Hector Martin

this is also why my gameplay videos always had the best audio quality out of everyone else (as much as it had to come from a often-noisy analog out from the arcade machine). i overengineered the fuck out of it to make it sound like Not-Crap

all you pripara tumblr kids can also thank me for all the earlybird game-only songs spread out without beepy noisy crap on the audio, those good ones came from me

I'm curious - what are the audible tones the game puts out for? I heard them even when the game was in attract mode and I think the cyalume charm tones are inaudible since I don't hear that same tone burst in Tense Max Beam.

the audible ones were for the cyalume mic. i honestly thought that was the worst addition to the game (especially since the mic power detection never worked correctly in the game)... and it made dealing with the gameplay audio a lot more tedious. not harder, just more tedious lol

but at the same time you could tell the clean-sounding game-only songs that were spread around in social media came from my gameplay video's "ほんじつのベストライフ！" parts since i always removed them (and got hella good at making it a very transparent edit, even :D )

I take it you were detecting the tones and notch filtering them out?

notch-filtering never sounded clean enough for me... i would edit it all out manually on an FFT spectrogram lol

That's dedication lol. I would've just hacked at a program to make it sound good enough. Like that time I wanted to get a vocal track of 千本桜... I usually subtract karaoke from original to get vocals, but they had wildly different EQ. Ended up doing some FFT shenanigans to fix.