Format
Portable Sound Format
Summary
- Name
- Portable Sound Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/959
- Format type
- Audio
- Description
- The Portable Sound Format (PSF) is a sequencer sound file format for video game music, created by Neill Corlett. PSF files contain audio data and a sequence player. A file with the .psf or .psf1 extensions will usually be self-contained files holding both the audio library data and sequencing data. A .minipsf or .minipsf1 will hold just sequencing data, while a .psflib or .psf1lib will contain the audio library data so these must reside in the same directory where used.
- File extensions
-
psf,psf1,psflib,minipsf,minipsf1,gsf,gsflib,minigsf - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
Internal signatures
Portable Sound Format
- Note
- BOF: PSFx, where x represents one of the following values for which PSF has been adapted 4th byte: 0x01: Playstation (PSF1) 0x02: Playstation 2 (PSF2) 0x11: Sega Saturn (SSF) 0x12: Sega Dreamcast (DSF) 0x13: Sega Genesis 0x21: Nintendo 64 (USF) 0x22: GameBoy Advance (GSF) 0x23: Super NES (SNSF) 0x41: Capcom QSound (QSF) Format description: http://web.archive.org/web/20140125155137/http://wiki.neillcorlett.com/PSFFormat
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
505346(01|02|11|12|13|21|22|23|41)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V88
- Release date
- 27 September 2016
Portable Sound Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
Portable Sound Format: Full entry added.