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Zintrick with tracks

After a complete gameplay review, I believe the game is fully functional.
I essentially used the original driver m1 and the original sound effects PCM files, remapping the driver with the offsets for a concatenated file.
Zintrix always uses two slots for sound effects, which are always loaded into the same workspaces.
Instead, I built v1 by concatenating all the effects into a 4MB v1 and remapped the memory address,to do this I had to add an auxiliary routine to manage the page. :thumbsup:
I generated all the audio tracks in PCM and changed the commands in m1 to have unique z80 commands and some aliases, which becomes v2, v3, v4.
On a positive note, all the sound effects and the driver are original.
The tracks were all included, only two were cut.
It was easy with NGFX SoundBuilder, build a temporary driver, and the PCM files for the sound tracks.
Then I swapped the commands to avoid overlapping and copied the length into the PCM in the original m1.

Linear MVS V-ROM layout of v1:

SW00.PCM -> offset 0x000000, size 0x080000,
SW01.PCM -> offset 0x080000, size 0x040000,
SW02.PCM -> offset 0x0c0000, size 0x040000,
SW03.PCM -> offset 0x100000, size 0x040000,
SW04.PCM -> offset 0x140000, size 0x040000,
SW05.PCM -> offset 0x180000, size 0x040000,
SW06.PCM -> offset 0x1c0000, size 0x040000,
SW07.PCM -> offset 0x200000, size 0x040000,
SW08.PCM -> offset 0x240000, size 0x040000,
SW09.PCM -> offset 0x280000, size 0x040000,
SW10.PCM -> offset 0x2c0000, size 0x040000,
SW11.PCM -> offset 0x300000, size 0x040000,
SW12.PCM -> offset 0x340000, size 0x040000,

Last test on real hardware and extended gameplay with more pg ending.
 
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pierpa86 said:
After a complete gameplay review, I believe the game is fully functional.
I essentially used the original driver m1 and the original sound effects PCM files, remapping the driver with the offsets for a concatenated file.
Zintrix always uses two slots for sound effects, which are always loaded into the same workspaces.
Instead, I built v1 by concatenating all the effects into a 4MB v1 and remapped the memory address,to do this I had to add an auxiliary routine to manage the page. :thumbsup:
I generated all the audio tracks in PCM and changed the commands in m1 to have unique z80 commands and some aliases, which becomes v2, v3, v4.
On a positive note, all the sound effects and the driver are original.
The tracks were all included, only two were cut.
It was easy with NGFX SoundBuilder, build a temporary driver, and the PCM files for the sound tracks.
Then I swapped the commands to avoid overlapping and copied the length into the PCM in the original m1.

Linear MVS V-ROM layout of v1:

SW00.PCM -> offset 0x000000, size 0x080000,
SW01.PCM -> offset 0x080000, size 0x040000,
SW02.PCM -> offset 0x0c0000, size 0x040000,
SW03.PCM -> offset 0x100000, size 0x040000,
SW04.PCM -> offset 0x140000, size 0x040000,
SW05.PCM -> offset 0x180000, size 0x040000,
SW06.PCM -> offset 0x1c0000, size 0x040000,
SW07.PCM -> offset 0x200000, size 0x040000,
SW08.PCM -> offset 0x240000, size 0x040000,
SW09.PCM -> offset 0x280000, size 0x040000,
SW10.PCM -> offset 0x2c0000, size 0x040000,
SW11.PCM -> offset 0x300000, size 0x040000,
SW12.PCM -> offset 0x340000, size 0x040000,

Last test on real hardware and extended gameplay with more pg ending.
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You, sir, finally did it. If this is real, you've done what nobody else who looked at it to this point could do. I bow down to the master.
 
Neo-Alec said:
You, sir, finally did it. If this is real, you've done what nobody else who looked at it to this point could do. I bow down to the master.
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I’m testing on real hardware, all working fine but I have one last stupid problem.. neo geo logo sound from original z80 m1 and sound sample play wrong ! 😑 track is fine effect is fine original. I’m investing on logo.
 
Neo-Alec said:
You, sir, finally did it. If this is real, you've done what nobody else who looked at it to this point could do. I bow down to the master.
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This is not a new driver, but a modification of the original one, all the effects are taken 1:1 from the CD and the tracks converted and added.
Fixed the last problem on jingle, i finish the game with two PG and all seems work fine.
Stay tuned.
 
pierpa86 said:
This is not a new driver, but a modification of the original one, all the effects are taken 1:1 from the CD and the tracks converted and added.
Fixed the last problem on jingle, i finish the game with two PG and all seems work fine.
Stay tuned.
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How did you use the original driver with your own misic recordings? Did you use NGFX Soundbuilder at all?
 
Neo-Alec said:
How did you use the original driver with your own misic recordings? Did you use NGFX Soundbuilder at all?
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For simplicity, I created a temporary driver by importing only the new audio tracks into SoundBuilder.
Then I generated v2, v3, and v4. After inspecting the newly created m1, I placed the indexes and modified the commands.
Essentially, the useful part is assigning the correct z80 command, offset, and length of the tracks in the v ROMs. This is the simplified explanation.
This is because I had to keep all the sound effects and the routines to calculate the sound effects pages.
 
pierpa86 said:
For simplicity, I created a temporary driver by importing only the new audio tracks into SoundBuilder.
Then I generated v2, v3, and v4. After inspecting the newly created m1, I placed the indexes and modified the commands.
Essentially, the useful part is assigning the correct z80 command, offset, and length of the tracks in the v ROMs. This is the simplified explanation.
This is because I had to keep all the sound effects and the routines to calculate the sound effects pages.
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Fantastic work as always. Thank you. Exactly what I hoped for, I think. Now if someone could do that for Crossed Swords 2 to preserve the sfx.
 
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Neo-Alec said:
Fantastic work as always. Thank you. Exactly what I hoped for, I think. Now if someone could do that for Crossed Swords 2 to preserve the sfx.
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I'll take a look, I think the Razoola bootleg has already been heavily patched so it will need to be restored to the original to start from a solid base.
My problem is that to test on hardware I always have to test on a real snk card because I don't have a flash card so there is always a significant amount of work.
 
Good evening, great work, what you achieved some had also tried years ago but no project had succeeded.

It’s possible to submit a download link because all the posted links are dead. Thank you in advance. :)
 
sebw2k said:
Good evening, great work, what you achieved some had also tried years ago but no project had succeeded.

It’s possible to submit a download link because all the posted links are dead. Thank you in advance. :)
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check on main thread.
 
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