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- by holyice7 at 10:30 PM EDT on September 10, 2010
- Right, well. That other news aside, would anyone have a tops suggestion for an NSF player as well?
NEZplug is to 'clicky' for my tastes and NotSoFatso has just been giving me a ton of trouble.
- We're all out of luck and hope hahahaha by anewuser at 11:33 PM EDT on September 10, 2010
- We're all out of luck and hope hahahaha
Really.
- by nothingtosay at 11:33 PM EDT on September 10, 2010
- I don't know if you played around with NotSoFatso's configuration settings, but the default does suck. The invert option needs to be turned off for the square and triangle waves (I like it on the noise channel though) and the volume and pan adjusted for what sounds good on your setup. I know some of the ways that it does things, like launching that little window, are hassles, but I get good enough sound out of it, I'm willing to suffer.
- by holyice7 at 7:23 PM EDT on September 16, 2010
- I just want to, simply, get the tracks I'm recording to sound as close to the source material as is audibly possible. Of course, I never encountered the source material I want to get the music from, due to the whole VRC6 chip not working in an NES thing.
So as a result, the multitude of options in NotSoFatso are a little perplexing, if not daunting.
- by nensondubois at 11:11 PM EDT on September 16, 2010
- I have a Famicom, and I can record the games that use VRC6 VRC7, N106, MMC5, and some games that use FDS audio. I don't have Gimmick yet so I can't record FME-7 (Sunsoft5b).
edited 1:20 AM EDT September 17, 2010
- by JILost at 4:06 AM EDT on September 17, 2010
- I had a friend perform a mod on my NES to handle special chips (or at least the VRC6) and recorded the entire Akumajo Densetsu sound test from it. Upon direct comparison with those recordings, my listening tests showed your "clicky" NEZplug to sound the least distinguishable from the real thing of all the players I tried. (NEZplug, NotSoFatso, festalon 0.4, VirtuaNSF, GME, Audio Overload, probably others.) NotSoFatso might have sounded more like it if I'd bothered to adjust the channel volumes and panning positions, but I just didn't have the patience and I'd already learned by then that NEZplug sounded just like it "straight out of the box", so I didn't see why I should bother.
Also, if all you want is to hear Akumajo Densetsu on the real deal, I still have my recordings and I'm sure the site with the NES mod details is still up if you want to do it yourself. Otherwise, NEZplug is the way to go.
- by nothingtosay at 4:57 AM EDT on September 17, 2010
- Yeah, NotSoFatso isn't supposed to sound like the real thing. Obviously it has stereo mixing and volume controls, and then there's extra filtering and stuff. Don't use it if your desire is authenticity. I think it improves upon the real thing, so I'm okay with that, but we have different goals.
- by JudgeIto at 1:28 AM EDT on September 19, 2010
- There's something to be said for calculable, definable accuracy and NEZplug, but I really do like NotSoFatso for all its variable settings.
The NES was from a time of analog inputs and RF switches. In 1988, Castlevania on your 14" Zenith might have sounded way different than it did on your neighbor's 20" Trinitron. With NotSoFatso you can recreate the NES sound as YOU remember it, considering you trust your own memories. It's good for a personalized sound.
But yeah, if you're after accuracy, try to get past NEZplug's "clickyness"
- by SmartOne at 2:26 PM EDT on September 19, 2010
- GEP's right up there with NEZplug++. I think.
- by Lunar at 7:20 AM EDT on September 20, 2010
- foo_gep is very good (if it's identical to GEP/the same thing) but there's some things it doesn't do... for instance it doesn't emulate DPCM delta counter volume attenuation of the triangle and noise channels. in most cases this is good from the perspective of listening but not from the perspective of accuracy. would be nice as an option.
both of them have issues with the mixing levels of expansion chips that VirtuaNSF copes better with. not huge issues like NSFplug though :B.
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