Breath of Fire 2 SPC hacking

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The information about the songs is being given. It's time to open the hex editor and spend high quality time getting confused reading letters and numbers.

Use a hex editor and open a GBA ROM and a SNES rom side by side. Look for the offsets given by the guy in the GBA rom, take a couple of bytes, and compare to the code in the same offset in SNES ROM. If they're the same, then you found the songs in the SNES rom. If not, keep trying.

I've never used sappy, try downloading it and play with it. There's a tutorial on FF6 music hacking posted by Gi Nattak somewhere in this site, look for it as it might help.

The problem with sappy is that it only supports certain GBA ROMs, and Breath of Fire 2 isn't one of them, maybe it's because I have a super old version of it (version 1.6, from 2003 apparently). I really don't know if there's a more up to date version, but I assume there is if this dude hacked BOF2 for the GBA. I'm probably more likely to find the tables and offsets with a hex editor instead. Speaking of which, it's also probably better in the long run, and would be an excellent way for me to learn, if I just use a hex editor and experiment through trial and error. It would be like me learning another foreign language.


Edit 9:22 AM - Well, the address check out, as all three seem to lead to the right locations. The problem is finding out what instruments are assigned to which songs. That's what I thought I asked the guy, but I guess I wasn't specific enough. I'll try asking him what each of the songs start with (not where the sequence start, but what instruments are assigned). See that way, I'd be able to locate both battle themes, and change the second one to use the same instruments as the first one. I would image that would work, but I could be wrong.