Restoring old soundtracks?

[andolga]

Restoring old soundtracks?

[andOlga]

I have no intention of doing anything of this nature, it goes beyond (and, in large part, against) what this patch is supposed to do, which is to say, translate the Switch game to English. If I were to start ripping out various improvements and changes made by ENTERGRAM to make this release better than the previous ones, then there'd be little point in the existence of this patch in the first place -- you could just go play the PS3 version of the game. I get that music and similar things is just a matter of taste, of course, but that's why I want to stay as close to the actual release as possible -- my taste shouldn't matter here, what matters is the experience as intended by ENTERGRAM.

If you wanted to do it yourself, you'd need to first somehow convert the old songs to the Switch NXA audio format, as that's the only one the game supports. I know of no tool that is capable of creating this type of file, so unless you reverse-engineer the format and create a file converter yourself, you won't have much luck there. If you really want to try, you can start by looking at the code for vgmstream, a library/app capable of playing various console-specific music formats, but I can't really provide help beyond that point.

However, if you do find/make a converter, then yes, you should be able to "just" place the converted files in the appropriate romfs folder before running the build process, after which you can build the patch following the instructions here. You will also need to edit the snr.bgm sections of script.rb to display the old song names during the game, as well as the bgmmode.txa texture file for the correct names to show up in the Music Box.