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- by TheUltimateKoopa at 2:05 PM EDT on September 24, 2014
- I normally download stuff at about 6.5 MB/s, so you know how it feels. 80 kB/s as well. I mean, it's 2014. Why can't they have the "free limited speeds" low, but not .... THAT low. Like 200 kB/s maybe?
Anyway, just do what I did. Start the download from Sendspace and just... wait :P
- by Master_E at 10:25 AM EDT on September 26, 2014
- @nothingtosay: Yeah. I was referring to the .sf2s.
I guess I'm guilty of giving the GSF rips not enough credit. I assumed that the instruments were all at the same sampling rate but at a low bit depth to conserve space. Though, if I'm getting that term wrong again, I guess I'm also just bad at words.
At one point, I thought that "DirectSound" meant that all music using the DirectSound channels were streamed music files, explaining to me how you can't separate the instruments in Highly Experimental and how they get echos and reverb without the use of a DSP. Shows you how much I know about GBA hardware!
So the samples were of that high quality all this time? Amazing! You'd think they would find a better way to play those samples at their best quality. Then again, if that software mixer is really as poor as you say it is...
- by nothingtosay at 3:11 PM EDT on September 26, 2014
- gba2midi can rip the instrument samples from a GBA ROM. I recommend checking it out, if just for curiosity's sake. The samples certainly don't sound amazing in most cases, but definitely much better than the GBA can output. They're usually, if not always, 8-bit which makes them somewhat noisy. The maximum signal-to-noise ratio is the only thing bit depth is relevant to in terms of sound quality. 8-bit noise is clearly audible, even when generating a sound at 8 bits, not just when converting something higher down to it. The sampling rate is what can vary hugely, with often very low rates for percussion (even cymbals, unfortunately).
But with MIDI + soundfont it does manage to sound better than you'd think it would. I'm not entirely clear myself on how so much of the noise seems to go away from the samples. Filtering certainly happens in the process of pitch-shifting, but I'd think that can only remove artifacts caused by altering the pitch, not noises inherent in the samples.
- by Master_E at 1:17 PM EDT on September 28, 2014
- Signal to noise! That's the term I got wrong.
Thanks for educating me, nothingtosay.
- SmartOne's temporary GBA Rip by TwinkTickler at 3:02 PM EDT on October 28, 2014
- Sendspace can suck it, here's a MEGA Mirror.
https://mega.co.nz/#!eYlnkZCa!Gvsa8YuqLab2QFMqxtFtbnJH9Rwrva87I9FN7eSdyfE
Thank SmartOne for doing this, that beautiful, beautiful person!
Still hyped waiting for progress...
- by TwinkTickler at 3:31 PM EST on November 7, 2014
- Hey, SmartOne.
How's the CD-Quality rip coming along?
Take your time...
- by TheUltimateKoopa at 5:34 PM EST on November 7, 2014
- Of course, I'm looking forward to it. I'm expecting SmartOne will possibly upload a sample MP3/FLAC or whatever.
- by TwinkTickler at 5:39 PM EST on November 18, 2014
- Wonder what he's doing right now...
- by TheUltimateKoopa at 1:12 PM EST on November 19, 2014
- Judging by the um 15845 minutes [(60x24x11)+5] of no activity, I have come to the following possible conclusions:
1. He's completely forgotten about this thread.
2. He hasn't forgotten, but he's just been very busy (also known as "having a life")
3. Maybe he's just had a bad internet?
I'm going for either 2 or 3.
- by TwinkTickler at 5:40 PM EST on November 19, 2014
- 1. Oh well, at least we got the original 1:1 unemulated rip.
2. You work away your life and where does it get you, you get cash, cash that can't buy back what the job takes.
3. For only uploading a FLAC, I doubt it.
I'm guessing 4.
4. He knows but he doesn't care anymore, too much work, not enough reward.
Let's wait some more, eh poopa koopa?
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