This program implements the sound drivers used by Namco arcade games from the mid 80s to the late 90s. It can play music and sound effects from over 140 games, with a tracker-style pattern visualization, channel muting and more.
QuattroPlay is free software licensed under the GPL version 2.
The only dependency is SDL2 (sudo apt-get install libsdl2-dev). Ver 2.0.8 or above is required, 2.0.9 is recommended especially on Linux.
The makefile is tested on Arch Linux, Linux Mint, Ubuntu and Windows (using MSYS2).
The program works on macOS, but you might have to do modifications to the makefile. I can't help you there.
Currently zipped MAME ROMs are not supported, you will have to store them in a subdirectory under /roms.
Then run it from command line/terminal:
bin/QuattroPlay.exe <gamename>
or
./bin/QuattroPlay <gamename>
Running without the
The current user interface is a bit complicated... Currently it only uses the keyboard.
Use the arrow keys to move the selection and press Enter once to edit the value. Use the arrow keys to set the value and press Enter again to set it.
There are three groups of values. The first are Track slots. By entering a value here you can play music or sound effects. The second group control Registers. These are used to control various parameters of the song. The third group is not editable but used to display information on the 32 Voices (sound channels).
To simply play sounds, simply move the selection to the top left value (Track 0), and press I or D to modify the value. Press S to stop a sound or R to restart.
By highlighting one of the values in the last group you can mute or solo channels by highlighting them and pressing M or S.
./bin/QuattroPlay [options] <gamename> [<song ID>]
If Song ID is specified, the song will automatically start. If enabled with the -w or -v parameters, the filenames will also contain the game name and song ID.
-ini
: Set game config path-w
: log to WAV.-v
: log to VGM.This might not be complete yet.
qp_log.wav
. Don't log for too long; 30 seconds = 30 MB./ini
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© 2016-2017 Ian Karlsson
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