Quote: Original post by dudeman21
@Noegddgeon - You are correct. FFVII used midi files played back with the built in synthesizer that came with the PSX. If you played the PC version, they offered a software synth to attempt to capture that same quality over the standard instruments found on most PC sound cards at that time.
I totally agree with using the OGG format, but there is an alternative that no one seems to have mentioned yet, MOD files. They are essentially a midi file that has the collection of "instruments" included in the file. Well tracked MOD files can sound almost as good as their larger MP3/OGG brethren in a fraction of the disk space, though at the expense of a little more processing power.
That's fascinating, I had no idea that the Playsation had its own built-in synthesizer (but I was assuming something similar to that was the case, because how else would it work? ;]). MOD files sound very interesting, and because I'm using a computer with overkill processing power (in the context of creating games up till the quality of Nintendo 64 games) I think MOD might be a good choice to make file sizes even smaller. I guess that's what I'd like most, really, especially when I want to start sharing my games with other people. Thanks for the reply, dudeman21.
