furnace/papers/doc/7-systems/wonderswan.md

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WonderSwan

A handheld console released only in Japan by Bandai. Designed by the same people behind Game Boy and Virtual Boy, it has lots of similar elements from those two systems in the sound department.

It has 4 wavetable channels, channel #2 could play PCM, channel #3 has hardware sweep and channel #4 could play noise.

effects

  • 10xx: change wave.
  • 11xx: setup noise mode (channel 4 only).
    • 0: disable.
    • 1-8: enable and set tap preset.
  • 12xx: setup sweep period (channel 3 only).
    • 0: disable.
    • 1-32: enable and set period.
  • 13xx: setup sweep amount (channel 3 only).
  • 17xx: toggle PCM mode (channel 2 only).