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MSX Sound Enhancer #1787

Open ReNardier opened 1 day ago

ReNardier commented 1 day ago

https://www.msx.org/wiki/Lost_Technology_MSX_Sound_Enhancer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrZWmedqcfE before you ask(and although im again out of my depth), this one seems trickier than the beepack due to the thing it accepts being a sound cartridge(although perhaps something funky & quite likely unintended could be accomplished with another type of cart), so not only does this one require that it can specify which cart slot it occupies, but the proper cart-based extension should be selectable to be on top of it in the same daisy-chaining manner as the bee cards do on the beepack, sorry again if this(i) is(was) awfully unhelpful, and never-the-less have a good day

m9710797 commented 22 hours ago

I'm not familiar with this extension, but if I read the documentation correctly, this is nothing more than the combination of MSX-Music (OPLL) (with optional ROM) and PSG (YMZ294 or AY8910). The documentation also talks about a non-standard balance between these two chips between different MSX machines. But that balance can already be controlled in openMSX.

Maybe I'm missing something. But at the moment I don't see a reason why we should emulate this in openMSX. I mean it's extra effort, but it doesn't bring much (any?) value.

But of course feel free to comment if I'm mistaken. I'll keep this ticket open for a little while longer.