At 12:25 AM 02/28/99 PST, you wrote:
>If I'm correct, at the moment Teddywarez is busy programming a new
>SCC-tracker which would be more comfortable.
But if we want Snatcher to play music over the SCC, we don't need an
SCC-tracker, because the original music is good enough.
>But if you want to keep the original music, somebody would be able to
>debug the game and simply rip it, isn't it ?
The game music has already been ripped by Martos, it's part of his SCC
music collection.
Even if the music is rearranged, it would probably be much easier for the
musicians if they can see the notes and effects of the original music.
>>I have written code that emulates SCC or SCC+ on a MoonSound. Jerome
>>Borsboom has written code that emulates SCC+ on 2 normal SCCs. So there
>>are enough options to play the original music.
>
>Those thingies sound nice, but I guess when also making a
>MoonSound-version,
>arrangements that use the full capability of the MoonSound would be
>better.
I was replying to someone who said "I can't get an SCC+ to listen to the
original music".
I'd like re-arranged music as well. Just listen to the audio CDs of
Snatcher and you'll know that it's possible to improve upon the original
SCC+ music using better sound equipment.
>>>So how do you want to "snatch" these graphics? I own a Explorer so I
>can
>>>grab some pictures. But animations would be a problem.
>>Another option is to rip GFX directly from CD, by writing the
>appropriate
>>converter. If the file format is not too difficult, this will work very
>well.
>
>If nothing would turn out to work, you could eventually just digitize
>the graphics and have a graphic designer correcting the pics.
Then the Explorer option is better, because it grabs PSX VRAM instead of
digitizing and thus will produce less errors.
One of the advantages of ripping from CD is that you'd get all frames of an
animation.
>>GFX9000 can display 15bit pictures, which is the highest color depth
>>that the PSX supports.
>
>Do you really think the PSX-graphics are that advanced ?
I don't have the PSX Snatcher myself. I'm stating the worst case.
I have to say that reprogramming Snatcher might be a lot more difficult
than hacking the original. Snatcher is based on some kind of script, which
tells the game "print this text, display this picture etc". One could
re-create that script by playing a lot and trying everything, but that
would take a lot of time and errors could be made. Ripping the original
script from the game would be better. But if you can do that, you can also
replace the script with an English version and the translation is complete.
Bye,
Maarten
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