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Probably most people never noticed, but two of the tracks in StarTropics have always been slightly broken. I decided to disassemble it and fix them. I made a video about it here:
NSF of original soundtrack for comparison: [url=http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/startropics.nsf]http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/startropics.nsf
The source might be of interest to developers/hackers. I made a fully labelled disassembly, and documented the process a bit. Anyone looking to hack StarTropics' music should have all the info they need right at hand with this. I suppose you could even borrow its music engine if you wanted (but it's really limited, maybe not great to use, possibly fun as a challenge).
The NSF of the original soundtrack is a new rip I made built from the disassembly to prove I had done it correctly. It's not significantly different than the existing NSF rip of StarTropics, but it doesn't have unused data stripped out.
This is amazing rainwarrior! I've wondered about that goofy thing in the first track as well, but never considered that it was a bug that actually was fixable.
Thanks for the disassembly too. I actually made my own rip of StarTropics back when no other was available (I think it was in 2002), but didn't bother to reverse engineer the music format.
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