Heavy Barrel: Hack Voice Sampling is a modification of the Nintendo Entertainment System game Heavy Barrel, released by upsilandre on June 19, 2022. This hack enhances the voice sampling quality by re-encoding the arcade version's samples, specifically the "Heavy Barrel!" audio, while maintaining the original ROM size. The modification aims to improve the experience of the NES port.
Heavy Barrel - NES Hack Voice Sampling
The "Heavy Barrel!" sample is re-encoded from the arcade version and audio driver is modified a bit to get something very close to the arcade sample.
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Heavy Barrel - NES Hack Voice Sampling
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ROM to patch (No-Intro):
Database: Nintendo - Nintendo Entertainment System (Headered) (v.20220620-100820)
ROM name: Heavy Barrel (USA).nes
ROM CRC-32: 8f53520e
ROM MD5: 31f36ae615778df14e5b1b1abee855e6
ROM SHA-1: 738d712eeacae48ae0229ab9fdeb06e8a325842c
ROM SHA-256: 583fd645e01b19b3127a584d84b045646947095474fe1fe28842c27eec33f654
ROM to patch (GoodSet):
Database: GoodNES
ROM name: Heavy Barrel (U) [!].nes
ROM CRC-32: 1e79b8a6
ROM MD5: ca5c8c3e7d98947f85d25a71d7264c63
ROM SHA-1: e2472cf182961f8fbc378ac41ced33e408a54c27
ROM SHA-256: 95fff1464595e45dd36db814ace2d1d79905749db7d653fbfc7d8fed0109f869
FR :
Lors du portage de ces 2 jeux NES Data East, ils ont fait l'effort de préserver un peu du voice sampling de la version arcade (un seul sample chacun) mais en le faisant très mal.
Je me suis donc amusé à trouver, décoder et extraire les samples originaux de la version arcade de la ROM de ces jeux pour ensuite les utiliser pour améliorer les versions NES.
Il s'agit juste du sample "I'm Bad!" dans Bad Dudes et "Heavy Barrel!" dans Heavy Barrel. Je les ai réencodés proprement pour être exploitable par la NES et en modifiant un peu le driver audio afin d'obtenir quelque chose de très proche des samples arcade. Et tout ça sans augmenter la ROM originale qui reste la même, je suis resté dans les clous de ce qui était disponible.
C'était donc quelque chose de tout à fait faisable à l'époque. La façon dont ça a été bâclé est assez surprenante (c'est pas le seul truc bâclé dans ce portage, la gestion des sprites est particulière aussi).
J'avais fait ces hacks en 2020 mais je n'avais jamais pris le temps de les partager (comme plein d'autres hack).
EN :
When porting these 2 NES Data East games, they made the effort to preserve some of the voice sampling of the arcade version (only one sample each) but they did it very badly.
So I had fun finding, decoding and extracting the original samples of the arcade version from the ROM of these games and using them to improve the NES versions.
It's just the "I'm Bad!" sample in Bad Dudes and "Heavy Barrel!" in Heavy Barrel. I re-encoded them cleanly to be usable by the NES and modified the audio driver a bit to get something very close to the arcade samples. And all this without increasing the original ROM size which remains the same, I stayed within the limits of what was available.
So it was something that was quite feasible at the time. The way it was botched is quite surprising (it's not the only botched thing in this port, the sprite management is peculiar too).
I made these hacks in 2020 but never took the time to share them (like many other hacks).
Database match: Heavy Barrel (USA)
Database: No-Intro: Nintendo Entertainment System (v. 20210216-231042)
File SHA-1: 738D712EEACAE48AE0229AB9FDEB06E8A325842C
File CRC32: 8F53520E
ROM SHA-1: 3065EF157AB5F34FA05022261D7BF6EF79DAD5C9
ROM CRC32: 34EAB034
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