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by Deezer at 12:50 AM EST on February 12, 2009
The Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time set is missing one track, which is only heard in the Japanese and European versions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnK2SW1N4qA

edited 12:51 AM EST February 12, 2009
by Knurek at 5:21 AM EST on February 12, 2009
Nice find, ripping the JPN one as well. Turns out 5 or so songs have different sequence data when compared to the US version as well, prolly nothing major, but still good to have.
by VGSB at 3:21 AM EST on February 16, 2009
Accidental double post.

edited 3:27 AM EST February 16, 2009
by VGSB at 3:22 AM EST on February 16, 2009
So here's the Yoshi's Island DS set with full tags that I worked on with Matt J. It uses the 2 loop option of 2sf Timer. I included a script that lets you set the number of loops and fade length to something else if desired. Feel free to add the set to Manly.



Thanks snakemeat for adding the 1 loop functionality! I did the timing manually before I knew about 2sf timer, but now I'll be able to use it for all future conversions. I'll still have to add a fade delay to the lengths to do the S-curve style fadeouts (setting the fade used by vio2sf to 0 and using Sox for the fade instead), but I can get around that if you don't feel like adding a Fade Delay feature to 2sf timer. I'm looking forward to the day when somebody makes a timing tool for other non-stream Nintendo platforms!

edited 3:29 AM EST February 16, 2009
by Omochao at 6:49 AM EST on February 16, 2009
Mario & Luigi RPG 3 (unoptimized, with timers and filenames):
http://www.sendspace.com/file/2zkda5
by Knurek at 10:38 AM EST on February 16, 2009
Thanks, VGSB.
Especially loving the batch file you included. Will be up when the next update rolls.

//Edit
Though you could have added the actual tagging commands to the batch as well. :)

edited 11:17 AM EST February 16, 2009
by snakemeat at 12:31 PM EST on February 16, 2009
VGSB wrote:
I'll still have to add a fade delay to the lengths to do the S-curve style fadeouts (setting the fade used by vio2sf to 0 and using Sox for the fade instead), but I can get around that if you don't feel like adding a Fade Delay feature to 2sf timer.

I'm not exactly sure what you are requesting here or if I could add it. Any more info you could provide me would increase the chances of seeing it added.
by Knurek at 2:40 PM EST on February 16, 2009
Pretty sure it's just a manual value that get's added to the duration.
So that he can wavewrite the files and add better fadeouts manually.
by VGSB at 1:20 AM EST on February 17, 2009
Yes, basically an offset to whatever the midi length spits out so that people can do manual fades for conversions. The Winamp options for vgmstream would be an example of how to do it well. Ideally there would also be an offset for non-fade tracks so that people could have a longer gap than 1 second in-between songs. I included that functionality in the .bat.

Knurek, I agreed at first that I could have had the tags in the script, then I thought about it. What if somebody edits some of the tags to something they like better, and just want to adjust the timing every once in awhile? I can't think a good reason why somebody would need to transfer the tags to another version of the same rip. If they liked the tags, they could just use the included 2sfs. Otherwise they could use their own 2sfs and just use the timing functionality of the script.

I'll keep your suggestion in mind anyway for future albums (but out of curiosity, could you please explain why you want it?). I've been planning on having tags in CSV format, that way they can be used by a wide variety of programs for importing. Future versions of that script would offer an option to import from the file.

Though I'm torn between 1 of 2 options for the CSV:
1. Omit commas from titles (though keep including them in the actual tags) and use "Artist1 / Artist2 / etc." instead of the comma as the separator for multiple artists. This would be standard CSV. Of course there's the option of escape syntax, but that would break quite a few pre-existing programs and would make parsing more complicated for programmers. Even apps with regex such as mp3Tag don't support escape functionality when importing from text files.
2. Use the less standard CSV format with semi-colon as the delimiter. This goes against the name of the format, but would be compatible with programs such as Mp3tag. Though it wouldn't be imported correctly into a spreadsheet when a casual user with Office installed opens it.

Any opinions?

by Knurek at 11:07 AM EST on February 17, 2009
Knurek, I agreed at first that I could have had the tags in the script, then I thought about it. What if somebody edits some of the tags to something they like better, and just want to adjust the timing every once in awhile? I can't think a good reason why somebody would need to transfer the tags to another version of the same rip. If they liked the tags, they could just use the included 2sfs. Otherwise they could use their own 2sfs and just use the timing functionality of the script.

I was thinking more of an update process. If you have the pack that's on manly, just download a batch file, run it and you have a fully tagged set without the need for redownloading the 2sflib once again. I know that it's 2009 and most people won't care about 10 MB download, but there's still some poor guys on dialup, and every MB counts there. :)

And as for CSV, I'm not sure how widely it's supported but "variable","variable, that has comman","other variable" seems to work fine with OpenOffice at least.

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