Don’t think this is gonna be a 100% Gold Remake, it’ll have its differences. Extra battles (some’ll be optionals, tough but rewarding), Hoenn Pokemon (in every area, and hard to find) New areas, Remapped some dungeons (so your old guides wont work) , Extra recurring characters (some’ll hate you, some’ll help you)
Note that the hack is incomplete but feel free to enjoy the hack as-is.
StarTropics music disassembly and bugfix. Brad Smith 11/19/2014 http://rainwarrior.ca This is a complete annotated disassembly of the music engine and data from StarTropics, originally released by Nintendo in 1990. I started this project because I noticed the broken accomaniment pattern in the island map music (track 1), and I wanted to find out what went wrong with it. In the process I discovered and fixed a broken bassline in another tune (track 30). If you are interested in the music data format, or the music engine source code, you will find the details in: st_music.s If you would like to see how the track was fixed, and for an annotated example of how to understand and insert music data into StarTropics, see: stf_music.s If you have questions or comments, you may contact me at: [email protected] Steps to create the disassembly from scratch: 1. Install python 3 if you do not have it. https://www.python.org/ 2. Place a copy of cc65 in a folder in this directory called "cc65". http://cc65.github.io/cc65/ 3. Place a ROM called "startropics.nes" in this directory, 4. Create a folder called "temp" in this directory. 5. Run "split.py" to create "temp/combo.bin" from the ROM. 6. Run "disassemble.bat" to create the raw disassembly: "st_music_raw2.s" 7. Clean up "st_music_raw2.s" by hand and save as "st_music.s" 8. Run "compile_st_nsf.bat" to create "temp/st_nsf.nsf" Other files: startropics_music_fix.ips - IPS patch to fix the music in the NES ROM stf_nsf.s stf_music.s compile_stf_nsf.bat - creates NSF with "fixed" tracks 1 and 30 analyze_cdl.py - displays information from a FCEUX code data log run on the NSF st_nsf.cfg - linker configuration file used by ld65 when building st_nsf.nsf disassemble.py - script for disassembly fceux_symbols.py - creates FCEUX debugging symbols when building st_nsf.nsf orders.py - creates a table of orders for use in disasm_info.txt st_disasm_info.txt - disassembly annotation file used for automated labelling during disassembly apply_patch.py - copies the patched NSF into the NES ROM Brad Smith 11/19/2014 http://rainwarrior.ca
