In August, I was listening to Tim Follin's work. When I listened to Chronos on youtube, the suggested videos were for other ZX Spectrum beeper music, such as Rubber Love by Mister Beep. I was blown away! I had thought that Tim Follin getting 5 tinny voices out of the one channel beeper was the peak of what one could do, but Rubber Love had a full sound to it! I listened to a lot of ZX Spectrum beeper...
The closest thing "Countdown" has to a melody is this odd harsh beeping instrument. It really drives the song's tense nature. Unfortunately, the arranged version of Countdown from the 2023 remaster completely removes this lead instrument.
To my surprise, all the music files in the remaster are completely unencrypted, uncompressed WAVE files (The devs should've compressed them, they could have reduced the file size of the music from ~675 MB to ~63 MB). This made it very easy to modify the...
I wrote this guide due to a wrong assumption I made about a romhack. I will still publish this guide anyway in case there is a Pokémon romhack out there that doesn't have a fixed version.
There were too many differences between the SweeTnDs bad scene dump and the good dump of the game to make a hex editing guide, so I'm releasing a patch instead:
I mistakenly thought that the most recent version of Blaze Black and Volt White and its sequels needed to be patched onto a bad dump in order to function. The reason I mistakenly thought this is because the main download page for these hacks has the bad versions of the patches. The good, most recent versions of these hacks can be found on the forum threads for them, which are linked to in the main download page.
So let me pass this lesson to you: if a romhack patch you downloaded from Project Pokémon isn't working, try looking in the thread for a fixed patch!
It's funny how PokéCommunity and Project Pokémon each represent one extreme side to take on the same issue. On Project Pokémon, if a romhack contains even a single unaltered byte from the rom, it gets taken down. A lot of Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon hacks are lost forever because of this. Meanwhile, PokéCommunity is on the other extreme; they have no problem allowing a romhack that asks users to pirate a bad dump of the game. Romhacks like these are impossible for people who legitimately dump roms from their own cartridges to use... unless you are using this guide :)
Here's how to take your good dump of Pokémon Black 2 (CRC32 d4427fd1 when decrypted) or White 2 (777eb04f) and modify it to match the frieNDS bad scene dump (Black 2: 25ba3aa6, White 2: 95ab5437):
The last time I made a post like this, I explained some things about hex editing.