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Because I have an EZ Flash IV, HVCA is the easiest way to play NSF music on my GBA.

But not all commercial NSFs will work. Some have speed issues while others will not play at all due to bankswitching. But with the power of NSFImporter, I can recreate NSFs without bankswitch or speed issues! Only problem, due to the nature of NSFImport, is resulting in slightly significantly sometimes ridiculously large files sizes, which need to be split up.

Here is what I have so far:

Burai Fighter - Stages 1-3
Burai Frihgter - Stages 4 & 7
Burai Fighter - Ending
Double Dibble
Metroid - Title
Metroid - Tracks 2-11
Metroid Ending
R.C. Pro-Am
Skate or Die - Skate Shop
Skate or Die - Ramp
Skate or Die - High Jump
Skate or Die - Downhill
Skate or Die - Jam
Skate or Die - Joust
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Level 1
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Level 2
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Level 3
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Level 5
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Level 7
Tag Team Wrestling
Transformers: Convoy no Nazo
X-Men - Stages 1 & 2
X-Men - Stages 3-5

What Didn't Work (even after I edited the patterns):

Skate Or Die - Title (too long, requires bankswitching)
Skate Or Die 2 - Title (too long, DPCM voice wouldn't be in there anyway)
Snake Rattle 'n' Roll - Stage 6
Spiderman Return of the Sinister Six (most tracks are long & require bankswitching)

To Do:
-Amagon
-Danny Sullivan's Indy Heat
-Gumshoe
-Legacy of the Wizard
-Life Force
-Mappy Land (probably need to split)
-Nightmare on Elm Street (tag David Wise?)
-Nightshade
-Super Chinese
-T&C 2 Thrilla's Surfari
-Tetris 2 + BomBliss
-Wizards & Warriors II

Okay okay, I'll go add NSF support to PocketNES already...

If someone made an NSF cover of a Britney Spears song, would all the boys and all the girls be "begging to HVCA me"?

Dwedit wrote:Okay okay, I'll go add NSF support to PocketNES already...

How about FDS

Took a while, and plenty of bug fixing, but I finally got the minimum bank size down to 4KB instead of 8KB. Now NSF support can be worked on.
Is NSF the only mapper that needs 4k banks?

I believe it's the only one.

Will expansion sound be supported?

Jedi QuestMaster wrote:Will expansion sound be supported?

I am going to pre-emptively guess no, as if I remember correctly the sound in PocketNES is hardware accelerated using the fairly-compatible GBC channels.

On that note, DWEdit, it would be neat if PocketNES would allow definitions for alternate waveforms for the triangle channel. There have been times when I thought it would be helpful to use a less soft wave, like a saw or a square, only because the triangle is so hard to hear out of the GBA speaker as-is.