So today I felt like looking at the audio quality of nintendont, I never checked the gamecube logo sound or audio streaming surprisingly enough so if you ever wanted to see some comparison pictures here you go
This just compares the gamecube logo sound.
Real GameCube
Wii running Nintendont
I'm very happy to see how close both are considering I had to write a small audio patch for the bios to work in the first place.
This is from the ocarina of time bonus disc menu which has a audio streamed background track.
Original ADP converted to FLAC and cut down to match recording times
Real GameCube
Wii running Nintendont
As you can see quite a few upper frequencies get lost with nintendont, thats because nintendont does downsample from 48khz to 32khz because the game is internally using only 32khz so we have to adjust in order to properly inject audio stream content. Luckily you dont really hear a huge loss because it only affects very high frequencies. Overall I'm very happy that audio streaming does sound pretty good. What I DID notice though is that its possible the L and R channels in nintendont are swapped, I dont know if my cable mess is just plugged in the wrong way of if I actually made a mistake, I'll have to investigate that. If for whatever reason you would like to take a listen yourself, here is the folder with the FLAC files.
Real GameCube
Wii running Nintendont
I'm very happy to see how close both are considering I had to write a small audio patch for the bios to work in the first place.
This is from the ocarina of time bonus disc menu which has a audio streamed background track.
Original ADP converted to FLAC and cut down to match recording times
Real GameCube
Wii running Nintendont
As you can see quite a few upper frequencies get lost with nintendont, thats because nintendont does downsample from 48khz to 32khz because the game is internally using only 32khz so we have to adjust in order to properly inject audio stream content. Luckily you dont really hear a huge loss because it only affects very high frequencies. Overall I'm very happy that audio streaming does sound pretty good. What I DID notice though is that its possible the L and R channels in nintendont are swapped, I dont know if my cable mess is just plugged in the wrong way of if I actually made a mistake, I'll have to investigate that. If for whatever reason you would like to take a listen yourself, here is the folder with the FLAC files.