X68000

The VRC7 was made by Konami and was used as an extension soundchip in Nintendo Famicom / NES Games. It was only used in a single Konami Game and is also known as the Mapper 85.

Technical Specifications

• Channels: 6
• Channel 1-6: FM-Sound synthesis

Used in

The Chip is used in the following Nintendo Famicom Games (Japan only!)

• Lagrange Point (ラグランジュポイント – Konami – 1991 – Famicom)

Tiny Toon Adventures 2 has the chip on the Cartridge, but did not use the Audio capabilities.

Lagrange Point is the only game making music with the VRC7

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.

VRC7 running inside NSFPlug

Music Creation

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