HIGH-QUALITY AUDIO MIXING FOR MOTHER 3 (FAN TRANSLATIONS)

Ever wanted to play MOTHER 3 without so much noise? Love hearing its soundtrack crystal clear on YouTube? Now you can experience the game with much cleaner audio! This hack mixes every individual channel at 16-bit audio before downsampling everything to 8-bit audio as opposed to the default m4a mixer which mixes every channel at 8-bit audio (blame the GBA’s DAC!)

• This hack greatly reduces the number of quantization/rounding errors that pop up during the mixing process, making the classic GBA “background hiss” much quieter while making Shogo Sakai’s music sound crispier than ever! Results seem even better when played back on actual hardware. Enjoy!!

DISCLAIMER FOR SPEEDRUNNERS:

This patch does modify the RNG used by MOTHER 3 and will most likely give you unexpected results! Because of that, any TAS recordings of MOTHER 3 will be broken by this hack. You have been warned!!

INCLUDED PATCHES

• German, v1.1
• English, v1.3
• French, v1.9
• Italian, v1.1.1
• Dutch, v1.0
• Polish, v1.1
• Brazilian Portuguese, v1.0
• Chinese, v1.0

CREDITS:

• HQ sound mixer ingeniously programmed by ipatix, inspired by “Golden Sun”: https://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=324673
• Mixer preparation and hacking by Summer Dragonfly (xkas format by Near/byuu: https://wiki.superfamicom.org/xkas)
• Mother 3 decompilation and technical support: Kurausukun and theo3 (https://github.com/Kurausukun/mother3)
• Extra technical support: phoenixbound, Lorenzooone, and Yosuke
• Patcher translations by JumpmanFR and Somewhat Viable
• Special thanks to the Mother 1+2 Fan Translation/Sound Restoration project and the PRET Discord community!

Report any bugs found to https://github.com/MusicTheorist/MOTHER-3-HQ-Sound-Mixing-hack

• Database match: Mother 3 (Japan)
• Database: No-Intro: Game Boy Advance (v. 20210227-023848)
• File/ROM SHA-1: 4F0F493E12C2A8C61B2D809AF03F7ABF87A85776
• File/ROM CRC32: 42AC9CB9