Binary Star, a musicdisk for the PCE with SCC (MSX) tunes!

[shubibiman]

Pretty cool stuff indeed. Thanks

[ccovell]

Hi, folks.  I've written up an overly-detailed tech document about Binary Star:  http://www.chrismcovell.com/texts/binarystar-tech.html

It was mostly asked for by scene people who didn't really know much about the PC-Engine, technically.  So it may cover some familiar territory.

Enjoy...? 

[touko]

Wahou, very complete and instructive, thanks a lot . 

[Arkhan]

I loled at your "f*ckin figure it out" thing for the MSX subslot part of the chart.

Someone else had said / wrote something similar a few years back.   He wrote something trying to explain it.

[spenoza]

Some of the instruments in Gradius 2 actually sound rather Soldier-series-esque. Interesting. Are you planning on packing up any other neat music collections using this fine player you've created?

[Arkhan]

Some of the instruments in Gradius 2 actually sound rather Soldier-series-esque. Interesting. Are you planning on packing up any other neat music collections using this fine player you've created?

too bad the Goonies homebrew doesn't have VGMs AFAIK.  That would be cool to hear on PCE.

Hell, a f*cking Goonies game on PCE would be cool in general.     That's probably the best homebrew game I've ever seen anywhere, ever:

Totally biased because Goonies, but it's also a really well done game, and plays like how Goonies 2 on NES probably SHOULD have been, lol.


Snatcher/SD Snatcher might be cool too, but would require some player-diddling.   Snatcher/SDSnatcher used SCC+, and that opens up the waveform capabilities slightly in that each channel can have a unique waveform as opposed to the 4 possible with regular SCC. 

It's only one extra, but it's still one

[Gredler]

Go home MSX homebrew port of goonies, you sound drunk

[Arkhan]

Go home MSX port of goonies, you sound drunk

It's not a port.   It's a completely brand-new homebrew game made by a few people.  (Who ultimately stopped doing MSX stuff because this other idiot cracked / redistributed the game, and did some other spiteful/moronic crap)

The OG Konami Goonies game was funny, but only used PSG tunes because it came out before SCC was released.

[_joshuaTurbo]

sweet.

It's be cool if we could fiddledick with the panning and mix the tunes more than they ever dreamed they could back then.

Fiddledick is a term I'm gonna shoehorn into as much conversation as I can...

Shoehorn is a term I'm gonna acclimate into as much chunter as I can...

[Arkhan]

sweet.

It's be cool if we could fiddledick with the panning and mix the tunes more than they ever dreamed they could back then.

Fiddledick is a term I'm gonna shoehorn into as much conversation as I can...

Shoehorn is a term I'm gonna acclimate into as much chunter as I can...

Shoehorn your fiddledick into my chunt.

[esteban]

Hi, folks.  I've written up an overly-detailed tech document about Binary Star:  http://www.chrismcovell.com/texts/binarystar-tech.html

It was mostly asked for by scene people who didn't really know much about the PC-Engine, technically.  So it may cover some familiar territory.

Enjoy...? 

I didn’t even know what “SCC” referred to when I clicked on this thread.



It was quite enjoyable to read the “tech page” you created...it allows me to have a far greater appreciation of what BINARY STAR actually does.

Now...how can I get the XZR (MSX) soundtrack pumping out of the heart of my PCE?

Thank you.

[ccovell]

... burn a CDR of Exile with custom redbook tracks?   

[SuperPlay]

Great music demo Chris :-) Looking forward to having a look at the writeup
 

[esteban]

... burn a CDR of Exile with custom redbook tracks?   

You are a cruel, cruel compatriot.

[Arkhan]

It was quite enjoyable to read the “tech page” you created...it allows me to have a far greater appreciation of what BINARY STAR actually does.

Now...how can I get the XZR (MSX) soundtrack pumping out of the heart of my PCE?

Thank you.

XZR 1 and 2 on MSX don't use the SCC, lol. 

They just use regular PSG tunes.  only Konami and a few homebrew games use the SCC.

XZR II came with a music CD on MSX though.  You could swap those tracks in!