Compiling Archon Player by Stello Doussis

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Compiling Archon Player by Stello Doussis

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Hi folks,

Kind of a longshot since this forum don't seem to be that active, but still. I'm currently trying to find out some decent ways of utilizing good, cross-dev music-routines. I've previously used the Paragon 5 Tracker / Gameboy Tracker which is sort of OK but it outputs a midi-like stream that takes a lot of space. I've also been using Aleksi's Carillion, which is great (but native) and a bit too limited / lacking effects.

So, i've looked into some disappointing options. But - I suddenly remembered that I downloaded Stello Doussis awesome Archon Player a few years back. After getting the utils running (and a few hours of looking through the modules in OpenMPT) I kind of got a grip on how things worked. The real problem comes when I try to assemble the source.

As it seems, Stello was using the last incarnation of CGBIDE to develop this. CGBIDE is nowhere to be found, so I don't know what version nor what assembler (probably WLA-GB or RGBDS?) it was bundled with. Both the included WLA-GB (returns a syntax error early in the code) and RGBASM refuse to compile it. I've uploaded the file (https://file.io/KczwhK) for you to look at and will try to include it in this post as well. Do any of you guys know how to make this compile properly?

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Archon Player, by Stello Doussis.
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Re: Compiling Archon Player by Stello Doussis

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Ok, part of the mystery solved - I tried far too new versions of RGBDS. I haven't linked and fixed the resulting file, but it seems like RGBASM v1.11 compiles the source without problems. This gives some hope that a toolchain can be created that would enable:

* Creation of gameboy-music using tried contemporary tools instead of FastTracker II (OpenMPT).
* Converting your 6-channel .XM to data that can be used by the Archon Player.
* Assembling and linking the output to a native gameboy binary or .gbs

...and all this in one of the best sounding musicroutines on the GB/GBC. If you guys want to try compiling it, Otakus old version is still available from -> http://otakunozoku.com/rednex-gameboy-d ... nt-system/
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Re: Compiling Archon Player by Stello Doussis

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GJ 2f! Looking forward to some badass tunes. The one from CPL menu is still one of my favourites. :beer:
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