Is there a good 'mid2xm'-esque program to converte custom musics to the XM or SMPS format? Also, I would like some insights about importing custom songs.
Your best bet would be to use Modplug Tracker, or MPTracker. Google it. Anyway, I have a question. How would I go about fixing the sound driver when I'm working with S3K? I understand that the sound driver is at an absolute location, and by doing any edits would more than likely move the sound driver, therefore stopping it from working. Is there any way possible to make the sound drvier operate from an address that can vary or change the address after I have made edits?
Yes, and no... there was a Java-based level editor for Sonic 2 but to be honest you're a lot better off using a split assembly, WINE, and SonED2. Unless Stealth ports it to Linux (unlikely, from what platforms his existing tools are on, though you'd have to get the final confirmation from him), this is gonna be your best bet.
SonED2 doesn't work correctly in WINE. :v: You could use Virtual Box I guess. But that is all the Linux Sonic hacking scene needs now, is a level editor to work with the disasssemblies. =P Also a summary of Linux programs: Emulator - Gens/GS Level editing - None. Palette Editing - Hivepal(WINE) - It opens palette files up as well as rom, didn't check to see if it saves correctly though, shouldn't see why not. Compressing Tools - Here Tile Editing programs - Haven't checked Music Editing - Haven't checked. I also believe that there is a 68K compiler somewhere too.
I use the m68k toolchain from uclinux: clicky Please note that the uclinux server is VERY slow! It's like dial-up. I use it in Xubuntu 8.04, but it should work in just about any linux distro. If you're looking for a Windows gcc toolchain for m68k, try this one: directory There are a few different versions there that vary based on whether you just want the toolchain, mingw added in, or mingw and Eclipse added in.
Yes, but you need one that understands 68000 instructions. The AS that comes with an x86 linux distro would not work, for example. That's why I use the m68k uclinux toolchain - it understands the 68000 instruction set. In case people are wondering, that's a CROSS COMPILING/ASSEMBLING toolchain for x86 systems. It runs on the x86, but produces m68k code.
We're not talking about GNU as or whatever, but about this: http://john.ccac.rwth-aachen.de:8000/as/, which is the assembler that has been used for the Sonic 2 disassembly since, like, 2006.
Build tools for Linux are available here and if you're using a Mac click here. I thought I uploaded them on the wiki ages ago, doesn't seem like it though. *uploads*
There's also asmx, which will build pretty much in any implementation as it runs off exclusively from the libc. But I wouldn't recommend it after certain bug it had that fucked up a program of mine... I mean, it wrote an instruction that was one byte long, while all instructions are word-sized (2 bytes, 4 bytes, 6 bytes, etc.)
Thanks for the clarification. AS is the name of the assembler in gcc, so you can see how it's confusing. I suppose that might be why some people call is GAS instead.
I know this might not be the place to ask this kind of question but I cant finds any other threads where it might be appropriate and being as this is a basic Q&A thread I thought I'd ask here. Is there any hacks for Sonic and knuckles or Sonic 3 (or Sonic 3 & Knuckles) in production as I havent seen any on the hacks page?
Well you can get S3K: Master Edition here. I think that there was another called "Sonic 3 Advanced Edition"
Well it always did bug me that S3K: Master Edition wasn't up on the wiki hack page. Give it some more exposure! Speaking of said hack, I think many people's complaints with the level design would be solved if they just extended the time over from being 10 minutes to 20 minutes.
I have a question too. I'm programming a fangame ( not a hack, so I don't know if it fits here. I think it does as my question is also covered by music hacking in sonic games), for Ds. I Plan to unveil it at sage, this year. My question is about music, for the game I need .MOD files for music, but I can't find any good tunes out there, and I also want to put some classic sonic music. I know I can convert MIDI files into MOD, but they sound like shit. I know music hacks use XM files to convert 'em to SMPS, so, can anyone provide me a good site to download XM sonic music files, or tell me how to convert midi propely to MOD? XM to MOD too. I would also love to compose some original tunes, but I suck at that. Original sonic music will do.
Well, I know you can convert .wav to .it, since I use it for Sonic Dash. I'm pretty sure you can do the same for .mod using OpenMPT or whatever it's called.
