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(short for "Game Boy Advance Sound Format") is a derivative of the original PlayStation GSF format. A .minigsf file is essentially a dump of the GBA’s sound engine state combined with a tiny snippet of ARM7 code. It is not an audio recording like MP3 or WAV. Instead, it is a sequenced instruction set that tells an emulator how to synthesize the music in real-time using the GBA’s specific hardware instruments (pulse waves, wavetable samples, and noise channels). Published by: Retro Audio Weekly Reading Time: 6