X68000

The Namco 106 was made by (guess what) Namco and was used as an extension chip in Nintendo Famicom / NES Games. It is also known as the Mapper 19. The first Game which used it was Youkai Douchuuki, released on June 24th, 1988.

Technical Specifications

• Channels: 8
• Channel 1-8: Can play back variable Waveforms with a variable lenght.
• Volume: 16 step linear volume control
• 128 different Waveforms max.

Used in

The Chip is used in the following Nintendo Famicom Games (Japan only, none of those ever had a western release)

• Erika to Satoru no Yumebouken (えりかとさとるの夢冒険)
• Final Lap (ファイナルラップ)
• King of Kings (キング オブ キングス)
• Mappy Kids (マッピーキッズ)
• Megami Tensei II Digital Devil Story (女神転生Ⅱ　デジタルデビル物語)
• Rolling Thunder (ローリングサンダー)
• Sangokushi 2 Haou no Tairiku (三國志Ⅱ 覇王の大陸)
• Youkai Douchuuki (妖怪道中記)

Megami Tensei II uses the Namco 106

Special Applications

• It’s used together with the 2A03 (The NES / Famicom Main Sound Chip)

Emulation

• NSF | NES Music, aswell as all the expansion Chips, can be ripped and stored inside .nsf Files. NSF Files are basically stripped down roms that only contain the music code. There are numerous Players for this, 2 popular Winamp Plugins would be NSFPlug (Link) and NEZPlug++ (Link).

• There are also NSFe Files. The “e” stands for extended, which means that those files support Titles and Timing.

The Namco 106 running in NSFPlug

Music Creation

MML

• MCK