Zelda64 1.2 USF stuff by ugetab at 2:33 AM EST on December 8, 2008
I was going to optimize the Zelda64 1.2 music set, but I realized I really don't care enough about anyone else to recode a copy of PJ64 just to try to optimize the ROM section. It'll play for me, hence, the project can be called completed. I'll hack together some crap VB program to fix up a basic Zelda USF with some song data to go with it for other people like things.
Enjoy the resulting 20MB USF file.
(You wanna optimize it, go ahead. The PJ64 rewrite was the show stopper. Everything else was pretty easy to grasp)
I'll probably just stick with GBS files. I can actually handle a little reprogramming with those.
There's nothing nefarious about my not having source around, I've just completely lost track of which is the latest version. The ROM optimization was a really simple char array (I think one char per 4 bytes) initialized to zero and set to one whenever a PI DMA read was made from that address, then the sparse is written just with runs of accessed data.
For future reference, please don't use Megaupload... Not only does it have a stupid wait period, but this PC I'm on (not mine) takes almost twice as long to go through said wait time because this PC is garbage (the flash cruft slows this thing to a crawl). There's plenty of other free storage sites out there. For example, Stashbox (no wait time), Zippyshare (it has a wait time as well, but no flash garbage), and Sendspace to name a few.
I'm not trying to be rude. I'm just trying to direct you to services which provide similar capabilities, but do it better. For small files, Stashbox is great. And since USF sets aren't going to be large, there's no reason (that I can think of) to use Megaupload instead. Though, Stashbox can't store anything over a certain size (I don't remember what the size limit is, but I haven't run into it).
Anyway, thanks for the files! I've never understood people's complaints about Zelda, because for my cartridge at least, I've got the chanting, as near as I can tell. At least, it sounds the same as the USF set on the site. So now I'll be able to hear a 1.2 rip, and get the difference. Nice work! Mouser X over and out.
Thanks for the new Zelda rip ugetab. It is nice to see that there will finally be a set with full intros, missing tracks, and such. Good luck on figuring out how to rip that last Hyrule Field track.
By the way, I believe that this was asked before, but is there a possibility that the two variations of the Fire Temple theme will be merged into one USFlib? It would be nice to replace the existing rip on the site with this one but add the V1.0 Fire Temple theme.
Thanks again.
by nensondubois at 10:12 PM EST on December 13, 2008