heres a Pic of the Super Fast Tagger PdZ.
Thats me.
With my fast eyes and my perfect ears i could tagg anything in a couple of days.Maybe in only hours!Like Snowboard Kids.by the way?, why it isn't in the official list?And whats with DKR?
I should not drink to much cola...it makes me hyperactive.
edited 8:50 PM EDT October 2, 2005
What do you mean about the official list? Both Snowboard Kids and Diddy Kong Racing are up on USF Central...
Thats me, the super fast, super excellent USF Ripper. I'll rip them as fast as PdZ says he can tag them.
I got a new pic. Do i really look like that?
edited 9:22 PM EDT October 2, 2005
Thats me, the super fast, super excellent USF Ripper. I'll rip them as fast as PdZ says he can tag them.
U are faster and much better ;)Fast and perfect work.
edit: I mean the "official" list.Not the prliminary section.I mean http://www.halleyscometsoftware.com/usf .And beside this rip there must be written a word.. complete. :p
The coffein is fading out...Its 3 O'clock in the morning, here in Germania Cologne.I go to sleep.Good Night, Good Fight.
edited 9:06 PM EDT October 2, 2005
At the moment they are:
Bomberman
Jet Force Gemini
Mario Party
Paper Mario
Extreme G
Shadowgate 64
maybe:
Snowboard Kids
Pokemon Stadium
and Diddy Kong Racing since UNKNOWNFILE says he's happy with the tags
and Bomberman Hero
now with links to the files to be released
edited 9:34 AM EDT October 3, 2005
Bomberman Hero
Then up it shall go!
I wasn't aware there were tags for it yet.
do you want me to put track numbers on them before putting it up?
edited 10:12 PM EDT October 2, 2005
Thats me, the super fast, super excellent plugin author. I'll release betas as fast as PdZ can tag and Josh can rip.
Only half of them have track numbers, the other i have no clue about, so if you want to do it then so be it.
I'd better go home now. Might check out CBFD.
However, it's not a big deal. I just thought you might want to know about it. And definatly thank you VERY MUCH for the tags you've recently provided. That's awesome! Keep up the great work. Mouser X over and out.
To Mouser X:
I previously said, that I saw how much great Rip work is done...So I thought, that it would be time to do some taggs.And Snowboard Kids has not too much Songs...So it used only 5-6 Hours to tagg,time,rename it.Iam glad to see, that u like the taggs :).
Keep on the great work and Iam going to tagg as much I can.
Here's a picture of me, the unsuper ripper. I dont really do anything special here. ;p
edited 12:06 PM EDT October 3, 2005
I am sure glad that you are back - it was strange not having a new USF rip every couple days.
Can't wait for the sets in the above list to be released.
Thanks.
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Oh, I keep forgetting to mention, I know that hcs could not rip Rush 2049, but if it EVER gets ripped, I will help tag it. Just to let you know.
edited 9:07 PM EDT October 3, 2005
Hey, cmon, you did Diddy Kong Racing. Now you put in an effort. All you gotta do is think outside the box, try unorthadox things and think about them alot.
During the week i spent removing data from DK64 (i reduced it from about 10.5Mb) i tried many things to do this and i was up all night until 7 in the morning seeing what would happen if i removed a huge chunk out of the ram. Most often it would crash but i got lucky sometimes. Then i would go to sleep during the day and dream about it.
Then i got pissed off when i figured out how to get it working with the batchripper. But strangely it doesn't work with and compilation of the batchripper by me, but it does work with the executable version by hcs. ????
By the way, it may not be obvious to most reading this because you're all on top of things, but 64th Note v1.0 is needed to play DK64, otherwise things get ugly. Broken ugly.
Yes, i thaught i did put a note about that, but i guess that was in an earlier build of it. On an earlier version it should produce nasty TLB errors.
But it doesn't seem to work when i try to make a usflib-based set becasue (i assume) the data from one will corrupt the data in another and so on resulting in none working (the problem i had with DK64). So i guess i will have to implement my old-school techniques to get this one going.
And i hate it when it doesn't use standard memory mapping. AddressInIDA=TLBTrans(PROGRAM_COUNTER)&0x80000000???
Most of the reason why i cant rip the turok series.
edited 7:01 PM EDT October 4, 2005
U look like him, a little bit.
edited 8:26 PM EDT October 4, 2005
Regarding making a usflib set, might the problem be that you're using a version of recon that assumes a ROM smaller than the one you ripped from? This was a problem for me for a while... Run recon with no parameters to see what it uses.
Other than that there shouldn't be any reason for usflib reduction failing, each miniusf should contain replacements for any data at the same address that another song is using.
Yes, last night i remembered something that recon "assumes" a 32Mb rom, and once i changed this it was running fine.
Other than that there shouldn't be any reason for usflib reduction failing, each miniusf should contain replacements for any data at the same address that another song is using.
You obviously haven't tried to USFLib my original DK64 set. But a few of my own routines seemed to do the job just fine, but this might be caused (highly unlikely, but likely) by the fact that i didn't have a single pj, but 174 pj's (about 1.4GB worth). Also i think i have found out why dk64 uses so much cpu time. I got it reduced from about 25% to less that 5%. Conker uses 0%?
Anyway i with this out of the way and started making a set of Conker and MAN HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE!!!
I started it at about 9:30 last night and started watching tv, and i saw a good anime movie - it was Laputa: The Castle in the Sky. So when that was finished at about 12:10 i turned the screen back on and it was not even half done. So i just went to bed.
Well here is what i got of the rip so far.
I might get it finished today, or tommorrow.
Nice pic.
Also, disk_free_space() reports lots of space left on the server.
edited 7:56 PM EDT October 5, 2005
I tested the sample and it was kewl.
Hooray for Robin Beanland!
I'd love to know why recon isn't working... to each miniUSF the data is supposed to look exactly the same. Could you put up a minimal example, or tell me what you changed in your own routines? And are you sure you weren't using a version of recon assuming something smaller than DK64's 32 MB?
Glad CBFD is working now, anyway. And regarding the CPU usage, have you taken a look at how the old set performs in beta 17? You may have fixed on the USF side what I avoided on the player side.
If disk_free_space reports anything more than 20 MB it's counting the space actually left on the server, not the portion of my 500 MB quota that's free.
edited 9:24 PM EDT October 5, 2005
edited 9:26 PM EDT October 5, 2005
Anyway i had several programs made to rip it. The first one was to strip an empty .PJ created that played nothing to get rid of the savestate header. the second was to compare that file to all the rest of the PJs to keep which bytes were common to them all. The third was to remove a whole shitload of data that i found wasn't nessecary and what was already in the base PJ that i created before. The fourth was made to remove a huge 1Mb chunk of rom that wasn't being read by any of the tracks.
Then i used recon to make the minirams and they worked.
I suspect you won't be able to play the second verse of the poo boss song without it. it.
Hmmm, i don't think it does play, but i will check it out...which music index is the poo boss song? I've never played CBFD.
If you generated sparse RAMs with anything but PJ64USF (excluding anything you wrote that might leave 0s in) this might become an issue.
and I think the index is 0x42, though I haven't checked your test rip for that yet
edited 11:31 PM EDT October 5, 2005
No, not 0x42, though that is a cool track. I listened to it on infinite play for 1.5 hours last night while working on a lab report. According to the code on this page it's 0x41, but your 0x41 isn't what I had been working with (which had lyrics and was in fact a completely different song, though it had the same instrumentation). So maybe you're using a different section of the same thing already.
edited 9:48 PM EDT October 6, 2005
edited 5:30 PM EDT October 6, 2005
I will check on 0x41 when i get home. But what about it being a different song? So, whats happening? Have i done something wrong???? confused
I will play around with track 0x41 and see what i can come up with.
As with DK64's tag barrel mix up problem, i have located a function that seems to deal with the music, but when i try and change it all music stops after about a second. And with Banjo tooie, absolutely NO IDEA!! - I ripped the set with only 1 value patched into the savestate.
And i cant get the modified Yoshi's Story's guitar tunes working iun PJ64 USF.
About your suggestion for modifing the tags for DK64 into a batch file, it doesn't really matter as i have made a program to copy tags from one file to another.
So i might as well post my ripping todo list
Rerip DK64 and find TAG barrel music instrument modifier Is there really something wrong with Conkers Bad Fur Day? And rip rest of the set Find Banjo Tooie music instrument Selection Make Guitar versions of Yoshi's Story work with PJ64 USF Find out why Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion wont play in 64th Note Finalise Mario Party Sets Investigate Track names for Mortal Kombat 4that should keep me busy for now.
edited 10:12 PM EDT October 6, 2005
I was also wondering why you put 5 into A1...
The Speech-Samples in the game are stored as mp3-Files, when you use DragonUnpacker (Hyperripper) and search for mp3 you'll find every speech sample of the game (about 17MB).
The great mighty poo is also stored as mp3, every verse is a mp3. But these samples are without music, so i think you should find at least the music without vocals..
There arent any vocals in it.
This is what I thought, that the code I gave with 0x42 was the poo boss song. Whatever function you're using must be subtracting one (or mine is adding 1).
And I'd test it again but things are screwy at the moment with my hdd.
edited 12:38 AM EDT October 8, 2005
It is at 0x42.
Even the graphics enabled it just keeps on the looping. Are you sure there is a second verse, perhaps you just dreamed it?
Anyway if there one it might be in another index? OR it might be one at all and streamed?
Hmmm.
Also that might be why a few tracks of your sample rip are just fanfares, I found that a lot in Mario Party that the sections past 1 would be short bits, like the intro or outro to a track.
However i have found the MP3 select routine that allows me to put anything in it.
It is at Physical Address 0x1263C with value in A0.
Index 0xEF is used as the first verse and there are several indicies after that are likely suspects for other verses.
I haven't as of yet come up with a way to implement this though in the song.
Man, i dont think i can get it like the one on rares website.
edited 11:26 PM EDT October 8, 2005
Last night I was working on trying to rearrange the sequence itself (I had forgotten that it actually uses the standard sequence format, despite everything else being customized), but I didn't get anywhere with that since it looks like my copy of the devkit source is now missing.
Could you send me what code you used to generate the save state for use with the batch ripper? It seems like your samples were using a different section number than my test was, maybe I can figure out the difference with that...
edited 2:11 PM EDT October 9, 2005
edited 2:11 PM EDT October 9, 2005
I'll epxlain more when I get bvack.
sloprano wouqld be 0x43, not 0x42, in JOsh's rip, that Wwas the problem
I believe i did something wrong when making the savestates for it and incremented them incorrectly ( i believe i stated at one instread of zero which would of thrown them all off by one.
APS? I must be getting old, i cant keep up with all the new formats, i must remember to take my brain medicine.
Hmm, the last time i used an IPS was about April Last year.
I also got it working, but i think i saved the savestate a little too late, but since this is only a sample it doesn't matter
Conkers bad fur day - sloprano
I also got some tlb errors when the first mp3 block was loaded but this appears to have no affect on the usf, so it shouldn't matter.
AND IM GOING TO THROW MY SHIT AT YOU
A HUGE SUPPLY OF TISH COME FROM MY CHOCOLATE STARFISH
HOW ABOUT SOME SCAT YOU LITTLE TWAT?
++Josh W.
You are teh man ;D
I'm not sure exactly how we want to go about handling the multiple sections. So far I've been absolutely unable to find any mechanism within the game for setting a position in the MIDI (not true, I actually found equivalents for a lot of the alCSeq functions, it just seems that the SetLoc function isn't adjustible for different verses). I figured that I could set the offset manually in the header (just bump up the offset for each track to just after the loop), but it looks like there's init done at the beginning of each track. So I tried moving the second verse back until it was up against the init stuff, but this somehow didn't work at all.
The idea was to create one file for each verse.
What I can do with what I know now is create a file for each verse, but all it will do is play the preceeding verses and loop infinitely at the end (as in the patch I sent you, I left the last loop in so it'll loop at the end).
It'd also be nice to remove the pause between sections, at least I think it would sound better. I'll try that today if I get the chance.
One complication this could introduce is different versions of the ROM in the same rip...
Oh, and I can easily kill tracks now, so I can probably fix that irritating buzz over the overworld (or whatever it's called) theme.
Oh, also, maybe Sloprano would be better with 2 loops in each section (just of the "ahhhh" and whatnot), I just changed it from infinite to one since it was the first idea that came to me. 'cause I'm thinking that a seperate file for each one is stupid when we have it advancing so nicely like it is now.
Also, good job on the rip.
edited 12:31 PM EDT October 10, 2005
Well i think that whatever version of the rom that you have is the same version as the one that i have got so there shouldn't be too much problems with that, ?
Yes, i agree that the a song should stay in one file, because, well, it makes more sense.
One thing i also noticed, well confirmed is that version 1 of 64th Note will let me get away with anything in an usf, whereas any previous version will get very nasty with me and because of this, it is causing me to get very lazy when removing code.
For example, i am playing with Turok 3:Shadow of oblivion (to calm me down from Conker) and relising that what i have done on it (which is not very much) will work but in the interpreter cpu only and deciding that i must stop more code from working in order for not only to be a working rip in the recompiler, but in order to maintain my not-laziness.
Hmmm, i wonder why this wont work in the recompiler...
Sloprano Full.
I included the APS patcher in case someone else wants to try it out. There are now no pauses between verses and it flows quite well.
Probally because it isn't in there.
What i had ripped was a sample set, which means that it is a few of the songs that i have ripped from it to test whether they are working and ok, so now that everything seems to be in order, i will resume the strenuous long task of ripping it.
Also note that as this rip contains large chunks of streamed section and hi-quality samples the set will be quite large. By quite, i mean approximately 16Mb would be a good guess.
Back to the rip.
No one's downloaded Elemental Gimmick Gear in a while so it'll be the first to go.
There, over 100 MB free.
edited 1:29 PM EDT October 11, 2005
By the way, could you let me in on what you did to DK64 to decrease the CPU usage? I have the feeling that Chopper Attack, Snowboard Kids, and now 64 Trump Collection could benefit from the same change.
edited 5:42 PM EDT October 11, 2005
Disregard the 64 Trump Collection part, it seems to run fine, it just rips incredibly slowly.
edited 6:04 PM EDT October 11, 2005
Reminds me of ripping Conker - when it worked. I must of changed or removed something because i can get it to rip using my current configuration, it did it on purpose. I cannot see it taking less than 10 hours on my PC.
Regarding the DK64's decreased useage (which was about 20 fold), i caqnt be sure as of yet precicly what caused it, but when i was patching stuff in (and out) of it, i was being a smart ass and removing huge chunks of code from it (hundreds of instructinos at a time) and i guess i removed some idle routine or osRecvMesg that was making it wait, but i'll investigate that when i get home.
Conkers Bad Fur Day
The set is a little smaller than i first estimated but it is still hella huge. Released as experemental.
Get it here
enjoy.
edited 12:03 AM EDT October 14, 2005
I copied it over to the prelim directory rather than moving it so I wouldn't interrupt anyone's download (since we've got space now).
Thanks, Josh.
In my mind i said i'd stop ripping once all the sets i wanted were done, now they are i feel strange.
Since i am so damn good i don't wanna stop. I still gotta do the turoks.
Well i found a new place to download some new roms (i've blee freeromgames.com dry), so i'll be doing some extensive analysis on some roms such as Megaman 64, Gex and Automobil Lambrogini ?)
But before that i might clean up my existing sets and find some track names for the mario partys. And then i got some assignments to do by next week.
But now i could do with some sleep.
edited 5:19 AM EDT October 14, 2005
With the current rip first note still winds up sounding odd because the sequence has already started playing, however if we get a rip that's done before the play has started this should work pretty much perfectly.
edited 8:11 AM EDT October 14, 2005
and don't let the fact that I can't spell rhythm confuse you...
edited 8:21 AM EDT October 14, 2005
But you seemed to have it figured out so i bow to your finite wisdom and patience.
Also, to enable the rips to rip before any of the music is loaded then the TLB error problem must be fixed (or whatever is related to it). I have a few theorys but not a clue.
Other than that sure (but i will go through it and try to make it useable).
damn, i think my cdrw is stuffed.
edited 1:31 AM EDT October 15, 2005
Anyway here is files for cbfd (but also contains stuff for other rips here)
USF ripping Master eh? I somehow don't think that i fit that profile, but that might be just my oppinion. Oh, and i think i got Turok 3 working.
I've also noticed when looking at my hard drive space that ripping usfs take quite some space, and that my free space is dwindling very quickly.
See.
Better start saving for a new hard drive.
Posting images is neat.
edited 5:49 AM EDT October 15, 2005
Slightly veering off topic is some problem i found last night whilst playing with Turok 3.
What the problem is that in 64th Note v1.0 my rips won't work with the recompiler on. Ok i thaught, it must be my fault and needed to do more work on it. But when i ran it with version 0.05 it did work with the recompiler.
try it here.
I still think it is my fault.
edited 11:34 PM EDT October 15, 2005
Well, i haven't been able to find out whats going on and i haven't been able to find any other music indicies, i dont think i found the pointer table either, but i found some sort of table that looks weird.
Stupid TLB Errors, i'll kill them.
Remember this from the game?
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edited 6:58 PM EDT October 17, 2005
But... I will comment that Tribal Beats still seems to be missing as well. :( A few of the Conker tracks are completely silent... is it possible that some samples could be missing? It's also possible that the track could be similar to the sloprano, as the intro to it is there... (but I always thought it was a second track)
The thing is how can samples be missing? Have we missed something a...hmmmm
hmmmm....dang. Yes, i put the blame squarely on myself for that one. I assumed all tracks would work when i set it, the way that i waited for how long it should be before i cut out the graphics and start tracint. That could be it. Well i guess i'll try and do that, which of cause all would be fixed if the tlb related problems are solved.
Well meanwhile i found an easy one to do, so therefore heres
Automobili Lamborghini
Get it here
Stupid techno crap, you can never be sure how much alists to process, in this case i set it to 1600. May not be enough.
Also, for a change everything is standard. Standard calling, standard functions, stardard pointer table.
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edited 7:22 PM EDT October 18, 2005
Now, if only I can get SimCity 2000 to work without hogging up unholy amounts of CPU...
I cannot emphesise this strongly enough,l because it is likely that that thread idles most of the time.
Unless it is the graphics thread of course. :)
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edited 8:47 PM EDT October 18, 2005
This was the only thing that i did to Banjo Tooie
edited 9:30 PM EDT October 18, 2005
Strange, i need two << when changing back from image.
See the smiley?
edited 9:42 PM EDT October 18, 2005
Guess what game of the USF set i am currently ripping right now by this track
sparse00.usf
Hint: its in the top 10 of the request list
Mega Man 64 - In progress (23 tracks)
11:38 - 0x16
edited 11:38 PM EDT October 19, 2005
Well if anyone does heres a url for my stuff
ripping info is in the rar, and select a range higher in the range (out of 0x0 - 0x74, i am currently on 0x24)
if you dont have the rom, it can be found at freeromgames.com
edited 11:58 PM EDT October 19, 2005
Anyway, that's something I was wondering about. Again, by all means, since this is your rip, you are more than welcome to do with it as you please. I was just asking to know how that would stand. Thanks in advance. Mouser X over and out.
But i will have to do a new search to look for the playing fucntions, but then again they just use the standard library functions. But as i have very little free time today, it will have to wait until tommorrow.
I think it would of been easier to find the voice functions rather than the music, cause of the old school way i found it in this (last time i did that was yoshi's story)
Well, i'll see what i can do.
Hmmm, on some tracks it crashes above indicies 0x50...
edited 12:54 AM EDT October 20, 2005
Is anyone working on a complete set for Banjo Tooie and DK64? DK64's pretty much there now anyway.
Thanks Josh, love your rips!
Well anyway heres...
Mega Man 64
It sound pretty cool, and it works on older versions of 64th Note. I must of done something right.
Get it here
Is anyone working on a complete set for Banjo Tooie and DK64? DK64's pretty much there now anyway.
Do you mean tagging, instead of set. Well, i got a lotta names for the files, but since i have never played the game it would be harder for the ones i dont know.
edited 9:40 PM EDT October 20, 2005
Thanks a lot.
Now what do do...
After the great job that you did ripping CBFD, and I am sure that you can rip anything!
Also, on a kind of unrelated note, why has Automobili Lamborghini not been added to the USF page? And, why hasn't CBFD and Snowboard Kids been removed from the requests page? Just wondering.
edited 9:50 PM EDT October 20, 2005
yes, i have tried my hand at mario golf and it somewhat confuses me. when i thaught i found the music select, and try to change the value, it doesn't play if i change it to any other value than what is supposed to play. I must be close tho.
Yes, automobil lamborgini hasn't been added yet. hcs is getting slow, maybe he's getting old. mmm, then so am i. Hmmm almost 20...
It appears that everyone has a function reference manual except me.
edited 9:56 PM EDT October 20, 2005
http://www.halleyscometsoftware.com/usf/UltraManPages.rar