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I think you mean left and right surrounds. And the surrounds are not discrete at all. The left total/right total (stereo essentially) is as discrete as any other stereo source. When you apply PLII processing, it CREATES a center, and two surrounds. Yes PLII has different left and right surround...

GC "supports" PLII. I've heard it on one of the rogue squadron games, they have a little tie-fighter fly-around test of PLII, and it goes all around in a circle.

Now, older game systems had software that placed sounds appripriately left/right, and now it's a little more complicated, to do the phase shifting, and whatnot to get PLII to come out right when processed, but it is essentially the same thing. It's still placing them on the two stereo tracks...

That is true, any PL1 or PLII decoder can be applied to any stereo sourcem however, some mixes, particularly movies, and now games too, and also some music, are mixed with this in mind, so that the affect of PL decoding is taken into account. If something is "encoded" PLII, its isn't being...