Sound Chip Suggestion: YMF292 (SCSP)

[hornysdog]

Could You Add the Sega Saturn's Sound Chip, YMF292, A PCM(32 Channels Max.) and FM(8 Channels Max.) Chip, a direct opponent to The Sony's Playstation

[IceDragonDee]

Lots of people have requested this. It's a possibility.

I believe you have the features wrong though. I've heard that any channel can modulate another... But I've also heard that the YMF271 is like a Saturn Lite... I can't say for sure, but maybe someone more knowledgeable can chip in

[hornysdog]

i know, and it's very interresting

[freq-mod]

1. Write it in a bit more proper english, this thing is barely decipherable
2. if you want some chip, at least know it specs instead making up things like 'max 8ch FM'. I don't know where did you get that.
3. It was suggested 100000000000 times by this point. YMF292 is impossible to accuarately represent with trackers as every channel modulate every other channel in any kind of combination possible. You can have 10ch 2op FM + 2ch 4op FM + 4 PCM channels, and one tick later it's 5ch 5op + 3ch 2op + 1ch PCM, for example. It's way too tiresome and afaik nothjing ever used FM mode of YMF292.

[IceDragonDee]

So what I can tell from this, Saturn actually has a very low, if not a nonexistent chance of being implemented. Good to know.

Could you humour me though? One thing I hear all the time is how much RAM some chips have for samples, but I've never heard about how much the Saturn has available. Does it have a limit or is it just based on how much the console has in general?

Don't have to answer if it's too off topic

[hornysdog]

ok, didn't needed to be that rude btw

[Velmyncier]

The Saturn dedicates 512 KiB of memory to sound.