My favorite tunes to compare OPL2 emus and cards are a couple of DMX ones:

Heretic E1M5
Doom E2M2

these two usually expose percussion, distortion, and channel limits, and they're much much much worse on every imitation hardware i've heard.

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I agree with you, the sound of nuked OPL3 emulation core is more accurate than others. […]
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I agree with you, the sound of nuked OPL3 emulation core is more accurate than others.

Here is prince of persia FLAC recorded from Sound Blaster 16 CT1740 (YMF262-M):
hwm.us.to/famimusic/Upload/Prince%20of% ... F262).flac
vs the nuked emu:
http://hwm.us.to/famimusic/Upload/pop_nuked_emu.flac 😀

There is some horribe and rather loud distortion between 0:35 and 0:38 in the nuked recording which is not present in the YMF262 file. I have the same distortion in that moment no matter what emulation I use. I suspect it has something to do with resampling, but I'm not sure. Also I might be imagining things, but to me YMF262's highs sound softer, while nuked sounds too sharp on highs. For example, compare 1:20 - 1:30. And again there is some distortion at 1:24 - 1:28, which is not present in YMF262 recording.

I know this is an old topic, but recently I found another OPL3 emulator. This one is the OPAL OPL3 emulator from Reality Adlib Tracker. I made it easier to integrate into projects and wrote a wrapper for it.
https://github.com/datajake1999/OPL3EMU/tree/ … ter/Driver/Opal
I am attaching recordings of arrock1.mid and lion10.mid with this emulator.

datajake1999 wrote:

I know this is an old topic, but recently I found another OPL3 emulator. This one is the OPAL OPL3 emulator from Reality Adlib Tracker. I made it easier to integrate into projects and wrote a wrapper for it.
https://github.com/datajake1999/OPL3EMU/tree/ … ter/Driver/Opal
I am attaching recordings of arrock1.mid and lion10.mid with this emulator.

Seems lion10.mid exhibits same envelope generator issue as MAME and DOSBox compat cores

I just tested a c++ port of Java OPL3.
https://github.com/datajake1999/OPL3EMU/tree/ … er/Driver/zdopl

@dosbox team

What is the reason Nuked OPL is not part of dosbox yet?
Many emulators and professional software adopted it.