[Other] Porting Emerald's drums to FireRed

[Exodrake]

I am trying to port Emerald's complete drum kit to FireRed, which severely stripped the RS drumkit, and FireRed's native drumkit, frankly, is HORRIBLE. None of the drums match what they are in the MIDI and never work for anything. FireRed's drums are so bad I find myself almost always having to use noise for the drums in my custom songs.

I'm trying to transplant Emerald's drums with a hex editor, but it seems that drum samples are programmed differently than DirectSound samples, because when I copy and paste-write a gigantic block starting where the drums begin, it becomes screechy horribleness in FireRed, even when I copy so much I couldn't possibly be missing part of the drum sample. Can somebody please help me out? Alternatively, if there exists a patch which has already done this, I'd find that very useful, but I'd prefer to do it manually to prevent compatibility issues with my other modifications.

 

[Hajima]

I don't think it is possible since Pokemon Emerald and Pokemon Fire Red almost have completely different systems, like Emerald is more buggy than Fire Red, although I'm not exactly sure. But, I'm hoping that someone could give you a way how.

 

[Exodrake]

That doesn't matter. I'm using DirectSound samples from Fire Emblem games in my hack and they work just fine. I just don't understand why the drums won't cooperate. Maybe the samples are actually way bigger than what I'm selecting and I'm not getting it all? It did sound better when I copied 10k bytes versus ~5k bytes. I'll, for the sake of experimentation, copy something ridiculous, like 50k bytes, and see if that sounds any better. Could just be that drum samples are HUGE and I'm underestimating the sample size (hard to tell where the sample ends in a hex editor when it's just a sea of numbers).

 

[Squeetz]

Maybe the samples are actually way bigger than what I'm selecting and I'm not getting it all? It did sound better when I copied 10k bytes versus ~5k bytes.

Did you remember to paste it into an aligned offset (ending in 0, 4, 8, or C)?
And most drum samples are way smaller than 0x5000 bytes.

 

[Exodrake]

Did you remember to paste it into an aligned offset (ending in 0, 4, 8, or C)?
And most drum samples are way smaller than 0x5000 bytes.

Yes, the offset I pasted it to is aligned.