Basic Concept

Import 20 songs from FF Mystic Quest to give FFV a “Bonus OST” version

FF:MQ has 26 songs, so this represents 3/4 the soundtrack 😹

Overall Plan

  1. learn how songs are encoded
    1. in
      1. SNES Hi-Rom and Lo-Rom file systems
      2. both games may not use the same encoding for notes & modifiers
    2. adapt the MQ tracks’ encoding to match FFV’s
      1. sequences
      2. instruments
        1. determine which instruments (if any) are shared in both games
        2. devise substitutes
    3. calculate how much memory this takes in the Hi-Rom unused space (Bank F??)
    4. devise how to expand the song list in FFV
      1. (likely the biggest technical challenge…)
  2. learn how to use event code to:
    1. trigger pointers to new songs
    2. play them
    3. (Cubear has experience in thanks to MSU-1 hacking)
      1. https://liquidzretrogaming.net/audio.patch/

Outline of Track Changes to FFV vanilla