Music Pointer Fixer

I worked on this some time ago, and I just begun working again since last week. As the name says, this tool fixes pointers from coordination flags F6/F7/F8. The original project started with only S2-3K in mind, but now it supports S1, doing little-endian/big-endian conversions. Features like "Ristar to S1" and voice fixing for S2 were implemented as suggested and oriented by Tweaker and R. Solaris, so they get credit for this tool.

First you'll have to extract a music from a Sonic game and save it as .bin or .dat (you can get music locations here). Then open the file and fill the address list with locations of pointers from coordination flags F6, F7 and F8. You have the choice of using the SCAN button for that, but remember that it's not 100% accurate. Once this is done, just pick one of the five kinds of conversion available and hit the FIX button, which will ask you for a new filename for saving.

WARNING: This program was made under Microsoft Visual Basic 2005, so you'll need to have .NET Framework 2.0 installed on your computer. Controls use Windows XP visual styles, so the program's look may vary from computer to computer.

EDIT: Link updated
http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/8/15/169...ointerFixer.rar

 

OMG BUMP

Program updated. Download link remains the same. DAC conversion added, as well as coordination flag fixing for when converting from S3K to any other game. S2B is supported now (all previous "S2" references were changed to "S2F").

R. Solaris told me about a bug during voice conversion from S2F to S1 which would make the program crash. I checked the program and everything was fine, except by the fact that it expects the music to have voice data with a number of bytes that is multiple of $19. There's a bug in SDC; it's cutting 3 bytes for no reason. So make sure you're using ESE II for decompressing S2F musics. Anyway I put a check there to tell you if it's possible to convert voices.

Also, I want to note that you should only put in Sonic 2 musics smaller or equal to 2022 ($7E6) bytes. Since music is decompressed in Z80's $1380, larger songs will overwrite important area, which will result in null sound. From $1380 to $1B66 nothing is changed after a music has been started. If you remember my previous topic, you remember that around $1B80 starts essential data, such as music requests, so just don't try to fuck with that. However, it's possible to play such musics, so long you're replacing an uncompressed one.

Here - Microsoft's page, found after visiting several mb topics when searching for "2.0.50727" on Google :P
Obviously release from 3/22/2006 is the latest, but it is just version "2.0". That's exactly what is shown for me under Add/Remove programs, hence why I wrote the warning without ".50727".