Game Emu Player

Game Emu Player
Creator	kode54
Released	2005-10-11
Platform	foobar2000
Website	foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_gep

Game Emu Player is a component for foobar2000 that supports a wide variety of video game music formats. Using the GEP Control in the View menu, you can mute individual channels and adjust the overall tempo and pitch of any song.

The following formats are supported:

AY, GBS, GYM, HES, KSS, NSF, NSFE, RSN, SAP, SFM, SGC, SPC, VGM, VGM7Z, and VGZ.

foobar2000 also has support for any of these formats compressed in a ZIP, RAR, or 7Z archive.

Game Emu Player has the following features:

• Effects
  • Adjust the bass, treble, and echo depth.
  • Can mute any channels.
  • Remove surround effect for SPC files through various interpolation styles.
• Quality
  • Select from common sampling rates or a custom rate.
• Timing
  • Supports timing data for most formats.
  • You can set a default song length for songs without timing information.
  • Optional indefinite playback.
  • Can set a playback loop count in VGM format.
• Tagging
  • Supports NEZ Plug style M3U playlists for some formats, but not all.
  • Can prefer Japanese tags for VGM files.
  • Can ignore NSFE playlists.

Issues

Although Game Emu Player is certainly the most comprehensive video game music player for foobar2000, it has some issues prevent it from being the only 8 and 16-bit player you'll need.

• Some chips are not properly emulated.
  • YM2608 - Support is still lacking.
• Support for reading and writing meta data is lacking in some formats.
  • SPC - You cannot alter the timing on ID666 tags.
• Timing support is still lacking for several formats.
  • GBS - Doesn't support NEZ Plug style playlists.
  • NSF - Doesn't support NEZ Plug style playlists.
  • SPC - Doesn't handle extended timing (intro/loop/end/fadeout) properly.

Downloads

Version	Download	Platform
1.211	Download - (info)	foobar2000

Links

• foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_gep - Official.