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Loops in a music piece.

I downloaded an MML of the boss theme from Mega Man 2. When it's playing in the game, after the intro, it just loops the same part of the music over and over again, and the music never actually finishes. Looking at it in notepad, I see * marks everywhere. When I remove them, the music just turns into a jumbled mess.

Here's the music

How do I make it so that the music finishes instead of looping the same part of the music over and over again?
Why was it made like this anyway?
Did you remember to do

Code
Addmusic.exe romname.smc -se


before inserting music?
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Removing those * will just cut some parts of the song, resulting in a mess.

To make a song play only once, you'll need to put a nice ?0 in the text file after the echo buffer header (assuming you're using AddMusic 4.05)

Originally posted by Sixcorby
Why was it made like this anyway?

Uh, songs are supposed to loop, and even the original did that.
It would just seem weird if while you're still fighting the boss the music would suddenly stop.
Originally posted by Lui37
Removing those * will just cut some parts of the song, resulting in a mess.

To make a song play only once, you'll need to put a nice ?0 in the text file after the echo buffer header (assuming you're using AddMusic 4.05)

Originally posted by Sixcorby
Why was it made like this anyway?

Uh, songs are supposed to loop, and even the original did that.
It would just seem weird if while you're still fighting the boss the music would suddenly stop.

I think you're misunderstanding him. He's not saying he wants the song to stop looping after one go. He's saying that the music isn't looping all the way through to the end. I recall having the exact same problem with this port before I knew about the N-SPC/MORE.bin patch.
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Ah, you're right MVS. <.<

Originally posted by Sixcorby
How do I make it so that the music finishes instead of looping the same part of the music over and over again?


That sentence made me misunderstand the whole post. Sorry

Anyway, removing those * will still cut some parts from the song, resulting in a mess.