What is the NESM/NSF format?

NSF is short for "NES Sound Format", also called NESM (NESMusic file). The NSF files are music dumps of Nintendo/Famicom games and can be played back with a suitable player. The format are acctualy based on the PSID format for C64-music and has similariti es with it. A NSF file can contain all the songs from a Game, and supports all the five standard sound channels. The files are direct rip-offs from the original game, so it will sound exactly as it did when they composed it! Due to the fact that you have to rip the music code, you have to have some 6502 asm knowledge to make a NSF file. This is the probably the only thing that is better with NESA and PSG files, that anyone can make them, but the quality NSF can give makes it supperior to the rest! Contacts: Kevin Horton - the inventor of the NESM header! Chris Covell - has ripped a lot of the NSF files found at this site. Resources: NSF ripping document by Chris Covell (including NSF syntax by Kevin Horton)

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