Open your MIDI in a DAW like Reaper or FL Studio. Ensure:
Patching midi2lua is a kind of hands-on composition. You don’t need to be a formal software engineer to start: a curiosity about how MIDI ticks relate to beats, a taste for Lua’s lightweight expressiveness, and an itch to automate or transform are enough. You open the file, read the parser, and you find places that beg for change: midi2lua patched
Each patch is a musical decision disguised as code. You’re not only fixing bugs—you’re curating behavior. Open your MIDI in a DAW like Reaper or FL Studio
On devices like Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 running Lua (e.g., NodeMCU), the patched converter outputs compact tables that drive servos, LEDs, or solenoids in time with music. Each patch is a musical decision disguised as code
MIDI2Lua Patched does not contain any Nintendo copyrighted code. It is a transformative tool that converts open-standard MIDI files into Lua tables. However, using it to distribute full game ROMs with copyrighted soundtracks (e.g., replacing Mario music with a pop song) may violate fair use. Most modders use it for original compositions or public domain MIDIs.
Since its release in late 2020, MIDI2Lua Patched has been downloaded over 8,000 times from GBAtemp and the RH Community forums. Notable derivative projects include:
The original patched repository (hosted on a private Git server, then mirrored to GitHub under midi2lua_patched_R2) remains unofficially maintained. The latest commit (March 2025) adds support for MIDI Ticks to Microseconds conversion for The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds mods.