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      <FormatID>1764</FormatID>
      <FormatName>Portable Sound Format</FormatName>
      <FormatVersion> </FormatVersion>
      <FormatAliases> </FormatAliases>
      <FormatFamilies> </FormatFamilies>
      <FormatTypes>Audio</FormatTypes>
      <FormatDisclosure> </FormatDisclosure>
      <FormatDescription>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.</FormatDescription>
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      <ByteOrders> </ByteOrders>
      <ReleaseDate> </ReleaseDate>
      <WithdrawnDate> </WithdrawnDate>
      <ProvenanceSourceID>1</ProvenanceSourceID>
      <ProvenanceName>Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives</ProvenanceName>
      <ProvenanceSourceDate>14 Sep 2016</ProvenanceSourceDate>
      <ProvenanceDescription> </ProvenanceDescription>
      <LastUpdatedDate>14 Sep 2016</LastUpdatedDate>
      <FileFormatIdentifier>
        <Identifier>fmt/959</Identifier>
        <IdentifierType>PUID</IdentifierType>
      </FileFormatIdentifier>
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        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>psf</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>psf1</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>psflib</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>minipsf</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>minipsf1</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>gsf</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>gsflib</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
      <ExternalSignature>
        <ExternalSignatureID> </ExternalSignatureID>
        <Signature>minigsf</Signature>
        <SignatureType>File extension</SignatureType>
      </ExternalSignature>
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        <SignatureID>1316</SignatureID>
        <SignatureName>Portable Sound Format</SignatureName>
        <SignatureNote>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</SignatureNote>
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          <ByteSequenceID>1</ByteSequenceID>
          <PositionType>Absolute from BOF</PositionType>
          <Offset>0</Offset>
          <MaxOffset>0</MaxOffset>
          <IndirectOffsetLocation> </IndirectOffsetLocation>
          <IndirectOffsetLength> </IndirectOffsetLength>
          <Endianness> </Endianness>
          <ByteSequenceValue>505346(01|02|11|12|13|21|22|23|41)</ByteSequenceValue>
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