MiSTer FPGA Forum

Years ago, if i remember correctly someone created M1 a program that would play music from arcade romsets.

You could download a frontend to have a nice interface etc.

Just thinking a Jukebox core might be a cool idea if someone wants to have a go, listen to your favourite arcade tunes while you do other things.

So much awesome music that needs to be heard!!

It looks like M1 might have been effectively superseded by Audio Overload.

I don't think it's a bad idea overall, but this is a little tricky for the MiSTer architecture. The straightforward approach would require a core to include all of the supported audio chips, and there's a wide range of those out there. A fair number of games could be supported with a handful of the most common chips (e.g. YM2203,YM2151, AY-3-8910, MSM6295), but the space and clocking requirements would probably get tricky as more chips are added.

Sound chips utilize a surprisingly large amount of space in a lot of cores. The SNES' DSP consumes 2388 ALUTs out of the SNES' 46,939 ALUT usage. Once you start scaling this stuff up to a lot of different chips, it can get pretty big.