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Glad to hear that you've finally released the modified S3&K z80 sound driver, and the ASM'd music! This should make music porting and hacking much easier . Now I'm just waiting for SMPS2ASM.

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If I'm reading this correctly, this means no longer do hackers have to use Music Pointer Fixer (MPF) or do manual pointer fixing to fix the pointers for music for z80 sound drivers? All I have to do now is just "include" ASM'd music files to the S3&K driver for my S3&K hack, and I'm ready to go? Awesome, I didn't think such a thing was possible! I'm going to try the new driver, and see if it improves the playback of some of my ports for my S3&K hack. (Some Ristar songs and S2F songs sounded wrong in the previous driver.) Thanks for the release.

Neo, on 05 November 2011 - 01:27 PM, said:

The shortcuts are there to show that those samples are one of the shared samples (e.g. "Yes!" and Amy Love). I did that to save space, instead of making putting, say, the "future" sfx in each folder. More for personal use than anything...

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Maybe in the header of the PCM samples there might be a sampling rate indicator. How else would the Sega CD know how to properly play the files with different sampling rates correctly? I'll look into this

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I knew/guessed that the SEGA chant from the 510 prototype was a different frequency, since almost every other Sonic game iirc uses a similar frequency. But I didn't know that the non-Past SNCBNKs from 712 had different frequencies! That might be problematic for trying to get HQ rips from the 712 beta.

As quoted from the manual of Snatcher PCM2Wav

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Since in Lunar PCM2Wav, you can change the output frequency, I tried converting some of those files with the frequency you suggested, but the outputted wav files still sounded like geezers or chipmunks. Interesting. Luckily the source (in C) is included with Snatcher PCM2Wav. Maybe somebody can modify the program so that different input frequencies can be outputted correctly. I don't remember much C programming, nor do I understand the contents of the source, even with what I know of C.

Coincidentally, I found the equivalent of this program just a few days back. I can't remember where I found it, but I think I found it at Eidolon's Inn. It's called STMView. It's not exactly the same as SCDPlay, but it will read the .stm files from Sonic CD AND Ecco the Dolphin! I'm not sure which is better/newer, but for now just use this. If you can't find it there, just PM me, and I'll send you my copy.

I tried some of your suggestions, but nothing worked. Eventually, I found out that I could just use a unique piece of software, called UltraISO, which can correctly insert files into an existing .iso. Needless to say, I just removed the files from the original slodemo.iso, put my files in, and then used BuildSCD.exe to make a bootable .iso, since I still don't know how to make an original SLO .iso . The resulting output.iso worked!

With that "hack" in mind and with an emulator, I tried some tests. I found out that SLO can't have folders, and that apparently, homebrew which uses multiple .bin files/resources (e.g. Sonic for Mega CD, by Stealth) doesn't work. Only homebrew that has all of the contained resources in one .bin file works. Sadly, that does not inlcude iso files that have been converted into a bin file .

I only now realized that only 1 Sega CD Homebrew program I have can be put onto SLO and work properly, meaning I did much work for nothing, lol. Mask of Destiny should really have given better documentation for this tool. Thanks for your help anyway!

NO CARRIER, on 28 October 2011 - 07:58 PM, said:

Ahh.. so that's why I was redirected to a another website when I recently visited SOST. I visited before the warning existed, in order to try look up some scans on the Sonic CD manual/box art. Thanks for posting about this; imma be scanning my computer for possible viruses, just in case, I caught something when I last visited.