HQ sound in native GBA games is entirely possible

[Sono]

Interesting approach, exactly what I had in mind as its better than patching each game. Question is can @Sono or another dev think of a way to implement this?

Are the DS and GBA sides of the 3DS totally sandboxed? What I'm thinking is would it be better (possible?) to run OAF hooked into DS mode for more resources available ala Adrenaline on Vita?

It's not sandboxed, it's the real deal. It's a real DSi, real DSLite, real GBA, under the hood. If it works on real hardware, it works on 3DS as well.

In fact, the way GBA audio is done on the 3DS is probably slightly worse than a real GBA, although on the 3DS you have editable audio filters, so I don't really know which is the better way.

In whatever case, patches need to be done as if you had access to a flashcart on a real GBA.

As for DS, I don't think DS needs this patch? Pretty sure DS has like 16 hardware PCM playback channels (with interpolation support as well?), so it should be already as good as it would get.
Although in case of the DS, it is possible to get better quality mixing via emulator enchancement, but that's sadly not something we can achieve on the 3DS due to the way GBA audio is tacked on.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

This probably sounds like a dumb question to ask, but could something like this work for GSF files?

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=GSF

 

[HeadstrongWolf]

Recently tested an HQ audio patch for Mother 3 ; the difference was little, but it was there. (Too much "high quality" audio made the game slowdown or crash I believe.)

More info on the Starman Forums if anyone is interested.

 

[Deleted member 42501]

Is that the same as this?

https://www.romhacking.net/utilities/1752/

 

[SummerDragonfly]

Hi there, thank you so much for sharing my MOTHER 3 hack! Someone else on the RHDN forums asked if my patcher could be made generic for all Sappy-based games, and I'm certainly open to accepting contributions towards that; you would just have to have a database with each game's info/pointers stored somewhere.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Hi there, thank you so much for sharing my MOTHER 3 hack! Someone else on the RHDN forums asked if my patcher could be made generic for all Sappy-based games, and I'm certainly open to accepting contributions towards that; you would just have to have a database with each game's info/pointers stored somewhere.

Just curious, could this also work for GSF files? I mentioned it before with no response. Since you're here, I figured I ask again.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=GSF

 

[SummerDragonfly]

Just curious, could this also work for GSF files? I mentioned it before with no response. Since you're here, I figured I ask again.

http://www.vgmpf.com/Wiki/index.php?title=GSF

This patch is only for music and sound effects played in-game. If you manage to inject songs into MOTHER 3 and point to them, that would work!