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> Although not perfect, [Sound Canvas VA] is the closest recreation of the original SC-55 in software form as of 2023.

Ah, this submission should have a “(2023)” added to the title. In 2024, Nuked-SC55 (https://github.com/nukeykt/Nuked-SC55) was released, which is a fully accurate software emulation of the SC-55/SC-55mkII (it relies on having the original ROM files).

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That github repository has a sad closing story:

"development and maintaining of this emulator has stopped; this project also caused me pretty severe burnout [...] pressure to relicense the project and usage info/code from my code against my will/without permission or outright license violations"

There are also two SC-88Pro emulators coming v. soon. There is a MAME driver that will be in the next release https://github.com/mamedev/mame/pull/16080 (you can build it right now of course but I have no idea where you would find the roms) and also this: https://synthanatomy.com/2026/09/the-usual-suspects-88emu-a-...

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