How to use Quantam's Megaman Famitracker Conversion Project

[@xRikudoSennin]

Very epic, very cool

[@justbenagain2291]

Hi! Loving your nitrome playlist. The extras are so cool I had no clue there was more. Would you consider updating it with more nitrome games? would definitely listen :D

[@Yum0987654321]

Hello there, I stopped uploading for a few reasons: the rest of the games were locked down in a way that I could not extract audio files from them, I did not play the games after a certain point so I had no interest in it (probably after Ditto), or if it's something like Skywire or Final Ninja they had like 20 extra songs and I gave up trying to sort them and listen to any subtle differences. I originally created the playlist for my own use which is funny because I don't really use it. Exceptions to uploads now are if original composers post less compressed versions of their themes (on their website or Soundcloud, for example. There used to be iTunes purchases and there are Bandcamp purchases, but... go buy them instead to support the artists maybe).

[@breaktube]

Oh man, this is really cool for NES games ! Is there something similar for old Gameboy games ?

[@Yum0987654321]

Not sure, but if you find out, post here to let others know!

[@breaktube]

@@Yum0987654321 Will do, have been looking into ways to import music into old Gameboy games. Will share any updates as I find them !

[@Yum0987654321]

Question: What do you open the json5 files with? Answer: Any text editor, such as Notepad. The one in the video is Notepad++. Others include Sublime, or any code editors really. You can also keep demo.json5 around and make a copy of it and edit that instead. Just change the command you write later on to use your copied file instead.

[@Yum0987654321]

Question: If you need to change something, what else do you need to do afterwards? Answer: See this diagram. cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1011058905822019584/1121945992317644810/image.png If you change something in one of those nodes, you need to make sure that anything feeding into it is also re-done, if applicable. For example, you change your base MM/RM ROM, which means that cascades into you needing to recreate the patched Famitracker ROM, then rerun the command that uses the JSON5 configuration file to produce your final output.

[@VyxiMainchannel35]

Due to the recent Quantam project update, the tutorial became kinda obsolete. Will there be an updated version?

[@Yum0987654321]

Maybe, if I find time to look at it and if it will stay stable since it keeps receiving updates (that may or may not obsolete things with every new version). Hopefully later versions eventually don't need a video guide, but I'm guessing the process should have largely remained the same?

[@justinolbrantz403]

Really the only thing that changed was the way the patches to create mmxft.nes and mmxftdemo.nes are applied. The beta versions use xdelta because it's the best patch format, but it makes things more difficult than they need to be for the user (especially for non-Windows users). The final release versions use IPS or BPS, and each patch is self-contained (you don't need the batch file to create mmxft.nes then mmxftdemo.nes from mmxft.nes). Apart from that the process is the same. And some conversions still don't have final releases, and so use xdelta still.