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- by Lunar at 7:57 AM EDT on July 14, 2009
- personally, i'd rather have the convenience of tags and a music player than sacrifice those for the sake of (seemingly debatable) accuracy. VGM sounds great to me in fb2k, not sure what the problem is.
- by mudlord at 8:38 AM EDT on July 14, 2009
- Thats because foo_gep uses a up to date emulation core, from MAME I think.
- by kode54 at 6:04 PM EDT on July 14, 2009
- True, foo_gep can't write tags to VGM/Z, but maybe I can update it to support that functionality. Of course, the way I read the tags into dual fields, it will be a pain detecting which of the configurable fields will go into which tags in the file.
For instance, English/Japanese title will always be read as title_e and title_j respectively, but configuration determines which of those is read as the normal title field. The tag writer will always see all three. Perhaps I should make it so if it's set to prefer English, the _e fields will be ignored on write and filled from the normal fields. Moo.
- by holyice7 at 6:33 PM EDT on July 14, 2009
- Well the reason I wanted the most accurate emulation I could get (GYM, not VGM through some convoluted mechanism that sounds no different despite what someOne may say), was because Winamp is ceaselessly being a giant, crashy bitch, so it's more prudent for me to convert all my soundtracks into lossless streams and tag them from there, which also allows me to fade them by hand if need be, as was with the GYMs.
And of course it allows me to provide them to my friends who enjoy the same music I do, but can't be arsed to figure out how a few dozen plugins work.
- by SmartOne at 9:49 PM EDT on July 14, 2009
- Sorry for being nice. :(
- by holyice7 at 5:29 AM EDT on July 15, 2009
- Bah, it's not your fault you can't tell the difference.
Did you ever even play the game?
- by Elven Spellmaker at 12:25 PM EDT on July 15, 2009
- I dunno why people always say Winamp is crashy, it never crashes for me. O.o
VGM sounds great to me in fb2k, not sure what the problem is.
VGM and VGZ sound great in Winamp too.
- by fridgey at 12:28 PM EDT on July 15, 2009
- Yeah, it's basically a problem with just this specific set.
- by holyice7 at 8:57 PM EDT on July 15, 2009
- Winamp has been intent on crashing for me every time I close it, and sometimes when I hit 'stop.' And about a third of the time there's a script failure when the program itself is loading. It's been happening nonstop for about a year, no matter what version, addons, or whatever, across two computers.
- by SmartOne at 9:53 PM EDT on July 15, 2009
- Try XMPlay.
Kode54 said that VGM logs the exact chip instructions, which means the format is perfectly accurate. The approximation of GYM's (DAC portion?) is artificial filtering that sounds smoother, likely reminiscent of the original hardware. Also remember that the Genesis Model 1 HD sounds very different than the Model 2, for example.
GYM is a ripped format, resulting in larger file sizes, among other shortcomings.
Since VGM is exact and assuming VGM_PLAY is flawless, Fusion (considered the most accurate Genesis emulator,) offers the most pristine reproduction.
Steve Snake and others work hard to investigate the completely undocumented hardware filtering of the Genesis. Like I said, the Filter option in Kega is already quite good.
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