!Tommy

Is an external player using the MIDI sound file? Do you have your MIDI open in a Windows Media Player application or something similar? In my case of Windows 2000, I also have a mini Windows Media Player bar in explorer so if I even have it selected in Explorer, it will produce an error. Close anything that is using the file completely and it should work. In my case when I download a MIDI, I listen to it after I download it and if you're doing the same and not closing the player, that's more than likely your problem. In a nutshell, the file cannot be in use by anything or you will run into problems. I dunno why, but that's what it is.

So, I have yet another question. I sort of had a good idea but I think it's going a bit down the drain already. Since Zelda cannot handle multiple notes playing on a track, I thought why not split the notes into different tracks. I've done that successfully except when I go transform it into text files via InstEd, all my new tracks come up saying "No usable data found" or something to that effect. The new midi file with the tracks split up play just fine so why in the world doesn't it want to work properly in InstEd? I've tried Reaper and MIDISplit and both have the same results. It's not like the tracks are blank because in Synthfont they obviously play just fine. I must have all notes play though, I can't have them not working otherwise my tracks sound like crap in game. Edit: Unless someone has a good, easy way to do this, for the time being I don't need help anymore. I figured it out on my own. I may add a tutorial unless someone else has a better way of doing this than I do.

Thanks Punk and Arc! I figured that's what it was for. This is amazing. No more guessing what the music will sound like in game. This is truly a huge help for me. Thanks!

Sorry for being such a noob with this particular thing, but how do we use this soundfont? Is it a ROM update or for use in an MIDI program?

You're right, it is relatively simple but I've never had truly 100% results. Problems arise were Link's grunts are a little longer than OoT's and even fixing the points doesn't always work out the greatest. Have you ever tried it out and got good results? Maybe I'll try it out again someday. But once I tried porting over MM Link's noises and I'd get a little static when it was played in game.

Thanks for linking the thread, Jason. It also somewhat applies to the thread at hand.

It is, but it's a bit complicated and a messy process that doesn't guarantee 100% results. You can check out N64 SoundTool v1.1 which does support OoT and MM both. Find the sound effect you want in the game via the tool and export it as a raw file. Once, you do that, go back to OoT and locate the sound you want to port over and find out where the address is in the actual ROM and copy the data over it. But if the new sound is longer than the old one, you'll have to make some sacrifices, either to cut the new sound short which would definitely mess things up, or you can change the address in the audiotable to reflect the entire file, but that would overwrite part of another sound as well. One thing I found about MM sounds is they're almost always longer than the old sounds and usually end up messing things up. Also, N64 SoundTool reads some files as just plain static for some reason and I've never figured out why or how to fix this. It's slightly complicated but if you're feeling bold, give it a try. For now, I haven't been messing with it anymore just due to the bad results I'd get from it. Sorry about the messy explanation, hopefully you can sort of figure out what I'm saying from it.

Alright, time for Tommy's whole face. It's the newest one on my driver's license I just received today, looks much better than the last one but then losing 100+ pounds helps too. XD

I'm getting very excited about this mod. With your smarts, I'm expecting some awesome things but expecting really isn't a good word to use since I already know some awesome things are taking place. I hope you follow through with this mod because I for one will definitely play it from start to finish once you complete it. I'm especially happy about making the boots custom actions like Twilight Princess does. By the way, have you ever figured out how to make the deku shield not burn up if it gets hit by fire if of course you decide to do something different from a wooden shield?

What the hell?!?! You're right! But no, i had the right file but it screwed it up!! Let me find something else to upload it to. This looks much better: http://www.yourfilelink.com/get.php?fid=878956

I'm guessing because I extracted the entire code.zasm file from another debug ROM and plugged it into a clean one. Maybe it's not so much the button colors that changed but maybe I have another code change in my hack that the clean ROM isn't liking much. I can always upload the file and you can take a look at it if you so desire. Here's the file, complete with all MM HUD style and colors: http://wikisend.com/download/127854/code.zasm If anyone wants to try it out, feel free to but be warned that it might cause your game not to load properly.

I'm working on the code.zasm file right now and so far have the A and B buttons done. I can release for download if anyone is interested once I'm completed. @CloudMax: Are you sure the B button is completely correct? It seems a bit brighter green than it is in MM which is a duller green. Also, the start menu button color has not changed, it's still grayish black, not red. There were no changes in the coding for it. Edit: I have finished the code.zasm and while it works on my actual hack in progress, applying it to a clean debug ROM makes it fail to boot so I'm not quite sure why it is doing this at the moment. CRC is okay so I'm going to look into why it is doing this. If anyone else has any ideas, that would be great to hear.

I think Firefox handles caching a bit differently because my packs will not upload into the ROM (even though it appears to!) with it but the same packs will upload in Chrome so I don't know what's up with that. I'm having a few very minor ill effects when using the latest texture packs such as some of the text on the file select screen becomes transparent instead of white and some of the item names in the start menu look a little choppy but it's not the biggest deal at all. It's just the only thing I've noticed so far with it.

I finally got it working! I ended up using the offline editor as the online one seemed to run into problems. However, it seems Firefox is having issues (at least mine is) for ripping textures, it just does nothing at all. Chrome works fine for ripping textures. It also seems like if there's already a 'combined' ROM in the downloads folder, it seems like the changes don't take effect. However using the tool offline with Chrome, I seemed to have perfect results, even using the Rice ripped textures. Are you ever going to define more image addresses within the tool to rip even more textures as you find them so they'll be downloaded when we drop the ROM in the tool to create new texture packs?

I have a question, CloudMax. Are we able to use textures ripped using Rice to be able to import into OoT using your tool? I want to use a few MM textures and I get mixed results depending on the situation. And yes, I made sure I renamed the files accordingly so that shouldn't be an issue there. However, sometimes it seems to upload just fine and redownload the ROM but the change doesn't take effect. Sometimes it shows up as an empty download where it'll download a 0 byte ROM file. And now I'm to where it won't even finish uploading and gets stuck at a file I never even touched. So let me ask, is ripping textures via Rice to reupload not allowed with this tool?

It'd be awesome if you could figure out how to keep the complete HUD active while on Epona instead of most of it disappearing.

I have another question I might just as well post here instead of creating a separate thread. I've replaced several tracks in OoT that used Hyrule Field as a theme. Now what I want to know is how can I make it so the enemy theme will play not just in the night time but also the day time. The enemy theme doesn't seem to play since Hyrule Field's composition handled near enemy music slightly differently during the day. Anyone know how to get around this?

I miss those old Microsoft mice, they were so cool and I don't know why, but they just were! Speaking of IE5, have you tried using the internet with IE2? Talk about useless! Surprisingly Google works somewhat but almost all websites refuse to even start loading with it. It's cool to see what works and what doesn't work with it though.

Or you can put your finger here too LOL

Are you sure about that, Antidote? I'm looking into it. Not that I actually care if I'm right or not, but you have me curious. DIMMs are usually 168 or 182 pins, not 72 pins which would be SIMM Ram.

WOW!! That thing is HUGE!! I love how big the case is yet the motherboard barely takes any room at all in there. XD!! The motherboard itself is really clean and in great condition! It's so nice to see old hardware in such great condition! I see it does have a PS/1 port that you have an adapter for. My first computer had the PS/1 port as well but I no longer own it or the keyboard. I also took note you guys must use 230V for your power supplies. Over here in America we use the 110-5V, sometimes they vary. I worked on a machine that refused to turn on at all until I looked and saw the switch was moved to 230, as soon as I switched it, it turned on! So it must've had some sort of protection in it so it wouldn't damage the power supply or the board itself. I love the little 'baby' heatsink and fan on the CPU. Back then it was sufficient, now you have these great big monsters with at least 3 inch fans that's about half an inch or more deep. It actually looks a lot like my original one did. The Compaq Presario 9500 had a bigger heatsink but no fan on it at all. I prefer fans on the heatsinks so it'll at least take care of the heat instead of just absorbing it. As the board you mentioned that support Super Socket 7, I've definitely heard of that before and somewhere in some point in time, I picked up a Super Socket 7 AMD K5 or K6 processor that I've never ever used. It's actually sitting on the bookshelf next to me. I have no idea what speed it is or anything, just that it's Super Socket 7. For shits and giggles, I put it in a regular Socket 7 computer to see what it would do, but it didn't do anything. It powered on but that was it. XD @Antidote: They're actually SIMMs, not DIMMs.

A restoration video would definitely be an awesome thing to see. It's reminds me of something uxwbill or vwestlife would do and I'm very interested in both their channels when it comes to old PCs and restorations they do so I'll be looking forward to that if you ever come around to making a video. Yes, Windows XP is a big pain to use on anything less than 512 or even a gig of RAM by today's standards. In fact if you're using at least Service Pack 2 with Windows XP, it's better to have more RAM. 128MBs just on the Gold version was bad enough. The fact on this machine that I do plenty of video editing and the fact I have dual monitors because of the comparison and multitasking I do with my machine, more is definitely better. I only have 2GBs in this machine since it's all I have of this type of RAM but I have two more slots on the motherboard that I can add more once I get more. I remember bad memory at times. Once the computer completely refused to even POST and just beeped. I was cleaning the tower with air and I have no idea what happened but it made the one stick go bad, once it was pulled it worked just fine. But then I had another PC I worked on that just had RAM errors, IE would crash for no reason was one thing. It was a Windows 98 PC, a Dell Optiplex GX1 if I remember correctly. I pulled one stick of RAM out of it and tested it and no more errors. So the PC would boot but there must've been something in the memory module itself that was bad and when something was stored in the bad place, it just crashed. This was before I became CompTia A+ certified and it was more of just a hobby at the time, and I was still learning as well. In fact the computer I'm using now was an HP Pavilion Media Center PC. It was from a friend that had it and all of a sudden, it just died. It would power on and that was it, it wouldn't do a thing after that. Even replacing parts didn't help. However, someone must've gotten to it because I noticed someone pulled a SATA port completely OFF the motherboard! The terminals themselves were sticking up in the air with no plastic port on them. I was shocked! Someone who didn't know what they were doing must've unplugged something and the port came with it. But I do believe that they could've shorted the board out. Even taking the computer right down to bare bones didn't do anything. Actually, it started booting once, but only once. Being an OEM computer, it's almost impossible to replace the board with anything other than the OEM board itself. Well, the friend gave me the computer so I found a new motherboard online, it was a Gigabyte that was completely compatible with the parts I had in the machine already. So I swapped the board out and put the new board in, reapplied the thermal paste and added a new heatsink because this motherboard has a four pin fan connector while the old one was three pin and so the fan would run completely at full speed all the time with no way to change that. So I invested in a new heatsink and four pin fan. But surprisingly, everything plugged in just like it was meant to be, even the media card reader works! So that's how I saved that computer and am using it at this very moment. Even though it's new, it's still an accomplishment I'm proud of. I do have a question for you Dan. Have you ever had to replace bad caps on a motherboard? I never went that far but I know of some people that have. My Dell Optiplex GX270 fell victim to bad caps. I was using it just fine one minute, got up to go to the bathroom, came back and it was completely frozen up. I restarted it manually and that was all it wrote. It would power on and that was it. Looking at the board carefully, one of the CPU capacitors was just beginning to bulge a bit. I salvaged parts in it and that was it, I didn't save the board.

WTF?! XD I figured for sure the thing would crash as soon as you rode it to the exit of Hyrule Field, but it didn't! Good job! This is actually pretty awesome since Epona never gets this far in the real game itself.

Oooh, maybe you'll get lucky and find something! Just have to keep looking. I forgot to mention I owned a Compaq Presario 9500 from 1995 for a little while. I didn't know much about it sadly but it operated at 100MHz and it had the BIOS on the hard drive rather than integrated on a chip on the motherboard. I was able to overclock the system to 120MHz just by moving a jumper but it got unstable after a while which I think was caused by heat since there was no fan on the heatsink and so it didn't have proper cooling. I put a regular deskfan on it and blew cool air at it which seemed to help but it usually helps a lot more to have something pull out the hot air. I was able to get it up to 64MBs of RAM which was the very minimum for Windows XP. Being the adventurer that I am, I took a chance. Yes, Windows XP would install and run on it! It was slow and the installation took about 3-4 hours, but it installed perfectly! I found Windows XP seems to only check for the RAM requirement but not the CPU requirement whereas Windows Me does indeed check to make sure that your processor is at 150MHz or higher. That is a bit puzzling but the installations were different too. I'm not sure if Windows 98 is picky in the same was since it only requires a 66MHz processor and I've never once tried installing it on a computer with less than that. But seeing as how 98 and Me's installations appear to be built on the same installation platform, it's a safe bet it probably works in the same way. Maybe an emulation VM program exists where you can tell the machine how fast you want it to run as you can tell it how much RAM to use from the host machine. I've had this happen with RAM too, and I think it was what I was referring to earlier. My Vectra is able to go up to 192MBs of RAM as stated by HP themselves, but I've never gotten it up that high. Maybe if I had all 32MBs of SIMM RAM it would. But if I had 4 sticks of 32MB of RAM and 2 of 16MBs, but instead of it listing it as 160MBs, it was only 128MBs (or 130MBs according to POST), but if I took out the one But if I put in 2 sticks of 32MBs of RAM and 4 sticks of 16MBs of RAM, it would also be at 128MBs. I know the other RAM is 32MBs as it states right on there and since it's a big stick, it's usually a safe bet. But that doesn't even begin to make sense! SIMM RAM is definitely the pickiest and most interesting RAM I've ever worked with, aside from Rambus RAM that is. Maybe if you did get your RAM working, maybe it would be safer to just leave the BIOS alone. If you can take pictures of it or inside the case, I'd be most delighted to see them.

I wonder if Windows NT 4.0 would work on that machine. Despite it lacking some of the more modern technology for gaming, it's actually a nice little operating system. It lacks a proper device manager but it's not bad as long as you know what you're looking for when it comes to manually installing drivers. The oldest machine in regards to actual age is the first one I had mentioned. It had 32MB of RAM in it which I never did upgrade. When I received it, it didn't have a sound card in it so I went out and bought a SoundBlaster PCI 16 which was my first internal computer upgrade I had ever performed. It came with Windows 95 but the graphics drivers were not installed. I had it for a year until I finally bought a new machine which was an HP Pavilion back in 2002. I hated it for one reason, it had Windows XP on it and XP sucked in my opinion at the time. Luckily I figured out how to downgrade it to Windows 98 and I used it like that for quite some time until I installed Windows 2000 on it. It was a decent little machine but I sadly don't own it anymore. Anyway, back to your machine. Wait, before I talk about it, the CD drive I must bring up. TEAC is actually a good brand, especially back then. In my opinion, a lot of CD drives I've worked with in the late 2000s are crap. The tray jams up for no reason and you have to literally grab any bit you can get and help it out as you open it, or you have to push the button about 10 times before it finally works its way out of the drive. Old drives definitely were the bomb. Seems like they went downhill when they changed from cream colored to black. For your BIOS, you should be able to update it. Have you ever tried installing Everest Home Edition? I'm not sure if it would work on Windows 3.11, but it can tell you anything about your machine and is a very valuable tool for techs like me. Award is usually good about updating the BIOS so you might be able to find one as long as you can figure out what you're actually looking for. But I'd at least give it a try. Everest is actually under a different name now but a little bit of googling should reveal even an old version. 64MBs of RAM for a Pentium 100 is very awesome for the machine itself. Heck, my HP Pavilion came standard with a whopping 128MBs of RAM for Windows XP Home Edition! What gets me now is how many machines comes with only two slots for memory. Sometimes you're lucky and you get more but the old machines had as many as four or sometimes even six like the case for my HP Vectra, which I do still have. I think I have Windows NT 4.0 Server installed on that computer, runs like a champ! Haha, I was moving the computer and I accidentally dropped it on the floor. It basically said, "LOL, like I give a shit." The only thing that happened was the floppy bezel came off which just popped right back on. It still works with no problem! I bet a new computer wouldn't survive falling off a desk in that fashion. If I didn't do some of the editing I do or watching videos, I probably wouldn't even have a problem using a machine that old for everyday use. Need for Speed III HP on my first computer was interesting though. It basically just refreshed itself every three seconds, even the honking the horn on the car was delayed for a second. It required 133MHz and I only had 90. But I still made it work!