Patch: No Music Patches for Emerald & FireRed

[SidDays]

Disables background music for Pokémon Emerald & FireRed, but keeps the SFX intact.

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I often play the games (and hacks) on an emulator sped up to 200% or more, and the background music gets distorted; I also like to have my own Spotify playlists in the background, and wanted to retain SFX for a better experience, hence the patches. Maybe someone else will find them useful; they're great for narrating over.

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I've been wanting to do this for a while — while fiddling with the ROMS in Sappy, I noticed that if I just change the pointers for the music tracks to 00 it effectively disables the music. (I've done both Emerald and FireRed just in case, but it's quite easy to do for any game and I can make a tutorial if people want one.)

 

[Zack knight]

I forgot to ask does this also work with hacks

 

[SidDays]

I forgot to ask does this also work with hacks

It will work fine if the hack does not modify the music (i.e. add/remove new music tracks). I'd recommend patching a clean rom with this first and then applying the hack patch onto it. Even if it doesn't work, it shouldn't break the ROM, because most hacks that add new music generally repoint the song table, but make a backup just in case.

You can use Sappy and a hex editor to disable music in a hack if the song table was repointed, but that might take some trial and error.

 

[Just A Remixer]

Hey, could you make a version were you can turn it off in the options menu?

 

[Jaetaro]

This is great! I needed this for my streams so I could play music in it 😀

 

[Darma_48]

This is great. But for the firered, sometimes i get freeze when do a pokemons battle. I patch it to the clean ROM. For emerald, all fine.

 

[SlayerOne98]

This patch is great for my VBA ROM, thanks! I was wondering if 'by changing the pointers for the music tracks to 00', there was some way to get all the Hex as an ActionReplayV3 Code? I don't own an EZ Flash but do own an AR Adapter for GBA and would prefer to have my cartridge emerald game without music at all when playing. Any insight you could give even if this can't be directly done would be appreciated. :)

 

[Anon822]

This patch is great for my VBA ROM, thanks! I was wondering if 'by changing the pointers for the music tracks to 00', there was some way to get all the Hex as an ActionReplayV3 Code? I don't own an EZ Flash but do own an AR Adapter for GBA and would prefer to have my cartridge emerald game without music at all when playing. Any insight you could give even if this can't be directly done would be appreciated. :)

I don't think so, because there's a limit to how many rom bytes an action replay code can change.
Although there might be some other way to achieve the same thing.

 

[leafeon_iscool]

Hey, thanks for this simple QoL patch!

I want to report a couple inconsistencies:
. bg music still plays in the safari zone.
. also during evolution (maybe a conscious choice)? This is really jarring because you want to hear the cry clearly, but can't.

Also I personally wouldn't mind the theme music when starting a battle- it sounds like a brief effect rather than true bg music.

Thanks again !

 

[Readmit]

Disables background music for Pokémon Emerald & FireRed, but keeps the SFX intact.

I often play the games (and hacks) on an emulator sped up to 200% or more, and the background music gets distorted; I also like to have my own Spotify playlists in the background, and wanted to retain SFX for a better experience, hence the patches. Maybe someone else will find them useful; they're great for narrating over.

Can I upload these onto Romhacking.net on your behalf? I'll give you full credit.