOUND LIKE CRAP! YAY!!!!!!!!
What's this?
I can't find a voice group with all the instruments i need!
Don't worry
Find a voice group with most of your instruments repoint like above
then export the tracks that don't sound right (they sound like GB/GBC)
and open them in hex editor, and change their instrument to a different one.
How to do this?
Spoiler:
save the track file
Now rename it "Fixed track x"
export the tracks in sappy (all of them)
re-import them but instead of importing "track x"
import "fixed track x"
and select all the other original track x's except the one that sounds funny
and your song is fixed
to confusing for you?
skip the above.
Open your rom
go to the offset of your weird sounding track
look for the byte BD (that is relatively close to the offset)
and change the XX to the correct instrument number.
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