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Okay, here's the case - months ago, I was searching through Google (as well as reading the FAQ here) trying to find a stable tracker software application that would allow us to do the music tracking process emulating the Game Gear sound system so that we can find out how this works. I thought I did see one that was doing this task exclusively, but I can't recall the name of it. Does anyone else here know what the name of it could be?

Also, on a side note - in regards to the Game Gear sound engine itself - is it true that the melodic instrument channels are very limited? It seems that way when I see gameplay videos of Game Gear games themselves.

Any help on these two issues will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your responses, everyone.

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Jelly Stone park, MD USA

The Game Gear is a basically a handheld Sega Master System, so it has a SN76489 PSG; Square waves and Noise. The pick'ns are slim but here is a couple to start with:
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-chiptrackers.php?s=sega
You'll have to search for a copy of TFM Music Maker or VGM Music Maker. Shiru has pulled support for them so you need to find someone to pass along a copy they have.
Littlescale has a lot of info on the SN76489 at his blog also.
Yogi
EDIT Yea so probably the best choice would be DefleMask. I should have thought of this first, it really is great.

Last edited by yogi (Feb 26, 2014 10:43 pm)

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Michigan

You write an application to run natively on the GG and I will produce them with you. Heh...

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yogi wrote:

The Game Gear is a basically a handheld Sega Master System, so it has a SN76489 PSG; Square waves and Noise. The pick'ns are slim but here is a couple to start with:
http://woolyss.com/chipmusic-chiptrackers.php?s=sega

Ah, there we are; the two trackers that I'm looking for are there. Thanks for the info.

As for the TFM Music Maker, if I'm not mistaken, it's a good thing that there are many presets because it looks like if we're to create something from scratch, it looks like it will be a daunting task at first.

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Madriz, Supain
Jazzmarazz wrote:

You write an application to run natively on the GG and I will produce them with you. Heh...

I really hope this to happen at some point.

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Michigan

I might just have to do it myself. Not a tracker, cquse they bug me, but a PSG of some sort.

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FRANCE

This might help smile
http://www.alyjameslab.com/alyjameslabsuperpsg.html
You can convert the midi output to gamegear vgm (stereo) without problem with M2V PSG http://www.smspower.org/forums/download … 250f7e1e04

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Madriz, Supain
Jazzmarazz wrote:

I might just have to do it myself. Not a tracker, cquse they bug me, but a PSG of some sort.

Id pay you money for a neogeo pocket one. But im fine with trackers.

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Swansea, UK

+1 on the neogeo pocket! Are there even flash carts for the neogeo pocket?!

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Sevilla, Spain

Deflemask. I know it's been said before, but don't look further unless you are thinking or coding your own tracker (wet dreams about a GG native tracker).

Of course is a very limited sound chip, but there's also ways and tricks to make it sound interesting. Using one of this tricks I managed to create a track with a more powerful bass sound. Deflemask sources are linked in the description:

https://soundcloud.com/pakzer0/pak-zer0 … -of-a-mask

The thing is that Deflemask only works for Master System btm, but I guess it could be easily support GG in the future.

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FRANCE

talking about PSG sound tricks...Listen to this vgm extract >> http://www.alyjameslab.com/tempdata/midi_export2.vgz
Only one normal PSG tone channel in use smile

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Jelly Stone park, MD USA
PaK-Zer0 wrote:

The thing is that Deflemask only works for Master System btm, but I guess it could be easily support GG in the future.

Nice tune!
I don't see a problem with Deflemask supporting only SMS, the GG runs SMS roms just fine. The only difference is the stereo  panning on the GG, the PSG handling is the same on both systems.
Yogi

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Sevilla, Spain
yogi wrote:
PaK-Zer0 wrote:

The thing is that Deflemask only works for Master System btm, but I guess it could be easily support GG in the future.

Nice tune!
I don't see a problem with Deflemask supporting only SMS, the GG runs SMS roms just fine. The only difference is the stereo  panning on the GG, the PSG handling is the same on both systems.
Yogi

Thanks! I knew the difference in the chip (stereo vs mono) but I didn't know it was that easy to make it work on GG

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Madriz, Supain
donotrunwithpixels wrote:

+1 on the neogeo pocket! Are there even flash carts for the neogeo pocket?!

Theres people doing everdrives here and there, for like +100 bucks. I dont care, I'd pay it, I just need a NGP tracker in my life.

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Milwaukee, WI

Oi!  http://www.flashmasta.com/purchase/

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Madriz, Supain
Theta_Frost wrote:

Oi!  http://www.flashmasta.com/purchase/

Now we only need someone to write a tracker