There is a guy, Mathew Valente (a.k.a. TSSF), who put in a surprising amount of effort tracking down the original samples used by the composer of the SNES and PSX Final Fantasy games, Nobuo Uematsu. Nearly all of the samples came from various contemporary hardware and software synthesizers. Mathew found most of them (possibly with community collaboration, no small feat either way!) and took those original samples and remastered Nobuo's tracks. If you watch his videos, this was not a simple drag-and-drop operation, there is quite a lot of technical, musical, and subjective work and decisions to be made. The results are just beautiful.
If you liked classic Final Fantasy music, you'll love his channel. Here's one of my favorites: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQhxNkZH-DE
You can also find MSU-1 packs that include his tracks so you can play the games with the enhanced audio.
When my parents weren't home I'd move to their pentium 166mhz with my savestates copied to a floppy and sneak some time playing the game with sound and transparencies.
I think I also got through most of super mario world and some of the final fantasy games as well
Fun times!
The translation does take some liberties, but honestly, just for the boat scene, I feel like it's worth it.
And being able to slow down or speed up the game at will, or quick save/reload at any second, thanks to zsnes, is just chef kiss.
MVG did a great overview of it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5twUkvYFpA
I suppose my only concern is what it will do to the hardware requirements, since ZSNES' original claim to fame was how well it was able to run on limited hardware, even if it had to do a bunch of clever hacks to get there.
I think that’s kind of interesting, especially when building a retro enablement.
But I wonder does this mean no AI was used at all? Even for say, code review?
No judgment either way just curious for clarification.
Depends what level of accuracy you want. higan (bsnes) does cycle-accurate SNES emulation on the CPU (and has for more than a decade) so that's definitely feasible.
If you want accuracy beyond that things get dicey. AFAIK when you get down to transistor level emulation, you can do pong but MetalNES runs nowhere near real time, so the limit for that is somewhere between those two systems.
no.
Probably is one of those of "because its fun" type of projects.
Maybe this could result in a much more automated way to re-sample many more sound effects from the SNES massively! Just a thought
The enhancement engine sounds great, but it'd be nice to know which games it's for...
Plus you can make your own cheat codes!