i am confused as to how you got the sample playback to work in the .vgm - never seen that work before in this format.

i'll have to play around more with this

ah ah it's a bit like what you can do on the NES. I made a premixed track, then I played it as two long samples on Furnace (I used two samples with two channels for stereo, but you only need one channel if the premixed audio is monophonic). You'll also need to enable "direct stream mode" in the VGM export options.

Be careful with my Furnace module, I used panning effects but these doesn't seem to work. I think channel 1, 2 and 3 are hard panned to left, center, right. So I ended up mixing up two channels but I liked how it sounded so I didn't resubmit the entry again.

The playback seems a bit harsh on high frequencies but other than that, the chip is quite powerful for this as:

• it can play very long samples, so no need to do split sampling like on the NES
• I don't know how the samples are stored but I had no problem both regarding available RAM and the .vgm file size, maybe it's possible to do very long songs this way

I have no idea if this would play well on real hardware though...

thank you so much for the explanation - i suspect "direct stream mode" might be the piece of the puzzle i was missing. it's very cool, i'll mess with it in the future!