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APU: clarify which bits of NR41 are actually used #518

Closed iximeow closed 11 months ago

iximeow commented 11 months ago

the docs that were present gave the misleading impression that NR41 sets an 8-bit timer similar to NR31, and that channel 4's length is counted up to 256 like NR31. but channel 4 counts length up to 64 more like channels 1 and 2, with an initial length set from the low six bits of this register.

(spotted this by going through the above logic, noticing that channel 4 seemed to run too long, and comparing against a few other emulators. i don't actually know what happens with the upper two bits here, if they're ignored, or what.)