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Started by Magnius January 3rd, 2008 9:58 PM
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December 10th, 2010 at 5:14 PM , since edited
It says vbalcbex6.ocx is missing for Sappy. I tried downloading that, but it said it can't create an object and vbalcbex6.ocx is outdated.

EDIT: Fixed previous problem by changing the compatibility to XP, but now every time I open a ROM, it crashes. Help?
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This is a great tutorial, but when I do the silly command promt thing with the vbalCbEx6.ocx- This error message shows up ->

"The module "C:\windows\system32\vbalCbEx6.ocx" was loaded but the call to DIIRegisterServer failed with error code 0x80004005."

This sounds like the vbalCbEx6.ocx I downloaded wasn't compatible with Vista? If so, may I please ask of you to give me a download link to a version that works with Vista? Or if that's not the case, then please let me know what's wrong! Thank-You!
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I've recently read in some posts that you need to put vbalCbEx6.ocx, vbalExpBar6.ocx, and cPopMenu6.ocx, and to register SSubTmr6.dll for Sappy to open, but I still can't figure out why it crashes everytime I open a GBA file.

EDIT: I have Windows 7 Home Premium (64-bit OS), and an Intel Pentium Processor in my ASUS Laptop K52F/K62F series with 3 GBs of RAM, I wonder if it has the same problem Vista does?







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February 11th, 2011 at 2:26 PM
Originally Posted by thedgr05 [ Original Post ]
Help please! I'm a begginer at this >.<

I remember magnius saying something about Base Offset. Could someone help me at finding a free base offset for the songs? And how to find them please!!!
Well, if you're only testing, you could "xDDDDDD" for your offset. But if you actually have a project and you're inserting music, you could basically use free space as your Base Offset.
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Sappy crashes when I click the play, stop or volume buttons and when I click "Assemble that ugly thing!". Could someone help me? ;)
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I'm pretty sure this question has been asked many times before, but I still get the errors:

Run-time error '429:'
ActiveX component can't create object
and

Run-time error '372:'
Failed to load control 'vbalCboEx' from vbalCbEx.ocx. Your version of vbalCbEx6.ocx may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.
Before you tell me, yes, I have registered vbalCbEx6.ocx, since I had gotten a different error before I did. I've searched everywhere for the newest version, but I already have it, it seems like. If anyone could help me, that'd be great.

(I am also trying to import a midi of Onett from Earthbound, although that would make a difference for this error, would it)

EDIT: Downloaded a new version of Sappy, and it worked. :D

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April 5th, 2011 at 11:21 AM
Originally Posted by Master_Track [ Original Post ]
normally, it should take some seconds xD

er...now I have a problem too.
With sappy (05?) I was never able to play the music, I was just able to import/export/assemble.
Now I downloaded sappy 06, I was able to play the sounds! (yeah..happy!).
But then I tried assembling a song---> crash!
I thought..okay, maybe it's too long. But then I tried a 2 track-song and it crashed again!
it doesn't matter which song I choose, sappy crashes when assembling.
So I wanted to assemble the song via sappy 05, which always worked before.
You may have guessed: Now it crashes if I try to assemble.

I've read through this thread to look at all the errors and possiblilties for crashin, but..it's not the song.
And I've read about the possibility that my kernel32.dll has crashed?
How can you recognize that, since I see it in my system32 folder but dunno if it's okay.

So..what can I do now?
I'm quite depressed since I finally understood how to loop songs, but now I can't even try it out...
I had that EXACT same problem. I found it was because, like clonex said, the file had become associated with the text editor. To fix this, I managed to find a program that disassociates the file type. So in effect it makes it "forget" what program to open it with. I removed the .s file association all together and that seemed to fix it :D

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April 16th, 2011 at 9:27 PM
As the title says, I have worked on some music to mke it sound like FRLG in an awsome program called AnvilStudios 2011, You can make Pallet Town have accordions instead of what instrument it actually has. I have edited Super Mario Land music, Pokemon Black and White, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga and other songs like I gotta feeling so if this works I'll insert them into my hack titled Pokemon MarioRed (Hack of FireRed). Thanx!
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hey guys, I have been getting the problem with all that 'vbalCbEx6.ocx' crap. I have registered the file with my computer but I am still getting errors whilst trying to open sappy. The two errors are:

1. "Run-time error '429'
ActiveX component can't create object"

2.Run-time error '372':
Failed to load control 'vbalCboEx' from vbalCbEx6.ocx. Your version of vbalCbEx6.ocx may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.

I have been searching all over the internet and found nothing :(
Can you please help me?????
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April 23rd, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Originally Posted by stocko [ Original Post ]
hey guys, I have been getting the problem with all that 'vbalCbEx6.ocx' crap. I have registered the file with my computer but I am still getting errors whilst trying to open sappy. The two errors are:

1. "Run-time error '429'
ActiveX component can't create object"

2.Run-time error '372':
Failed to load control 'vbalCboEx' from vbalCbEx6.ocx. Your version of vbalCbEx6.ocx may be outdated. Make sure you are using the version of the control that was provided with your application.

I have been searching all over the internet and found nothing :(
Can you please help me?????
Basically, you'll have to go to the official Sappy site and download from there. That should fix the problem as it will reinstall Sappy and add all the proper installation files. :3
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August 10th, 2011 at 1:01 AM
Originally Posted by ipatix [ Original Post ]
At Pokemon Games:
-5 Direct Sound instrument simultaneously
-1 instrument for each GB channel
I thought it was a maximum of five tracks that use Direct Sound, but with a maximum of 6 Direct Sound notes playing at any given moment.

(You can have more Direct Sound notes than there are tracks -- chords count as multiple notes.)
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August 10th, 2011 at 1:56 AM
Because of dynamic allocation of the DirectSound channels it doesn't matter if you use for example 1 DirectSound note on each 5 tracks or 5 DirectSound notes on 1 track. If using more than 5 DirectSound notes simultanously the notes with the lowest priority won't play.
Track 1/0 has the highest prority and the last tracks has the lowest priority.

You can have up to 10 tracks (fanfares only 9), but which notes you use on them is something completly different.
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October 30th, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Originally Posted by Nate VonGrimm [ Original Post ]
When I try to open up Sappy, I get this error:

Run-time error '339':

Component 'vbalCbEx6.ocx' or one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is mossing or invalid.

I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate.
Any help?
Go onto google and search for 'vbalCbEx6.ocx free download' once downloaded place it in your sappy folder.

I'm not 100% sure if it would work. Because with me sappy does not work on windows 7 starter and up.
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October 31st, 2011 at 6:15 PM
Originally Posted by Nintendork15 [ Original Post ]
Go onto google and search for 'vbalCbEx6.ocx free download' once downloaded place it in your sappy folder.

I'm not 100% sure if it would work. Because with me sappy does not work on windows 7 starter and up.
Actually, the Fire Emblem Community released a great Sappy mod that is actually fully functional on Windows Vista/7 computers. It also comes with a voice table editor to boot, which is coming to great use in what I'm trying to achieve in my (currently) personal hack.

The link and instructions are in DavidJCobb's music inserting tutorial on this same forum; it should be near the top. Install it on top of a regular Sappy install to get it working flawlessly.
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I've got an issue of my own.
I am trying to import the Myst theme as the title screen theme for Pokemon Ruby. I acquired the midi from the midimole website (I would post urls to show you exactly what I'm talking about, but it appears I'm not authorized to do so.)
I can manage to get the file into .s format easily, but when I try to Assemble the song Sappy freezes.

I've changed the instruments in the song numerous times, and the current setup is Pizzicato Strings, Timpani, Synth Bass 1, and Acoustic Grand Piano. I've tried various different programs and methods to insert this song into the game and so far nothing has worked. Please help.
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November 7th, 2011 at 5:38 AM
Well make sure when converting the MIDI that the file only use these characters:
- "A-Z"
- "a-z"
- "0-9"
- "." , "_"

That should prevent Sappy form crashing.
For the second problem:
On this sound-engine you are limited to 128 MIDI programs and the MIDI percussion-MIDI-channel won't change anything and so program "0 - Acoustic Grand Piano" is usually used as a percussion kit.
When you want to use the piano use the program "1 - Bright Acoustic Piano" , but make sure your voicegroup contains all these instruments.

Hope you understood my English ;-)
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November 11th, 2011 at 4:06 PM
Originally Posted by ipatix [ Original Post ]
Well make sure when converting the MIDI that the file only use these characters:
- "A-Z"
- "a-z"
- "0-9"
- "." , "_"

That should prevent Sappy form crashing.
For the second problem:
On this sound-engine you are limited to 128 MIDI programs and the MIDI percussion-MIDI-channel won't change anything and so program "0 - Acoustic Grand Piano" is usually used as a percussion kit.
When you want to use the piano use the program "1 - Bright Acoustic Piano" , but make sure your voicegroup contains all these instruments.

Hope you understood my English ;-)
Alright, I've tried that.
I'm using the voicegroup offset of 0x43B8A0, which is;
0x43B8A0

01 - Bright Acoustic
09 - Glockenspiel
35 - Fretless Bass
45 - Pizzicato Strings
46 - Harp
47 - Timpani
48 - Strings
60 - French Horn
73 - Flute
My instrument setup, after some fiddling, contains only Pizzicato Strings, Flute, Timpani, and Fretless Bass.
I'm using an empty offset as the Base Destination.
When I press "Assemble that Ugly Thing", I get an error message that reads:

"Run-time error '13':
type mismatch"

once I hit either OK or X on that message, Sappy closes and a new error message appears that reads:

"Run-time error '-2147418105 (80010007)':
Automation error
The callee (server [not server aplication]) is not available and disappeared; all connections are invalid. The call may have executed."

Upon hitting OK/X for that message it closes and nothing else appears.
What do I do to avoid this?
The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as "Things just happen. What the hell."
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