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Mondain

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this chip > you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPC700

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The SONY SPC700 is the 8-bit sound chip designed by Ken Kutaragi and used in the Super Famicom/Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console together with a digital signal processor (DSP). The SPC700 and its companion 16-bit DSP were developed and manufactured by Sony, the company behind the PlayStation. The SPC700 chip was very advanced for its time (1991) and may in some ways be said to rival today's wavetable synthesizer sound cards.

SNES soundtracks are still very agreeable to listen to. Many developers pushed this chip to amazingly high levels. Its melodies are simply marvelous and soothing.

Among the greatest SNES OSTs of all time rank Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VI, Soulblazer, The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past, Actraiser... and countless others.

List your favorite ones.

MrAngryFace

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Re: Kutaragi Ken's greatest invention ever isn't a PlayStation console...
« Reply #1 on: September 27, 2006, 12:35:37 PM »
He invented that?
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Himu

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Re: Kutaragi Ken's greatest invention ever isn't a PlayStation console...
« Reply #2 on: September 27, 2006, 12:36:51 PM »
Ken was an actual person who designed shit like this? I thought he simply was a corporate suit.
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Re: Kutaragi Ken's greatest invention ever isn't a PlayStation console...
« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2006, 12:04:35 PM »
He invented that, yes.

Re: Kutaragi Ken's greatest invention ever isn't a PlayStation console...
« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2006, 05:26:17 PM »
He's a fucking god. He shouldn't be fronting sony the way he is just now though.
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