• Just a reminder that providing specifics on, sharing links to, or naming websites where ROMs can be accessed is against the rules. If your post has any of this information it will be removed.
  • Ever thought it'd be cool to have your art, writing, or challenge runs featured on PokéCommunity? Click here for info - we'd love to spotlight your work!
  • PokéCommunity's Easter Egg Hunt is now on! If you're interested in looking for some eggs and earning badges, click here!
  • Our weekly protagonist poll is now up! Vote for your favorite Conquest protagonist in the poll by clicking here.
  • Welcome to PokéCommunity! Register now and join one of the best fan communities on the 'net to talk Pokémon and more! We are not affiliated with The Pokémon Company or Nintendo.
    Register

GoGo's MEGA-HUGE Sappy Tutorial

Did This Tutorial Help You At All?

  • Yes

    Votes: 55 52.9%

  • No

    Votes: 13 12.5%

  • I Don't Know

    Votes: 6 5.8%

  • I Didn't Read It Yet

    Votes: 30 28.8%
  • Total voters
    104
Well my Soulsilver Patch has too many incorrect loop points, watch the videos you'll know what I mean. So I plan on re-doing them
 
Decent? Is there something I'm missing?
 
Is the VbalCboEX6.ocx file you mentioned what would be causing errors under the name "vbalComboEx6"? I always get this error when I try to edit the MIDI Keyboard.

Since the Sappy install file you link to doesn't add a Mid2Agb folder (I do have those files and have put them in a Mid2Agb folder myself, FYI), you saying "delete everything except the Mid2Agb folder" seems to equate to "delete everything". Regardless, following the method of installation you mentioned doesn't fix these issues for me. Everything else besides the MIDI Keyboard works. Any advice you can give on this?
 
I haven't got that error before. Sappy12.exe installs all necessary components...
Maybe try re downloading it and see how it goes
 
Placing the new Sappy executable and XML file in the old install location doesn't fix the errors. Upon attempting to edit things further, it seems I come across this program-crashing error any time I try to change anything with any voice. Any changes I make go through, but that really doesn't serve as much of a consolation. I used to not have these issues. Even when I restore my previously-working Sappy the problem persists. I use Windows 7 64-Bit.

This happens regardless of whether or not I have the Mid2Agb folder and it's contents in the right place. Here's the exact error:

[PokeCommunity.com] GoGo's MEGA-HUGE Sappy Tutorial


LAST EDIT: Oh wow. The strangest of things fixed my issues! All I had to do was open the soundpack.exe file and register it to fix everything! Weird.
 
Last edited:
That really is weird, as I never had to use soundpack.exe to run Sappy. Plus Windows XP is probably easier to handle Sappy.
 
I am having a very hard time obtaining sample sounds for custom instruments.

Any tips on how to get them?
 
Is it from a ROM or online resource? And explain a bit more.
 
gogojjtech said:
Is it from a ROM or online resource? And explain a bit more.
Click to expand...

Sorry it's when we import a sample instrument. When we want to use our own instruments. From step 5 :)

I am not sure where to obtain all 127 midi instruments!
 
"DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE MID2AGB FOLDER!!! "

except that folder doesn't exist.
 
Le pug said:
"DELETE EVERYTHING EXCEPT THE MID2AGB FOLDER!!! "

except that folder doesn't exist.
Click to expand...

Once you open "sappy12.exe" and installer pops up, and you direct to the folder of your choice. Then there should be some files: a .Xml, Mid2agb folder, other stuff. Everything except the mid2agb folder gets deleted since there's a new Sappy which you downloaded.
 
gogojjtech said:
Once you open "sappy12.exe" and installer pops up, and you direct to the folder of your choice. Then there should be some files: a .Xml, Mid2agb folder, other stuff. Everything except the mid2agb folder gets deleted since there's a new Sappy which you downloaded.
Click to expand...

Yeah nothing popped up. Then I downloaded these two and it worked perfectly.. yet now I have a new problem (as usual):

Sappy + Mid2agb
Sappy mod 15


But when I am in sappy, I have my midi file, go to the location in my folder where mid2agb.exe is and I drag my midi file into it to create a .s file. Then I go to the title screen song, click assemble, search my .s file and click cook it. It'll work and give that song table pop up then it's in the game... yet when I click play, it makes like crap weird notes instead of what I had in my midi. There was an example .s also in the folder, which the guy who did these two downloads made, and that even sounds like pacman crap. Know how to fix it?


edit: I tried to do your steps after having the newer sappy mod and I mean I don't understand a lot of what you're getting at. You say I have change where the square is do you mean square WAVE 1 and square WAVE 2? because I have a LOT of square wave 1's like.. 110/127 are square wave 1's and I only have one track because it's just a piano. got to the part where i import a .wav sample and it went unresponsive on me and I can't go further
 
Last edited:
Le pug said:
Yeah nothing popped up. Then I downloaded these two and it worked perfectly.. yet now I have a new problem (as usual):

Sappy + Mid2agb
Sappy mod 15


But when I am in sappy, I have my midi file, go to the location in my folder where mid2agb.exe is and I drag my midi file into it to create a .s file. Then I go to the title screen song, click assemble, search my .s file and click cook it. It'll work and give that song table pop up then it's in the game... yet when I click play, it makes like crap weird notes instead of what I had in my midi. There was an example .s also in the folder, which the guy who did these two downloads made, and that even sounds like pacman crap. Know how to fix it?


edit: I tried to do your steps after having the newer sappy mod and I mean I don't understand a lot of what you're getting at. You say I have change where the square is do you mean square WAVE 1 and square WAVE 2? because I have a LOT of square wave 1's like.. 110/127 are square wave 1's and I only have one track because it's just a piano. got to the part where i import a .wav sample and it went unresponsive on me and I can't go further
Click to expand...

Yes, use sappy mod 17.1. The game is not going to automatically have your instruments in the game... So you import them. Think about it, if you just start a game and add this kind of music engine, your instruments aren't in the ROM because you just started. Same here, gamefreak only used what they needed. So you import what you need. And the square waves (1,2) need to get replaced since you don't have your own instruments in the ROM. Get it?
 
When I click on Cook it the error pops up

How do I put a picture in this box to show you
 
Last edited:
What's the wording of the error message? Does it say it can't find MPlayDef.S? Or Unknown command? Anything?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top