This is a post on a bug that broke Fatal Rewind for the Sega Genesis, a port of the Amiga/Atari ST game The Killing Game Show. I’m not sure why some Amiga-to-Genesis ports changed the game’s title. Leander is another one, which got ported to Genesis under the title Galahad.| jsgroth.dev
This is the seventh and final post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface Part 2 - Phase Part 3 - Envelopes Part 4 - Digital Output Part 5 - Analog Output Part 6 - LFO This post will cover the envelope generator’s SSG-EG mode.| jsgroth.dev
This is the sixth in a series of posts on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface Part 2 - Phase Part 3 - Envelopes Part 4 - Digital Output Part 5 - Analog Output This post will cover the hardware timers, the LFO (low frequency oscillator), and synthesized effects powered by the LFO.| jsgroth's blog
This is the fifth in a series of posts on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface Part 2 - Phase Part 3 - Envelopes Part 4 - Digital Output This post will cover a few aspects of the YM2612’s audio hardware, particularly the DAC (digital-to-analog converter), that are not strictly related to sample generation but do noticeably affect the sound of the final output.| jsgroth's blog
This is the fourth in a series of posts on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface Part 2 - Phase Part 3 - Envelopes This post will describe how the chip computes operator and channel outputs given the phase generator and envelope generator outputs.| jsgroth's blog
This is the third in a series of posts on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface Part 2 - Phase This post will describe how the ADSR envelope generators work. ADSR Each of the YM2612’s 24 operators has its own ADSR envelope generator that automatically adjusts the operator’s volume over time.| jsgroth.dev
This is the second in a series of posts on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the YM2612. Part 1 - Interface This post will describe the FM synthesis channels’ phase generators. Phase Generation Each of the YM2612’s 24 operators contains a phase generator and an ADSR envelope generator.| jsgroth's blog
This is the first post in a series on emulating the main Sega Genesis sound chip, the Yamaha YM2612 FM synthesis chip, also known as the OPN2. To date, the YM2612 is pretty easily the most difficult-to-emulate sound chip that I have worked on.| jsgroth.dev
This is the second of two followups to my post on the Sega CD PCM chip. Where the last post described a way to improve audio quality by applying an audio filter to final mixed PCM chip output, this post will describe an audio enhancement that improves audio quality by changing how the emulated chip itself generates samples.| jsgroth's blog
This is a followup to the previous post on the Sega CD’s PCM sound chip. This post will start by going into more detail on why this chip’s audio output sounds pretty crummy by default, followed by one of two possible solutions that I know of to that problem.| jsgroth.dev
In my last post I described an enhancement that an SNES or PS1 emulator can implement to improve audio quality in some games. Since then, I noticed that Sega CD games that use its PCM sound chip have pretty poor audio quality in my emulator - the audio output sounds very noisy and aliased.| jsgroth's blog
This is a continuation of my attempt to get Titan Overdrive 2 working in my Genesis emulator. It will be more technical than Part 1 as fixing the remaining effects requires getting into low-level details of how the Genesis VDP functions, which these effects depend on.| jsgroth's blog
When I first saw Titan’s Overdrive 2 demo I was blown away, both by the presentation itself and by how in the world they managed to push that out of the Mega Drive. After how much I struggled to get Overdrive 1 to work in my emulator, I just assumed that getting Overdrive 2 to work was out of reach.| jsgroth's blog
The Titan Overdrive and Overdrive 2 Mega Drive demos are well-known for pushing the Mega Drive / Genesis hardware to its limits. I decided to try the first one in my own Genesis emulator and see what it would take to get it working!| jsgroth.dev
I had high hopes for this one. An RPG developed by Westwood Associates, released the year after their superb dungeon crawler Eye of the Beholder and its less-superb sequel, designed for one of my f…| Kimimi The Game-Eating She-Monster
I recently added 32X support to my Sega Genesis emulator. While I’d say it was definitely easier than Sega CD overall, it wasn’t without difficulty, and much like Sega CD there’s very little public documentation aside from Sega’s poorly translated official docs from the 90s.| jsgroth.dev
Sega released two hardware add-ons for the Genesis in an attempt to expand its hardware capabilities to enable more advanced gaming experiences. The first of these was the Sega CD, obviously a response to the PC Engine CD (which was fairly successful in Japan despite very poor sales in the rest of the world).| jsgroth.dev
Cadono le barriere e a Natale è melting pot di videogiochi: dall’Europa, dal Giappone, dagli Stati Uniti.| Zave's
Trent’anni dopo il miglior Natale (della sua categoria). Tre giochi in casa, tre in sala giochi e le recensioni che non servivano a nulla.| Zave's