Fire Emblem IV: Genealogy of the Holy War

Fire Emblem: Seisen no Keifu / Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War

I'll edit this with patch/PCM links in the future, nothing to show at the moment.



This project has been passed on to Cubear, please see below for more information. Thank you.

ASM is still in the early stages. I think I've found a place I can hook, still need to do more debugging to stop SPC music and avoid breaking sound effects. This is also the first HiROM game I've hacked on, so that's been a learning curve as well.

I'm not in any rush to finish the patch since I don't think it's possible to make a complete PCM pack right now. There's a small official arranged album release, and some tracks could probably be cobbled together from other official releases. But I don't think anyone in the community has done a full PCM pack for this OST yet.

I'm sure several edge cases and bugs will come up as I tackle more things (fading MSU audio, etc.), but I'm hoping to get a basic beta patch released before too long with at least the base music replacement working.

Hi! I'm new to the forum but I made this account because I wanted to see if someone thought of making a FE4 msu-1 patch. It's cool to see that some work is being done! I don't have any experience with hacking but if finding a high quality version of the soundtrack is an issue, I just found this reorchestration of the entire soundtrack on Youtube (it's amazing):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPLpMm7xiU&list=PL3N_0dV_yL3ZJJkNlLF3KOvgS_KdkLBcH&index=1

Idk if it's any help but we could always ask the creator if they'd be ok with someone making a pcm library with their music. I would be down to learn how to make a pcm library if it helps.

Welcome, megamannuel!

That reorchestration is really cool, thanks for pointing it out! It should be ideal for making a PCM pack, unless there are issues with finding loop points for some tracks or something. I'll definitely be downloading it and using it for testing If the creator's okay with it, it would make a great PCM pack to link with the 1.0 release of this patch too, once it's finished.

Bsinky has passed the baton on this patch, graciously giving me his code and PCMs.

I reworked the hook and the mute and the track index table (as a result of moving the hooks)
but his work was still invaluable in getting this done, he had already done the hard and long process of identifying all the tracks and making 100+ PCM files, which would probably have immediately put me off this project.

Track map (mostly complete):

Code:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17xBHmX9r1H2k8Db3VawancSKzm_KIjbdxFAC_UYk_64/edit?usp=sharing

Beta PCMs (Thanks Bsinky)
made with tracks from this set of arrangements:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VPLpMm7xiU&list=PL3N_0dV_yL3ZJJkNlLF3KOvgS_KdkLBcH

Code:

https://mega.nz/file/7XxHTaTQ#5bUdbme3swTQ4ghBQ4B50EtlRqoCZE6Qp_6QZhRc-3Q

This PCM pack may need more work on the loops, volume, etc. but it's a fine set and perfect for testing the game.

Patch +  code attached to this post. please create an account to download. thank you.


still to do: Fades, Resumes, (probably) bug fixing, Pausing, setting noloops correctly, and so forth. a lot is left to do.

Holy crap, this soundtrack is huge! and I am also impressed that I have found two different artists that has remastered the whole soundtrack, so at least you got music for it.

For real, what a daunting task. It's a very exhausting game to be working on.

updated the first post with a new hard mute.


anybody testing this: please report to me (via this thread or over discord) with anything you find that does not act like the unmodified game. missing fades, dimming, pauses, track changes, tracks, etc. everything.

hope this happens

if you'd like to help make it happen, please playtest the beta patch found in my first post in this thread. if you find a bug, report it to me!

i'd recommend mesen for playtesting as it's the easiest emulator for you to send me a savestate and for me to debug from said save state.

Hello.
There is no problem with the FireEmblem PCM file I created. I even played the game ending, and there is no problem with the sound source.

Hello! Is this hack still being worked on? Just out of curiosity.

it's still in my WIP folder at any rate. I've done a couple fixes since the version posted here, but there's more fixing to be done...

a big issue with these large, long, RPG style games is the difficulty in testing everything.