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Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?
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Yoni Rabkin |
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Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files? |
Date: |
Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:54:32 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Warren Wilkinson <warrenwilkinson@gmail.com> writes:
> Yoni Rabkin <yoni@rabkins.net> writes:
>
>> What is the licensing situation surrounding this format? Has Nintendo
>> released the specifications under a free license?
>
> I don't think Nintendo authored the spec. I'll explain:
>
>>From what I gather, the data in an SPC file is a 64 kb memory dump of
> the audio chip on the SNES.
>
> I think that interested persons dumped this memory and then, wanting to
> organize and standardize their collections, evolved a small binary
> wrapper around it: http://www.snesmusic.org/files/spc_file_format.txt
> But I haven't been able to find the history of this file format.
>
> So basically the file is a well documented header of unknown origin
> prepended to a RAM dump of a chip.
It sounds like it was internal to Nintendo, and therefore never publicly
published.
It's an interesting question. I'll ask the people over at the
emacs-devel mailing list what they think, since Emms is installable from
within Emacs.
--
"Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
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- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Yoni Rabkin, 2023/07/19
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Warren Wilkinson, 2023/07/19
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Yoni Rabkin, 2023/07/24
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Warren Wilkinson, 2023/07/24
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Warren Wilkinson, 2023/07/27
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Yoni Rabkin, 2023/07/27
- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Warren Wilkinson, 2023/07/27
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- Re: Any appetite for patches for EMMS support for SNES SPC files?, Warren Wilkinson, 2023/07/28