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

[System_1]

I have one question about attempting to change the music in Street Fighter 3: Third Strike on PS2 (JPN version). I noticed that after the initial adx files for each of the rounds (in both Original and Arrange music modes), that there are a bunch of adx files following them basically breaking the song apart into smaller files.

Does anyone know how these are used? Do I have to edit them along with the full song ADX files, or can I just leave them alone and just inject my own songs into the intial song files?

[sfmaniac]

this is a stupid comment but the vids don’t work for me. I used divx and windows media. Please help!

[ethnic_scrap]

fuck yes! progress! It works now :wgrin:

BUT

It works only in chankast :wtf:; when I throw it in the DC, I get the “Insert Game Disc” error. It’s wierd, cause when I’ve burned other games using the same type of CD’s, it seems to be ok. any ideas?

also; the answer to this may be glaringly obvious, but Im trying to transfer music from MvC2 to 3S. The MvC2 music files are .bin files, while the 3S files are .adx. Can I just change the extension from .bin to .adx? thanks once again

[System_1]

looks at the last post Maybe I should give this project a try myself… I changed the music on my PS2 version of Marvel Vs. Capcom 2, but never tried it with my DC version… hmm.

I do know that for the PS2 version though, there are ADX files though.

[ComboMasher]

fuck yes! progress! It works now :wgrin:

BUT

It works only in chankast :wtf:; when I throw it in the DC, I get the “Insert Game Disc” error. It’s wierd, cause when I’ve burned other games using the same type of CD’s, it seems to be ok. any ideas?

also; the answer to this may be glaringly obvious, but Im trying to transfer music from MvC2 to 3S. The MvC2 music files are .bin files, while the 3S files are .adx. Can I just change the extension from .bin to .adx? thanks once again

If you are putting the music from marvel into SF3, then all you gotta do is just rename the .bin to .adx. Because the .bin music files in marvel are actually just .adx files, but they are renamed before the game is burned.

[ethnic_scrap]

If you are putting the music from marvel into SF3, then all you gotta do is just rename the .bin to .adx. Because the .bin music files in marvel are actually just .adx files, but they are renamed before the game is burned.

yep thanks, got it to work works fine in the DC now too :party:

[BucketHead]

Is there any way possible that someone could change image files in a game such as char. pics, stages or backgrounds.

Just curious???

[ComboMasher]

Is there any way possible that someone could change image files in a game such as char. pics, stages or backgrounds.

Just curious???

Yeah it’s possiblem, team seattle released a video awhile ago showing that you could change around the character pics. I dont remember them or anyone posting what the actual files were that had to be changed. If anyone knows which of the files correspond to character pics please post up.

[TripleAgent]

Can someone re-up the instructions to make a game nsb, I made a custom for someone and can’t get it working for anything. I still have no aspi from XP2, I tried using 3 different auto selfboot kits using my old custom, I think I need to start from scratch. Help?

[gbursine]

soo… I did the whole process using your tutorial using the cdi path. Do I halfto worry about the image file and junk when I burn it on nero?(i converted it to an nrg format)

& ty this was hella easy.

just a few notes that should be thrown in

-keep the wave files in the adxencd folder when converting adx files to bin(i moved my wav files to another folder, then converted, and all the adx files dissappeared…)

-the “adx_here” file I had to convert manually into adx format(from wav format). no biggie since all that was given.

• there was no links&keys file in the zip I downloaded, so I had to search the internet (inevitably getting popups >.<)…

-It took me a good 10 minutes fooling around w/ the selfboot.exe(which is titled bin2boot in the tutorial) to realize I had to get that little box to open, and then drop the .bin file in(not drop the bin file directly onto the selfboot.exe file)

that is all… take this constructively. I’m fully appreciative of this guide… I think it should go on the wiki…lol. I’ll burn the cd and hopefully it comes out good when I try it this weekend.

[Vidness]

I’d suggest buring the .cdi file with Alcohol 120. Whenever I tried the cdi2nero, just made coasters for me.

[ParryPerson]

nero isn’t that good for burning, disc juggler and Alcohol 120% are much better and easier to use.

[TheDarkPhoenix]

I can’t even get those Videos to play…jhdgs;lhgagfattdsh

[Mixah]

cdi to nero sucks IMO

can’t do JACKMONKEY shit with it… although i have gotten a few burns of CvS2 with it… .no successful mvc2 yet

why not merge these two?
http://www.shoryuken.com/forums/showthread.php?p=3050148#post3050148

[David_L]

is there an easier way of doing this? we need a tuturial without programming-words. i dont know what the F this guy is talking about in the tutorial.

[Mixah]

http://gamefaqs.servebeer.com/m1x4h/MvC2/tutorial.txt

i don’t know if you’re using that

but right click that and save… you can’t just view it because it needs to be wrapped… it should open up in notepad

[_Skimitar]

Every single time I used cdi2nero with custom or original mvc2 it burned everytime for me without fail! I never got coaster or a failed burn…your burner must suck:lol:

[gbursine]

I must be lucky too, b/c the cd worked w/out fail ^_^;;;;

I just had to up some of the volume for some of the tunes.

now I just need to get all the spyware crap I got while looking for those damn serial #'s

[System_1]

At any rate, how to change da tunez:

Rule #1: Do not modify any of the executable files! This includes using BINHACK on the 1st_read.bin. Just don’t do it. Ditto for the ip.bin. Extract it from the disk using a tool like IP Extractor (from http://members.lycos.co.uk/megalexxx/ Note to mods: not warez!)

1. Extract the IP.BIN from the disc or image. Many ways to do this. The way I did it was to use cdirip on the original .cdi image, then use the dd command to pull out the first 32k of the iso ( dd if=TData02.iso of=ip.bin bs=2048 count=16) but if that IP Extractor works for you, have a ball.
2. Copy all of the files from the disc or image to some directory on your hard drive. Make sure all the sub directories and crap gets copied over as well.
3. Replace the .ADX files with the music you want. File names should be self explanatory.
4. Create a new .iso from the directory. I used mkisofs, which is the same thing I’d use in windows (command line tool. Yes, Im a command line geek. No, I don’t know for sure how to do it with a windowed GUI program.) Command:
   mkisofs -V TOODLESROX -l -C 0,11700 -o tmp.iso DIRECTORY_NAME/
   Yes, you can put something other than TOODLESROX in for the volume name. NO YOU CANNOT USE ANY VALUE OTHER THAN 0,11700! (very important). Now you have an ISO, but its not quite ready yet.
5. Now we need to insert in the ip.bin. Any of the tools at http://dev.dcemulation.com/devtools-ipdisktools.htm aught to work. I did mine by hand [ (cat ip.bin ; dd if=tmp.iso bs=2048 skip=16)>newiso.iso ]
6. Now we need to burn 300 sectors worth of audio to your cdr, so that ‘cdrecord -msinfo’ tells you ‘0,11700’. This is slightly tricky, maybe. If you are lucky, use a tool to pull out the three second audio track from your original cd, or use the .wav file that ‘cdirip’ created. This is easiest, and it is recommended that you use CDR-WIN to burn that. You cannot use cdrecord to burn the 300 sector file, because it will be padded with 2 sectors to 302, and fuck everything up. If you want to use cdrecord, which I recommend you do, you actually have to do a little workaround:
   a: You need a hacked cdrecord that will allow you to burn a 298 sector audio file, which it normally won’t let you. Hacked versions of cdrecord for just this purpose can be gotten at http://cdirip.cjb.net/ (again, NOT WAREZ. cdrecord and mkisofs and most else there is GPL’d).
   b: You need a file that is 298 audio sectors, or exactly 700896 bytes in size. It doesnt matter what it is, even all zeros is cool, but it has to be exactly that size.
   c: Use the hacked cdrecord to burn that audio to a new cdr: cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -multi -audio audiofile.raw
7. Use cdrecord to verify the LBA of the disc. the command is ‘cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -msinfo’ (change the dev number to whatever matches your system). If it returns anything other that 0,11700, then something bjorked and you need to fix it. Its a coaster for our purposes.
8. Burn the iso on that disc. ‘cdrecord -dev=0,0,0 -multi -xa1 newiso.iso’

Everyone bow down to Toodles . Finally, a walkthrough on how to burn SSF2X that actually works, the first time. I don’t know what to say. I just want to thank you for posting up this walkthrough. I’ve been trying to burn SSF2X FOREVER and a day with no real success, unless you call getting it to boot up without the controller working and seeing the power meters in the demo fight start to SLOOOOWLY drain away while the characters don’t do anything a success. Thanks again. I finally have a working copy of my very own custom SSF2X :lovin: !

[Mixah]

but ST doesn’t need music changing. lol