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Here's the next game to be stripped of its undumpable status: The Chessmaster. The tracknames are mostly based off of what nensondubois used, and to be faithful to what nensondubois originally extracted, I also extracted all of the jingles (which use the same basic commands as the music... interestingly enough). Overall, I extracted one extra piece of music and two extra jingles.

You may hear something unusual at 52 seconds for Welcome to Chessmaster (American). I have identified this as a SPC player bug, as it is a foul note by default, but it's supposed to be triggered twice... and then cut off almost immediately.

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Just consider me your friendly SPC dumper. Also a bit of a perfectionist (though not too literally)... I make sure my dumps are at the first note. I might even hack away the SFX if needed.

Want a music modifier for a particular SNES game? All you need to do is ask via PM (or you can check out the Music Modifiers topic and post there) and I'll be on the job. ^_^

SPC Set Progress Log

Exciting that you were able to get them to play as spcs! Any plans to tackle the rest? (California Games 2, Lost Vikings, Ren & Stimpy Veediots, etc.)

Yes and no. I have the rest of the Nick Eastridge sound driver games lined up, but I need to program a bug fix... and have an actual assembler do the job, as these were literally hex-coded (I have asar for the job as soon as I port my stuff over... and maybe even automate the music extraction). I also have bsnes-plus working for me. I'm also distracted with various other stuff...

Speaking of which, I meant to do a bugfix for the first three I had released (including Chessmaster). My timer code is slightly off... and Ren and Stimpy - Veediots! (as well as James Bond Jr., which I also tested) both gave me suspicions that the notes were clicking occasionally. Testing through Ren and Stimpy - Veediots! on actual gameplay confirmed that I can only go so far... but what I was planning was an improved timer (and actually letting the original timer do its job) where I can better emulate the actual NTSC rate. This requires me to rapidly switch from one timer value to the next.

Anything else will be done on a case-by-case basis, and is heavily dependent on not overflowing the SPC700's memory when implanting the music data (plus the new code I have to come up with: I just so happened to pick one of the simplest cases). This includes identifying SFX samples and overwriting those if absolutely necessary.

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Just consider me your friendly SPC dumper. Also a bit of a perfectionist (though not too literally)... I make sure my dumps are at the first note. I might even hack away the SFX if needed.

Want a music modifier for a particular SNES game? All you need to do is ask via PM (or you can check out the Music Modifiers topic and post there) and I'll be on the job. ^_^

SPC Set Progress Log