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Quantam has finally started an official tutorial on the use of makeftrom and the FamiTracker conversions (e.g. mm2ft) for adding FamiTracker format music to NES romhacks. From the introduction:
"The problem: music composition for romhacks is a cryptic, laborious, error-prone, and generally painful process.
With few exceptions, each NES game company uses at least one of their own proprietary music formats for their games, each with their own capabilities and binary format. Both the playback code and composition software are proprietary and not publicly available, and few formats even have composition tools available written by romhackers. As such, the development of romhacks usually requires painstaking manual conversion to the game's music format by hand with a hex editor, if someone's even reverse-engineered and documented the format to begin with.
The FamiTracker conversion project seeks to solve this problem once and for all by allowing direct use of FamiTracker music in hacks. Not only is FT the de facto industry standard NES chiptune music format and composition software based on the tracker paradigm that has been popular in electronic music since the 80s, it is also generally much more powerful than proprietary game music formats."
"The problem: music composition for romhacks is a cryptic, laborious, error-prone, and generally painful process.
With few exceptions, each NES game company uses at least one of their own proprietary music formats for their games, each with their own capabilities and binary format. Both the playback code and composition software are proprietary and not publicly available, and few formats even have composition tools available written by romhackers. As such, the development of romhacks usually requires painstaking manual conversion to the game's music format by hand with a hex editor, if someone's even reverse-engineered and documented the format to begin with.
The FamiTracker conversion project seeks to solve this problem once and for all by allowing direct use of FamiTracker music in hacks. Not only is FT the de facto industry standard NES chiptune music format and composition software based on the tracker paradigm that has been popular in electronic music since the 80s, it is also generally much more powerful than proprietary game music formats."
