Tool: Cry Editor

[esperance]

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.

Spoiler:

Here's a video demonstrating what I mean:

Screens

Spoiler:

A view of the main interface.

A view of the main interface with a Japanese game loaded (old version).

Downloads

Latest Release: Here
Latest ROMs.ini: Here

Make sure you have the latest .NET Framework (4.6.2) installed on your machine.

 

[PankajBlitz]

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?

 

[Splash]

Thanks for making this! Will try it soon

 

[esperance]

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?

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.

 

[ScraggyKing20]

Do you know when there might be a possible release for BPEE support?

 

[esperance]

Do you know when there might be a possible release for BPEE support?

Technically BPEE is supported, it just needs an entry in the .ini. :) I'll try and put it together later today for ya.

 

[ScraggyKing20]

Technically BPEE is supported, it just needs an entry in the .ini. :) I'll try and put it together later today for ya.

Thanks :D That'd be wonderful and really appreciated!

But really, take your time, I'm not in a rush ^^

 

[esperance]

Thanks :D That'd be wonderful and really appreciated!

But really, take your time, I'm not in a rush ^^

Actually, I've already prepared it. :)
Grab the latest .ini here.

 

[esperance]

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.

 

[Crizzle]

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?

 

[ScraggyKing20]

Actually, I've already prepared it. :)
Grab the latest .ini here.

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 :)

 

[Bulbadon]

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.

 

[esperance]

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?

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.

 

[SpanishAdam]

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?

 

[esperance]

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?

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.

 

[Lance32497]

Helko, I always get this error

 

[goranthegreat]

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.

 

[C me]

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.

Insert it uncompressed.

 

[goranthegreat]

Insert it uncompressed.

Thanks it works now!

 

[DarkDown]

Best way to deal with "cry can not have more than one channel?"