I had a really bad bout of insomnia over the weekend, so I decided to get around to making a tool that I'd promised a long time ago.

EZNSF is intended to make it easy to turn an NSF into a ROM you can play in an emulator or on a flash cart, etc.

Basically just make an NSF with Famitracker, edit a little album description text file, run the utility, and out pops a ROM. The default mapper is the newish Mapper 31, which makes NSF bankswitching possible to support. Several good emulators, as well as the Everdrive N8 now support mapper 31

, but there is also an NROM output option for those that need it.

https://github.com/bbbradsmith/eznsf/releases/download/1.0/eznsf.zip

https://github.com/bbbradsmith/eznsf

There's a lot more explanation in the readme file. Everything's open source. It requires Python 3.

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woah this is cooool

i am just glad this is not called "ez8bit" because "ez8" is good whereas that is not

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Awesome work! Was just talking about how Everdrives don't have an NSF player last night. If software timing ever gets introduced it would be the greatest thing ever.

My hero <3

once more you managed to achieve incredibly cool stuff for the chiptune community, i am very grateful! props, rainwarrior! =' D

If by "software timing" you mean update rates other than the video refresh rate (60/50hz), that's not something I will ever attempt to add to this.

It's completely open source, though, if you think you know a practical way to do it. (I don't.)

Intentional double-negative?

Not not not anymore, sucker!

If by "software timing" you mean update rates other than the video refresh rate (60/50hz), that's not something I will ever attempt to add to this.

It's completely open source, though, if you think you know a practical way to do it. (I don't.)

I thought I had read something on this topic but I'm not finding it. PowerPak probably uses its FPGA to generate the interrupts for non-standard rate playback. I'll take your word on this, you're the lizard of NES dev after all.

Won't work on PowerPak unless someone creates a mapper 31 for it.

The PowerPak NSF player does not use IRQs. Its NSF mapper has a hardware timer that it polls for when to begin a new frame.

Anyhow, yes, unrelated to this project, because it relies on Mapper 31, which doesn't have such a timer.

If you want, you could do something with render timings like sprite 0 and/or the very tricky sprite overflow to split the frame into 2 or 3 parts (120/180Hz). That'd be a very specific solution for your very specific music, though.

had a look at it and the zip file looks like a mess. I thought this would be a simple way to convert BotB nsfs into nes roms but its not that simple. all I wanted to do was to convert nsfs to nes so I could convert them into gba roms so I could play them in PockitNES. I don't think PocketNES supports nsf file playback.

it's not a mess, really; after installing python 3 (link for it is on the readme.txt file; be sure to check "[x]add python 3.7 to PATH" and hit the "disable path length limit" button at the end if there's one), just edit the album.txt file (you can pretty much ignore everything from the "# text for the info screen" line afterwards for simplicity's sake), and then run eznsf.bat. the output will be eznsf.nes on the temp folder

also the .nsf should be in the eznsf folder (probably, idk if it'll accept if i just type "NSF C:\something\myfile.nsf")

LOL djmaximum, the readme is pretty clear about the usage, what makes you think it is a mess?

If you want to do the thing quickly, just list 1 track with a generic name and some random duration and it'll work just fine

I thought it would be something like GBS2GB, very user friendly UI and doesn't require any additional tools that need to be installed.

requiring additional tools isn't uncommon; many applications require, for instance, .net framework, java, etc. python is just another one of those.

also, it's just editing a text file and double clicking a .bat file, it might not have a friendly UI but it's still simple enough; instead of editing those values inside of a UI, you just edit them in the .txt file, and it'll work the exact same way.

he's using macOS

it's not like he doesn't have Wine, besides Python interpreter is available for pretty much anything

EDIT: Oh yeah, he's gonna need Wine though, there are Windows compiler binaries that tool uses oops

i know, i mean apple products: friendly ui > txt-editing
he's used to it ;D

I just can't beg everyone for the FTM or 0cc modules just so I could export them into a nes rom and then convert them into gba roms afterwords.

you don't need to; this converter converts .nsf files, not .ftm/.0cc