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I was wondering what the best NSF player for Winamp was.
Right now, I'm using some version of Nezplug, and it has broken Namco sound channels, so I'd like to find a better player.
I hate the 'separate window for track selection' feature that many of the plugins have, or the 'controls overlaid on top of the seek bar' alternative others use. Some of them will respond to the player's buttons, but not to the keyboard shortcut for that button.
So far, I've only seen one NSF player for Winamp (NotSoFatso) that lets you have individual songs in the playlist, but you have to manually click several buttons before it does that.
Outside of Winamp, I'd simply use Nintendulator, even though its UI sucks.
I love NSFPlug. [url=http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?NSFplug]http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?NSFplug
It doesn't do individual songs as a playlist, but it does let you use the |< >| buttons. Also you really can't beat its keyboard view (and 2-8x slowdown feature).
It doesn't play PAL at the correct pitch, though, if that's a concern.
I've been using VirtuaNSF and Nestopia as primary testing for the last couple of years for songs worked on, but this past week's compo, a nezplug variant was used for the initial set of mp3 recordings and my submission ended up sounding _really_ bad in the recording. It's kinda bothered me because I just can't find a strait answer again, after a couple years of thinking I had one. Like, I even installed foobar and gep and it sounded fine in that...
I've wanted to use NSFplug again but for whatever reason, it refuses to run on my computer. It just hangs in the tasks on XP, not sure if it's a language display issue or what...
Not a Winamp plugin, but I highly recommend VirtuaNSF; it's the way to go if you want emulation that sound as close to the origianl hardware as can be. Most VRC7 NSFs are optimised for it (including my own), as well. It IS a Famicom player though, so it doesn't play PAL NSFs properly though (it plays them at NTSC speed using NTSC pitch tables).
I also use VirtuaNSF as my main NSF player.
For some reason, NSFPlug crashes as a standalone program, but I haven't had any problems with it on Winamp.
As far as playing NSFs, I usually use a demo program whose code was packed in with GME, that uses SDL to play the file and display the waveform. I haven't really run into many problems with it.
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Yeah, NSFPlay crashes on Vista/Windows 7. It hasn't been updated in ages. The Winamp plugin version NSFPlug bypasses whatever part of it doesn't work, I guess the sound code somewhere.
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