From what I understand there's a flash cart for the neo geo pocket, but are there any trackers?
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Milwaukee, WI
Not that I know of. If memory serves, it's 2 SN chips. (The one found in the Master System)
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Chicago IL
Theta_Frost wrote:
Not that I know of. If memory serves, it's 2 SN chips. (The one found in the Master System)
i think it's slightly more complicated than that, just because there's like no information about the sound chips anywhere. i don't think there's even a file format for NGP music yet. But at some point i was talking to Alex Mauer about it and he said it was basically like two SMS/GG PSGs.
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Theta_Frost wrote:
Not that I know of. If memory serves, it's 2 SN chips. (The one found in the Master System)
Sound: SN76489 variant, T6W28 (3 square wave tone generators with limited stereo capability + 1 monaural noise generator + direct access to the two 6 bits DAC).
From Wikipedia.
The sn76489 is a really limited chip, just three squares at 50/50 and a noise gen?
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Chicago IL
Lazerbeat wrote:
The sn76489 is a really limited chip, just three squares at 50/50 and a noise gen?
pretty much, it can also do periodic noise, but that takes both the third square and the noise generator to implement
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The NGPC dev kit is available and it includes a complicated to use but functional sound tool you can use to track. I can't find it right now but I know it is out there somewhere, if only I remembered its name... I may even have it in a backup but I am away from home and can't check this. Also I think Ivan Mackintosh had made one and also there's a MOD>NGPC converter somewhere.
The NGPC sound is a lot clearer than that of other portables available out there, definitely worth using rather than a shitty game boy or game gear.
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Palm Beach Gardens, FL
akira^8GB wrote:
The NGPC dev kit is available and it includes a complicated to use but functional sound tool you can use to track. I can't find it right now but I know it is out there somewhere, if only I remembered its name... I may even have it in a backup but I am away from home and can't check this. Also I think Ivan Mackintosh had made one and also there's a MOD>NGPC converter somewhere.
The NGPC sound is a lot clearer than that of other portables available out there, definitely worth using rather than a shitty game boy or game gear.
You don't say? I've got a NGPC In my closet that I never use, so this would be awesome!
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Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ok so there's a spec out there of the Neo Geo Pocket soundchip?.
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Chicago IL
Mad excited to see delek asking about it, but as far as I know there's still no sound file format for NGP
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there isn't a sound format for the gb/nes/c64 either, it's just a wrapper around whatever driver is being used.
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Chicago IL
well then there isn't a wrapper around whatever driver is being used for NGP
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Milwaukee, WI
ant1 wrote:
I'm not sure that is a tracker for the Pocket. There was a FM tracker for the Neo Geo console called MVSTracker and that looks just like it.
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Theta_Frost wrote:
ant1 wrote:I'm not sure that is a tracker for the Pocket. There was a FM tracker for the Neo Geo console called MVSTracker and that looks just like it.
I only opened it up and fiddled around for a minute, but it comes with documentation on creating NGPC sound drivers and such.