Request: Paprium decoding soundtracker by ConnorB at 2:14 PM EDT on July 26, 2025
Hello,
The game "Paprium" is now accessible via special Genesis-Megadrive core RetroArch emulation since the work done on the ROM.
To furnish the son game, the MSU-MD driver to add CD quality audio to Sega Genesis games was successfully used while waiting for the real tracklist to be read and because no other solution is currently possible.
In summary the whole graphical part is emulated, however, for orignal music this is not yet the case.
Paprium is a non standard GS/MD ROM.
In the fact the soundtrack is stored in the ROM, but the soundtracker is based on a Micro Controller Unit "STM32" used for the graphical part but also the soundtrack.
The grapicals parts are simulated but not the sound decoding.
The idea is to figure out how to read the sound tracks directly from the ROM.
Perhaps since the extraction of samples with an external reader.
Then allow the same thing from an emulator...
The challenge is important for purists and for the preservation of the heritage of the video game.