An archive with full sound packs (music + sfx) for the classic arcade titles made by Namco written for the WSG sound chip. The songs were extracted with a reverse-engineered driver (frame2frame correctness checked vs Mame register dumps) and, inspired by QuattroPlay, converted to C352 using a custom converter. Placed here, due to a lack of official support for WSG in VGM but I hope that one day the sheer beauty of these compositions will lead to their adoption into the standard! My plan is to keep adding soundtracks here from other titles when outcomes from the respective drivers are verified. I will also release the tool once it is in a presentable state.
Hardware: Pac Man / WSG
Hardware: Super Pacman / CS15
Hardware: System 16 Universal / CS15
Namco WSG Arcade Classics
Original compositions, as well as ports and remixes of existing songs, can be posted in this forum, as long as they are in VGM format of course.
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Namco WSG Arcade Classics
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- Ponpoko_(Namco_Pac_Man).zip
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- Super_Pac-Man_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- Pac_&_Pal_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- Libble_Rabble_(Namco_System_16_Universal).zip
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- Phozon_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- Mappy_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- Toy_Pop_(Namco_System_16_Universal).zip
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- Motos_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- Dig_Dug_2_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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- The_Tower_of_Druaga_(Namco_Super_Pacman).zip
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Last edited by gRg on 2021-05-16, 22:49:05, edited 1 time in total.
- ValleyBell Offline
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Sure, need to tidy it up a bit first. The initial bits (The Tower of Druaga format description and basic version of the converter) are here: https://github.com/grgowski/WSGSound.
Namco Sound Driver compendium
Hi, I thought to share here a link to an amazing piece of work by YST on Namco's sound drivers: https://x6uso.booth.pm/items/1930712 It contains the technical analysis of sound drivers for almost all Namco games using different WSG chips and is rather comprehensive in detail. It also renders my plans for further analysis of these drivers pointless so will need to look for a new hobby! The booklet is available in electronic format and Google translate does a great job at making it accessible for those not versed in Japanese.
Other Namco games?
Are there plans to make VGMs of more Namco games? For instance, I'd really like to see New Rally X.