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SNES Audio Unit As Stand-Alone Player

Posted by timothy on from the you-must-stand-alone dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Raphael Assénat successfully turned the SNES' audio processing unit into a stand alone unit which can be controlled through a parallel port, allowing people to play SNES music separate from games and the SNES' main unit. Elsewhere there is also a tutorial about adding S/PDIF digital sound output to the SNES."

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  1. Listen to Video Game music without this hardware by lou2ser · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure some people know about listening to old videogame software without out this hardware hack. You won't be as leet as this guy, but you can still enjoy the music.

    You can find a player at http://www.zophar.net/utilities/music.html, a huge archive for just about every platform.

    After you get a player for your choosen platform, you can click through to a song database. For example, here are the SNES songs available: http://www.zophar.net/zsnes/spc/

    Have fun.

  2. obsolete... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Any music of any SNES game has been available for many years with the .spc file format. The audio files sound exactly as the music would sound on the SNES console.
    A really large .spc database can be found here: http://www.snesmusic.org/spcsets/#so

  3. Nice idea, needs to be taken further... by Aphrika · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...like the SidStation based on the legendary MOS 6581 (aka. SID) chip from the Commodore 64.

    The SidStation is essentially a MIDI synth expander that uses the SID chip as it's main sound source. It'd be interesting to do the same kind of thing with a SNES sound source, although from memory, it wasn't a sound chip worthy of any merit.

  4. Other uses of Videogame Music by lou2ser · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here are some other places to listen to videogame music in nontradional ways.

    First there are the minibosses http://minibosses.com/ They are a cover band of videogame music that preform live shows. They even have a few MP3s on their site.

    Then there is djpretzel's remix.overclocked.org http://remix.overclocked.org/ Here you can find tons of songs set to a beat. For the true emulation nerd, check out the original overclocked.org http://www.overclocked.org/ comic strips. They are well dated, but still bring a smile to my face.

  5. Nes Music by bdcrazy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some old nes music has been remixed by a few talented people. For game music in general, and a fair amount of nes remixes in specific, take a quick trip to http://www.ocremix.org/

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