2018-05-29 05:12:43

hello,
this is a soundfont compiled from a shit ton of yamaha sound chips, mostly fm based (ym2151, ym2612, etc)
it was made by st.giga on vogons. it's about 369 mb, making it the lardgest chiptune soundfont to date (twice as big as the genesis soundfont).
the link is:
https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=59080

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-id software, 1995

2018-06-02 00:08:06 (edited by Dekyo-NEC2608 2018-06-02 00:09:39)

Thanks. But, the bad thing is that it includes GXSCC...
I REALLY HATE GXSCC. ALMOST ALL 8-BIT REMIXES ARE MADE WITH GXSCC!!!

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2018-06-02 00:34:05

OK. So he used some samples of various SoundFonts, including my own! Speechless.
Anyway, this can be in my SoundFont collection.

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2018-06-02 14:22:35

woooow. thanks for the link. downloading

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2018-06-02 19:22:32

st.giga said that he also got one of the ym2612 banks from GEMS, a genesis sound driver used by a large number of western developers.

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-id software, 1995

2018-06-03 11:47:58

it has some volume issues but it's ok other wise

don't wish to become like the oceans, the flowers, or the sun. oceans will dry out, flowers will die, and the sun will be extinguished. be yourself and nothing and no one else and hope for a better tomorrow.

2018-06-03 18:05:11 (edited by Dekyo-NEC2608 2018-06-03 18:07:55)

This SF is for Yamaha YM and YMF sound chips series. Why this thing includes SCC and GXSCC? Also, the YM2608 is named as YMF2608 which is incorrect.
About GEMS sound driver I noted that too.

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2018-06-04 04:48:53

because the SCC was a joint venture between konami and yamaha. similar to how the scsp (used on the sega saturn) was a joint venture between sega and yamaha.

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-id software, 1995

2018-06-04 06:30:03 (edited by Dekyo-NEC2608 2018-06-04 08:14:46)

Seriously I thought that was a joint venture with Toshiba, not Yamaha, at least from the appearance of package and printing.
YMFSCC? YMSCC? But anyway, It is not part of the YM and YMF sound chips series.


THE END.


Speaking of SCC, anyone noticed that the SCC was named as a "Wave Sound Generator LSI" (Japanese: ウェーブ音源LSI)?

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2018-06-06 01:36:53

additionally, the site mentions that the scc contains an ay-3-8910, of which yamaha made a nearly exact clone, the ym2149, which was used on the atari st, msx2 and a few arcade games.

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-id software, 1995

2018-06-06 04:26:55

To add to this, while I know this is somewhat unrelated, the aforementioned YM2149, specifically the YM2149F, and was the basis for the Sunsoft 5B. A chip called the YMZ294 was used in the TNS-HFX4, a hardware add-on for the TNS-HFC5 that allows you to play expansion audio NSFs from real Famicom/NES hardware. In this case, the YMZ294 is used for 5B playback. It's too bad it was only used in 1 Famicom game, because it can do way more than just generate square waves, if this audio recording by ImATrackMan  has anything to say about it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEtSmswGbnk

2018-06-06 04:35:31

I really want a TNS-HFC5 with the add-on, but I don't have a Famicom, much less a NES.

YMZ294... well,I never thought that it would be mentioned here. Speaking of the clones of AY-3-8910, which of all do you think is the best?

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2018-06-06 05:02:36

The TNS-HFC5 and FX4 are pretty hard to come by, and I don't know if Terra Network Systems in Japan is still selling them, but what you would do is insert an SD card and it would play the first NSF on the root of that card, and there were buttons on the cart to play/stop and whatnot. As for the FX4, you had several connectors that would be used to insert cartridges for games like Akumajou Densetsu (VRC6), Just Breed (MMC5), and King of Kings (N163), so that meant you would use the actual cartridges of games that used expansion audio, only if you wanted to play expansion audio NSFs. This also means that you could also play multichip NSFs (basically NSFs that use more than one expansion chip, which are made using 0CC-FamiTracker, but as far as I know, the only software NSF player that supports this is NSFPlay). There is another way of playing NSFs on real hardware, through something called the Analogue NT Mini, a console that plays NES games through HDMI. It has a built-in NSF player that plays NSFs stored on the SD card, but as far as I'm concerned, the only player I ever use is NSFPlay, since it has pretty good 5B emulation, as of the latest beta, since it seems to play ImATrackMan's 5B NSF properly, though I'm told that VirtuaNSF does a better job at the 5B.
As for clones of the AY-3-8910, nothing beats the original. As far as I know I haven't found a way of making AY-3-8910 music, since I refuse to recreate them using samples in ImpulseTracker. Funny you mention clones, because there is an Android app that I have called ZXTune. It allows you to play different console formats, one of them being the .AY file format. You can change how the built-in emulator handles the files too. For example, you can switch between the AY-3-8910 and the YM2149 in the options menu, which of course, makes the file sound a bit different. While in the AY-3-8910 mode, you can change the clock speed to different preset clock speeds from different computers that used it, such as  Amstrad CPC (1 MHz), Atari ST (2 MHz), Taganrog (3.5 MHz), Pentagon (1.75 MHz), and ZX Spectrum (1.77 MHz).

2018-06-06 07:07:45

On a similar note, I wonder if anything besides NSFPlay and the very bad NSF support in Ffmpeg, hardware or software, supports FDS Write Protect? Some fanicompo entries actually require you to check an option to write protect $8000-DFFF on the FDS for them to play properly and in fact check for this and refuse to play if it's not enabled, and it seems the only players that support it are Ffmpeg and NSFPlay. Only in_yansf for Winamp supports it on the input plugin side of things.

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2018-06-06 18:24:23

another ay clone was the ay-3-8930, made by Microchip Tecnologies after they baught General instruments, which has multiple dudie settings similar to the 2a03. Only the Covox Sound master (an obscure sound card for ms dos) used it, and even then, the extra doody settings were almost never used.

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
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-id software, 1995

2019-01-27 22:02:56 (edited by Slender 2019-01-27 22:03:15)

Admittedly an old topic, but still worth noting that I have found a player besides NSFPlay that supports FDS Write Protect, NEZplug++. A foobar2000 plugin exists for it as well, and if you're a foobar user I think this is the only plugin that allows you to play NSFs that require FDS Write Protect. According to the Famitracker wiki, NEZplug is on par with NSFPlay, for the most part, however it only supports write mode for the MMC5's PCM channel, and the N163's channel switch noise is only emulated when all eight channels are used.

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2019-01-27 22:45:13

Sorry for the question, but I'm curious. Has anyone found a NSF file that uses MMC5's PCM channel?

Yamaha YM2608

YOU
SAY! - Sonic the Hedgehog CD (Dec 4, 1992 prototype)

2019-01-27 23:31:46

Hi.
Shin 4 Nin Uchi Mahjong: Yakuman Tengoku is the only game that uses MMC5 PCM audio.

2019-01-28 00:53:45

where to get the foobar plugin?

be a hero and stop Coppa now!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dkm … DkWZ8/edit
-id software, 1995

2019-01-28 05:20:16 (edited by Slender 2019-01-28 07:27:50)

https://ux.getuploader.com/foobar2000/. A Japanese site, but it's partially translated and should be easy enough to figure out. Scroll down to foo_npnez_0.23_beta.7z, at this time this is the latest version of the component, though you should check back often as there may be updates, select that link, and on the resulting page find the read only field that has an MD5 hash of the file, and select the button below it which is the download button. The download should start. Unfortunately the component is not packaged as an fb2k-component, you need to install it manually. I recommend using the alpha version of the component, located in the alpha版 directory, that version has a file info dialog that allows you to view technical info, such as the expansions used and the addresses of key parts of the NSF. That version also has a channel mask. Both versions of the component require npnezz.dll, part of NEZplug++, for some reason the DLL is not distributed with the component, and NEZplug++ itself can be downloaded here. While that site mostly has components that are available elsewhere, there are some components that are exclusively distributed through it, such as a player for WSR files and a VGM input plugin based on the official version of VGMPlay.

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2019-01-29 00:21:54

I'm unable to get foo_nez to work in v1.4.

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-id software, 1995

2019-01-29 02:45:10

What's the error?

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2019-01-29 02:58:04

A couple of questions:
1. How did you install the component? As slender mentioned, you have to install it manually (you would create a folder in your AppData/roaming/foobar2000/user-components directory called "foo_npnez")
2. Did you copy npnez.dll in the same directory as foo_npnez.dll? Those files should be the only ones present in your foo_npnez directory.

2019-01-29 03:48:31

no error shows up. the component simply isn't recognised.

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-id software, 1995

2019-01-29 04:01:03

How is it installed? Check post 23.

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