Golden Sun: Golden Sun - Bass Hack

Golden Sun: Bass Hack is a modification for the Game Boy Advance enabling enhanced bassline playback in the original Golden Sun and its sequel, Golden Sun: The Lost Age. The hack replaces the default bass guitar sample with one that includes more harmonics, improving audibility on the GBA's small speakers. The patch is designed for the US version, with options for customizing samples.

The basslines in Golden Sun and Golden Sun 2 : The Lost Age soundtrack are almost inaudible through the GBA/GBA-SP/NDS small portable speakers, because such speakers aren't able to produce low sounds.

To completely fix the problem, you will need large hi-quality headphones to plug in your GBA/GB-Micro/NDS. Unfortunately if you have a GBA-SP, a special adapter is needed.

This hack partially fix that problem by replacing the bass guitar sample in both games by another bass guitar sample with much more harmonics, that will make more noise through the small crappy speaker so you’ll hear the bass-lines better.

This patch applies to the US version of Golden Sun. If you want to apply the hack to a version in another language and/or if you want to supply your own bass sample to try out, please contact me by email at jmasur [at] microclub [dot] ch.

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By Bregalad, 21st June 2009

The basslines in Golden Sun and Golden Sun 2 : The Lost Age soundtrack are almost unaudible through the GBA/GBA-SP/NDS small portable speakers, because such speakers aren't able to produce low sounds.

To completely fix the problem, you will need large hi-quality headphones to plug in your GBA/GB-Micro/NDS. Unfortunately if you have a GBA-SP, a special adapter is needed, and my adapter just stopped working after some usage so that's why I made this hack.

This hack partially fix that problem by replacing the bass guitar sample in both games by another bass guitar sample with much more harmonics, that will make more noise through the small crappy speaker so you'll hear the basslines better.

This patch applies to the US version of Golden Sun. If you want to apply the hack to a version in another language and/or if you want to supply your own bass sample to try out, plese contact me by email at jmasur [at] microclub [dot] ch.

Golden Sun (USA, Europe).gba - NOINTRO
CRC32: E1FB68E8
MD5: 1CDD7F33C9A27061201E1D1CE029A700
SHA-1: 5C4695205413DF7DB52B9A184815A07783999971
SHA-256: C14F1151897E8D73F25FFDD67E21EEBB6DC57973FF2458872EE89FA9060AACA1

GBA Cores

Time to Beat

Main Story 22h 0m

Main + Extras 26h 0m

Release Date

Jun 21, 2009

16 years ago

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