CD Audio: Awesome

Ugly first-gen FMVs in tiny resolutions: Please don't \

But really, I don't quite see the point myself. Ok so wants to create real hardware for this. How many people would pay a hundred bucks (small runs of custom hardware like this aren't cheap) for something that will work with 5 games?

Although I would have one possibly interesting project with this myself. Make one of the SNES Super Robot Wars games (haven't played most of them yet so I don't know which would be best suited) stream the real anime opening themes during battles from CD. Mizuki Ichiro singing "BREASTO FIAAA" every battle would be awesome.

I think it depends on what people might do.  CD quality audio is out there for a lot of games, just a project that adds the audio back into the games would be really interesting.  Games like Lufia 1 & 2, Chrono Trigger, etc.  You could even use remixed tracks.  You could add in videos for games like Der Langrisser or Emerald Dragon.  Hell, given that the entire project is open source, you could probably make most emulators support it with some effort.  The fact that it would work on real hardware is just icing on the cake.

I'm pretty sure most people are fully aware that it's capable of more than audio/video, it's just that those 2 were the things you'd never see out of a commercial game due to ROM constraints.  Anything that isn't crippled by not having random access works for this.  Someting simple like extending the amount of frames a player sprite has without fear of ROM constraint would work seamlessly.  Or pretty much anything that won't fit in your ROM can be thrown into your 21fx.bin and pulled out whenever required.

The only thing IMO that would seriously improve the SNES hardware would unfortunately most definitely kill real hardware and backwards compatibility: Give the SNES more VRAM. To highlight were the problem is I'll just say 8x8 menu VWFs

Why redbook audio? A suitably compressed (not low quality) audio stream would do just fine.

And with all the vram limitations you'd think byuu would try to get around it somehow.

two things.

1: Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!

2: I would so buy that if it were manufactured.

There have been several long discussions working on getting this done.

How much is a bunch? I have seen around five people...

Hopefully this will change.

smkdan was able to get Super Mario World loading mp3 tracks within hours of the first bsnes 21fx test build being posted.

A bunch is more than 5. Even some of those random handhelds that are coming into the market have hundreds upon hundreds of people buying them. That's what I'm talking about. Sure, there's a group of people interested in SNES stuff. But interested enough to buy a $50 add-on?

I agree. The one really great game I saw (the four-player fighting game that d4s made, I believe) was really impressive, and shows that it is possible and that great things can be done. Perhaps this add-on will inspire people further.

Just loading mp3 tracks is one thing. Getting videos going, taking advantage of the giant amount of space available, that kind of thing, will take a long time. Of course, I'm impressed that it was done that quickly. So this does show that there are people out there interested enough to get this going, so I have some more hope.

Haha. True. If byuu could find someone to manufacture these cheaply and efficiently (hey, I've got a cheap Chinese NES knockoff that runs better than my original NES ever did!), I'd probably buy one. Everything I said was me just being realistic, though.

~DS