How to copy voices from one song to another one

This guide tells you how copy the voices from one song to another one. This is especially recommened if you never made anything in music hacking before and don't have much/absolutly no music knowledge.


Note to music legends: Ignore this guide please because for it's only obvious shit


What you need:


- 2 songs already in .bin format - one with the voices you want to replace and one with the voices you want.


- A Hex editior with the function to copy bytes from one file to another like (I'm using Hex Workshop)


- A very very very very very little bit Hex knowledge


- 1-3 minutes free time


If you have everything of this, let's get started:


Step 1:


Open the 2 songs in your hex editior. In the song with the voices you want, check the first 2 bytes out. Go to the offset shown of those bytes, e.g. if there is "05 15" go to offest "0515".


Step 2:


Now copy everything from there to the end of the file.


Step 3:


Go to your other song. And repeat step 1 there.


Step 4:


But now, instead of copying the bytes like said in step 2, overwrite them instead with the copied stuff from the other song.


Step 5:


Save the new file and build your ROM. Obviously you should hear the same song with different voices. If so, you are done. And of course, you can replace those new voices with other ones using the same method as shown here.


Have fun!


Credits:


Guide: Me (Selbi)


Help: Irixion (thx dude <3)


PS: You DON'T need to give credits, because this here is so simple, it's just something to start of Music hacking.

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Because some people also use the ASM method of songs, (and this is even simpler) do the following:


(For this example I will use the Ristar end level song)




EndOfZone_Voices:


dc.b $39,$01,$01,$71,$31,$9F,$9F,$9F,$9F,$11,$12,$0D,$06,$08,$15,$0B


dc.b $08,$67,$97,$37,$28,$1C,$25,$18,$80; Voice 00


dc.b $34,$51,$73,$52,$50,$1F,$1F,$1F,$1F,$0F,$0C,$09,$08,$04,$04,$02


dc.b $02,$08,$0A,$0A,$0B,$12,$87,$33,$80; Voice 01


dc.b $00,$0F,$03,$09,$0F,$DF,$DF,$DF,$CF,$1F,$1E,$0F,$0F,$01,$08,$0E


dc.b $10,$0F,$0F,$0F,$02,$03,$00,$00,$86; Voice 02


dc.b $00,$08,$02,$01,$00,$D9,$DF,$1F,$1F,$12,$11,$14,$0F,$0A,$00,$0A


dc.b $0D,$FF,$FF,$FF,$FF,$0F,$07,$20,$86; Voice 03


dc.b $2E,$46,$55,$71,$34,$9F,$9F,$9F,$9F,$0C,$0A,$08,$05,$0D,$0C,$0A


dc.b $0C,$07,$07,$07,$08,$1E,$86,$86,$86; Voice 04


dc.b $00; Voice 05


even



From here, pick a voice you want to replace, and in this example, I will use one of the voices I've ripped, and feel free to use it:




dc.b $3a,$24,$3,$12,$2,$1f,$12,$1f,$1f,$2,$2,$3,$2,$3,$2,$4


dc.b $6,$1f,$1f,$1f,$1f,$15,$18,$1a,$80 ; Voice 1 (MoonWalker - Electric Guitar)



As I said, it would go anywhere.

 

Erm, Swapping *ALL* the voices is pretty useless and will most porbably sound very shitty.


If you want to just swap ONE specific voice, here's what you do:


Step 1:


Open the 2 songs in your hex editior. In the song with the voice you want, check the first 2 bytes out. Go to the offset shown of those bytes, e.g. if there is "05 15" go to offest "0515".


Step 2:


Count 25 bytes per voice until you get to the voice you want. Copy the next 25 bytes.


Step 3:


In the file where there is the voice you want to have replaced, check the first 2 bytes, go to the offset and count until you reach the voice you want replaced.


Step 4:


Overwrite the next 25 bytes with the bytes you copied from the first song.


Tadaa.

 

I use the S1SMPS2ASM to this!. But thanks