Coming soon...

Presenting.....





SMPSDAC will enable you to edit the DAC of a SMPS song with ease, without having to fiddle around with a HEX-Editor.


I'd like everyone to suggest ideas and so on


This version you see in the picture can already load files and stuff. The rest is WIP.


CONVERSION TABLE FILE FORMAT DEFINITIONS:

Code:

Oerg's Conversion table file format specifications VERSION PRE-1.00



=== START OF FILE ===



First 15 bytes (file identifier)

43 4F 4E 56 45 52 53 49 4F 4E 54 41 42 4C 45

C  O  N  V  E  R  S  I  O  N  T  A  B  L  E 



1 byte (specifcation version in HEX, example: $01)



2-byte-pairs of conversion tables of the following format (in HEX):



XX YY



Thereby the first XX table entry has to be $81. It has to be

in order for the program to correctly handle the files!



Keep in mind: XX in the file will be converted to YY!



CORRECT IS:

XX YY XX YY XX YY

81 C0 82 88 83 89



See, the XX always is in order.



AFTER THE TABLE COMES AN END IDENTIFY!



Which means, after the table is finished, there are the following 3 bytes:



45 4E 44

E  N  D

CONVERSION TABLE EXAMPLE:

Code:

--------File identifier					   ----Version number

|											|  ----Table start					 ----File end

|											|  |								   |

43 4F 4E 56 45 52 53 49 4F 4E 54 41 42 4C 45 01 81 86 82 84 83 99 84 9E 85 A3 86 89 45 4E 44

C  O  N  V  E  R  S  I  O  N  T  A  B  L  E  .  .  †  ‚  „  ƒ  ™  „  ž  …  

 

So basically, this file fixes your DAC channel after porting songs? Cant we just do it manualy or let ESE do the job?

 

ESE fails though.


Nice work, though a seperate window for custom conversion tables could be useful. =P

 

Looks nice.


But 2 questions:


1: Can guys without any music knowledge use this program (like me)?


2: What's that for a program? I mean, what did you used to write it? Visual Basic 6.0?

 

Thanks!


1: Yes, most probably, as I will try to include a help file with it.


2: In what aspect does that matter in this case? And with your guess you are entirely right, I used VB6 to create it. Because VB .NET fails even at existing.


(By your expression in the first sentence of the second question (germenglish) I judge that you have a problem with the design of my program and are complaining about it. May you tell me what your problem exactly is? I'd appreciate it )

Not just fix it. You can edit what sample it plays. Something you can do with it is also the ability to use a custom conversion table made entirely for the DAC repository of your own hack. Like, directly convert the DAC to your own hack.

Clicking conversion table editor opens a separate window (or did I missunderstand something there?)


And the Load Conversion Table has a table display right on its window.

 

What? So if I extract the "WOO!" sample from sonic cd's palmtree panic, I can just replace sample $8C in my hack with it? If so, thats impressive!

 

Oh my god! I need this. Can't wait.

 

I'm kind of confused as to what this program actually does. All DAC samples are stored in the same compression throughout all of the games, so I don't know of any need to actually convert them for anything. Recreate the sample definitions for the new engine, yes, but not convert. Am I missing something here?

 

Oh yes.


What it actually does is allows you to edit what DAC samples are played in the SMPS file. Similar like a Tracker it allows you a mass replace. Useful in the process is that you can make a drum on the original file which's value you mass replaced a different one than the one you replaced it with.


It just lets you get a little more freedom when converting and editing DAC in an SMPS file.


I hope it's clear now?

 

OH, okay! That's actually rather nifty! I usually do mass replaces from scratch when I'm porting music over and such, but it's neat to have a program that'll do it for you without a fuss. Very useful!

 

Thanks!

 

Nice, when it's released it looks like this is one for the utilities archive (once I get around to tidying up that section!)

 

Holy shit!


I need this! DAC editing is a pain in the ass! This would be very helpful! I can't wait for a release!

 

This looks like really useful and can't wait for the release.

 

Awesome! Finally I'm excitedly waiting for a release. Editing DAC takes forever with a hex editor.