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| − | The '''Sample Music Playback System''' is a sound engine used in several games for the [[Sega Mega Drive/Genesis]] and the [[Sega 32X]], including all the major ''Sonic'' games except ''Sonic Spinball'', which uses [[GEMS]] instead.
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| − | A few versions of this engine exist; most notably, both a 68K and a Z80 version were developed.
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| − | It is possible to port songs between two games that uses the SMPS engine; however, several games use a slightly different revision of the format, and the chance that the ported song will need extensive editings by hand (usually with an hex editor) is very high.
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| − | Many sceners have been working on the SMPS format, doing an extensive work of research. Most credit should be given to [[saxman]], the man who started it all, but a lot of hackers continued his work up to our days, including [[Puto]] and [[Tweaker]].
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| − | We now have a quite complete knowledge of this format, and several tools are available to hackers who want to tweak the music in their hacks. In particular, the [[xm4smps]] tool, created by [[Puto]], allows music to be imported into the SMPS format with ease, generally having very favorable results.
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| − | It should be noted that both [[GYM]] and [[VGM]] files are logs of the data sent to the sound chipset rather than a dump of the sound data itself.
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| − | == See also ==
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| − | *[[SCHG:Music Hacking]]
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| − | :A very comprehensive guide detailing the SMPS format; mainly focused to ''Sonic'' games, though it contains a few resources for other games as well. | |
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| − | == External links ==
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| − | *[http://gdri.smspower.org/wiki/index.php/Mega_Drive/Genesis_Sound_Engine_List A list of the sound engines used on the Genesis]
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| − | [[Category:Hacking Information]]
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