Portable Sound Format

The Portable Sound Format (short: PSF ) is a file format that is designed for directly of removed from play music. Originally developed by Neill Corlett in 2003 under the name PlayStation sound format, the title was later changed to a more generic name, were supported as other consoles as Subformate. It is used for playback of sequenced music, and is not suitable for streaming technologies.

Each PSF will then contain in addition to a sequencer different samples, which were usually taken directly from the games, plus information about which format it for any game is. Through the use of original samples and music drivers music playback is realistic to have without the elaborate extent of stream formats ( such as WAV or MP3) use.

At the present time among the supported or existing specifications in systems that are covered by PSF Subformate:

Playstation 1 and 2, Sega Saturn, Dreamcast, Megadrive, Nintendo 64, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy, SNES and Capcom QSound system