Metroid Prime hacking research

2015-06-02 02:38:21 pm

Quote from jackoalan:

ooo! good idea!!

I think it's really interesting how that track loops, you don't even notice where it happens in-game. Yamamoto-San is a melodic genius!!

I noticed it cuts off abruptly at the loop point.. I need to experiment with the header-generation to solve that.

No, no. It works fine. I was just an idiot and deleted the loop instructions when I re-exported it to DSP (For some reason, just renaming echoes' don't work but if you re-export it to DSP it does). I've since fixed it and replaced a LOT of tracks with echoes stuff successfully :) (and also added the correct Flaahgra music to his boss battle!)

Aruki

2015-06-02 02:58:01 pm

I'm pretty sure you could've moved the Flaahgra track already by just copy pasting the files from the PAL version :P

Baby Sheegoth

2015-06-02 03:06:18 pm

I don't know, and I didn't feel like guessing to find out since I knew this method worked... it took 5 seconds whereas compiling a new ISO and copying it takes like 10 minutes haha

MilesSMB

2015-06-02 03:10:55 pm

Thanks to you, I decided to check the Flaahgra music file and found that they misspelled it Flaaghra eaioghaogibna3roibnoir2ahnoia2nbowfrboir2habhon

jackoalan

2015-06-02 03:51:53 pm

LOL!

I'm looking into making an RS03 exporter right now.. That way files can be ported both ways

Antidote

2015-06-02 04:14:27 pm

Flaahgra is such a hard word apparently.

jackoalan

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jackoalan: 2015-06-02 10:48:50 pm

2015-06-02 10:48:09 pm

Alright!! Now RS03 exporting is possible!!

Just click 'Options' from File > Export Audio
https://github.com/jackoalan/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-gc-dspadpcm-2.1.1-3

Aruki

2015-06-02 11:07:17 pm

Sweet, nice work! CSMP next?

jackoalan

2015-06-02 11:08:42 pm

That's the plan

Lord Fredrik

2015-06-03 11:53:03 am

I'd love a way to rip from CSMP in Returns.

Aruki

2015-06-03 11:57:45 am

You can already rip CSMP. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9MLV21H7SDvemgwN1daYnliSjA/view?usp=sharing

Antidote

2015-06-03 08:42:48 pm

Bah, something weird happened with my laptop, so I'm reinstalling Arch atm :/

Lord Fredrik

2015-06-03 10:45:37 pm

Thanks for that, Parax. I mostly needed it for DK voice clips. :)

jackoalan

2015-06-04 02:04:00 am

Here's a big one:
https://github.com/jackoalan/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-gc-dspadpcm-2.1.1-4

This adds FSB, STRM, and CSMP import and export!!

It turns out Corruption has some pretty interesting loops

jackoalan

Edit history:

jackoalan: 2015-06-05 01:07:16 am

2015-06-04 11:51:22 pm

This release wraps up almost all of Retro's standalone audio formats:
https://github.com/jackoalan/audacity/releases/tag/Audacity-gc-dspadpcm-2.1.1-5

Including import/export capabilities for DKCR's RAS/STRM formats and DKCTF's stereo CSMP resources.

EDIT: Parax just informed me i'm missing .rsf and .adp files.. oops

Aruki

2015-06-05 01:16:59 am

Sweet. Mind if I throw a link to this in the first post? There's a link to Prime Audio Decoder there currently and by this point I think you've basically obsoleted it (aside from AGSC export).

jackoalan

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jackoalan: 2015-06-05 01:20:42 am

2015-06-05 01:20:17 am

By all means!! Go ahead

Aruki

2015-06-05 01:23:55 am

Done!

Scooterboot9697

2015-06-05 11:01:48 pm

Hi. I'm a little confused about the PakTool. Every time I run it (double click the .exe file), it closes instantly. I'm not given any time to input commands or whatever. The only thing I've managed to do is extract a pak file by dragging the pak over PakTool.exe, but I can't rebuild paks with the same method. The Prime Randomizer sorta gives me the same problem, except it only closes as soon as I press any key.
Also, I'm using Windows 7 (64-bit). What am I doing wrong? Is there something else I need?