How To Change Menu Music Smash Ultimate

1. Preface

I have seen many people ask how to create a music mod, and I accept seen fifty-fifty more low-quality music mods. Considering of this, I decided that I should make a guide on how to make a quality music modernistic.

As well, when making a music modern, I recommend saving your files like this:

SONG_NAME
|
| info.txt
| normalized.flac
| original.flac
|
| \---SONG_NAME
|     \---stream;
|         \---sound
|             \---bgm
|                     bgm_sample.nus3audio
|                     bgm_sample.nus3bank

2. Required Tools

• Audacity (or something similar)
• ArcExplorer (recommended) or ArcCross
  
• If you don't want to dump the game, then y'all'll need arc-network
• Nus3bank-volume-GUI
  

3. Stride 1: Obtaining the Sound

The first step to making a music mod is, of course, getting the music itself. Showtime, if your music is from a video game, cheque https://smashcustommusic.cyberspace/ to see if the song you want is on in that location. If so, click on the vocal and select "Convert to NUS3Audio." If you program to upload this modernistic, you should credit the uploader and composer/creative person of the song. You should write the uploader'southward name (along with the proper noun of the composer/creative person of the song) down somewhere to remember it. I recommend making aninfo.txt file to store this information. This should not come up with the mod—it is purely used for making the modernistic. With this, you can at present skip to footstep 4.

If your music isn't on smashcustommusic, then y'all're going to have to download it from somewhere else. If yous're going to download it from YouTube, I recommend using https://ontiva.com to convert it. Convert it to a FLAC, since it's lossless (improve quality than MP3 or OGG). If you need a smaller filesize, then catechumen it to OGG, since it has a better quality than MP3 with the same/smaller filesize. Don't forget to write down the composer/artist'south name in info.txt if you plan to upload this mod, as you should credit them.

4. Step 2: Normalizing & Looping the Audio

Now, open the audio file in Brazenness. For example purposes, this guide volition use the song I Want to Protect You from Ace Attorney since it's a elementary song to loop.

When you open up the song, y'all should meet something like this:

The first thing we want to do is remove the silence in the beginning. To do this, you can elevate the mouse over the silent role and press backspace. Alternatively, you can click the get-go point, and and then click the stop betoken while belongings shift. This will create a selection, which you can delete by pressing backspace. You tin zoom in/out by pressing CTRL + 1/3 (respectively) or by holding CTRL while using the scrollwheel. Pressing < and > will motility the "cursor" (selector? vertical line?) left and right respectively. Alternatively, you can concur shift while using the scrollwheel. You're going to be doing this a lot, and so you should become familiar with it.

After getting rid of the silence, it should look something like this:

After doing that, save the audio as a FLAC file (MP3/OGG works too, but they're lower quality). To do this, go toFile >Consign >Export audio..., and save it as a FLAC file.

Now, play the song and try to find where it loops. In this case, the loop starts at the get-go, and ends around 19 seconds. Now, we're going to zoom in and find a better, exact pair of loop points. Once you zoom in, information technology might look something like this:

From here, we want to choose a point where there's a huge spike in the audio as our loop point, since it'due south easy to friction match information technology with the other loop signal. We don't accept to choose the place where the song actually loops—we tin can choose a point a bit after it. This is helpful if at that place's a better, more singled-out point in the audio than the actual loop point.

For this guide, nosotros'll loop it at the fasten around 19.80 seconds (you can see the seconds at the top of the prototype). We're going to zoom in fifty-fifty further to go more exact. Hither'southward what information technology looks similar:

We're going to loop it correct where that arrow is pointing. Notation that I added this arrow; information technology won't appear on your screen. Now, to get the exact signal where the arrow is, nosotros need to put that vertical bar (the selector? cursor?) on it. I'm going to put information technology right before the everyman function of that dip in audio, like and then:

Now, in the bottom left of Brazenness, y'all can see where the signal in sound occurs. It'll look like this:

We tin can see that the cease loop point is at xix.805 seconds. Write this downwardly in the info.txt file you already made.

At present, nosotros need to go back to the start and find the matching loop point. In our case, it's right here (note that the vertical bar is right before the dip in audio, just like last fourth dimension):

While it'due south hard to tell from the image, the bespeak occurs exactly at 0.604 seconds. We're going to write this downwards in the previously mentioned info.txt file. Now that we have the loop points, nosotros need to test the loop points to make sure it sounds good.

To exam the loop points, you first demand to select the portion of the song that will be looped. To do this, you tin can enter in the start and finish loop bespeak in the bottom left corner of Audacity. In one case you've done that, it should wait like this (the second image is the office in the red box zoomed in):

At present, at the tiptop of Audacity, click Result > Echo. Select 1 for the number of repeats to add, and and so press OK. Later doing that, skip to nearly v seconds before the loop signal and play the audio. If it sounds like a seamless loop, and so yous're good. Otherwise, you need to find better loop points. In either case, press CTRL + Z to undo the echo yous just added.

Assuming the loop now sounds seamless, we now need to normalize the sound, which is very easy. Press CTRL + A to select all of the audio. And so, go to Effect > Normalize, and alter Normalize peak aamplitude to be 0.0 dB. This will either brand the audio louder, or do nothing. We do this and so that the sound doesn't audio quiet in-game.

Now, save the audio as a FLAC file. I recommend calling this normalized.flac, since the sound was normalized.

five. Stride 3: Creating the NUS3Audio File

Now that you have the normalized sound and the loop points, it'south time to catechumen it to NUS3Audio. Download the local version of SmashUltimateTools (Fabricated by CoolSonicKirby) at https://gamebanana.com/tools/6943 to convert it. Upload the normalized audio to the programme and select the song it should go over information technology. Then, check the "Enable Looping" checkbox, and enter in the loop points. In this instance, our loop points would be 0.604 and 19.805. Afterward doing that, printing the "Convert!" button and download the NUS3Audio file.

Also, the filename should await something like bgm_XYZ_songname.nus3audio. 10 should be a letter (or multiple letters), and YZ should be numbers. Think what they are, since this will be important in the next step.

6. Step 4: Extracting the NUS3Bank File

NUS3Bank files make up one's mind the volume of a vocal. Because we want our vocal not to sound too tranquility or as well loud, we have to edit the NUS3Bank file. To do this, we offset have to go the original NUS3Bank file. There are 2 tools for extracting files from the game: ArcExplorer (recommended) and ArcCross. I'll become over how to use ArcExplorer to connect to your Switch and extract files like that, but it's possible to dump the game, transfer the files to your estimator, and access the files like that.

To get-go, download arc-network and place it in the post-obit directory in your microSD carte:/atmosphere/contents/01006A800016E000/romfs/skyline/plugins/. Then, launch ArcExplorer on your reckoner. If this is your kickoff fourth dimension using ArcExplorer, click on Settings and choose a folder for "Extract Location". This folder will be where y'all can find all of the extracted files.

Before you connect to your Switch, make sure to launch Ultimate on your Switch. In addition, your calculator must be on the same WiFi-network as your Switch.

In the top-left corner, printing File > Connect to ARC and enter your Switch's IP address (you can find it on your Switch if you lot go to Settings > Internet). Then, open the post-obit folders in ArcExplorer: stream; > audio > bgm. Most NUS3Banks (and NUS3Audios) can be found hither.

At present, we need to become the filename of the NUS3Bank. If you lot got the NUS3Audio file from SmashUltimateTools, and so the filename volition be the same as the NUS3Audio, so if y'all remember the filename of that, you lot tin can simply search for that. Nevertheless, if you don't remember (or if y'all used smashcustommusic.internet), then we can get the filename by going to https://docs.google.com/document/d/13nnPPQK46HE1c30LlcVj8Nrfdxjx1t1vH0cWMJqaSVA and finding the proper noun of the nus3audio. If you use that document, brand sure to add bgm_ to the start of the filename; the document omits this for every filename. Ensure that the NUS3Audio yous downloaded has the same proper name—if it doesn't, modify it to be this (with the bgm_ at the beginning). The NUS3Bank has the same name, but instead of ending in .nus3audio, it ends in .nus3bank.

When searching for the NUS3Bank in ArcExplorer, the only part of the filename that really matters is the letter(s) and two numbers that come up after bgm_. This is unique for every song, so nosotros can find the song nosotros want with just that. Now that you have the filename, right click on the NUS3Bank file and click Extract File. You can now close ArcExplorer.

7. Footstep v: Editing the NUS3Bank file

After extracting the NUS3Bank file, open it using Nus3bank-volume-GUI. Once yous've opened it, click Get Original Volume. Now, ready the book to a number; I recommend something between 4.iii and 4.vii. Later doing that, press Modify volume & salvage. The NUS3Bank file will be saved, along with a backup.

8. Pace 6: Packaging Your Mod

You've now made all the files needed. All that's left is to put all the files where they vest. I said this in the preface, but I recommend saving your files like this:

SONG_NAME
|
| info.txt
| normalized.flac
| original.flac
|
| \---SONG_NAME
|     \---stream;
|         \---sound
|             \---bgm
|                     bgm_sample.nus3audio
|                     bgm_sample.nus3bank

Obviously, change SONG_NAME to the name of the song you're modding in and change bgm_sample to the actual name of the song you're replacing (e.thousand.bgm_crs2_01_menu for the menu song). When putting the modernistic on your Switch, or uploading it, you desire to use the second SONG_NAME directory (the one that doesn't have info.txt in information technology). The first SONG_NAME directory is for you, the modder.

9. Stride vii: Uploading Your Modernistic

Now that you have completed your mod, it'south time to upload information technology to Gamebanana! On Gamebanana'south page for Blast Ultimate (https://gamebanana.com/games/6498), click "Add" to add a mod. The button is correct under Inkling's head in the imprint.

Now, click on "Audio," since you're creating a sound mod. Add any necessary information, like the title, subtitle, etc. The torso should contain the name of the song yous're replacing.

When giving credit, brand sure to requite credit to these people:

• The composer/artist of the song
• The uploader of the vocal, if uploaded on https://smashcustommusic.net
• CoolSonicKirby, if you lot used SmashUltimateTools
• Pacil (hey, that's me!), zrksyd, & Genwald if yous used Nus3bank-volume-GUI
• If you used the old volume.py script (not recommended), then just credit zrksyd
  
• If you used nus3volume.py, and then only credit Genwald

When making the preview, open the original song in Audacity. Delete all of the audio except for the all-time portion of the song (this shouldn't be too long, limit to xxx seconds max if you can). Once all that's left is the best portion of the song, export it equally an OGG file. Utilise this for the preview.

Lastly, when uploading the a you're going to want to include a nix file of the second SONG_NAME directory mentioned in the last stride. To create a zip file, open the directory in File Explorer (tin can be opened by pressing Win + E), left click once on the directory you want to zip, right click on it, and then click Send to > Compressed (zipped) folder. This volition create a zip file, which is the file you desire to upload to Gamebanana.

Upload the song, and so you're done. Congratulations!

10. FAQ

Q: I want to add together music instead of replacing it

A: First of all, calculation music is Non wifi-prophylactic. Replacing music is. If you still want to practice this, you tin can use Sma5hMusic to do and then. You tin find a guide on how to use Sma5hMusic hither: https://gamebanana.com/tuts/13677

Q: I downloaded a music modernistic just I want to put it over a dissimilar song. How exercise I do this?

A: Firstly, if the mod comes with a NUS3Bank file, delete it. You'll accept to make your own (steps 4 & 5 of this guide become over this). As for the NUS3Audio file, you lot can just rename it to become over the vocal you want. A full list of what filename maps to which song can be plant here: https://docs.google.com/certificate/d/13nnPPQK46HE1c30LlcVj8Nrfdxjx1t1vH0cWMJqaSVA. Make sure to addbgm_to the start of the filename, as the document omits this for every filename.

Q: Is there a better style to catechumen YouTube videos to flac files?

A: If you lot're familiar with using the command-line, I highly recommend using yt-dlp. To utilise information technology, just use the command yt-dlp -10 --audio-format flac <YouTube Link>. A quick Google search led me to a GUI version of this, and then you tin use that if you're not familiar with the control-line.

Q: I can't (or don't want to) use smashultimatetools to convert files to nus3audio. What alternatives are there?

A: You can download my batch nus3audio converter (which works very similarly) hither: https://gamebanana.com/tools/8181. If this isn't ideal, and then there are other methods listed in the pins of the #audio channel in the modding discord.

Source: https://gamebanana.com/tuts/14039

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