ROM Hacking
Hello Retro Gaming fans, Ryan Mcquinn here!
This is the initial release of our Streets
of Rage 2 ROM Editor! Accompanying the Screen
Replacer are Text Editors which allow editing
and replacing the various text throughout the
ROM. There’s Also a Checksum fixer to
eliminate the need for an external tool. In the
next release I will have implemented a way to
not only replace the music, but also convert
Midi’s!
**For clarification, the Mucom88 software compiles
the music in a format that requires very little
changes to be used in the ROM.**
Links
ROM Editor: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1z8XHOtRaSkAkp8jRQUcXNNX4wjIenhOP/view?usp=share_link
Save States: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13nUy7rsZsc2jswPHje7vIPTPg5PcGYvD/view?usp=share_link
Syndicate Wars 0.9 BPS Patch:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wm_k3jlwc1BNJXK3uMKgGaLLaFo7C-U1/view?usp=share_link
Beat: https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/893/
Blog on RHDN: https://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.php?topic=36015.0
Video Thumbnail Modified from this image: https://www.deviantart.com/paulo-peres/art/CD-cover-paulo-peres-752060614
(Original Thumbnail Image by Paulo Peres)
Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:49 To start out
01:51 Graphical:Screen Replacer Changes
02:59 Text Edit:Story Screen
06:30 Text Edit:Title Screen
08:03 Text Edit:End Screens
13:39 Text Edit:Character Names
17:03 Text Edit:Other Screen Text
19:19 Syndicate Wars Differences
25:59 Checksum Fixer
28:33 Ending
Social Media:
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https://www.facebook.com/groups/dndmemesandmore/
https://discord.gg/UYwyVuWw6N
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So the way I modify the Music in the ROM, is I start with a Midi and use ConvFMML to convert it to a Mucom88 .Muc File. I then use Mucom88 in conjunction with the files Yuzo Koshiro shared (bare2voice.dat & bare2pcm.bin) to first edit the .muc if necessary and compile it to a .Mub (Mucom Binary.)
I’ve added a file converter to the ROM Editor which takes the .mub and converts it to a format the ROM can read. The two types are very similar but just copying the raw .mub into the ROM will not work. I’ve also added to the ROM Editor, a means to place the properly formatted music binary into the ROM over which ever BGM you want.
I’m going to make a video showing both how to use ConvFMML and Mucom88 to make music for your ROM hacks. I’m also going to show how to use the Music Replacer/Inserter in the ROM Editor. Once the video is uploaded, I will update the blog with links and the new version ROM Editor will be placed in the queue.