hi! just a noob question here - how easy is or can be playing .mod, .it, .s3m, .xm and .vgm files on playdate? the idea would be interoperating better with openmpt, milkytracker or furnace tracker, and perhaps avoiding the use of .mp3 or .mid files (for lots of reasons)
The playdate itself only supports wav and decoding mp3’s. However, nothing is stopping you from writing your own decoder, and/or emulator for playback of these files.
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If you’re comfortable with C, there are plenty of plain C implementations of mod players and such - most just render the audio into a buffer, which should work fine on playdate
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A shameless plug, but I actually wrote a Lua .mod player for Playdate. For anything fancier C is the way to go.
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