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NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 2:49 am
by Karmic
I have started work on a configuration file for sidid, but instead of identifying C64 players, it identifies NSF players. I have also created a small modification of the original program, so it looks for NSFs instead of SIDs.

The signature file is not complete, but I'd like your thoughts on this.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 3:14 am
by Rahsennor
I was actually thinking of integrating something similar into my NSF player. Consider me interested.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2016 6:42 am
by tepples
HertzDevil had a similar idea.


It's not traditional to use .exe with UNIX executables. You can usually detect the difference between UNIX and Windows by the absence or presence of the COMSPEC environment variable.

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# Use .exe only on Windows, which defines COMSPEC
ifdef COMSPEC
DOTEXE:=.exe
else
DOTEXE:=
endif
EXENAME:=nsfid$(DOTEXE)

.PHONY: all
all: $(EXENAME)

$(EXENAME): nsfid.c
	gcc $^ -Wall -O3 -s -o $@
This makefile incorporates COMSPEC as well as three other changes:
  • You can strip debugging symbols from the output while linking by using -s in the command line that produces the executable.
  • Use two automatic variables so that the makefile doesn't repeat itself: $^ means "name of all dependencies", and $@ means "name of the target".
  • Target names that do not refer to an actual file, such as all, clean, and the like, need to be declared .PHONY so that Make doesn't get confused if there's an actual file by that name.
Some error checking is missing. -Wall in GCC 4.8.5 includes -Wunused-result, and you're ignoring return values of several standard library functions declared with attribute warn_unused_result:
  • getcwd at lines 100, 175, 321
  • chdir at lines 174, 177, 333, 335
  • fscanf at line 199
  • fread at line 199, 390
Once I compiled the program and ran it from a terminal, the output was as follows:

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.../nsfid$ ./nsfid
Using configfile 
No signatures defined!
It's traditional, if a required argument is missing, to recommend on stderr that the user run programname --help.

Usage is somewhat confusing, as it works only on directories, not individual files.

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.../nsfid$ NSFIDCFG=./nsfid.cfg ./nsfid ~/Music/old_nt2_nsfs
emerald_hill.nsf                                         NerdTracker_II
meatspin.nsf                                             NerdTracker_II
fuga7777.nsf                                             NerdTracker_II
Opentris.nsf                                             NerdTracker_II
bomblodev2.nsf                                           NerdTracker_II
dy-covers.nsf                                            NerdTracker_II
Butterfly.nsf                                            NerdTracker_II

Detected players:
NerdTracker_II           7

Statistics:
Identified               7
Unidentified             0
Total files examined     7
.../nsfid$ NSFIDCFG=./nsfid.cfg ./nsfid ~/Music/old_nt2_nsfs/dy-covers.nsf
Using configfile ./nsfid.cfg

Statistics:
Identified               0
Unidentified             0
Total files examined     0
I ran it against the development folder for my own music engine, whose source code can be browsed:

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.../nsfid$ NSFIDCFG=./nsfid.cfg ./nsfid ~/develop/pently 
Using configfile ./nsfid.cfg

Statistics:
Identified               0
Unidentified             1
Total files examined     1
Any tips on making signatures that are distinctive yet resilient to minor changes in new versions of the engine, beyond those listed on the sidid GitHub project?

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2016 4:49 pm
by Karmic

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2017 3:37 am
by Karmic
Been a while since I posted anything related to this. Here's a new signature file, with a whole lot more added :)

And sorry, but no update to the program. I am not proficient at all in C++ :/

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 6:55 pm
by NovaSquirrel
This update only contains the config file, and the link with the actual program in the first post is dead.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Tue Apr 11, 2017 7:09 pm
by tepples
Here's the program

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2017 11:39 pm
by Karmic
Another update. I also added information to the unknown id's in the nsfid.nfo file, so if you have any info on these then please feel free to tell me.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Mon Jun 05, 2017 8:40 am
by tepples
I decided to look at how you're detecting Pently in the new cfg:

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Damian_Yerrick
DE ?? ?? 10 ?? BD ?? ?? 9D ?? ?? B5 ?? 85 ?? B5 ?? 85 ?? 18 69 END
(Pently)
BD ?? ?? 1D ?? ?? D0 ?? A5 ?? D0 ?? E0 08 F0 ?? A9 30 9D 00 40 END
You've correctly determined that pentlysound.s is on the whole less volatile than pentlymusic.s. I matched both snippets to parts of the pently_update_one_ch subroutine there:
  1. The first snippet is the "playback rate divider" and "fetch the instruction" parts of sound effect envelope processing.
  2. The second snippet is the code immediately preceding it, which mutes a channel if its sound effect has finished and its instrument is silent.
Incidentally, after reviewing this subroutine, I see room to optimize "fetch the instruction". I may act on it later.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 10:30 pm
by Karmic
Another update.

I'd like to ask out of curiosity, is anyone actually using this tool for anything? If so, then what for? Don't worry too much about the answer, I'll continue work on this regardless :p

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 10:33 am
by B00daW
Hey, Karmic, do you think you can post this up at like GitHub or something? (People could push updates to the database.) It would be nice if this was also incorporated into NSFPlay and VirtuaNSF too. :)

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 8:33 pm
by Karmic
B00daW wrote:Hey, Karmic, do you think you can post this up at like GitHub or something? (People could push updates to the database.)
Seems like a good idea, but I have a hard time thinking that anyone would actually bother. Aside from HertzDevil maybe, but I think he has his own solution already.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2017 12:20 pm
by Karmic
Time to update this thing again.

Note that "?FCP3_Unknown_1" is a player used on quite a few Famicompo Pico 3 entries, but due to the compo's anonymous nature I can't provide a proper name for now.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2017 8:25 pm
by Karmic
Another small update with only a few fixes for existing IDs. Still 356 unidentified NSFs in Knurek's archive.

Re: NES playroutine identifier

Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2017 6:31 pm
by Gil-Galad
I am definitely going to be messing with this program. I have skimmed through all the files and I'm about to fire it up soon.