Yeah, I’m a big fan of synth-chip lore, FM chips in particular. UW is one of the few games to be designed for the SBPro v1 before the industry quickly moved on to OPL3, so it’s definitely worth discussing on the episode.
An OPL3 could theoretically reproduce dual-OPL2 soundtracks, but it would require a special driver to translate the register writes. The main limitation would be if both chips independently use their rhythm sections, since the OPL3 only has one. To my knowledge nobody has actually attempted this, but dual-OPL2 games are relatively rare so the demand is likely too low to be worth it.
