Tutorial
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Play and Export your favorite NDS music very easy!
Hello, here i just want to share a simple tutorial about how to Play and even Dump your favotite BGM (Background Music) or Sound effect from any NDS ROM
EDIT : ONLY WORKS FOR ROM WHICH USING .SDAT AS MUSIC PACKAGE FORMAT
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EDIT : ONLY WORKS FOR ROM WHICH USING .SDAT AS MUSIC PACKAGE FORMAT
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- Windows PC with audio support
- NitroExplorer3 [download : https://hackromtools.altervista.org/nitroexplorer-3/] (or any NDS ROM explorer you have)
- VG Music Studio [download : https://github.com/Kermalis/VGMusicStudio/releases/tag/v0.2] (download the latest version, still warm, just 5 months ago)
- A NDS ROM file
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- Load your NDS file on your NDS ROM explorer (here i'm using NitroExplorer3)
- You can expand all folders (depend on your NDS ROM explorer and ROM), and find file with ".sdat" extension
Note : if ".sdat: not found, it can't be helped, your NDS ROM is not supported - Export it anywhere you want
- Open VG Music Studio
Warning ! : VG Music Studio utilize 25% upto 50% of cpu usage. If the sound lagged while playing, please change the "priority" of this program, into "Above Normal" or "Realtime" in Task Manager - You will be faced a screen like this.
- Open this spoiler to read some explanation of each object :
- 3 menus :
- File :
- "Open DSE Folder" : this format is rare, some NDS and Wii has used this format. If your NDS ROM is in this format, you can use this
- "Open GBA ROM" : this obviously, to load music from GBA ROM file, but we won't discuss it here
- "Open SDAT File" : this menu is loading SDAT file, the file we export from NDS ROM explorer
- Data :
- "Track Viewer" : view current music playback track information
- "Export Song as MIDI" : when you export to MIDI file, you can edit it using any MIDI editor, like Anvil Studio. But its not recommended, because each SDAT always bring its own sound table, which different with Windows default sound table. In some cases, when you play this exported MIDI, the song is different from it should be
- "Export Song as WAV" : when you export to WAV file, obviously, by this format the result is WYLIWYG (What You Listen is What You Get). Because the program has to capture the music to audio file called WAV (that's why, you must wait after exporting as WAV)
- Playlist :
- "End Current Playlist" : i cant explore this menu, its disabled since i run this program :/
- File :
- 3 buttons :
- PLAY : Play current selected music from beginning
- PAUSE / UNPAUSE : Pause / Resume music playback
- STOP : Stop current playing music
- Numbered button : show current music playback number (hidden when no file loaded)
- Dropdown : show music playback items
- 2 sliders :
- Left : Volume slider
- Right : Seek slider
- a full bar piano : this piano will be animated along the playback
- a track table :
- 2 checkboxes : enable / disable selected track (left = left channel | right = right channel)
- "Position" : show where the note position in range
- "Rest" : show each track countdown before next note
- "Notes" : show each track note
- "L" and "R" : the longer bar it near to line of L or R, the higher track volume to each channel (L=left | R=Right)
- "Tempo-n" : show each music playback tempo, where "n" is tempo number
- "Type" : show what kind of track used
- 3 menus :
- Choose "File" menu, then choose "Open SDAT File"
- Locate where the exported ".sdat" file
- Wait, the program is loading your ".sdat" file. After loaded, you can choose what music you want to listen on the right top list
- To export it, choose "Data" menu, then choose "Export song as WAV" (this is the recommended option !)
- Decide where the exported file should be placed, don't forget to add ".wav" when saving, for example : "filename.wav"
- Wait until a message box notify that exporting progress is finished
- Finished! Enjoy your music !
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