What is a .miniPSF file?
MINIPSF is a small Portable Sound Format track that refers to a shared PSFLIB library for the bulk of a game’s sound data.
- Did you know
- Splitting a soundtrack into one big .psflib plus many tiny .minipsf files meant a whole game’s music could ship without repeating the sound driver in every track.
- PSF, the Portable Sound Format, was created by Neill Corlett in 2003 to archive game music by capturing the console's own sound code and data.
- A .minipsf is useless on its own - a player must load the shared .psflib it names to supply the sound driver and common samples.
- What Analyser reads
- Identify many more audio formats: lossless/hi-res codecs (Monkey’s Audio, WavPack, TAK, True Audio, DSD/SACD, Musepack), pro containers (Core Audio, RF64/BW64, Wave64, Sun AU, Broadcast Wave with timecode), speech/mobile (Speex, AMR-WB, QCP, 3GA, M4R, GSM), MPEG Layer I/II, instrument banks (SoundFont, SFZ, DLS, RIFF MIDI, GigaStudio), ringtones (RTTTL, iMelody, SAP), tracker modules (MOD, XM, IT, S3M, OctaMED, 669, Oktalyzer), chiptunes (NES NSF, SNES SPC, VGM, Game Boy GBS, AY, YM) and Audacity projects. DJI waveform peak sidecars (PKF - the overview a DJI recorder writes beside its audio) are drawn as a waveform; Adobe Audition peak caches (also PKF) are identified.
- Depth of analysis
- .miniPSF is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .miniPSF file
- Drag a .miniPSF file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.