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Title: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: exodus on February 21, 2017, 07:39:19 AM
I might just be missing something, but I haven't seen a lot of rips of the PCM tracks from CD games. I find they're often quite excellent because they're using all sound channels just for music usually. It tends to be during cutscenes, where voice is running from the disc, or similar.
Does someone like sunteam paul have a collection of these somewhere? I remember the devil hunter yohko PCM to being particularly good! Anyway, mostly just throwing this out there, since I wouldn't want these things to get lost in the archiving process!
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: Black Tiger on February 21, 2017, 08:10:43 AM
Whether you mean the redbook audio or adpcm, either way they are only using a single channel of the CD/IFU hardware and zero of the regular PC Engine sound channels.
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: exodus on February 21, 2017, 10:33:10 AM
Sorry, I am probably using the wrong terms. What I mean is the chiptunes that play sometimes during CD-based games. Usually they're not playing SFX or anything, they're playing music under some sort of voice acting or similar that's read from the disc, so they seem to get more out of the chip. Here's an example taken with my crappy phone camera. sorry about the quality!
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: Black Tiger on February 21, 2017, 10:48:24 AM
There are dozens(?) of .hes (chiptune sound) files available from CD games.
You can find a bunch on this site:
http://snesmusic.org/hoot/kingshriek/
They aren't usually any more special than HuCard soundtracks and often don't use all of the available sound channels, but a lot of the best PC Engine chiptunes are on CD games and there are likely more of them as well.
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: exodus on February 21, 2017, 11:00:53 AM
ah, I'm glad there are some there! hopefully there are some folks out there actively trying to archive these!
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: SignOfZeta on February 21, 2017, 12:10:45 PM
Is there a tool that will just play them like the Neo Geo unibios?
You can get some on the CD OSTs, but that's probably useless for anything but Falcom.
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: Black Tiger on February 21, 2017, 01:11:26 PM
Is there a tool that will just play them like the Neo Geo unibios?
You can get some on the CD OSTs, but that's probably useless for anything but Falcom.
Various Turbo Everdrives play them with various success, depending on whether they are .hes, .pce or converted to roms.
It's not consistent with TED revision numbers either. Some play fine in a newer model and some better on older ones.
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: Joe Redifer on February 21, 2017, 08:44:01 PM
If some bored PCE coder wanted a simple yet extremely tedious project, he or she could take all HES files (including those from CD and SuperGrafx games) and compile them into a ROM complete with an onscreen menu that could be run on n Everdrive. I would love to just sit back and chill to tunes being produced by my real TurboGrafx instead of an emulator.
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: exodus on February 22, 2017, 07:53:06 AM
dang, that would sure be a nice time!
Title: Re: PCM rips of CD games?
Post by: Black Tiger on February 22, 2017, 10:32:12 AM
All that we really need is for someone to make a rom padder for the .pce rom converter that works on modern operating systems. Or some other work around for sound roms smaller than 2 megs.