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cam900 c430d24d2f VRC6 has internal timer
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Konami VRC6

Its one of NES mapper with sound expansion, and one of two VRCs with this feature by Konami.

The chip has 2 pulse wave channel and single sawtooth channel. volume register is 4 bit for pulse wave and 6 bit for sawtooth, but sawtooth output is corrupted when volume register value is too high. because this register is 8 bit accumulator in technically, its output is wraparoundable.

pulse wave duty cycle is 8 level, it can be ignored and it has potential for DAC at this case: volume register in this mode is DAC output and it can be PCM playback through this mode. Furnace supports this routine for PCM playback, but it's consume a lot of CPU resource in real hardware. (even if conjunction with VRC6 integrated IRQ timer)

effects

  • 12xx: set duty cycle. (0 to 7)
  • 17xx: toggle PCM mode.
  • All effects are affects at pulse channels only.