Complete "How to Change the Music in MVC2 + How to make your game selfboot" Thread

Hollow · August 8, 2008, 2:47am

Grab a Dreamcast off Ebay. You won’t regret it.

xDarKnighTx · August 8, 2008, 4:38am

Does anyone have this tool called ADXCV.EXE? Its used to increase volume of adx files.

Been searching all over the place, but have not found it yet. Let me know if any of you know where to get it.

System_1 · August 8, 2008, 6:00am

Sure Thing…I dont think i can afford to miss out on this…

Another thing…could somebody tell me how to make one of those “avatar” thingys…they really look kool

JonnyQuest · August 8, 2008, 8:43am

hollow: i don’t have palmod with me or else i’d figure it out for you. you can’t get it exactly like that bc i used photoshop to edit it.

killamach: photoshop or if you don’t feel like puting the work in it, just go to image mishmash and request one.

Hollow · August 8, 2008, 9:45am

Cool. If I decide to run another matching mix, I’m gonna use that scheme. I’m curious to know how some of the other characters look with that scheme. I’ll experiment and find out those colors.

System_1 · August 8, 2008, 8:15pm

Thanx for the info…i have no problem puttin the work in but could i get some pointers or tips…maybe a site that could walk me through.or is it not as hard as it looks too me…i just really dont know where to start…
i like the ones with the mvsc2 characters in them.

System_1 · August 8, 2008, 8:59pm

yo when i try to use cdrwin it says that it is nt supported how do i get it supported.

Preppy · August 8, 2008, 10:45pm

What’s the full context? What’s the exact message, what exact OS are you on?

Toodles · August 9, 2008, 1:18am

Wow, that sucked. Was up all night, and passed out about 9am waiting for the RAR to finish.
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4334678

Not extensively tested, but seems to work.

Geronimo · August 9, 2008, 7:11am

Good shit! :tup::bgrin:

Also, FYI for anyone thinkin’ something’s wrong or that toodles’ messed up…fugee request mix’s music is jus’ a combination of SBIII#1 and SBIII#2’s.

Geronimo

ShinGouki00 · August 9, 2008, 7:31am

ay what’s good with these upload speeds

edit: Thanks toodles.

JonnyQuest · August 9, 2008, 9:46am

i haven’t been in image mishmash in a while… there should be a help thread in there somewhere. but it’s not hard to figure out depending on what you’re trying to do. if you have any questions, i don’t mind answering them. i some what know my way around photoshop. i’ve made a few av’s over the years. i lost a lot of my older stuff when my pc crashed. :sad: but here are some stuff i’ve done.

Donut223 · August 9, 2008, 11:00pm

Toodles you are god

Toodles · August 10, 2008, 12:46am

Thanks guys. There was some tweaking that needed to be done. The Season’s Beatings soundtracks were removed; there was only a couple of song difference between each of them and fugee’s mix, so they were removed and fugee’s left in. I was still damn cramped for space, so all of the Open, Menu, Abyss Stages were removed and used the original versions. I may have done the same with training mode songs as well, I dont remember. All of the playable versus stages were left intact. I didn’t get time to setup the new soundtracks to work with ST, so ST is only playable with original soundtrack, but all of the marvel edits are available with ST soundtracks. It was a rush job, but I hope its enjoyable.

eidrian · August 10, 2008, 5:00am

I remember i did a multigame ISO for Magnetro and it was a pain in the ass (linux hates me), it also took me like a week, but this one is nice.

Thanks for packing it up!

Geronimo · August 10, 2008, 6:29am

Yes, training mode music is default.

Played on it this morning [using Pablo_the_Mex’s colors and Preppy’s music :tup::razz::bgrin: ), everything seems to work perfectly.

Thanks again.

Geronimo

JonnyQuest · August 10, 2008, 6:39am

i haven’t gotten to check anyone’s mixes out, i’ve been out in indiana… far from my dc :sad:…

ShinGouki00 · August 10, 2008, 11:22am

is it possible to swap out the adx’s on the iso with mine?

Toodles · August 10, 2008, 11:59am

Absolutely. Start by reading this:
http://forums.shoryuken.com/showpost.php?p=3587615&postcount=650
Once you get that down, you’ll be all set. And no, other than that, I won’t be provided any other help in doing it because I dont know any way except the command line.

ShinGouki00 · August 10, 2008, 12:17pm

Toodles:

I just tried using the muitple LBA copying program I linked to: I can’t get it to work at all. Sorry. That leave us with either using Linux, or Cygwin.

So here’s some steps on how to do it with Cygwin. The idea is the same as in linux, but I’ll try to lessen the amound of command line stuff. First, a script to do the hard work for you:
<-------------Cut Here---------------->
#!/bin/bash
find . | xargs md5sum > md5sumslist
cat md5sumslist | cut -f1 -d’ ’ | sort | uniq -d > dupemd5sums
for BLAH in cat dupemd5sums
do
grep $BLAH md5sumslist | cut -d’*’ -f2 > dupefiles
export ORIGINAL=head -n1 dupefiles
grep -v $ORIGINAL dupefiles > extrafiles
for BLECH in cat extrafiles
do
rm $BLECH
ln $ORIGINAL $BLECH
done
rm dupefiles
rm extrafiles
done
<-----------------Cut Here----------->
The setup instructions:

Install Cygwin if you haven’t already. www.cygwin.com

Save that as ‘dupelink.sh’ in your cygwin directory (like C:\cygwin\dupelink.sh)

make the script executable- open up a cygwin window, and type ‘chmod +x /dupelink.sh’

make sure you have the tools youll need. At the cygwin window, type ‘ln’ and hit enter to see if it gives you a ‘command not found’ error. Same thing with ‘md5sum’ ‘cdrecord’ and ‘mkisofs’. If any give the commnd not foud error, you need to install it by running through the cygwin installer again and finding the package you need. If you have mkisofs and/or cdrecord not installed, but somewhere else on your system, you should be able to copy them into c:\cygwin\bin\ and use them fine.

To make the disk
This part can be done entirely in windows. Just pick directory to work in and copy everything you want in there. To keep things easy, use c:\data. If you’re wanting 3 different copies of MvC2, each with different music, go ahead and make 3 subdirectories, copy all of your original MvC2 files into each subdirectory, then replace the ADXs in each one. Yes, that will take up a lot of space on your hard drive, but not for long. Go ahead and work as if your CD-R could hold gigs and gigs. Setup your browser for a boot menu as normal. BINHACK all the executables. Once its all setup to work properly, but is just way too big for a cd-r, then you’re ready to build the disk in cygwin.

Open a cygwin window

‘cd c:’ #to change directory to the c: drive

‘cd data’ #to change directory to the data directory

‘/dupelink.sh’ # to run the script. This might take a little bit depending on how large your directory it

‘rm md5sumslist dupemd5sums dupefiles extrafiles’ #get rid of the files used by dupelink.sh

‘cd c:’ # leave the data directory

‘mkisofs -V GoldenStillAintPaidShit -C x,y -o data.iso -cache-inodes data’ #replace x and y with the proper values

Burn your first session, IPINS the data.iso, and burn the data.iso.
If you want to change this to work on linux, you’ll want to change the parameters to the two ‘cut’ commands in the scripts; different diff’s show their output different ways.

not really understanding the stuff in bold.

Anyone care to explain?

Also, when I get this figured out I’ll try to set up some sort of template for everyone else. From those directions it doesn’t seem that bad.