X68000

The SPU2 (Sound Processing Unit 2) was made by Sony and is used inside the Sony Playstation 2 aswell as several Arcade Boards. Its the follow-up to the Playstation SPU which was working inside the first PSX and its corresponding Arcade Hardware.

Technical Specifications

• Channels: 48
• Sample Rate: 44.1 or 48 kHz (Selectable)
• Output: Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound / Stereo (supporting Dolby Pro Logic II)
• DAC: External, the 24-Bit 96 kHz Cirrus Logic CS4335-KS (not used when using the optical digital output)
• 2MB Sound RAM
• Has actually 2 DSP Cores with 24 Channels each

Metal Gear Solid 2 (Playstation 2)

Used in

Videogame Consoles

• Sony Playstation 2

Arcade Systems

• Konami Bemani Python 2
• Konami Psyon
• Capcom / Namco / Taito System 246
• Namco System 256
• Namco System Super 256

Special Applications

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Emulation / Ripping

PSF2

• PSF2 is a format for ripped and sequenced music from the Playstation 2. Soundbanks may be stored inside .psflib files, while the single songs would be inside .minipsf files then. PSF2 Files can be played via Highly Experimental, which is a Plugin available for Winamp 2/3/5, XMMS and Foobar.

Others

• CD-DA can be ripped into various Streaming Formats like flac/wav/mp3 as usual.

File Formats

• PSX/PS2 VAB & VAG Files