Hello everyone. My goal is to have an NES ROM file of Castlevania 1 that plays normally, minus the music. The SFX would still play however, so simply turning off the sound channels or muting the game does not produce the desired result. Why would I want this? For video making purposes, and I suppose game music bands might find it useful as well. A couple of examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6iRuyeE3ug&t=782s Link to the Past (please don't share this one. the gameplay is so bad LOL. mainly just a proof of concept.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGNrjs0vXo Gradius II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG900fADjVg Dracula X
In the past I've been lucky with games like Link to the Past and MegaMan 1-3 which have level editors that allow you to do this, however the best CV level editor, Stake, does not. Instead it has a pointer, which looks like you can just swap the songs around, but not to nothing. It does have an Advanced Editing Mode that shows you three sound channels and 3 values. Example for stage 1:
Square 1: 9C83
Triangle: 9DB5
Square 2: 9D18
but I don't know what to do with this information and you seem unable to change their values. There is a glitch in the game that let's you play stage 1 without music, but only lasts until the boss, and there's a Game Genie code that turns off the SFX only, so that's no good LOL. There is a Castlevania ROM map here:
http://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/ ... ia:ROM_map
but sadly lists nothing about music. So if anyone can offer some advice on tools, or pointers on how to approach the problem, that would be splendid. I'd like to eventually have a catalog of "Silent Games". Thanks for reading.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6iRuyeE3ug&t=782s Link to the Past (please don't share this one. the gameplay is so bad LOL. mainly just a proof of concept.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRGNrjs0vXo Gradius II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG900fADjVg Dracula X
In the past I've been lucky with games like Link to the Past and MegaMan 1-3 which have level editors that allow you to do this, however the best CV level editor, Stake, does not. Instead it has a pointer, which looks like you can just swap the songs around, but not to nothing. It does have an Advanced Editing Mode that shows you three sound channels and 3 values. Example for stage 1:
Square 1: 9C83
Triangle: 9DB5
Square 2: 9D18
but I don't know what to do with this information and you seem unable to change their values. There is a glitch in the game that let's you play stage 1 without music, but only lasts until the boss, and there's a Game Genie code that turns off the SFX only, so that's no good LOL. There is a Castlevania ROM map here:
http://datacrystal.romhacking.net/wiki/ ... ia:ROM_map
but sadly lists nothing about music. So if anyone can offer some advice on tools, or pointers on how to approach the problem, that would be splendid. I'd like to eventually have a catalog of "Silent Games". Thanks for reading.