question about DC shmups's music

[RoninBuddha]

as we all know, games like UnderDefeat (and i think BorderDown as well) has an option to change the music from Arrange to Arcade modes,...

what im wondering about is that when in "arcade" bgm mode, does it use the DC's AICA Audio chip (sound synth)? like the one on the Naomi boards, to produce the music, or does it also load from typical prerecorded redbook audio like the arrange music??

[louisg]

as we all know, games like UnderDefeat (and i think BorderDown as well) has an option to change the music from Arrange to Arcade modes,...

what im wondering about is that when in "arcade" bgm mode, does it use the DC's AICA Audio chip (sound synth)? like the one on the Naomi boards, to produce the music, or does it also load from typical prerecorded redbook audio like the arrange music??

The music for these games seem to mostly be in ADX format, which seems to be compressed audio. I'd be interested to know if any render the music in realtime (Ikaruga maybe?).

[Twiddle]

Ikaruga does indeed use the AICA chip instead of ADX.

Triggerheart Exelica is the only other game I know that (will) use(s) it.

[RoninBuddha]

^well, we all know the NAOMI games uses them... im talking about Dreamcast ports though..

and triggheart aint a DC game yet

[Nei First]

Bangai-O, didn't that use redbook audio? (I thought it did, since you can listen to the music in your stereo from the game cd itself).

[zinger]

Anybody got specs for the chip?

[Kiken]

Bangai-O, didn't that use redbook audio? (I thought it did, since you can listen to the music in your stereo from the game cd itself).

Since when?

There is a single playable audio track on the game that is the standard "This is not a soundtrack CD." message.

[Nei First]

Bangai-O, didn't that use redbook audio? (I thought it did, since you can listen to the music in your stereo from the game cd itself).

Since when?

There is a single playable audio track on the game that is the standard "This is not a soundtrack CD." message.

Which version do you have?

I have the PAL version of the game and you can listen to the entire soundtrack on it. I wonder, Is it likely they would change such a small feature for different regions...

[Kiken]

Bangai-O, didn't that use redbook audio? (I thought it did, since you can listen to the music in your stereo from the game cd itself).

Since when?

There is a single playable audio track on the game that is the standard "This is not a soundtrack CD." message.

Which version do you have?

I have the PAL version of the game and you can listen to the entire soundtrack on it. I wonder, Is it likely they would change such a small feature for different regions...

Well, apparently, because my Japanese version doesn't have redbook audio.

[Nei First]

Since when?

There is a single playable audio track on the game that is the standard "This is not a soundtrack CD." message.

Which version do you have?

I have the PAL version of the game and you can listen to the entire soundtrack on it. I wonder, Is it likely they would change such a small feature for different regions...

Well, apparently, because my Japanese version doesn't have redbook audio.

Odd, I'm curious as to why they would do this. Maybe there are other DC games (which are yet to be discovered) that also have/don't have redbook audio, specific to certain regions.

[theevilfunkster]

Bangai-O, didn't that use redbook audio? (I thought it did, since you can listen to the music in your stereo from the game cd itself).

Since when?

There is a single playable audio track on the game that is the standard "This is not a soundtrack CD." message.

Which version do you have?

I have the PAL version of the game and you can listen to the entire soundtrack on it. I wonder, Is it likely they would change such a small feature for different regions...

Doesn't work on my PAL version.