Who made the Homebrew Channel music?
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
- So, I got this tune stuck in my head.
And I wanted to know more about it.
This is a video about just that. Kind of.
Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:55 Who made this music?
3:26 Hardware Hacking
6:25 CCC
8:43 Starlet
12:09 Team Twiizers moment
13:40 The Twilight Hack
15:20 CHANNELS!
16:08 The HBC is born
17:15 The Contests
19:01 How do we use this data?
22:00 Finding this guy
24:58 Interview
31:08 Ending and Special Thanks
drmr's twitter profile: / _drmr_
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Intro music: Pegasus Mix - Dark Archon (arhn.eu)
Outro: Bee Line (YM2151 Cover) - John Tay
Twitch: / f4micom
Twitter: / f4micom
Discord: / discord 
Игры
You made a good effort to explain the tweezers story, but I want to make a few corrections.
The GCN had the PowerPC Gekko CPU. The GCN motherboard also included 24MiB of RAM (SPLASH) and 16MiB of auxillary RAM (ARAM). The former was physically addressable, while the latter was only accessible via the Audio Interface.
The Wii had the PowerPC Broadway CPU, which operated PowerPC code virtually identically to the Gekko. Its main differences were a higher clock speed, plus embedding the 24MiB of SPLASH (renamed to MEM1) and the Starlet coprocessor inside its die. As for the motherboard, ARAM was removed, while 64MiB of physically addressable RAM (named MEM2) was added. When in GameCube mode (MIOS), MEM2 was made inaccessible to the CPU by Starlet, and the legacy Audio Interface would use the lowest 16MiB of MEM2 to simulate ARAM for GCN games.
Team Twiizers used GameCube homebrew to peek into MEM2 to extract private keys, 16MiB at a time. And yes, this was made possible by using the tweezers to bridge data lines.
I hope I did not get anything too terribly wrong in my correction. :P
Pinning this! Thank you!!!
@@f4micom Oh no, I wanted to make a quick edit but now it's too late. I accidentally said Starlet was embedded in the Broadway when it was embedded in the Hollywood.
@@Minty_Meeo It's not too late - you can edit youtube comments!
@@kelownatechkid Not pinned ones. At least, not without losing the pin.
@@Minty_Meeo Exactly, she can just pin it again :D
-Great sense of humor ✅
-Amazing editing ✅
-Solid soundtrack ✅
-Compelling/informative story ✅
-Comprehensive guide to stalking people on the internet ✅
man i love this channel (props for the aspect ratio, too!!)
@@slyceth if thats true, give us the og link
@@slyceth Two videos/creators can discuss the same topic. I very seriously doubt someone created this entire video, editing, interviews, collaborators and all and got it reuploaded by f4mi
If you have proof, feel free to share
-ddlc reference
@@slyceth proof?
girls can stalk guys, that's not weird at all
I'd say "AWESOME VIDEO" but I think it's more fitting here to say "awesome video" 😁
Thanks, you helped me mod my PS Vita :D
2nd reply
It's awesome baby
How about *_awesome video_* instead?
0 would also be an acceptable way to verify your compliment
"can i commit treason on my wii?"
i was NOT expecting "hacking my wii" to be said like that lol
fami has esl swag
I do absolutely love the fact you made the entire video natively in 4:3, kinda adds to the nostalgia factor i feel like you mightve been going for.
Ouu im glad youre not the only one who noticed thatt
what is 4:3
@@iamsosillythatyoutubewillbanme4:3 is a video aspect ratio that was primarily used for television sets back before the 16:9 "widescreen" aspect ratio became the new standard aspect ratio for the majority of current modern displays.
When we made the jump to make HD video resolution the new standard resolution, that was when 16:9 became the standard and replaced 4:3.
I thought my ipad was using the 'fill to screen' thing when I saw it in the moment 😭
I have watched this video 5 times and I have not noticed it lmao
Last time i found a channel this underrated it became the thing called "Scott the Woz", let's see what happens with this one.
Last time for me it was Wendigoon
@@barretthoven same
same here with scott and a lil guy named ant dude so lets see
for me it was a youtuber called "Rogurt"
I’ve been watching Nathaniel Bandy since 2014 so like around 40 tho subs
Hey! I just wanna say that I really appreciate the subtitles esp as someone who has terrible hearing and whose first language isn't english. It must take a good amount of time to transcribe everything so I just wanna say thanks for all of the effort you put into the video :D
NO REPLIES: I~LL FIX THAT. ALSO 54:23 IS MY FAVORITE MOMENT
BOT.@@4ur3o
Man, I feel like I'm watching the second coming of Nick Robinson paying homage to obscure internet topics through a very well edited video. It's just another way to say I love your videos!
So far my main takeaway from this is lowercase passwords are secure and the security in the wii is actually ddlc
ddlc
doki
doki
literature
club
@@YoudonknowwhoIam horse horse literature club
@@kittensgalore6945 please stop existing in this multiverse
@@YoudonknowwhoIam why
@@kittensgalore6945 you said “horse horse literature club”
He says he jokes about it, but I would eat up a concept album based on the homebrew channel music.
Id listen non stop for years till I die
Deadass i want that
You could probably get very close in terms of style/theme by having a track mix from "Local on the 8's" and "Boards of Canada".
It does seem like a strong candidate for Kickstarter. 😄
The Homebrew Channel music brings me an unimaginable amount of nostalgia
The comment I was looking for
"Brew Like a pro!" The creators are LITERALLY Pros.
I love this video style. This is so fun to watch hahaaaa can't wait for more c:
I love how this video feels like a love letter to that very specific era of gaming history so many people grew up with. It's surreal to think of how accessible and influential these mods were, and this lil' tune is probably one of those reasons. Thank you for making another great video.
(Also at 24:52 I felt immediately called out when you said this, you got me right as I was alt tabbing)
I watched this video three times already because of how interesting it is and just realised the entire video is edited in 4:3 XD. I love the aesthetics in your editing style it's so good!
What's funny is that I didn't even notice it was 4:3 until I read the comments. 😄
This video is absolutely amazing!
The editing was creative, the jokes were perfectly timed, and the story was 👌.
I'm glad this has blown up!
You're just one of those hidden gems on youtube that I fell in love with. Keep up the great work and effort on these videos. They're super good and helpful as background noise for drawing!
I'm so happy someone finally made a video discussing the homebrew channel music. Its kinda hard to describe but every since I jailbroke my wii I've always been fascinated with custom wii banners and their music, especially ones from the early wii hacking days. Idk there's just something about them that can't be replicated. Really good video as always f4mi, I look forward to more soon!
"i booked a flight to drmr's twitter dms in search of answers"
Not many times I find myself completely immersed in a youtube documentary, enough to put on fullscreen mode and enjoy. Don't get me wrong I love yt documentaries, but I always watch them while scrolling amazon or drawing. Your dialogue is engaging and your script was very fun, the editing kept me entertained thoroughly and i learned more about a topic I barely knew about !
Subscribed + bell, honestly very happy to see this content on youtube
This is really well edited and written. Your passion shines through.
I'm excited to see where you go from here!
This video is amazing, it's literally what I've dreamt of when thinking about making content for my own channel, beautiful graphics that give personality to the content, large extension of the content spread in structured segments and with breaks for humour and breaths of fresh air before going to the most technical parts of the content, tremendous narration and genius way to tell the history, man I'm even loving the title, simple question, but that stucks in your brain, how can a jingle song from a hack Wii channel be so interesting to give substance to a 30 minute video about the theme, the aspect ratio, never, never in my life team have i enjoyed more watching content at 4:3 aspect ratio, though at times I thought it was 3:2, along with the graphics, edits and animation and all the dynamisms of the art in the video it simply made it amazing for making the content simply pop-up and stand out from the average RUclips content.
Honestly love this video, everything about it is simply great, it's inspiring for somebody that has been thinking quite a lot about making content, this is really the way I'd like people to feel and think about my content if I've ever make it.
Super mega hella subscribed, excited for your next content, that said sorry for this comment, it might give you some pressure but fuck that, if this is anything your channel has to offer, we are for a hell of a ride, because it is simply put amazing!!!
Honestly I can always appreciate the effort that was put to make the Homebrew Channel banner as good as it is. It really does feel like something that could be official.
Yeah, it blows my mind -- like when all that stuff was new, I had assumed they just replaced a built-in channel that wasn't "enabled" or something and just changed the text. --- I never realized until now that they made the music and graphics themselves! 🤯
This music is super nostalgic and now I've got this video about it to thank for getting me into the rabbit hole of the rest of your videos. Super well made!
he should actually do a homebrew music concept album
It would, already does have fans.
Woah, what a gem to come across on. Such a high quality video, I'm sure you'll grow more and more if you keep pumping these videos out. I'm definitely gonna watch your future videos. I really enjoyed watching
it is already my third video,,,
I love that people appreciate things as small as a 5 second tune. i used to listen to the music from the wii store icon too and it's great to see that i'm not the only one who appreciates it
This is probably one of my favorite videos of all time. the style, the humor and how you managed to explain the entire situation very well! I wasn't born early enough to know about the homebrew channel yet I still got invested in it!
This one has been on my recommended for awhile, and I gotta say this was one entertaining journey of a question I've never considered. I really love your unique editing style, nice job !
This is legitimately the best dev interview ive heard in years
I could make jokes about this or that, but im just left in aw by the dedication it took :)
Gonna share some more love! I love how this doubled as a brief history of the Homebrew Channel simultaneously as a hunt, and it didn’t feel forced at all, which is something many editors (myself included) have struggled with! This is such an interesting topic and you handled it phenomenally!
This video was a random recommendation to me by RUclips while I was trying to find one last video to watch for the night and when I saw the title I thought "good question, Imma watch this" and I enjoyed it. I think the Wii Homebrew Channel music still holds up with its rhythm and vibe that it gives.
The backstory on how theWii got hacked in the first placeand the creation of the Homebrew Channel (the events that took place, the people involved, the other drmr, etc) was nice as it gave the context necessary to piece all the details together.
Really solid video altogether and I'll have to check your other videos as this is the first time I've encountered your channel.
This is the first video I am watching of your YT channel, and in the very first 15 minutes I am pretty amazed by everything you made for the video, the information, the edtiing, the humor, amazing!
I can't believe how underrated this channel is despite the amazing video quality, keep it up!
Thank you so much for making videos that touch on incredibly obscure yet super interesting topics! Your channel is amazing and I can't wait to see what you do next!
just found your channel yesterday. your videos are so well made. i'd pay for a subscription service for quality like this. absolutely great work.
I love the fact that you not only painstakingly recreate the edit from Petscop (1:05) with your own text but also the making the listed url actually work you actual madlad.
this is incredible right ?
This was an immensely well-done video. Love the great research, the humour, and the progression of the storytelling. I'm also impressed with your editing, must have taken you a lot of time. Cheers!
"Can I commit treason on the Wii?"
Asking the real questions
what’s treason?
So glad to the RUclips algorithm for letting me discover this channel by recommending me this video today, watched 1+ hours of videos like it was nothing in those few 24 hours of free time that I have every week, and I'm not disappointed at all of it because of the great narration and subtle sarcasm, and the question itself was soooo legitimately interesting too. Your voice and accent are funny in a way but kinda cute and calming to listen to too!
Will definitely watch some of the other videos, great job f4mi (I guess that the decapitalization adds to the _aesthetic_ so I'll keep it like that)
Just wanted to say that I love your editing, presentation, and mix of games, anime, pop culture references, and tech. It's a perfect mix and I am interested in all of those things.
Awesome jokes, nice timing, perfect execution, gave away lots of Scott the Woz vibes, tbh.
The humor is awesome, the narration is awesome, the content is very original and is a very well made research.
You should really consider dedicating more time to this, because this is really high quality content, and you could really blow up if content output became consistent. I'd love to see more videos like this!
Congratulations on the awesome work!
BRUH R U BRAZILIAn:::::::: 54:23 IS MY FAVORITE MOMENT
this video is amazing! it had me literally laughing out loud a few times. the 4:3 aspect ratio by itself transported me back to 2000s. fantastic video as always, f4mi
I just want to say I absolutely LOVE your presentation style!
It's really captivating and your humor is on point.
You've earned another subscriber :)
First video Ive ever seen of yours and it was really good!! I love being able to learn about random stuff like this and it was very well put together :)
Thank you so much for this... The homebrew music thing is the kind of questions that I ask myself when I'm bored af, but apart from giving us the answer (which is what we wanted at first), you have done it with *style* (very good editing) and *determination* (spent enough time to tell everything about the answer instead of just naming the guy who made the music).
We need more people like you on the Internet, I'm definitely subscribing. Keep up the good work!
I didn't know you before but this video is just awesome and all the effort put in research was definitely worth skipping work to watch it closely. Btw, amazing editing, I enjoyed it a lot and I feel it goes along really well with all the story. Congrats and thanks for this high quality content!
Thank you for making this amazing and well made video!! I've had the same question in the back of my mind as well, and you answered it perfectly! You really went the extra mile. Great editing, too
This video is so well made. I get chills when I hear that Homebrew Jingle, its one of those things I thought no one else ever thought about. Simply amazing!
i literally love your personality during this video, you go into great detail about stuff and make it goofy and still make sense and i absolutely love the fuck out of that
Your channel is criminally underrated given your level of research/editing.
So I'm leaving a comment as an offering to the algorithm.
Keep it up!
Finalmente !!! Hace tanto buscaba este dato. Thanks your video was just amazing, good editing and graphic style I definitely suscribe 😁😁😁
I only found your channel today, and I really appreciate this kind of content, very informative, but staying humorous throughout. Subscribed and the bell is rung. I look forward to whatever you make a video on next!
The quality of this video is top-notch! I always had an interest in the Homebrew of Wii, but never dived down the rabbit hole for say. Thanks for taking the time to make a well sourced video with good info! :) Keep up the great work!
As someone else has pointed out before, this channel truly is a diamond in the rough.
You just popped up in my recommended one day and I gave you a go, and I can say I am thoroughly satisfied with the content you make! Quite entertaining whilst holding an informative format.
This was amazing! You managed to make a talk about a chip interesting, you fulfilled the question in the best way possible! Impressive.
You even interviewed the man itself!
The production quality is worth a sub
This was an amazing video! The sense of humor was perfect, not too much but just the right amount to keep me laughing yet focused throughout! It was incredibly informational which is what I wanted so I am very happy. Excellent work!
this is such a legendary video, i keep coming back to watch it over and over again. i love how you explained the history behind the HBC, you did an amazing job documenting the story of how my wii is modded today. the HBC got me interested in modding, and i have an even greater appreciation for the Wii and it's community
Excellent documentary! Very funny, very well explained, with beautiful visuals, excellent researches, and amazing storytelling, that's great!
I just discovered the channel, and I can't wait to see the rest. Keep up the good work! 👍
Your channel is seriously underrated f4mi, I've binge watched it all and it's a real nice mix of somewhat obscure stuff and awesome humor, I'm glad youtube recommended me this
also comment so the algorithm can do its unga bunga and recommend it to more people
What an exceptional piece of art! I never knew that I wanted to know the story, but now that I randomly watched the video I really appreciate your work and the funny and cute way youre doing it. Sometimes youtube really surprises me ;-) Have fun and all my best wishes to you!!
RUclips recommended this to me, and I absolutely do not regret it. The editing is amazing, it's easy to follow, and was very informative !
Definitely waiting for your next video
unreasonably interesting and high quality as always, f4mi
Thanks.
For years I've wanted to know who this person was, and not only have you achieved that, but you've done a complete summary of the history of the Wii hack and interviewed him. You've done what I needed in the form of a very complete video and I really appreciate that. It's one of the best RUclips videos I've ever seen.
I'm so glad I stumbled upon your channel! Really cool video you have here. The first one I saw was the Super Mario backport video, also a great video!
absolute gem of a video, i finally had time to watch this and it did not disappoint. 30 mins at 1am well spent, great work.
This video was a rollercoaster and it was so good. Also the nontechnical explanation of how they broke the wii was spot on
I *loved* this video, the aesthetic was awesome + I am a big fan of 4:3. You have earned a new subscriber!
Very interesting and fun video! I happened to see it in my recommendations and just a few minutes in, I knew I had to watch the whole thing. I'm glad I did!
More interviews?! :)
Quality content! Subscribed!
The super Mario world 5k video was great too!!
you deserve more subscribers fr your editing and explanation are so good
Solid video. I grew up with the wii and always had an interest in modding (but I never could as I was super young and didn’t have a computer or the slightest idea of how to make anything work.) some time has passed and now I have a computer and I’ve learned a bit more about modding but I don’t have a functional wii anymore. I’ve been considering getting one so I could finally see what I missed for so many years.
Came here with the expectation of a 30 min interview. But got so much much than that.
Amazing video, gonna check your other works.
your humor and editing are great, really glad I found this channel. lots of respect for the amount of research too!
Wow, this vid was a trip. Never heard about twiisers. Fantastic from start to finish, only criticism I could give is doing a bit over volume normalization so the audio doesn’t get quieter and louder throughout the video
well that was cool. not often does youtube throw something this good into my feed. you've managed to tell a really nerdy story about, literally, a random thing in such a way to keep my adhd ass engaged for the whole 30 minutes. the jokes, the story, and a really cool aesthetic, all the ingredients of a quality video. love the 4:3 btw.
Awesome digging and very interesting story. Thanks so much for sharing! (Came here after just getting the kick of the awesome channel music by drmr!
this is really really reaaaallly interesting! I love it :D
hope this gain more recognition and your channel as well
more of these please!
You should make a Patreon account. I would love to support this channel!
Seconded!!
I greatly appreciate your willingness to donate with Patreon, but before doing anything like that (a regular monthly thing) I really REALLY want to be sure to be able to post regularly or at least semi-regularly here, so I'd rather wait for a bit/see if the channel grows further before doing anything like that!
BUT I might open a ko-fi soon for single-time donations if you want to support the channel :)
@@f4micom Keep dropping bangers like this and your channel will pick up steam in no time.
Damn, this might be the most underrated RUclips channel I've found. Love the Portal music also
I only came across your videos recently but im in LOVE with your channel. Your sense of humor, your videos are really engaging and entertaining, well edited, its a shame you only have 26k subs. I REALLY hope your channel grows because these videos are legitmately so good
Amazing video! I love the style/editing. I love how technical it was yet explained in a form easy to understand and very entertaining! Didn't make me zoomerbrain this into the background and 30 minutes flew by ;) Subscribed and gonna check out more of your videos! Keep it up!
I never felt so called out as I did by the "doing 3 other things" awesome video loved it to have as a background while I play Stellaris lol
She nearly nailed the stereotype, but I saw 3D pinball in there. Do Zoomers play that game? 😄
@@PhoticsTV it's a fun pinball game, it's free, AND it's made by maxis(i think?).
don't see why zoomers wouldn't play it.
I just wanted to say thank you because that could sound silly but I consider this type of work important for history. Having the opportunity to know more about the person who created this 15 sec loop I've been obsessed with for years is incredible. That just shows how music can left a mark on us and sometimes we simply create masterpieces that will be defining.
I really became a fan of this video format where people search for answers to something enigmatic in the video game world where people are usually anonymous. I remember this video where a guy searched for what the background image of a test stage which is only accessible in Smash Melee's code was. The answer was very interesting. And all of this is possible thanks to the Internet. Crazy world we live in. Time to go back to listen to a 10 hour loop of the Homebrew Channel music now.
Excellent video, very informative and well made. I appreciate the effort taken to make this video. It is my first time watching you and you have earned a like and a subscription
We're more or less the same age, I've installed and used HBC a lot back in the days. Learnt many things and this music I love stuck with me for all those years. Thank you!
Este vídeo estuvo muy bueno. Muy buena edición. Parece un documental de Netflix. Eres genial. Ya me suscribí
sounds like a female Sr. Pelo
Wow, one of the most interesting documentaries I’ve ever seen, I was asking myself “what could say about homebrew channel music for 30 min?” And I’m absolutely amazed. I remember when i was a kid achieving installing homebrew but not getting further, so I only opened the channel to hear the music, and omg I enjoyed so much. THANK YOU for this video.
i spilled my drink at the start of this video and forgot about it till the end and stepped in it when i got up, nice work!
I love the 4:3 format used in this video, I wish more videos on RUclips experimented with non-widescreen aspect ratios. It makes the video inherently compelling & it looks great, considering it fits with the Wii screen recordings.
4:3 and 16:10 >> 16:9. On standard displays, horizontal real estate is far more important than vertical
i love how this goes out 2 days after i bought a hat in time, found the homebrew channel easter egg, loved it, then yesterday thought about it again, looked it up, and started to fall into the rabbit hole and saw that video by the other drmr. what a coincidence, and happened to be uploaded by one of my favorite youtubers
such fucking good editing and its so fun to watch, the 100 gecs bit with the horse gave me whiplash and so many other little game and media references.. made me so happy
rewatching this for the fourth time. actual quality content, always a pleasure to watch
I used to be really into Wii hacking and homebrew when I was a kid so it was really cool to find a channel that makes video essays on the history of that stuff!
one of the coolest things in this video is that it feels like 2006 youtube videos
Leaving a comment to boost engagement. You honestly make really good videos and I'm glad this got thrown into my recommendations.
This is a great channel and you deserve more recognition, keep up the good work and everyone tell your friends about the awesome content they make!
The military level encryption that toshiba pulled off is truly breathtaking, only accidental mass child doxer vtech could truely compare to this level of security expertise.
It seems like you have been blessed by The Algorithm(TM) lately! :D
But seriously, this was, as always, outstanding work, especially for such a short (albeit very catchy) tune.
In fact, you've inspired me to do a bit of my own investigation over another short piece of music that has been stuck inside my head lately: your actual outro music. Incredibly catchy tune, I just _needed_ to know where it came from.
TL;DR: It's the "Star" (or sometimes called "Shooting Star") ringtone from early 2000's LG phones.
I began looking for the "Bee Line" cover as you state in the video's description. Its author is so generous, they even shared the DefleMask project file where they made the tune as well as the exported .VGM file! (I'm just waiting for someone to play this cover on actual arcade hardware, as the YM2151 wasn't all that uncommon, and the drum samples could be ported to any PCM sampler hardware, or they could even be synthesized on the YM2151 itself with some work.) The VGM is a bit broken though, as VGMplay complains that there are some issues with loops or whatever, and after reaching the end of the file, it just crashes instead of looping the tune forever. A bit annoying, but I'm sure a bit of hex-editor magic later could fix it.
Anyway, I started looking up what this "Bee Line" was and what it had to do with the tune. I landed on a video (RAhd888iyTU) which plays the ringtone directly from the phone (no cover, this is the original). However, the video's author pointed out that "Bee Line" has nothing to do with the actual song, it was apparently just a name of a Russian GSM provider which people have associated with the song, and that the song (as they have said) is called "LG Sound / LG Tune". (that might be true in an alternate universe, but it has a different name here - I did not know this when I was still searching though.)
However, I would not be satisfied until I got the raw original file which the phone used to play the ringtone (I suspected at that time that it was just MIDI, and I was actually partly right, you'll see later). I kept searching (with that partly-false "LG Sound / LG Tune" name), and I was unable to find the original file (of course, with such a generic name), but I managed to stumble upon another video (W6Gbx2kezec) playing the exact same tune, but on several other LG phones, which means that this was quite a common tune for LG phones back then.
Fun fact: now, after listening to the original recordings from those old LG phones, you might think that it sounds a lot like something that would come straight out of a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis or something, and you'd be very much correct. These old LG phones use sound chips from Yamaha that contain an FM synthesizer inside (the acronym is weird, as the chips actually use phase modulation and _not_ frequency modulation, but whatever, it's the standard now to call this FM instead of PM), which is the exact same underlying technology for generating sound that was also used in the old Mega Drive (as well as the YM2151, the chip which was used for the cover that inspired this entire hunt for the original). So if the original recordings' instruments sound somewhat familiar, now you know.
However, now that I have the exact phone model numbers where this same tune was used, I began searching again. I stroke luck when I looked up "LG G3100 ringtone". The first search result was a video (jbkFdARyYa4) where this exact tune (among all others from that phone) was being synthesized on a computer! I looked at the comments, and lo and behold, they have shared with us the original files (if you're looking for the file, it's 03_ShootingStar.mmf - that's where I learnt the ringtone's actual name)! Hallelujah!
Well... sort of. These files were in some strange format with the extension .MMF, which I had not heard of up until that point. According to Wikipedia, it is the Synthetic music mobile application format, or SMAF for short (one of the "M"s apparently went on a holiday or whatever). It is, in essence, an upgraded version of MIDI (so I wasn't that wrong with my previous assumption after all) with enhanced support for custom-defined FM instruments, PCM samples and even graphics data (???). What was worse, I couldn't find any software (for Linux) that could play this weird, obscure and very much obsolete format. FFplay just tells me "MIDI like format found, unsupported" and that it is "Not yet implemented in FFmpeg, patches welcome", and my MIDI players refused to even open it. Great.
The author of that video used a piece of software called MidRadio from Yamaha themselves, so I wanted to give that a go. I found some MidRadio 7.2 from the Internet Archive, so I grabbed that, installed it on my Linux system through Wine, loaded the .MMF song, and... no audio output from the program. What a letdown.
I then installed the same version of MidRadio onto my Windows 7 virtual machine, and that (even though the UI is all messed up, as the software is only in Japanese) seems to finally work and play the file fine! Hooray!
Aaaand that's it for now. I just need to find some sort of a way to convert that 5 kB .MMF file into something more intelligent that my other audio players could handle (perhaps some sample-based tracker format, like .XM?) so that I can play this song on loop for hours on end, while I do some other work (as I do not want to have that VM running all the time, it is making my laptop so loud that I am almost getting afraid that it might just fly away). Or maybe I could just convert it into MIDI to make the cycle complete! :D
Oh, and the composer is stated as "Unknown". Maybe contacting LG could reveal some further details?
***UPDATE***: I managed (through a program called PSMPlayer and a bit of hex-tweaking, as the original .MMF file is copy-"protected" - it literally only needed to change one byte to 00 in order to work) to convert the original .MMF file into MIDI!
To save you the trouble, you can grab the converted MIDI file at the following URL for your own pleasure: prochazka (dot) ml (forwardslash) shootingstar (dot) mid
(replace the (dot) and (forwardslash) with their respective symbols, obviously)
It sounds especially nice with the Fluid R3 soundfont, as it provides a nice clean square wave. Of course, the default Microsoft GS Wavetable Synth that comes with Windows since the 90s, sounds like a Fisher-Price toy, as it always does.
Damn, that's some dedication you got. Good job my dude.
@@mnivvy Thank you! :D
your videos are amazing! thank you for your wonderful research and for getting to the bottom of these timeless mysteries!
One month ago I remembered out of nowhere about the catchy music of the Homebrew Channel.
I immediately looked up who made the track and luckily came across your video. Thanks for your work 🙏, it made me remember the good old times with my Wii.