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1. Tools
2. Restrictions on submit
3. Workarounds to get a valid .ftm
4. Accepted file format
5. Playback (for voting)
6. See also

The famitracker format is a specific format of the 2a03 tracker FamiTracker. Note that format is specifically for modules written with the original version(s) of FamiTracker, and does NOT include modules written using later forks of FamiTracker like 0CC-FamiTracker, j0cc or Dn.

This format was first introduced on Spring Tracks III.

Tools

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- FamiTracker

Restrictions on submit

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The entry must be saved in .ftm file format and created in FamiTracker (but NOT forks of FamiTracker like 0CC-FamiTracker, j0cc or Dn) - and that's it. It's basically a no-holds-barred, any-expansion, no-limit format! Well, limited to Famitracker's stable releases.

As this format is based around the latest stable version of Famitracker, beta v0.5 and any features it added to Famitracker modules are NOT ALLOWED.

Again, the last stable version of Famitracker (v0.4.6) should be used for voting and creating! See the Famitracker article for download links.

Note that newer versions of Dn-FamiTracker (0.5.0.0 and above) have broken .ftm saving compatibility; even if you choose to save your module as .ftm it will not load in vanilla FT.

Workarounds to get a valid .ftm

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If perhaps you have already written your song in a newer FamiTracker variant (or even in Deflemask or FamiStudio), you can potentially get a working .ftm module by using rainwarrior's "NSFImport" tool, which can be found here

(backup of latest version here

as well).

Export your tune from whichever software as .nsf. Then, using NSFImport, go to File -> Import NSF... and load in your .nsf file. You will receive a big, janky speed-1 .ftm module that you can then save and load in vanilla FT. It should sound the same with the exception of DPCM, which may not be mapped 100% correctly if there are several samples. Note that multiple expansions won't load either (it will take the first one).

For a more manual conversion, note that you can copy/paste pattern information from newer FamiTracker forks into the original. If you load in all the same instruments and put them in the same order, you should be able to fairly quickly reproduce your module in vanilla FT.

Accepted file format

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.ftm

Playback (for voting)

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-FamiTracker

See also

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- 2a03 (soundchip)
- 0CC-FamiTracker
- j0CC-FamiTracker
- FamiTracker Effects Commands
- nsf (format)
- nsfplus (format)
- nsf_classic (format)