On May 16th we reported about DRM's Sample playback on SCC project.
On April 16th we started a new megapoll, in search of the most favorite MSX game character. Out of 162 nominees, 84 managed to get a place in the second round, of which you can now cast your votes right here. This round closes on May 22nd, 23:59 CET. Happy voting!
PT3TOOLS 1.1 - Update
The PT3 Tools package in our downloads section has been updated. Now, the package also contains the source code needed to play PT2 or PT3 files in your own MSX productions.
Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence to feature Metal Gear 1 and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
Sources: Gaby Lopez, Magic Box, dgs-online and Evulopah
Konami have announced an update of Metal Gear 3: Snake Eater called
The documentation for the MSX-AUDIO BIOS upgrade for Philips Music Module on MSXpro has been updated.
HackUrl released a Space Manbow cover in MP3 format. It's the tune of the first end-boss in Space Manbow.
Sample playback on SCC
DRM made a PSG/SCC song which playbacks samples over SCC. He manually converted a PCM sample to a MSGDRV instrument. Earlier attempts do to so by using PCMSCC didn't allow for using the sample in a tracker. This technique does.
The last edition of this classic spanish fair promoted by the AAMSX was held last saturday. This time the number of visitors decreased because of the lack of standholders, but still there were some new interesting things to report, like the new CallMSX Magazine (no.
About 3 weeks ago an MSX-AUDIO BIOS for Philips Music Module was released, making the popular Philips Music Module fully MSX-AUDIO compatible. After it's release the reactions were enthusiastic, but there clearly was a demand for a way to let the Music Module handle FM-BASIC music as well.
Now, BiFi has released a tool that does just this.
MAD releases Quarth's Theme
MAD Music Studio releases many arranged versions of MSX game songs. Recently, the theme of Konami's popular game Quarth has been added to the ever growing collection.