Sonic 2 Clone Driver v2

Cut this shit out, you're still a trialist and you are being watched by the staff whilst you use up your posts to determine if you should get approved later on. Same with the shit posting you and CuckyDev did.

 

Ahaha... okay, thanks - I thought I'd tested Sonic 1/2 recently enough that no issues could have sneaked-in since, but it looks like I was wrong. You're right that `Size_of_Mega_PCM_guess` should be `Size_of_DAC_driver_guess`, and that the Settings.asm file should define 'SMPS_SoundTest', ideally setting it to 0. v2.8.0.1 should fix these issues. Thanks for the bug report.

Sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking. It should be possible to let songs use dual DAC, but this driver doesn't do that. Currently, the second DAC channel can only be used by DAC SFX.

 

Alright, so on my Sonic 2 Git disassembly that I was testing on, within Settings.asm I inserted a line for SMPS_SoundTest and set it to 0 (as Clownacy mentioned above). I also changed the "Size_of_Mega_PCM_guess" reference to "Size_of_DAC_driver_guess" and adjusted the equate from $296 to $389 when the error said to increase the value up to the latter value. I then built the ROM, and it worked like a charm! Thanks for the help!

 

Thank you Clownacy, yes, that was I wanted to say, DAC SFX, so I must leave free 1 FM channel to make it works, no?.
I use MID2SMPS to making my songs, and I wanted to know if is possible make that, thank you sir.

 

That SMPS_SoundTest is indeed part of the errors I got, even when plopping the newest release, although overwriting it with the newer release vanquished those errors. Unfortunately, the SMPS_PauseSoundDriver tidbits don't work for the Sonic 1 Git method at all, even tho that part of the instructions were followed better than the crap in Variables. Also now I get the same Size of DAC guess whatever with the 240 value.

 

You only have to leave FM6: the DAC driver uses 1 FM channel for 2 DAC channels.

Whoops: `SMPS_PauseSoundDriver` and `SMPS_UnpauseSoundDriver` are outdated names for `SMPS_Pause` and `SMPS_Unpause`. I've updated the guide with the proper names, thanks.

 

Although that's finally taken care of, I still get an error for SIZE_OF_DAC_DRIVER_GUESS with the 240 value. I've tried so many values but none of them worked. I've seen a value work for S2 Git and tried a similar value method but did not work. And now I'm scared that when that finally gets fixed, there'll be a million errors from the other stuff <:/

 

Doesn't the error tell you what value to set it to? I think the error message still uses the old 'Size_of_Mega_PCM_guess' name, but the value itself should still be valid. $389 should work.

 

Nope, I still get this error. Also, the 393 value (from the driver is this bytes long message) doesn't work either. I even edited that one random file that still uses the Mega PCM thing to instead use the DAC driver text but it doesn't work either.

 

The error message says that the value is double-defined. The problem is that both the driver's 'Settings.asm' and the disassembly's 'Constants.asm' files define a variable called 'Size_of_DAC_driver_guess'. The one in 'Constants.asm' should be deleted. I've updated the guide to mention this.

 

Thank you, another question. Are you planning to add AMS and FMS?. I know Sonic 1 doesn't supports these effects, just I'm curious.

 

Probably not, sorry. I don't know very much about FM, so I don't know how I'd even do that.

 

I have to wonder, what does your driver do if you attempt to play a DAC sound effect on top of a song which uses 6 FM channels (e.g. Sonic 1's special stage)? Speaking of which, did you fix the 1-UP bug? I'll admit I didn't read the full changelog and I don't plan to ever hack again, but I guess these questions might be useful for other people.

 

...I hadn't thought of that. From the looks of it, the DAC sound effect just won't play if FM6 is enabled. I should be able to do something about that - I've already modified the driver to allow songs to use both FM6 and DAC: when the FM6 track plays a note, DAC is disabled, and when the DAC track plays a sample, FM6 is disabled. That way, songs can use both - just not at the same time. I can make DAC SFX do the same thing. Though, I'd probably need some kind of priority system to prevent new FM6 notes from overriding the DAC SFX.

 

Thank you very much, this is very good, keep it up, I'm trying to make that DAC SFX, wish me good luck.

 

I am getting errors that reads:
> > > Sonic-2-Clone-Driver-v2/Sound IDs.asm(105): error #1000: symbol double defined
> > > flg__First
> > > flg__First = idstart

deleting it, gives me even more errors.
I probably misread the guide.
I'm using the sonic 1 GitHub Disassembly Rev01

 

No, this section of the forum is indeed for projects created by staff members, but anyone can comment. Think of it as a privileged showroom of sorts.

 

Question:
you know the first version of sonic megamix with its edited music aka V0.5, If you had the V2 Clone Driver Installed Then How would you do it in ASM.
Yes, I know it's kind of is a stupid question.
But either way it's a good sound driver
EDIT: also, I would like to point out that I'm not a musician, plus I'm not bothered to find software for midi's that require instruments plugged in the computer all at once like I'm not doing that ok.
Sorry if I sound rude. Because I don't mean it that way.

 

As I know, in Sonic megamix used xm2/3/4smps for convertation tracker music to Sonic 1 smps format. For porting new music in Sonic 2 you just need songs in asm format. For this you can use smps2asm. New smps you can compose in deflemask or VGM music maker or another tracker with sega genesis support, and convert it in smps using VGM2SMPS, or you can take music from smps research pack, and use smps2asm make a .asm music file, and place in your disasm.

 

@Clownacy
um I found an issue.
Kega fusion V3.64: Sometimes installing the drive effects the water when entering and corrupts the music slightly
Blastem + Hardware: Almost the Same But instead of music corruption the game strait crashes.
I also don't if this is my fault issue or a sound driver issue :/
here's a screenshot of what I mean

It might be The SSRG Screen Effecting it because when I put in the SSRG Screen i saw 2 errors in (_incobj) which was in 25 & 27 rings asm file and the animals asm file so i don't know :/