RMT - knowing where in a song we are

[Rybags]

Just adding some RMT music to my game.

 

For stuff like lost life, level end, it will play some short pieces. Is there a way of working out when the end of a track or song is reached? Or the progress of a piece being played, ie some RAM variable/s that correspond to progress through the song like you'd see if playing it back in the Win version.

 

Note during the course of gameplay itself, RMT isn't being used - it's likely I'll only use it in a single-stream fashion during menu or specific parts of the game where no other sounds are occurring.

[analmux]

Yes, there are ways...

 

F.e. I did it in the instrumentarium tune long ago. I did an insert-/bypass-hack in the playing routine, checking whether songline 23 (or so) was reached, to turn on the 2-tone-filter. Then turn it off again at line 25.

 

I don't quite remember how I did it exactly, but the insert routine was checking a zero-page reg.

 

The method I used, it's still tricky however, because the values to be checked actually depend on the location of the song itself. At least, that's how I remember it.

 

(maybe I'd need to recheck this all)

[analmux]

OK, I did a quick check.

 

Zeropage reg $D1 keeps the value of song progress, however, it's only the songline#.

 

Not sure how to find the exact position, within the songline.

[Rybags]

That should be sufficient... I think. Thanks.

 

If not, I'll just have to resort to using a timer which in itself isn't too much work but easy/quick beats fiddling about.

[analmux]

Of course, if you're only doing some intermezzos and jingles, then you can programm the length of your songlines. When the songline passes, then the value in $D1 increases.