Introduction
While developing my own Firered hack, I figured I'd want to add some more music, since, well, the music selection in default FR is kind of.. lacking.
So I wrote down a list of a few songs I wanted, which grew bigger, and bigger, and.. you get the point.
I never planned to add this many songs, but after porting the initial 50~ songs I wanted, I decided "why not make a ROM base for other people too?"
Gen 3-styled music!
With that out of the way, hello!
This ROM base adds over 150 songs, mostly from Emerald, Drill Dozer, a few from Summon Night and even a song I made myself.
If you haven't heard about Drill Dozer, I HIGHLY recommend giving the OST a listen, it's made by Gamefreak too, and it sounds really great.
It uses the same Soundfont from RSE and FRLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax0ZqvlhXlM&list=PLMf4m1TNEUp8u_RSHtcmwOF7IaUedOU4R
There is only room for 7 new songs, so if you need more, you'll have to repoint the songtable at 0x800000 (0x1000 bytes).
The songs from Drill Dozer and RSE should sound exactly like they do on those games, but Summon Night's songs will sound different due to me using FRLG's samples instead of that game's samples.
Compatability
This patch is built on the following ROM: 1636 - Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels) and adds data to 0x800000-0x8FFFFF, so make sure you have free space here before you patch. (If you use a clean rom, that shouldn't be an issue)
It removes the old songtable at 0x4A42CC (0xADC bytes) so you can use this area for whatever you may want.
A thing to note though, is if you use, say, Freespacefinder, and search for 64 bytes for example, and it tells you there's free space somewhere around the area this patch patches to, do NOT use this area, as it's most likely a part of a sound. Overwriting the FFs at certain locations might lead to sound corruption.
You can however use the area at 8AA98E to 8AD9D3, and 853622 to 8543E7 and 87A290 to 87B8EB since there is nothing there. (Slight screw up on my part, there might be more such freespace areas)
This base IS compatible with JPAN's hacked engine and MrDS' ROM base. The order you'd patch this in if you were to use both of said rom bases is:
First, MrDS' base -> second, JPAN's engine -> third, this base.
If you want to listen to the music in Sappy, you'll have to change the line in sappy.xml from:
to:
as simple as that.
Download and such
There shouldn't be any bugs, but if you find any, please let me know.
Again, make sure you're using the correct ROM.
Please give credit to me, Squeetz, if you use this patch!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9rk6fin2lb3tu51/Squeetz%27+musical+base.ips
If you want the new song list to show up in AdvanceMap, you'll have to edit the ini.
To do this, go to the folder where you have A-map, -> ini -> open the file "Musik_en" and scroll down to "[Musik_BPR]" and replace that list with:
While developing my own Firered hack, I figured I'd want to add some more music, since, well, the music selection in default FR is kind of.. lacking.
So I wrote down a list of a few songs I wanted, which grew bigger, and bigger, and.. you get the point.
I never planned to add this many songs, but after porting the initial 50~ songs I wanted, I decided "why not make a ROM base for other people too?"
Gen 3-styled music!
With that out of the way, hello!
This ROM base adds over 150 songs, mostly from Emerald, Drill Dozer, a few from Summon Night and even a song I made myself.
If you haven't heard about Drill Dozer, I HIGHLY recommend giving the OST a listen, it's made by Gamefreak too, and it sounds really great.
It uses the same Soundfont from RSE and FRLG: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax0ZqvlhXlM&list=PLMf4m1TNEUp8u_RSHtcmwOF7IaUedOU4R
There is only room for 7 new songs, so if you need more, you'll have to repoint the songtable at 0x800000 (0x1000 bytes).
The songs from Drill Dozer and RSE should sound exactly like they do on those games, but Summon Night's songs will sound different due to me using FRLG's samples instead of that game's samples.
Compatability
This patch is built on the following ROM: 1636 - Pokemon Fire Red (U)(Squirrels) and adds data to 0x800000-0x8FFFFF, so make sure you have free space here before you patch. (If you use a clean rom, that shouldn't be an issue)
It removes the old songtable at 0x4A42CC (0xADC bytes) so you can use this area for whatever you may want.
A thing to note though, is if you use, say, Freespacefinder, and search for 64 bytes for example, and it tells you there's free space somewhere around the area this patch patches to, do NOT use this area, as it's most likely a part of a sound. Overwriting the FFs at certain locations might lead to sound corruption.
You can however use the area at 8AA98E to 8AD9D3, and 853622 to 8543E7 and 87A290 to 87B8EB since there is nothing there. (Slight screw up on my part, there might be more such freespace areas)
This base IS compatible with JPAN's hacked engine and MrDS' ROM base. The order you'd patch this in if you were to use both of said rom bases is:
First, MrDS' base -> second, JPAN's engine -> third, this base.
If you want to listen to the music in Sappy, you'll have to change the line in sappy.xml from:
Code:
rom code="BPRE" name="POKEMON FIRE" songtable="0x4A32CC"
Code:
rom code="BPRE" name="POKEMON FIRE" songtable="0x800000"Download and such
There shouldn't be any bugs, but if you find any, please let me know.
Again, make sure you're using the correct ROM.
Please give credit to me, Squeetz, if you use this patch!
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9rk6fin2lb3tu51/Squeetz%27+musical+base.ips
If you want the new song list to show up in AdvanceMap, you'll have to edit the ini.
To do this, go to the folder where you have A-map, -> ini -> open the file "Musik_en" and scroll down to "[Musik_BPR]" and replace that list with:
Spoiler:
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