

Go to your SPCTL061 folder and there should be a midi with the same name. You'll see all the animations in the menu (like if you are playing the song), and the timer counting but hear no sound.Ĭarefully watch the timer and press stop/pause to stop the recording at any time you wish. All you need to do is make sure that the song is rewinded to the begin and push that button with the circle. If the music sounds slow or odd, either it can't play the SPC file correctly or you forgot the cycles command.

If you hear the music correctly, its good. Important note: Depending on your screen resolution you might have to run DOSBox fullscreen, else some stuff might get cutoff.įirst, lets make sure our spc actually plays. If all these steps are done correctly, you will now have opened SPCTools interface. You should now have done this (Note: dropbox automaticly did the SET BLASTER command on startup): v is to prevent some graphical glitches.Īlso, you don't need to write. We will need to adjust the speed dosbox is running in so first we put in this command: Now we're all set, let's start up DOSBox. I'll be using Bubsy's Wool wool desert (bbs-06.spc) in this tutorial. Once we've gotten our SPC, we need to place it in the same folder where SPCtool.exe is.
#Getspc zip file rar
rar and you can extract the SPC's with winrar). Now we will need a spc which we want to use for this tutorial.Ī good site to get SPC's from is (SPC's are packed by game in a. SPCTool.exe should now be in C:\SPCTL061. Rename SPC Tool.exe to SPCTool.exe, as DOSBox cannot read spaces in filenames.
#Getspc zip file download
Once you've done that and installed it, download SPCTool and extract the zip into C:\. This is necesarry, since you can only run this SPCTool version in DOS. Let's start of by first downloading and installing DOSBox, it's a simple dos emulator for windows. I'm aware there are some SPCTool versions for windows, but these versions don't have the function to rip an midi from an spc. Winrar (in case you want to download an spc from snesmusic) Eventually an midi editor like Anvil Studio to edit your midi, but that is not required for this tutorial and it won't cover it either SPCTool v0.61 (For making our midi's out of spc's)
#Getspc zip file how to
In this tutorial you can learn how to make an editable midi from an SPC (since SPC2midi does make midi's, but you can't open those in a midi editor).īefore we continue, I'll have to note that the program might not be able to change some of the SPC's into midi's.
