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How do I make Anex86 emulate YM-2608 (OPNA) music + rhythms?
unicode787plus:
I downloaded Hoot (video/computer-game sound-hardware emulator) and listened to Touhou's OPNA (YM-2608) arrangements of TH01 music, complete with beats and rhythms. However, when I play the same music from TH05's Music Room on the Anex86 emulator, the music doesn't sound exactly like OPNA but more like OPN (the beats and rhythms are not present, even though I have the 2608_*.wav files installed on the same folder as Anex86). Has anybody ever succeeded in making Anex86 completely emulate OPNA music & rhythms in the same way Hoot does?
Momiji:
Anex86 doesn't actually include any sort've emulation for the higher-end "Speak Board" (using the OPNA) that Hoot can emulate, as far as I know, just the basic FM+SSG sound (OPN).
Try using T98-Next instead.
unicode787plus:
One more thing: when playing the original TH01 on Anex86, its music (residing in obscure-format .MDT files) sounds very different from what I hear from Hoot, even though Hoot only uses FM-26k (rather than the Speak Board) to emulate the original tracks.
Momiji:
Oh yeah, okay, I think I understand the issue now.
Th01 doesn't actually support more than the 26k, but the other games do (Speak Board, etc.). On top of that, Mystic Square includes remixes for all of the older games (in 26k and SB format). This is why your Th01 music sounds different, you might have an MDT of the Mystic Square remixes.
One other thing: ZUN was able to get rudimentary PCM percussion sounds out of the third SSG channel on the later PC98 games, including all of the remixes in Th05. So even if you're listening to the Th05 remixes of the Th01 music on a 26k board, you'll still get some percussion sounds.
I uploaded my own PC98 Touhou music here, the archive includes every available version of the music from the PC98 games. I'm pretty sure it's legal to put these up here, since Amusement Makers has the full games up for download anyway. If it's not, let me know. =<
unicode787plus:
No, the Mystic Square OPN/OPNA remixes are not in .MDT file format, but in .M file format (TH01_01.M, TH01_02.M, etc. are OPNA/Sound Board, TH01_01o.M, TH01_02o.M, etc. are OPN). The *.MDT files (ALICE.MDT, INIT.MDT, IRIS.MDT, etc.) in the Hoot package TH01.ZIP are the original non-OPN/non-OPNA music files also found on the TH01 Anex86 HDI image, as I checked their file sizes and they match, yet they sound different when played by both Anex86 and Hoot. Does Hoot actually use a different 26k board for *.MDT than the one used by Anex86?
This lengthy (10:30-long) YouTube HD video I uploaded (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4gd4Bm_6ic&fmt=22) compares the following:
* original TH01 title theme as output by Anex86 (when Anex86's Config->Wave->Rate/Buffer is set at 44 KHz)
* same theme as output by Anex86 (Config->Wave->Rate/Buffer set at 55 KHz)
* same theme as output by Hoot (from the non-OPN/non-OPNA list)
* TH05 remix of TH01 title theme as output by both Anex86 (when BGM in TH05's Options menu is set to FM-26k) and Hoot (from the OPN list)
* same remix as output by Anex86 (BGM in TH05's Options menu set to FM-86)
* same remix as output by Hoot (from the OPNA list)
On this video you will hear that the Hoot non-OPN/non-OPNA audio (a.k.a. the non-TH05-remix music) sounds different from the Anex86 audio. The only instance where both Anex86 and Hoot matched closely was when playing the OPN TH05 remixes.