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Episode: The GBA Music Player 2000 (wicmp11)
Description: Game soundtracks shape the way we experience playing games. On the Game Boy Advance (GBA) quite a few popular titles were released and some of them do have very well known soundtracks. People sometimes like them for their '16 bit sound', which is of course a misleading description at best. But if it's not '16 bit sound', what makes those games sound the way they sound? How does the sound on the GBA actually work? In this talk we discuss what the GBA hardware is capable of, how most games used the so called "Music Player 2000" software to make those...