Cycle-exact SID playback.
No compromises.

ultraSID plays the HVSC the way real hardware does - every register write, every cycle. With curated 6581 filter settings per author, seekable tunes, and search-as-you-type across the whole collection.

Features

Built for people who know the chip

Accurate first, comfortable second - and no trade-off between the two.

Cycle-exact emulation

State-of-the-art SID and CPU emulation. Tunes play like on real hardware.

Curated 6581 filters

Hand-tuned filter settings for the most popular SID authors.

Full HVSC integration

Instant search while you type, song lengths, and STIL - the whole collection at your fingertips.

Scrubbing

Jump to any position in a tune, like in any regular media player.

CRT simulation

Title screens and game screenshots for the tune you're playing, through faithful PAL and NTSC emulation.

Chip visualization

Watch each voice and the filter live while the music plays.

Under the hood

An honest stack

libSidplayEZ

Emulation by Toddler-Boy/libSidplayEZ.

HVSC

Requires the High Voltage SID Collection.

Open source

Free to use, read, and improve.