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It is easy to split up NSFs containing multiple songs into multiple files of single songs each. Just make multiple copies of the single .NSF and patch it to load the A register at the beginning the INIT routine (if there is any unused space in the file). Of course this will waste disk space since you need multiple copies of a file. Using playlists is probably a better choice if you are able to do this.Michiel wrote:Hi there. I did some Googling but couldn't really find what I wanted, so I figured I'd ask here.
Since I stopped using my iPod, I recently dug up Winamp and started redownloading all my NSF game music and other tracked files. And now I'm wondering if anyone has ever endeavored towards splitting up NSF files so that instead of them being packed into one file, you can actually have a playlist. Does that exist? I couldn't find it.
Or maybe there's a specific NSF plugin for Winamp that is able to show the multiple songs inside one file as multiple items in a playlist. That would be neat. :)
Maybe I should have a look to see if I can find a brief specification of the file format so that I can write a splitter program. That way a split file will contain only one of the songs. It doesn't sound like it's the most complicated file format, right?zzo38 wrote:It is easy to split up NSFs containing multiple songs into multiple files of single songs each. Just make multiple copies of the single .NSF and patch it to load the A register at the beginning the INIT routine (if there is any unused space in the file). Of course this will waste disk space since you need multiple copies of a file. Using playlists is probably a better choice if you are able to do this.Michiel wrote:Hi there. I did some Googling but couldn't really find what I wanted, so I figured I'd ask here.
Since I stopped using my iPod, I recently dug up Winamp and started redownloading all my NSF game music and other tracked files. And now I'm wondering if anyone has ever endeavored towards splitting up NSF files so that instead of them being packed into one file, you can actually have a playlist. Does that exist? I couldn't find it.
Or maybe there's a specific NSF plugin for Winamp that is able to show the multiple songs inside one file as multiple items in a playlist. That would be neat.
It's fairly complicated if you consider that an NSF is basically the game code stripped of anything that's not related to the music, and that each game handles music differently. The NSF specification just "wraps" that code in a way that makes it easier to interface with it.Michiel wrote:It doesn't sound like it's the most complicated file format, right?
That's exactly what zzo38 suggested above.just make a little script that duplicates the files with a different LDA #xx at the start. It'll waste some space, but NSF files are so tiny to begin with it doesn't really matter.
There is a simpler way. Just adjust the starting and ending song in the header. That's not a good idea to write in LDA #$xx unless you know how to rewrite the code accordingly. Also, there is init code at the beginning of many NSFs and so can't be overwritten unless you want to screw up the NSF.just make a little script that duplicates the files with a different LDA #xx at the start.
You have to find an unused area of ROM to do this; you cannot simply put always at beginning or whatever else.Gil-Galad wrote:There is a simpler way. Just adjust the starting and ending song in the header. That's not a good idea to write in LDA #$xx unless you know how to rewrite the code accordingly. Also, there is init code at the beginning of many NSFs and so can't be overwritten unless you want to screw up the NSF.just make a little script that duplicates the files with a different LDA #xx at the start.
Yes, a code like this is what I meant.LDA #$xx
JMP INIT
Agreed; anyone can split them by themself.If you decide to split them anyways. Please, don't release them, only for personal use.
