PSG Usage in Genesis Music Documentation

As most of you know the Mega Drive/Genesis could use both an FM (YM2612) and a PSG (SN76489) chip for sfx and music in games. This simple guide that I've been adding to for the past few weeks documents which games use PSG for music with some brief notes on each one. It is mostly finished, besides some prototypes and the addon games that use it.

Some (well, 230+) games still don't have a vgm file rip and many of these have no ST either so they can't be fully tested atm.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ql...-L7kmlnST-8pMQ

By "dry" I mean there's a general lack of echo/reverb and sometimes chorus (detuning) effects used.

Current stats:
Prominent PSG use: 348
PSG sample playback use: 9
Partial PSG use: 95
No PSG use: 543

Wow. Excellent work! Congratulations!!!

That's an amazing contribution to the scene. It's a really important information to get a better understand about the console.

I disagree about a lot of the comments, however. For example, Alisia Dragoon and Rocket Knight Adventures (mainly this one) uses a lot of PSG on all the music.

What about PSG usage on the sound effects? Some are very important, like the jump sound on Sonic and the shuriken on Shadow Dancer, because these are sounds that plays very frequently and the presence of the PSG really helps the music because you can use the FM channel for something else.

Thanks for checking it out tisurame, I'll see if I can finish up the MD section today.

The comments generally shouldn't be read as a judgement of the OST's PSG use as a whole, those two have very good use of PSG for most of the OSTs. With the comments I'm coming into each one with the assumption that PSG will be used well (as in 2 squares+full noise or 3 squares+simple noise and a variety of envelopes plus vibrato, detune and echo/reverb for the former) and then add comments on where it falters or where it does something unusual such as use periodic noise, a phaser effect or fast arpeggio. I could add a couple of things for RKA though, it doesn't use noise for example.

S1-3, S6-3 and Ranking use noise only and Options doesn't use PSG for Alisia, so that's gonna stay unless there's something wrong with the vgm rip.

I leave the sfx documentation to other people for now, that wasn't my goal here.