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Tool: Cry Editor

esperance

esperance

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    A Cry Editor (needs a catchy name)

    I've created a simple tool to easily allow the editing of cries in the 3rd generation games. Pretty straightforward. The tool is currently usable but is definitely still in development.

    Features

    • Import/export cries as WAV files.
    • Cries can be saved compressed or uncompressed.
    • Repoints a cry only when it needs to, and overwrites the old cry with freespace.
    • Should update growl table as well as cry table.
    • Correctly loads Hoenn Pokémon.
    • Cry playback.

    A note about the compression (read more here): because of how the compression format works, the range of sound a cry can have is limited compared to the uncompressed format. When importing a new cry, compressing it can lead to the sound quality being lowered/sounding odd. Unless you're sure it will sound correct, be sure to save imported cries as NOT compressed.

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    Screens

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    Downloads

    Latest Release: Here
    Latest ROMs.ini: Here

    Make sure you have the latest .NET Framework (4.6.2) installed on your machine.
     
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    The tools look great easy for beginners like me.

    Small question

    Is it necessary to compress the cry or we can rather just import a wav?
     
    PankajBlitz said:
    The tools look great easy for beginners like me.

    Small question

    Is it necessary to compress the cry or we can rather just import a wav?
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    You can import a wav and then it's up to you whether it is compressed or not. Like I said in the first post, compressing an imported cry can lead to it being a bit distorted so you usually do not want to.
     
    Do you know when there might be a possible release for BPEE support?
     
    Lost said:
    Technically BPEE is supported, it just needs an entry in the .ini. :) I'll try and put it together later today for ya.
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    Thanks :D That'd be wonderful and really appreciated!

    But really, take your time, I'm not in a rush ^^
     
    I've updated the program, Japanese games should now be supported and the download includes all English games plus BPRJ in the .ini. Not a major update for anyone that downloaded v1.0 and not a necessary upgrade unless you want to work in Japanese.
     
    Thank you. Now I can be lazy again when editing Pokemon cries. It's a pain to use the Hex Editor.
    But seriously, does this tool have support for expanded Pokemon cries? Is it just a matter of editing the offsets in the .ini file?
     
    Lost said:
    Actually, I've already prepared it. :)
    Grab the latest .ini here.
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    This is going to be a huge help :D

    I tried using a hex editor but it didn't work out so well, but hopefully this tool will change all that! Thanks a bunch :)
     
    Finally it can support Hoenn Pokemon too and I don't have to hex edit every single one of them to insert a cry. This is great.
     
    Crizzle said:
    Thank you. Now I can be lazy again when editing Pokemon cries. It's a pain to use the Hex Editor.
    But seriously, does this tool have support for expanded Pokemon cries? Is it just a matter of editing the offsets in the .ini file?
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    It should work with expanded cries by editing the .ini although I have not tested this myself (when coding the order loading, I assumed that beyond Chimecho cries would again be stored in order). If you do try it out please let me know how it goes and if it needs fixing.

    EDIT: Thanks to ScraggyKing20 I've found and fixed an issue where odd-length cries would crash the program when being compressed.
     
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    Great work!

    Is there a resource with wav files for post-gen 3 pokes, or would it be a case of finding an audio clip containing the cry and cutting/converting it?
     
    SpanishAdam said:
    Great work!

    Is there a resource with wav files for post-gen 3 pokes, or would it be a case of finding an audio clip containing the cry and cutting/converting it?
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    Thanks! As far as cries goes here are a couple that I've found that should work:
    Here
    And here
    Also here

    It's important to remember that in order for a cry to imported it must be an 8-bit PCM WAV file. If any of those that I linked are unsupported you'll get an error when importing.
     
    Whenever i insert a cry it ends up with crackles and glitches and yes i did resample it and changed it to a 8-bit pcm wav and changed it to mono but it still doesn't sound clear, btw i used Wavosaur.
     
    goranthegreat said:
    Whenever i insert a cry it ends up with crackles and glitches and yes i did resample it and changed it to a 8-bit pcm wav and changed it to mono but it still doesn't sound clear, btw i used Wavosaur.
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    Insert it uncompressed.
     
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