Demon's Crest - finished

Excellent work!

FYI:
Soundcloud album updated

Can't believe you're done
Are you able to make the pcm:s yourself (I think you can, otherwise I'm sure here are many people who can help)?

When the pcm:s are done, feel free to post the project to the database (Jump 'n Gun) along with the patch link:
http://bszelda.zeldalegends.net/stuff/Con/dc_msu1.zip

...and no need to have perfectized tracks, I am sure they are already at least at 99.99999% perfect as far I know you

yes, pcm is no problem :-)

Where is the patch link?

SegaSnatcher wrote:Where is the patch link?

http://bszelda.zeldalegends.net/stuff/Con/dc_msu1.zip

Patch v4 from one of Conn's posts on page 2.

Bear in mind that this project is unfinished until ArcadeTV releases his PCM's. If you're using my Benoit Adam PCM's on SD2SNES, if there's no track available for a specific trigger then you'll get a buzzing sound.

Oh rats. Thanks

You can still use it in something like BSNES, you won't get any buzzing there. Or for SD2SNES you can create dummy PCM's, like 1 or 2 seconds long of just silence, and then rename them to cover the missing PCM's.

I will post the set tonight.

ArcadeTV wrote:I will post the set tonight.

Fantastic, looking forward to it.

Ok, the tracks are done.
I totally forgot about, that I need to add looppoints to some tracks, 13 missing to be exact.

Code:


{
    "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/qwertymodo/msupcmplusplus/master/configs/schema#",
    "game": "Demon's Crest (Demon's Blazon)",
    "pack": "ArcadeTV",
    "artist": "Various",
    "url": "https://www.zeldix.net/t1510-pcm-pack-demon-s-crest-demon-s-blazon",
    "normalization": -23,
    "output_prefix": "dc_msu1",
    "tracks": [
      {
          "track_number": 17,
          "title": "Capcom Logo Jingle",
          "file": "WAVE\\00-capcom-logo.wav"
      },
      {
          "track_number": 18,
          "title": "Beginning (Title Screen)",
          "file": "WAVE\\01-beginning-fire.wav"
      },
      {
          "track_number": 19,
          "title": "Legend of Firebrand (Intro Story)",
          "file": "WAVE\\02-legend-of-firebrand.wav"
      },
      {
          "track_number": 20,
          "title": "Battle of the Zombie Dragon",
          "file": "WAVE\\04b-zombie-dragon.wav",
          "trim_end": 1848601,
          "loop": 37465,
          "cross_fade": 1000
      },
      {
          "track_number": 21,
          "title": "Beyond the Colosseum",
          "file": "WAVE\\06-beyond-the-colosseum-v3.wav",
          "trim_end": 3027504,
          "loop": 184047
      },
      {
          "track_number": 22,
          "title": "Metropolis of Ruin",
          "file": "WAVE\\09-metropolis-of-ruin.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 23,
          "title": "Catacombs of the Dead",
          "file": "WAVE\\11-catacombs-of-the-dead.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 24,
          "title": "This Enchanted Forest (Forest)",
          "file": "WAVE\\12-this-enchanted-forest.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 25,
          "title": "Within the Tidal Reefs (Grotto)",
          "file": "WAVE\\13-within-the-tidal-reefs.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 26,
          "title": "Cursed Towers (Towers)",
          "file": "WAVE\\14-cursed-towers.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 27,
          "title": "A Sunken Aqueduct (Temple)",
          "file": "WAVE\\15-a-sunken-aqueduct.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 28,
          "title": "Dance of the Snowy Barrens (Glacier)",
          "file": "WAVE\\16-dance-of-the-snowy-barrens.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 29,
          "title": "Cavern of Ice (Ice Palace)",
          "file": "WAVE\\17-caverns-of-ice.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 30,
          "title": "Palace of Decadence (Cathedral)",
          "file": "WAVE\\18-palace-of-decadence.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 32,
          "title": "Challenge of Devils",
          "file": "WAVE\\07b-challenge-of-devils.wav",
          "trim_end": 1381390,
          "loop": 381327,
          "cross_fade": 1000
    },
    {
          "track_number": 33,
          "title": "Phalanx Arising (2nd Form Phalanx)",
          "file": "WAVE\\19-phalanx-arising.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
    },
    {
          "track_number": 34,
          "title": "The Infinite Demon (Ultimate Phalanx)",
          "file": "WAVE\\20-the-infinite-demon.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
    },
    {
          "track_number": 35,
          "title": "The Hell of Civil War (Ending 01)",
          "file": "WAVE\\21-the-hell-of-civil-war"
    },
    {
          "track_number": 36,
          "title": "The Crests Are Hidden Forever (Ending 02)",
          "file": "WAVE\\22-the-crests-are-hidden-forever.wav"
    },
    {
          "track_number": 37,
          "title": "The Throne Refused (Ending 03 & 04)",
          "file": "WAVE\\23-the-throne-refused.wav"
    },
    {
          "track_number": 38,
          "title": "The Shopkeeper (Shop)",
          "file": "WAVE\\10a-shopkeeper.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 39,
          "title": "Over the Demon Realm (Map)",
          "file": "WAVE\\08-over-the-demon-realm.wav",
          "trim_end": 3159014,
          "loop": 1211660,
          "cross_fade": 3000
      },
      {
          "track_number": 40,
          "title": "The Chronicler (Password Input Screen)",
          "file": "WAVE\\03-chronicler.wav",
          "trim_end": ,
          "loop": ,
          "cross_fade":
      },
      {
          "track_number": 41,
          "title": "Choose Thine Options (Options Screen)",
          "file": "WAVE\\02-choose-thine-options.wav",
          "trim_end": 685262,
          "loop": 5719,
          "cross_fade": 1000
      },
      {
          "track_number": 43,
          "title": "Memorial of the Fallen Ones (Cast Referral)",
          "file": "WAVE\\24-memorial-of-the-fallen-ones.wav"
      },
      {
          "track_number": 44,
          "title": "The End - Firebrand Victory (Ending - Last)",
          "file": "WAVE\\25-the-end.wav"
      },
      {
          "track_number": 62,
          "title": "Challenge of Devils (Introduction Music)",
          "file": "WAVE\\07a-challenge-of-devils-intro.wav",
          "trim_end": 2000460,
          "loop": 1052008,
          "cross_fade": 10000
      },
      {
          "track_number": 63,
          "title": "Fire SFX (Title Screen Menu)",
          "file": "WAVE\\01-menu-fire-only.wav",
          "trim_end": 2182172,
          "loop": 750913,
          "cross_fade": 20000
    },
    {
          "track_number": 112,
          "title": "Headbutt Game (Shop)",
          "file": "WAVE\\10b-headbutt-game.wav"
    },
    {
          "track_number": 118,
          "title": "Prelude to Horror",
          "file": "WAVE\\04a-prelude-to-horror.wav",
          "trim_end": 1988229,
          "loop": 448709,
          "cross_fade": 1000
      }
    ]
}


Sorry for the delay, I will add them tonight and then finally kick this set out into orbit.

Guys, I'm sorry - it's been a hard day and I'll be off to bed rather than looping the tracks with a shitload of other stuff in my head right now.

Let me know if you want some help finishing them.

Yes, please. All what's left to do is using Audacity to find the sweetspots for loops for all tracks that have no integer values in the json I posted 2 posts above and find a suitable normalization value. Thanks! Much appreciated!

If you're still not done by tomorrow afternoon (GMT) I'll get started on them then. I can certainly find optimal loop points, but i might leave the normalisation to you if you've started some tracks already. Just for continuity's sake.

When editing the Benoit Adam set I found that between -8db and -9db to be equivalent to the original SPC's.

Anyway... Let's see what happens tomorrow.

Hi, everybody.

I'm back to wifi. oh god knows how I'd missed it...

I didn't play the game with Relikk's pack, with Benoit's versions, but I downloaded and check out the pcms.

How can we go further in this second pack? It's wonderful to find Benoit Adam job, but there's a lot of missing versions.

I'm working on a .wav pack with enhanced SPC's versions. I don't known if it's gonna be cool in this pack. I'll show it when i'm done.


I'm also glad that ArcadeTV is almost finishing the pack.

See ya

Yes it is sort of a relieve that we come to an end here

How can we go further in this second pack? It's wonderful to find Benoit Adam job, but there's a lot of missing versions.

My suggestion: we make sort of a mix, taking the 14 themes from Benoit Adam, looking at youtube if we can find remastered versions of missing themes not covered by Benoit.
If we cannot find specific themes, we simply take those from Alex (similar to what you did for DKC3, where you also made a "hybrid" for the orchestrated version).

Can you update your doc file with Benoit? Then I know which themes are missing and can help searching

So we get 3 sets here?
- Alex set
- orchestrated hybrid set
- enhanced spc set
nice to have you back btw!

If you're still not done by tomorrow afternoon (GMT) I'll get started on them then. I can certainly find optimal loop points, but i might leave the normalisation to you if you've started some tracks already. Just for continuity's sake.

I think Alex only needs the optimal loop points for his JSON file he posted above. Like

Code:

          "file": "WAVE\\06-beyond-the-colosseum-v3.wav",
          "trim_end": 3027504,
          "loop": 184047

Normalization and such stuff will be done by him, as far I understood.

Code:

09-metropolis-of-ruin.wav      (Loop point 584840 - Trim point 584840)
11-catacombs-of-the-dead.wav      (Loop point 1902366 - Trim point 3500640)
12-this-enchanted-forest.wav      (Loop point 580427 - Trim Point 3234227)
13-within-the-tidal-reefs.wav      (Loop point 53119 - Trim Point 2427395)
14-cursed-towers.wav         (Loop point 19774 - Trim point 1935550)
15-a-sunken-aqueduct.wav      (Loop point 3091651 - Trim point 6258883)
16-dance-of-the-snowy-barrens.wav   (Loop point 215574 - Trim point 1826461)
17-caverns-of-ice.wav         (Loop point 32002 - Trim point 2067138)
18-palace-of-decadence.wav      (Loop point 166485 - Trim point 1777576)
19-phalanx-arising.wav         (Loop point 452411 - Trim point 1559163)
20-the-infinite-demon.wav      (Loop point 285773 - Trim point 1415904)
21-the-hell-of-civil-war      (Loop point 65674 - Trim point 2167562)
23-the-throne-refused.wav      (Loop point 101118 - Trim point 2542017)
10a-shopkeeper.wav         (Loop point 16721 - Trim point 920336)
03-chronicler.wav         (Loop point 118351 - Trim point 864335)
24-memorial-of-the-fallen-ones.wav   (Loop point 32199 - Trim point 7282288)
10b-headbutt-game.wav         (Loop point 35386 - Trim point 1166586)

So, based on the files downloaded from here, those are the results I came up with. I don't use msupcm so the JSON thing is lost on me, the loop points speak for themselves, and just to be sure (I'm sure you know) that the trim point is from where the remainder of the file is cut off so it loops properly. It's probably exactly what the values in the JSON do, I just don't know for sure if the "trim_end" command means it trims from a certain point or whether it trims that amount of samples from the end of the file, so I didn't want to mess with it.

All of these are listed as looped tracks in the ROM itself, some of them don't have that value in your JSON file.

Have a look and see what you think, anyway.

Look good! Thanks a ton!
I'm crunshing at work, at least till tomorrow but I'll prep the set as soon as possible.

Hey, Conn & everyone.

I've finished the enhanced pack. So I played the game once more and notice some issues on the title screen/story that I didn't perceipt before.

The 19.pcm (hex 13) needs to stop looping (it actually do not loop).

When we're watching the story and then push Y, it plays the 18.pcm (hex 12) but I think it should play the 63.pcm. So, if we wait again, it starts a demo play without stoping the title screen theme. When the demo is over, the title screen returns with no song.

I don't think it's a major thing, but I reported.

I made an alternative cover art. It's available for another pack:

Thanks for your excellent work on this guys!

I'll look into your issues dani.

Thanks for the enhanced pack, I'll wait for Alex set before I post both in the database. How is the orchestra going on? Did you find further remastered tracks and/or can post an updated sheet?

I updated the sheet.

There's 2 other alternatives and, one of it, (Within the Tidal Reefs (Grotto)) is not so cool.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tGH90ReoVmh01OWZ38X086QZdB7RWTfPDBqly-XE9Hg/edit#gid=0