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This is a "stub" which is able to play VGM files on the Sega Master System. These are logged music from video games.

It is only able to play back music composed for the sound chips it has: the Sega PSG and the YM2413. It also requires you to decompress the VGM file (if it is compressed; most are) and append it to the ROM.

If you have trouble with playback, try:

1. For compatibility with some flash cartridges, the ROM must be padded to a multiple of 64KB.
2. For compatibility with some emulators, the ROM must be be padded to a minimum of 64KB.

The included makerom.py file will do this for you.

New in version 2.00:

- Functioning FM support, including for mixed PSG/FM music and on real systems
- Works on a real system without graphical corruption
- Enhanced frequency visualisation to support FM data
- Enhanced snow visualisation to have better animation and more snowflakes
- Screensaver visualisation
- Optimised code to remove lag sometimes seen on complicated VGMs
- Reduced to 16KB
- Added (incomplete) support for Japanese GD3 tags

Source code is at https://github.com/maxim-zhao/sms-vgm-player

Words can not describe how happy this makes me ^_^
Finally being able to listen to FM music made in Furnace on real hardware is nothing short of incredible...
https://youtube.com/shorts/GGiqk91qxKI?si=8zXLVmba7eejfglo

This will be the reason I finally get some sort of FM module, be it on cartridge form or a mod board, thanks Maxim!

Works great :3

I did run into a Python syntax error; I wonder if this is a difference between Python versions. On my system (Linux + python3), I needed to change a line to capitalize the 'T' in 'true'

isGzip = True

Hmm, I thought I’d fixed that. I need to spend time to test the script.

I also needed to do that and could have sworn I posted to mention it.

So if you find a post about a python bug in some random thread that'll be it. :D

Does exactly what it says on the tin!

Visualisations are a fun addition, although I found that if I cycled through them and back to the piano the graphics became corrupted - see screenshot.

vgm.png (42.59 KB)

That’s the old version, it should be fixed now…

Just realised it works with MSX YM2413 vgm files as well hell yeah ^_^

Of course any VGMs which use the AY chip as well will have that part missing but even then they usually sound really good still...

It's so sad Windows doesn't even include a program to pad a file to a certain size.
In Linux, one can just use truncate

example:

truncate -s 128K yourfile.sms

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