The more obscure something is, the more likely you're going to run into obscure compatibility problems. Why not just use a standard Creative Labs card?

I was looking at that one myself. It has an Analog Devices chip on it, and sound cards with that chip are generally regarded as low end so the sound quality is probably just a step or two above PC speaker. A standard Sound Blaster 16 or Sound Blaster Pro would be much better in terms of both sound quality and game compatibility. It claims compatibility with SB16 and SB Pro, but you don't know just how compatible it really is. Like was mentioned above, because it's such an obscure card, any compatibility issues will be equally obscure and you probably won't find a lot of help with them because there aren't a lot of them in use anymore and most people probably have never heard of it.

It's built over an AD1848KP chip, the same one that is used in Microsoft Windows Sound System and Orchid SoundWave 32 cards.

Microsoft WSS image
Orchid SoundWave 32 image

I don't know what wavetable it is that they claim to exist on that card. Maybe there is one. If so, the card could be of a limited interest to one who wants to collect tons of wavetable cards and compare them. The 18$ price is low enough to risk.

But I don't recommend to build your main retrosystem around such a card, especially if you race for high compatibility. That AD1848KP is not very compatible; I could only squeeze the monoaural SB 2.0 support out of Orchid SoundWave 32.

One "WAVETABLE!" WSS card i've seen just loaded a software Vsynth driver instead.

also one AD18xx card i've tried was bad that made everything sound higher pitched and distorted.

Thanks for the help. I'll look at other options. I used an Ensoniq AudioPCI back in the day before moving up to a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz.

I have the precursor card, with the ESC614 chip (ECHO Soundmedia 002).
Sound qualiity is not bad at all - well, compared to SB 2.0 and SB Pro I cards - but the MIDI part requires incredibly bloated TSRs. AFAICR, it was around 55 Kb and another TSR was also needed for something (*scratching head*) ... I still have the card somewhere.