Super Mario Kart: Pro Edition

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEYprA9Afnc

It's a start right?

Turns out that Music is compressed with the same RLE that the tracks and stuff are.   Lots of **D* commands I understand to be APU code?  Can anyone point me torwards to uncompressed zelda or SMW music?

I don't know what you mean by **D* commands. You'll have to be a bit more specific. Assuming that the loader mechanism for Super Mario Kart is the same as Zelda, you can find the music data in 3 "banks" in the Zelda ROM. It's not compressed. If you're not familiar with the banks concept, it means that the songs are divided into 3 sets. One set is for the overworld, one is for the dungeons, and one is for the ending / credits songs. These are all offsets from an unheadered

As far as the music data goes, you're probably referring to the "Track Data" entries, as those contain the commands that cause notes to play and effects to play.

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$C8000-$D5336 SPC Data1
{
Used by SR $901 and SR $888

Sample Table
$C8000
Length = 0x0070
Store to $3C00

Sample Data
$C8074
Length = 0x7AA0
Store to $4000

Instrument Table
$CFB18
Length = 0x00AE
Store to $3D00

Program Core (Driver)
$CFBCA
Length = 0x0F9E
Store to $0800

Sound Effect Data
$D0B6C
Length = 0x1090
Store to $17C0

Sound Effect Instrument Table
$D1C00
Length = 0x00E1
Store to $3E00

Track Data (supplements $D000)
$D1CE5
Length = 0x020C
Store to $2880

Track Data
$D1EF5
Length = 0x2DAE
Store to $D000

Tack Data (supplements $D000)
$D4CA7
Length = 0x0688
Store to $2B00

Termination Block
$D5333
Length = 0x0000
Begin program execution at $0800
}

$D5337-$D6423 SPC Data2
{
Track Data
$D5380
Length = 0x1060
Store to $D000

Track Data (supplements $D000)
$D63E4
Length = 0x1038
Store to $2900

Terminating Block
$D6420
Begin program execution at $0800
}

$D8000-$DB1D3 SPC Data3
{
Track Data
$D8000
Length = 0x2CBF
Store to $D000

Track Data (supplements $D000)
$DACC3
Length = 0x050C
Store to $2B00

Terminating Block
$DB1D3
Begin program execution at $0800
}


Hi, I have been working in the past days on a N-SPC importer derived from Romi's addmusic (mml -> SMW n-spc tool).

I did a similar thing many moons ago for the Mario 64 music format, but in that case mml was a bit too limited for it. For SMK, so far the results are very decent (for testing purposes, I am mostly using the custom music archive from SMW Central).

I have also written a simple "inserter" that will compress the tracks (using the Lunar Compress DLL) and insert them at the right spots in the ROM, though there are still some issues to fix (ie, move data around to avoid overwriting stuff when inserter data larger than the original).

Thanks MathOnNapkings for all the information posted, it will sure be very helpful! Also thanks Dirtbag for a lot of help concerning basic SNES stuff , seems like pretty soon there will be some very nice complete SMK hacks around.

Here is an very early test:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T82Dw0A_mCg

^ Some really awesome development on the music department of SMK. Congrats to the people who figured so much of it out so far  . It's way beyond me, but hey, maybe one day i'll understand it. 

Anyways, didn't come here to bump this topic just for that. This hack is officially finished, now i'm just writing up some small credits, and getting a (working) patch going, and I'll be submitting it 

 Thanks to all the people who gave support for the project, be sure to check it out when I post a patch and it eventually gets put up on the site!

edit: Here's the patch!

 Super Mario Kart: Pro Edition Patch (complete v1.0)

Thank you sir! I've been looking forward to this for a long time.

Guys, apply the patch to a (U) Rom with NO HEADER.

Good work, they are great track designs.  I've had fun playing this so far.

One thing I noticed though is that in the last track in Flower Cup (it's a MC track theme) some of the coins have been placed on the lighter part of the stripey track area.  The colour underneath the coin is that of the darker track so when the coin is picked up there is a dark grey title where a light grey tile should be. 

Other than that your tile placement is very well done.   So you get a

Well, its finally in the database 

Submission was a little annoying because i kept choosing sites that didnt allow direct linking by accident