[HN Gopher] The Sega ST-V's MIDI Out: A Quick Examination and Fa...
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       The Sega ST-V's MIDI Out: A Quick Examination and Failed
       Experiments
        
       Author : zdw
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2022-12-11 16:13 UTC (3 days ago)
        
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       | bartvk wrote:
       | If nothing else, be sure to play the track in the middle of the
       | article. Search for "Virtua Fighter Kids".
        
       | tenebrisalietum wrote:
       | This Wikipedia article
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamaha_YMF292 mentions that an M68k
       | was used to actually control the SCSP, and I see here
       | https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sega-Saturn-Motherbo...
       | that there's an MC68EC000 on what I'm thinking is a Sega Saturn
       | motherboard's lower right corner (because hey, why the heck not
       | add in M68K to this hodgepodge of chips).
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       | So the SCSP probably just provided the UART for the MIDI port and
       | it was up to the m68k to actually use that UART and
       | respond/generate messages.
       | 
       | I _guess_ it wouldn 't be out of the realm of possibility for
       | that code to output some type of debug MIDI message, but maybe it
       | wasn't needed if the m68k had any other connection to anything
       | else. Maybe Yamaha was going to put this chip in a synthesizer in
       | the 90's.
        
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