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After speaking with a lot of users who have had trouble understanding the SCHG SMPS music guide, I felt that a step by step guide would be more suited to the solution. This guide will teach you how to make music in a Sonic 1 rom using a hex editor.
And a quick thanks to the SCHG SMPS music guide (links removed) (and the contributors who’s names are on that page), for the SMPS information which will be used in places in this tutorial.
So let’s begin…
Part 01 – Requirements
This is what you’ll need (Search the internet for them):
A Megadrive/Genesis Emulator:
Any will do, most users prefer Kega Fusion, some prefer Gens, but you can use anyone you like as long as it plays music and sound.
A Sonic The Hedgehog Rom:
Rev 01, and must be in .BIN, not .SMD, if yours says .GEN then that should be fine too.
A Hexadecimal Editor:
Again, anyone will do, I will be using one called “Hex”, though you might not find this on the internet anywhere considering it’s more than 10 years old, most people however prefer Hex Workshop which is generally easy to find.