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Scribe (1563)

12-05-2020, 22:51

Possible workaround - compile a version which only loads uncompressed files, and use it. Though, it would not work for real .VGZ files then... but if you use Sofa mostly, it might work for you. Maybe, put this version under different name, and set up Sofa to use it instead of regular VGMplay...

Par Latok

msx guru (3938)

13-05-2020, 12:04

Louthrax wrote:

Maybe SofaRun could keep the extension. I do not remember why I forced .UNZ at the time (that was now years ago). I’ll check.

Thank you, Louthrax

Par Latok

msx guru (3938)

13-05-2020, 12:11

Pencioner wrote:

Possible workaround - compile a version which only loads uncompressed files, and use it. Though, it would not work for real .VGZ files then... but if you use Sofa mostly, it might work for you. Maybe, put this version under different name, and set up Sofa to use it instead of regular VGMplay...

Maybe, but then again, from an archive, SofaRun is still creating a temporarily UNZ-file which isn't recognized by VGMPlay as a VGM file. Even if it would be a VGMPlay that only plays uncompressed files. And also, I should manually decompress all the VGZ files to uncompressed VGM files....Then it's easier to just don't use archives at all, I'd say

Par Grauw

Ascended (10767)

12-06-2020, 00:13

Tangentially related to VGMPlay, there’s a recent project I’ve been working on;

A few days ago it was announced that ASM’s upcoming game Ghosts ’n Goblins will feature the original arcade FM music for dual Yamaha YM2203 OPN, played back on either the the Neotron (YM2610 OPNB), Yamaha SFG (YM2151 OPM) or Makoto (YM2608 OPNA) sound cartridges.

By invitation of Supersoniqs Sander I helped writing the conversion tools and playback routines for this. Since the news is now public, I’ll share the code:

Ghosts ’n Goblins music converter & player

Converts the Ghosts ’n Goblins arcade music in VGM format to a data stream suitable for play back on Yamaha SFG, Neotron or Makoto. The format aims to be both efficient for playback and small in size. Due to a compact representation for the most frequent event types to reduce the individual tracks are all below 8K and the total size is less than 64K.

The converter has the following functions:

Compact data format
Simple playback on three sound chips
Coalescing instrument settings per channel
Grouping into five event types (key, frequency, instrument, wait, loop)
Clock frequency conversion
Channel remapping
Small wait removal
Timing quantisation
Trimming of leading silence
Moving frequency events before key on
Volume adjustment

Maybe it will some day help someone else to include multi-chip music for these Yamaha FM sound chips in their game :).

Par gdx

Enlighted (6210)

12-06-2020, 12:24

Sharksym added the T-Wave support for the SN76489.

http://sharksym.egloos.com/m/5368835

Par sdsnatcher73

Prophet (3951)

12-06-2020, 13:05

Oh wow, so cool! Euh wait a minute, what is this exactly (sorry for my ignorance, I googled a bit but all references to T-Wave and DCSG came back to this post). The video on YouTube does sound very cool though!

Par Manuel

Ascended (19462)