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FamiTracker
I downloaded an album from bandcamp recently, and there were two NSF files that came with the various songs. Curious as to what these Chiptune counterparts would sound like, I fired up FamiTracker and tried to open them, but it gave me the following error:
"File is not a valid FamiTracker module"
I have attached the two files below. May I have some assistance and/or an explaination as to the cause of the problem? Thanks in advance.
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however, you can import the nsf to make it into a famitracker module using [url=http://famitracker.com/forum/posts.php?id=2284]rainwarrior's nsf importer. but it will be 900bpm, so it will not be like the original file (if it was made with famitracker, of course).
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You can think of NSFs as NES roms containing music only and not graphics or game code. You can play them on a NES (if you have a [url=http://www.retrousb.com/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=34]flash cartridge) or an emulator. A NSF player is a special emulator that only plays NSFs.
FamiTracker's like Cubase, as Xyz_39808 said; you can open a Cubase project file to work on your music, but you can't open the mastered MP3 file because it's the result that Cubase compiled from your music notation.
Or, for people who are more into programming...
FamiTracker can also be compared to Visual Studio; you can open source code files to work on your own programs, but you can't open an executable file because it's the result that Visual Studio compiled from your source code.
Regardless of how you see it, the NSF file is actually ROM information that can be burned onto a flash chip or an EEPROM; it's nothing more than a set of minary instructions that an NES' CPU can understand. The FTM, though, has all the human-readable code/notation that you can manipulate to your heart's content.
If you want to open an NSF file in FamiTracker, you can't; you'd have to reverse engineer it with rainwarrior's NSF Importer (which will convert the NSF file into the FTM music notation you need).
Otherwise, you'd have to make your music from scratch & remember to save it as an FTM file (in case you want to change it later).
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