T4 Bobble Bobble Sound Woes
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2000 12:30 pm
Seems like Bubble Bobble has given us lots of problems in this tourney eh?
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Yesterday BenJos informed me on IRC that my Bobble Bobble tournament entry wasn't playing back correctly, with or without sound. With sound off it breaks on Round 4, and with sound on it was screwing up on Round 3... I tried it again on mine with sound on, and it was fine. I DL'ed another m35tg3 (I'm not sure why) just to test it on a "fresh" .exe, and it was still good on there. And all this time I'd been wondering why I couldn't playback Bubble's 9,999,990 recording. I figured there had to be some other factor that affects playback...
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...and after a little experimenting, I've learned that the ym3812opl was the cause. I'm not sure how most people have it setup in mame.cfg, but since I don't have a Sound Blaster soundcard (it's a crappy Ensoniq), I have "ym3812opl = no" in mine since it sounds better that way to me. Switching it to "yes" would break my recording and make Bubble's work ok.
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Of course, it's not necessary to edit mame.cfg, you can also set it from the commandline. Just put "-ym3812opl" or "-noym3812opl" in at the end. If you can't playback a recording, try the opposite value from how you have it set. It might help to clarify whether or not you recorded with ym3812opl on in your recording description, provided of course you actually recorded with sound on in the first place.
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Hope this helps.
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-BBH
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lordbbh@aol.com
<p>
Yesterday BenJos informed me on IRC that my Bobble Bobble tournament entry wasn't playing back correctly, with or without sound. With sound off it breaks on Round 4, and with sound on it was screwing up on Round 3... I tried it again on mine with sound on, and it was fine. I DL'ed another m35tg3 (I'm not sure why) just to test it on a "fresh" .exe, and it was still good on there. And all this time I'd been wondering why I couldn't playback Bubble's 9,999,990 recording. I figured there had to be some other factor that affects playback...
<p>
...and after a little experimenting, I've learned that the ym3812opl was the cause. I'm not sure how most people have it setup in mame.cfg, but since I don't have a Sound Blaster soundcard (it's a crappy Ensoniq), I have "ym3812opl = no" in mine since it sounds better that way to me. Switching it to "yes" would break my recording and make Bubble's work ok.
<p>
Of course, it's not necessary to edit mame.cfg, you can also set it from the commandline. Just put "-ym3812opl" or "-noym3812opl" in at the end. If you can't playback a recording, try the opposite value from how you have it set. It might help to clarify whether or not you recorded with ym3812opl on in your recording description, provided of course you actually recorded with sound on in the first place.
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Hope this helps.
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-BBH
--
lordbbh@aol.com