So far I've searched inside of a Pokemon Emerald using sappy_detector.exe's results as a guide, trying to find similar looking data in Metroid Fusion and inputting the addresses into gba_mus_riper, with no success. It says "Invalid amount of tracks 234 ! (must be 1-16)" with almost any address inputted, leading me to believe I'm not even close to finding anything and that's just the default value.
Also, I'd like to point out that I'm not interested in listening to the tracks in high quality, as a lot of people trying to rip them are wanting to do (I'm doing it for research purposes). So, I don't need any resources or help with alternative methods of listening to the soundtrack. I appreciate those who were planning on doing that though lol
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There was a sappy GUI I used for getting the offsets and sizes, though it was a whole ago so I don't remember exactly what I did. I hope this info is somewhat helpful in pointing you guys in the right direction.
If you could remember the name of that sappy GUI it would be very helpful, but even as it is, you've given me many great ideas to try. Also, now that I actually know that said GUI exists, I may be able to find it pretty easily with some searching.
Thanks for the help, soneek.
I'll be back after I try some more.
After a bit of searching, I found Sappy 2006 Mod 17.1, but I'm not sure if it's the same GUI that you used...
EDIT: After a bit of digging around in the sappy_detector.c file in the gbaMusRiper source code, I found an AoB (array of bytes) it uses to find the selectsong data (re-formatted for brevity):
<small>
00 B5 00 04 07 4A 08 49 40 0B 40 18 83 88 59 00 C9 18 89 00 89 18 0A 68 01 68 10 1C 00 F0
</small>
Then I found a fork of it by someone named xperia64, which included an additional alternate AoB for finding Mother 3's unique selectsong data:
<small>
00 B5 00 04 07 4B 08 49 40 0B 40 18 82 88 51 00 89 18 89 00 C9 18 0A 68 01 68 10 1C 00 F0
</small>
After finding neither of these AoBs in Metroid Fusion, I decided to search for the first few bytes of those AoBs which they share in common (00 B5 00 04 07) and sure enough, the ONLY search result was the unique AoB for Metroid Fusion:
<small>
00 B5 00 04 07 4B 08 49 40 0B 40 18 82 88 51 00 89 18 89 00 C9 18 0A 68 01 68 10 1C 01 F0
</small>
What I did was replace that AoB in Metroid Fusion with the default one gbaMusRiper uses (and I saved it as a separate file).
I was disheartened when gbaMusRiper failed to extract the music, saying "Only a partial sound engine was found". However, I extremely surprised when I was able to open it in Sappy 2006 Mod 17.1
Example Image ("Nightmare", playing in Sappy2006)
Example WAV ("Nightmare", recorded from Sappy2006 using Stereo Mix in Audacity lol note that the "jerkiness" of the notes is just caused by Sappy2006's badly programmed playback system)
Example MIDI ("Nightmare", exported by Sappy2006)
Sappy2006 has some playback issues with some of the synths the game uses, but it does allow for exporting all the samples of one specific song or exporting a MIDI of one specific song. So there is still no way to generate soundfonts of the different soundbanks or export all the songs to MIDI at the same time, but I'm going to see if I can use the info Sappy2006 provides in order to get gbaMusRiper working on it so that I can extract it all at once using that.
ONE LAST EDIT: Here is an example of the "playback issues with some of the synths the game uses" that I mentioned.
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Apparently the song table locations were already known at caitsith2's site. I used the one listed for Metroid Fusion USA and was able to rip everything with gbs mus riper. I ended up having to modify the soundfont to remove 0's from tone scale settings and lower the volume of all the simulated gameboy sounds. Several Midi's did not convert well sadly and I couldn't do anything to fix them...
GSF tables: https://www.caitsith2.com/gsf/ofslist.txt
My Midi rip: https://www.dropbox.com/s/xk0a8kergndjk4x/MFUSA.7z?dl=1
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EDIT: I meant compare to the ost or gsf's.
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I keep winamp around for various reasons like plugin comparisons. Anyways I noticed an issue when comparing how Metroid Fusion sounded compared to real hardware, Caitsith2's gsf plugin and 3.0.2 of your plugin.
From foo_gsf: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzi1j6bd9tkdjd2/VS.%20Fake%20Chozo%20Statue.mp3?dl=1
A real hardware video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XYXu8i1de4&t=11m52s
The gameboy pulse sounds are a bit off.
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Can someone help me to understand how there can be GSF and MIDI rips of the same game? My understanding of such things is limited...
The midi's and soundfont were transcribed, in a sense. This can have issues if the program doing the transcribing doesn't 100 percent understand the game's sound driver and format as is the case with this game. Also, if the game uses the gameboy's sound hardware in any way, that feature can only be simulated with pre-recorded sounds in the soundfont rather than emulated and may end up sounding off as a result. "VS Fake Chozo Statue" is one of those tracks with this kind of problem.
edited 1:33 PM EDT August 30, 2017
Here's a comparison of the same tracks from Metroid Fusion with Winamp's Highly Advanced and Foo_gba:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/qw0z72vv92wu6t9/Chozo%20Statue%20Shortened%20Comparison.7z?dl=1
E: Here's a GBA ROM from the affected GSF:
https://f.losno.co/chozo_statue.zip
Compare against hardware, please. Yes, I know it's somewhat wrong now, but it sounded closer before. Highly Advanced is in no way a proper reference anyway, it was never volume level accurate between the GB and GBA sound.
Oh, and this isn't the wave channel, it's not even being used here. Just the two square wave channels.
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E: Here's a GSF (or minigsf) to GBA converter, it imports all the MINIGSF/GSFLIB chain to produce the final GBA ROM that the emulator runs.
https://gist.github.com/kode54/1b6eed5d864b0f3f8789d21e9183692f
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The gsf's I'm using are the ones that I think you posted awhile back. They're probably up on gsf.joshw.info now as a replacement for the old set.
This might be a better video for comparison, but it's still just as noisy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB7oSrPGAag&t=5m00s