I don't understand why Nintendo decided to give the APU a dedicated clock crystal.
Was it that important to have an exactly 32000 Hz sample rate?
They could have used a divide-by-21 to get within 0.2%, which would have been more accurate than that ceramic resonator. Or keep the existing divider and run resample all the audio to 27.97 KHz, which IMO would have been acceptable.
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Was it that important to have an exactly 32000 Hz sample rate? They could have used a divide-by-21 to get within 0.2%, which would have been more accurate than that ceramic resonator. Or keep the existing divider and run resample all the audio to 27.97 KHz, which IMO would have been acceptable.