vgz to vgm

[Mills]

Hi.

I'm making a megadrive genesis jukebox, all music files i find, are in .vgz.
If i convert them to vgm to be used in SGDK, they will be very big and play very slow.

Vgm's created with deflemask are working perfect.

How do i convert vgz to deflemask vgm format?

Thanks.

EDIT:

I did it. vgz to vgm. vgm to xgm. .

i'll create a thread to colect cool ym 2612 vgm's for the jukebox, also at spritesmind.

I want vgm's from homebrew, demos, covers...

captures from the snes version i made and the md/gen version i'm doing now.

[l_oliveira]

One way of doing it is renaming them to blah.vgm.gz (vgz are gzip packed VGMs) and then run them through guzip command line for unpacking.

[nitrofurano]

on GNU/Linux (and perhaps other Unix-based operating systems, like OSX, BSD, Irix, SunOS/OpenIndiana, etc.):

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for i in *.vgz; do mv "$i" "$i".vgm.gz ; done
for i in *.vgm.gz; do gunzip "$i" ; done

if you also want to optimize delay commands, synchronizing them with "wait-videoblank" (each 60hz)

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for i in *.vgm; do vgm_facc "$i" ; done

on other operating systems: i have no idea, at all!

[ValleyBell]

No, no, no, you DEFINITELY should NOT to use vgm_facc unless you know 110% exactly what you're doing.
And unless you're submitting packs at SMSPower!, you should not use it at all.
It's also deadly for any sort of software-streamed PCM, which is what you do on the MegaDrive.

At this point I'm considering to either remove the precompiled binary or write a tool that detects such things.

[nitrofurano]

i‘m indeed very curious about the most notable examples for comparison!