kingshriek unveils preliminary Sega Saturn Sound Format (SSF)
kingshriek is bankable when it comes to obscure or hard-to-find video game soundtracks in video game music formats. Offering up rare GBS (Game Boy), HES (TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine) & NSF (Nintendo/Famicom) format soundtracks, kingshriek’s Rip Page holds a lot of buried treasures.
And indeed, speaking of treasure, it was through kingshriek that I found out the previous existing soundtrack rip of Tim Follin’s 1991 NES soundtrack Treasure Master had two missing tracks. UNACCEPTABLE, I know.
Recognizing king’s efforts in propagating classic game music, it was great to read that late last week, he unveiled a preliminary version of the long-conceptualized, long-awaited streamable Sega Saturn Sound Format or SSF. SSF is based off the plugin format of Neil Corlett’s PlayStation Sound Format (PSF) plugin, Highly Experimental.
SSF is still in the very preliminary stages, so it’s far from optimization. Of note, the various programs involved in the format have been undergoing fairly frequent updates. But if you feel like you can’t wait to fire up the Panzer Dragoon II Zwei soundtrack and test things out, check out the SSF page, read through all of the information and get-a-goin’.
Depending on how quickly development on the plug-in moves now that mass testing is available via this release, maybe we’ll see SSF support integrated into OC ReMix’s Chipamp plugin bundle.