Warren Wilkinson <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
It sounds like it was internal to Nintendo, and therefore never publicly published. It's an interesting question. I'll ask the people over at the emacs-devel mailing list what they think, since Emms is installable from within Emacs. -- "Cut your own wood and it will warm you twice"
