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I hate how nothing ever ever supports NTSC Amigas. Nothing. EVER. What the heck are we American's supposed to do, it's an outrage! If the coders weren't just making up their interrupt timings by trial and error maybe there would be some more people in the US who use Amigas. Sheesh...

Maybe for speccy, but that;s because their floppy interface was pretty bad to.

Again, with 3.5 floppies care must still be taken. I know lots of people who store them carelessly because they seem to be more rugged. This simply isn't the case. Again, the floppies of which I was speaking are 3.5 floppy disks. 5.25 disks only seem more reliable because it's easier to keep in mind proper handling. Also of note, some 3.5 drives stop reading good disks over time, because by the Amiga era the drives were becoming universal  and cheaply made. I have some high quality 3.5 drives for PC and Apple IIgs which have performed perfectly with my media for a long time.

That's probably because your floppies were cheap crap and were also probably stored improperly. Floppies have a lower tolerance for dirt and dampness, wheras tapes generally don't have as much of an issue with this. This is because floppies have an internal dust jacket inside of the plastic sleeve which helps them to be more reliable until the day when it gets wet and starts to get gunk on it. Stored properly, this can't happen. Barring of course delamination of the actual disk substrate, which happens to cheap disks.

I prefer 3M brand floppies (and only use 3M brand floppies) because they have the best jacket design and the best substrate. I have never had one fail which had been stored properly, and many of them are much older than I am, having been written as far back as 1984.

Also, my gripe against tapes- constant fiddling for noise levels, tensile changes which spoil your calibration from tape to tape, low data densities, and excessive load times.

Well, there is a very good reason why tape drives out. They're extremely annoying. As for how to properly set the volume, that's usually just by trial and error. But I like to start with the volume 1/3 from the lowest setting and ramp it up slowly each time until it starts to work. If you wanted to be precise about it I suppose you'd hook it up to an oscilloscope and look for noise.

Well, I'm not a speccy people, but I do know that putting the WAV into t a tape adapter really ought to just work. Only one thing to consider, you need to be very careful with the volume adjustment. These cassette tape things are very finicky in nearly all cases on old computers, and if you have the volume set too high or two low the A/D won't pick it up and translate it into data properly. Also, keep those heads clean! Dirty heads corrupt data. And yeah, the first time it'll be trial and error, I promise you that. And if you ever change the volume controls later one. Then you'll have to zero it all in again, which is a pain.

I know it's just the emulator, as this kinda of incredibly accurate timing just isn't present in most emulators. i can't say for Nestopia as I don't have it.

And I bet it sounds like garbage too. Actually, I'd be willing to bet some people on the VC Forums or CCTalk have probably seen this, or even own it.