Sega's Carnival for Mame, no sound effects?

[MydknyteStyrm]

Was just wondering if anyone out there has this game working with sound effects? Everything plays fine, music and all. Just no bullet, ducks, bears, or noises. Any ideas?

 

[Wade007]

I assume this the "Carnival" you're talking about:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7286

It really all depends on what version of MAME you are using.

For quite a while Carnival (in MAME) did not have sound. Incomplete emulation. Sound not completed in the emulation.
I remember playing it in earlier versions of MAME and it was not as fun because the sound was missing.

I'm not sure when it finally happened, but the MAME devs finally got around to improving the emulation code and it now has sound.
First with sound samples, then with the actual digital sound from the rom file.

I'm using MAME version .145. Carnival has sound. Works great.

So...I'd first check to see which version of MAME you're using. Check this against MAME dev notes on the game. Update MAME if needed. If you're still not getting sound at that point, I'd then suggest you check to see that you have the most recent rom dump of the game. There might be a more recent rom file for the game that works (sound) with your version of MAME. Finally check for sound sample files missing if your version of MAME requires them.

MAWs was great for this kind of info search. Unfortunately that site is down

Looks like partial sound was made available through sound sample files (separate sound files) around MAME version .27
http://www.mame.net/devwiki/index.php?title=MAME_0.27

More MAME dev notes for Carnival here:
http://mamedev.org/source/src/mame/audio/carnival.c.html

IF sound samples are still required, you can find them in various places. Here's one:
http://samples.mameworld.info/

I'm not in front of my cabinet while I write this so I'm can't check to see if sound samples are needed anymore or not.
I can check if you still need help. Good luck.

[Wade007]

Just checked my MAME set up. Carnival appears to use samples for many of the core sounds. Download the carnival.zip sound sample file from the link I posted previously and place in your samples folder in your MAME root directory. You should be good to go!! 

[MydknyteStyrm]

Thanks Wade! Also got Zaxxon working too!