NES Sound Format

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While the original intention was to allow storage, transfer and playback of music / sounds ripped from NES games, the format has become popular with composers of chiptunes and many original compositions are now available.
 
While the original intention was to allow storage, transfer and playback of music / sounds ripped from NES games, the format has become popular with composers of chiptunes and many original compositions are now available.
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== Files ==
 
== Files ==
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* [http://www.2a03.org/forum/index.php 2A03 - The NES Music Archive]
 
* [http://www.2a03.org/forum/index.php 2A03 - The NES Music Archive]
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* [http://wiki.nesdev.com/w/index.php/NSF NesDev wiki - NSF]
 
* [http://kevtris.org/nes/nsfspec.txt NES Music Format Spec (.txt file)]
 
* [http://kevtris.org/nes/nsfspec.txt NES Music Format Spec (.txt file)]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Sound_Format Wikipedia - NES Sound Format]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NES_Sound_Format Wikipedia - NES Sound Format]
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* [http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=7304 NesDev forum discussion about the NSF 2.0 featureset]
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Other information that might be of use:
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* [http://www.slack.net/~ant/nes-emu/apu_ref.txt NES APU Sound Hardware Reference]
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* [http://nesdev.com/ NesDev]
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* [http://forums.nesdev.com/viewforum.php?f=6 NesDev NES Music forum]
  
 
== Playback - Hardware ==
 
== Playback - Hardware ==
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=== Plugins ===
 
=== Plugins ===
  
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* [http://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_gep Game Emu Player] is a [http://www.foobar2000.org/ foobar2000] plugin supporting multiple formats, including NSF. Source is available [https://github.com/kode54/foo_gep here].
 
* [http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/ NEZplug] is a plugin for [http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html Winamp 2.x], [http://hwm5.gyao.ne.jp/kobarin/ kbMediaPlayer (japanese)], [http://sillydog.org/narchive/ Netscape] and [http://www.oldversion.com/Internet-Explorer.html Internet Explorer 3.x - 5.x]. Both binary and source are available, and the SVN can be browsed [http://nezplug.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nezplug/ here].
 
* [http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/ NEZplug] is a plugin for [http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html Winamp 2.x], [http://hwm5.gyao.ne.jp/kobarin/ kbMediaPlayer (japanese)], [http://sillydog.org/narchive/ Netscape] and [http://www.oldversion.com/Internet-Explorer.html Internet Explorer 3.x - 5.x]. Both binary and source are available, and the SVN can be browsed [http://nezplug.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/nezplug/ here].
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* [http://offgao.no-ip.org/program/nezplug++.html NEZplug++] (japanese) is a Winamp plugin.
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* [http://disch.zophar.net/notsofatso.php NotSo Fatso] is a Winamp plugin. Both binary and source are available.
 
* [http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?NSFplug NSFplug] is a plugin for [http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html Winamp 2.x], [http://www.winamp.com Winamp 5.x] and [http://hwm5.gyao.ne.jp/kobarin/ kbMediaPlayer 2.28 (japanese)] or later. Both binary and source are available.
 
* [http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?NSFplug NSFplug] is a plugin for [http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html Winamp 2.x], [http://www.winamp.com Winamp 5.x] and [http://hwm5.gyao.ne.jp/kobarin/ kbMediaPlayer 2.28 (japanese)] or later. Both binary and source are available.
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* [http://tnse.zophar.net/NSFten.htm NSFten] is a plugin for [http://www.oldversion.com/Winamp.html Winamp 2.x]
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=== Standalone ===
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==== DOS / Windows ====
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* [http://www.neillcorlett.com/bleep/ Bleep!] plays NSF and [[GBS]] files. It also offers a [http://www.winamp.com Winamp] plugin.
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* [http://www.neshq.com/nsf/bnsf24.zip BNSF] (zip archive)
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* [http://www.exotica.org.uk/wiki/DeliPlayer] supports a huge number of formats, including NSF.
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* [http://gigo.retrogames.com/download.html G-NSF] (japanese)
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* [http://user.tninet.se/~zxy965r/nsf.zip NSFLive] (zip file)
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* [http://www.pokipoki.org/dsa/index.php?NSFplay NSFplay] original version by Brezza.
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* [http://code.google.com/p/nsfplay/ NSFPlay] a fork of the original by Brad Smith.
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* [http://disch.zophar.net/slicknsf.php SlickNSF]
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* [http://virtuanes.s1.xrea.com/vnes_dl.php VirtuaNSF] (japanese)
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==== Mac ====
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==== Linux ====
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==== Cross-platform / Other ====
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* [http://bannister.org/software/ao.htm Audio Overload] plays back damn near everything (including NSF) and is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
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* [http://www.p1xl.com/fun/flashnsf/ FlashNSF] is, as the name suggests, an NSF player implemented in Flash. Also plays [[NSFE]] files.
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* [https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/modizer/id393964792?mt=8 Modizer] is a module player app for iOS which supports NSF.
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* [http://shauninman.com/noisees/ NoiseES] is an iOS app supporting NSF, [[NSFE]], [[GBS]], [[VGM]] and [[SPC]].
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* [http://nosefart.sourceforge.net/ Nosefart] offers two Linux versions, a DOS version, an [http://www.xmms.org/ XMMS] plugin, a [http://www.winamp.com/ Winamp plugin] and a [http://www4.tripnet.se/~slarti/t_cl-amp_uk.htm CL-amp] plugin.
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* [http://jiggawatt.org/badc0de/nsfplayer.htm tgxnsf] is an NSF player for the PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16. Binary and source available.
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== Composition Software ==
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* [http://www.delek.com.ar/deflemask DefleMask]
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* [http://famitracker.com/ FamiTracker]
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* [http://kkfos.aspekt.fi/projects/nes/tools/musetracker/ Musetracker]
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* [http://nesdev.com/nt2/ NerdTracker II]
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* [http://blog.ntrq.net/ NTRQ] a native NES tracker
  
 
== Conversion Software ==
 
== Conversion Software ==
  
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[http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/ NSF2WAV] converts NSF files to [[WAV]]. Both binary and source are available.
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=== NSF to X ===
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* [http://gigo.retrogames.com/download.html nsf2midi] NSF to [[MIDI]].
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* [http://nezplug.sourceforge.net/ NSF2WAV] NSF to [[WAV]].
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=== X to NSF ===
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* [http://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/it2nsf/ IT2NSF] [[IT]] to NSF.
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* S3M2NSF [http://battleofthebits.org/lyceum/View/s3m2nsf/ info], [http://os4depot.net/index.php?function=showcontent&file=development/cross/s3m2nsf.lha download] [[S3M]] to NSF.

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Description

NES Sound Format (NSF) is an audio file format invented by Kevin Horton, to provide a way to transfer Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) music data. NSF files consist of the original music / sound code from a NES game and some header data.

While the original intention was to allow storage, transfer and playback of music / sounds ripped from NES games, the format has become popular with composers of chiptunes and many original compositions are now available.

Files

Examples of NSF files can be found at:

Information

Information on the NSF format can be found at:

Other information that might be of use:

Playback - Hardware

There have been a number of projects developing hardware NSF players

Playback - Software

There are a number of options for playing back NSF files, including both standalone players and plugins for popular media players such as Winamp.

Plugins

Standalone

DOS / Windows

Mac

Linux

Cross-platform / Other

  • Audio Overload plays back damn near everything (including NSF) and is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
  • FlashNSF is, as the name suggests, an NSF player implemented in Flash. Also plays NSFE files.
  • Modizer is a module player app for iOS which supports NSF.
  • NoiseES is an iOS app supporting NSF, NSFE, GBS, VGM and SPC.
  • Nosefart offers two Linux versions, a DOS version, an XMMS plugin, a Winamp plugin and a CL-amp plugin.
  • tgxnsf is an NSF player for the PC-Engine / TurboGrafx 16. Binary and source available.

Composition Software

Conversion Software

NSF to X

X to NSF

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