[Super Game Boy] Pokemon Generation 1 MSU1

Well more of the game needs to be tested first before I could do a v1 release

I think I can try patching it to Yellow. And since the Pokémon Gold disassembly is pretty complete now, I could try making Gen 2 MSU1 even (with the exception of Crystal obviously)

IIRC R/B is SGB, Y is SGB+GBC, G/S is SGB+GBC and C is GBC only.

Since (like I said) I am pretty dependent on the disassemblies, I'll probably just make English version patches.

Though I do wonder if... a hacky approach of making a foreign language patch for English and then patching it to the MSU1 hack? I doubt it though lmao

Zumi wrote:Well more of the game needs to be tested first before I could do a v1 release

I think I can try patching it to Yellow. And since the Pokémon Gold disassembly is pretty complete now, I could try making Gen 2 MSU1 even (with the exception of Crystal obviously)

IIRC R/B is SGB, Y is SGB+GBC, G/S is SGB+GBC and C is GBC only.

Since (like I said) I am pretty dependent on the disassemblies, I'll probably just make English version patches.

Though I do wonder if... a hacky approach of making a foreign language patch for English and then patching it to the MSU1 hack? I doubt it though lmao

Don't say me there will be not french version into MSU-1, please.

I have no clue how to manage that without changing up stuff in the home bank and a lot of map scripts (because obviously the locations between the US/FR versions would differ so much), so some help would be nice here

Basically Gen 1 music playing works by manually setting a music bank and the sound ID to play, which differs per bank. Also, there are map scripts that call special functions to play a certain song at a certain tempo or from a certain point, so that definitely doesn't help

Here I basically changed most of the calls so that it will call a single function with a single argument that is the track number, and that function will deal with GB / SGB stuff.

If I didn't do that then I could have written code matching a lot of combinations with track numbers, which I don't think is ideal.

TL;DR: Gen 1 is really hacky. I hacked in a music ID system to make things less tedious / hacky for me.

Gen 2 will be much easier though, since it already comes with such a system. I might even be able to create simple patches with the traditional workflow of replacing the function with one that just fits at the end of the home bank, placing the new code somewhere else and have the code in the home bank point there

Actually I *just* now discovered that someone made a disassembly of the French version for R/B: https://github.com/einstein95/pokered-fr

Building it, it seems to match the French ROM. Turns out I could actually port the patch to here pretty easily. Consider yourself lucky

Woah, great! Thanks! French, Quebecker, etc... will be happy about that

Thanks for the explanation, so red,blue,yellow,gold and silver can be done for msu1 (I hope you get 'em all ).

Your patch appears pretty complex (47kb), so I guess there's much more featured than just msu1.
If I port a game and it is small enough, I simply use a hex comparison program and look for the changes. If I find a hook, I simply search for the corrresponding hex string in the rom I want to port, and change it (with this method porting a rom to a new language or version takes 20 minutes or so). Unfortunately, this method seems to not be applicable due to the high complexity of your code...

HI!
I did not know the Pokemon games are being made for gameboy msu-1. This is pretty exciting. ABChiccups told me about this project recently and if Pokemon Silver gets a patch I would absolutely love to make the PCM music for it.

JUD6MENT wrote:HI!
I did not know the Pokemon games are being made for gameboy msu-1. This is pretty exciting. ABChiccups told me about this project recently and if Pokemon Silver gets a patch I would absolutely love to make the PCM music for it.

Maybe musics from Pokémon: HeartGold and SoulSilver?
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The PCM pack from Pokémon: Fire Red & Leaf Green is ready
https://mega.nz/file/BLQDwaZI#bE0b7fgX-ZBCh-NT-72zaj7zAISGJLK-taJnuf0ZHN4
I updated the PCM pack with all musics but as I don't know loop for the moment, there just 3 musics from the Anime+LGPE. When I'll know loop, I'll update the pack by adding 3 looped musics from Fire Red & Leaf Green

Brutapode89 wrote:

JUD6MENT wrote:HI!
I did not know the Pokemon games are being made for gameboy msu-1. This is pretty exciting. ABChiccups told me about this project recently and if Pokemon Silver gets a patch I would absolutely love to make the PCM music for it.

Maybe musics from Pokémon: HeartGold and SoulSilver?
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The PCM pack from Pokémon: Fire Red & Leaf Green is ready
https://mega.nz/file/oLh1UCBB#7WUwfJfRZQeBeXVPvNe5QsiGzNwf5kQ7a_VL5m-4jnk
Let me know if a music is missing

No, that would be filler if i struggle to find a good track for maybe one or two tracks. I could do a better album. Besides, at that point i would rather just play soulsilver.

When Pokémon Gold & Silver will works into MSU-1, can I make a PCM pack from Pokémon: HeartGold and SoulSilver?

Brutapode89 wrote:When Pokémon Gold & Silver will works into MSU-1, can I make a PCM pack from Pokémon: HeartGold and SoulSilver?

Is there plans for silver and gold to be msu1? And of course, dont really need my permission.

What PCM packs are being made for Gen 1 right now?

I finished the PCM pack from Pokémon: Fire Red & Leaf Green and there are two others PCM packs, the pack from the Anime & the other from Let's go (Switch).

If you want to become a professional pcm artist, Brutapode, you should learn how to loop the songs and normalize them to the correct level.

Conn wrote:If you want to become a professional pcm artist, Brutapode, you should learn how to loop the songs and normalize them to the correct level.

Yes, it's just that I want know how to loop musics by making sure that musics not resume always from start.

The best thing to start are qwerty's videos:
https://youtu.be/9pDXdaWS9-Q

https://youtu.be/moN3ZTFa2dg

Brutapode89 I made a Starter Pack to get you started.

These are .json files.

Brutapode89 wrote:These are .json files.

I know. Just watch Tutorial videos that Conn shared you.

Ah? These GBA musics has already been looped. Actually, I downloaded these from the smashcustomusic.net site.

If not, I see there's not all musics. I'll learn the looping by seeing videos.

So seeing that Johto games also include kanto region, there is no downside by me starting with a gen 1 symphony pcm pack. I really like to make orchestra albums rather than use music from remastered versions of same game, and the internet is full of absolutely amazing pokemon orchestra covers.

Then if we decide to do a silver/gold msu i will be half done by having kanto region done. And i do hope we make a silver/gold patch, i played these games from the beginning and Johto is still by far my favorite region/generation.

JUD6MENT wrote:
The PCM pack from Pokémon: Fire Red & Leaf Green is ready
https://mega.nz/file/oLh1UCBB#7WUwfJfRZQeBeXVPvNe5QsiGzNwf5kQ7a_VL5m-4jnk
Let me know if a music is missing

Just tried your PCM pack! It's weird yet interesting to be able to play R/B with FR/LG music

Unfortunately this pack doesn't seem to be normalized to -12dB yet, so it completely drowns out both SNES and GB sounds.

Applying it to my patch, there are also quite a few songs missing:

Code:

27: Rival's Theme
28: Rival's Theme (Reprise)
29: Meet Rocket Trainer / Evil Trainer
30: Meet Female Trainer
33: Evolution, Safari Zone
44: Ending (the slow version of Pallet Town in the FR/LG soundtrack, also known as "Epilogue")

JUD6MENT wrote:Then if we decide to do a silver/gold msu i will be half done by having kanto region done.

G/S/C have their own arrangements of Kanto music though

It will work, the silver/gold may have new arrangements of kanto tracks but they are still the same tracks with the exception of a few (like lavender town is completely new) Doing msu1 is changing the arrangement anyway.

Unfortunately this pack doesn't seem to be normalized to -12dB yet, so it completely drowns out both SNES and GB sounds.

We have an easy tool do adjust the volume in seconds:
https://www.zeldix.net/t2068-msu-1-re-normalization-lower-pcm-volume

I updated my PCM pack (Fire Red & Leaf Green)