ROM Hack Need help with Midi looping

[qwerty56543254]

I need help looping a midi file I made for pokemon black and white, I was hoping someone could convert a midi to .sseq and loop it for me

 

[FAST6191]

I lack the time to do it for you at present but this is very much a "those that help themselves" kind of section so in the spirit of that.

Conversion- grab a copy of midi2sseq from
http://sites.google.com/site/kiwids/
Obviously that does not do anything with regards to looping so we get to play hacker
Several docs on SSEQ but I like
http://www.romhacking.net/docs/%5B469%5Dnds_formats.htm#SDAT
Page search "Sequence Commands" to start having a look.

You have a few choices but the obvious one is
Commnd 0x94 with a 3 byte location which jumps to a postion in the track (it starts at the start of the data section so ignore the SSEQ header which is usually 1c hex in length). Tends to want to be backwards but that is what you appear to want anyway

Adding it though you have just hosed up the SSEQ header so edit the Section Size command.

Now you get to inject it back into the rom. I do not rate any SDAT building tools for anything really so it is time to go manual.

Going in depth
http://jul.rustedlogic.net/thread.php?id=7518

In practice find the SSEQ you want to replace and if it is shorter fantastic (you just need to edit the SSEQ length in the FAT section although you might even be able to get away with that)
If it is longer you get to either stick it at the end of the SDAT file (easy way- change the location in the FAT section, the overall file length value at the start of the header, the "Size of FILE Section" and the Section Size in the file section's header) or repoint the file (harder way as you have now shifted every file that came after it on top of the values mentioned in the easier way but more professional as it were).

 

[loco365]

If you don't mind me tossing this in, this post in my tutorial explains looping in a nutshell. This thread has a slightly in-depth tutorial on this as well. I recommend both.

 

[qwerty56543254]

Okay I tried inserting it before looping it and the midi plays about 4 times too slow and I get a constant humming noise.

 

[loco365]

Okay I tried inserting it before looping it and the midi plays about 4 times too slow and I get a constant humming noise.

Did you repair the .sseq?

 

[qwerty56543254]

Okay I tried inserting it before looping it and the midi plays about 4 times too slow and I get a constant humming noise.

Did you repair the .sseq?

I believe so. For every FF C0 I replaced the "C0" with "C7

 

[loco365]

Okay I tried inserting it before looping it and the midi plays about 4 times too slow and I get a constant humming noise.

Did you repair the .sseq?

I believe so. For every FF C0 I replaced the "C0" with "C7

Did you also do this one:

After exporting the midi, open it in a hex editor and change the 0x1C byte (should be 60) to C0, import it to FL Studio, and export it again (making sure it sounds about 2x as fast), and then change the 0x1C byte from (changes back to) 60 to 30?

You have to do all of that before converting it to sseq.

 

[qwerty56543254]

Okay I tried inserting it before looping it and the midi plays about 4 times too slow and I get a constant humming noise.

Did you repair the .sseq?

I believe so. For every FF C0 I replaced the "C0" with "C7

Did you also do this one:

After exporting the midi, open it in a hex editor and change the 0x1C byte (should be 60) to C0, import it to FL Studio, and export it again (making sure it sounds about 2x as fast), and then change the 0x1C byte from (changes back to) 60 to 30?

You have to do all of that before converting it to sseq.

Yeah I've done all of that to