Yoni Rabkin <[email protected]> writes: > What is the licensing situation surrounding this format? Has Nintendo > released the specifications under a free license?
I don't think Nintendo authored the spec. I'll explain: >From what I gather, the data in an SPC file is a 64 kb memory dump of the audio chip on the SNES. I think that interested persons dumped this memory and then, wanting to organize and standardize their collections, evolved a small binary wrapper around it: http://www.snesmusic.org/files/spc_file_format.txt But I haven't been able to find the history of this file format. So basically the file is a well documented header of unknown origin prepended to a RAM dump of a chip.
