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Author Topic: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged  (Read 7254 times)

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QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« on: February 15, 2017, 05:39:46 am »
Something weird happened when I updated my Mame install. I was on Mame 169, qbert sounded great. Mame 182, the sound is crackling, and the initial "Hello I am turned on" at start sounds very slow and drugged. I updated the sample file and still the same. Did Qbert break in the new Mame? Is there a way around it?


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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2017, 02:12:02 pm »
Because mamedev added discrete sound emulation and Votrax chip. Game rely now on emulation not on external samples (except one sample).

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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2017, 02:24:46 pm »
I deleted the qbert.zip sample and still have the same sound issues.


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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2017, 02:41:41 pm »
Something weird happened when I updated my Mame install. I was on Mame 169, qbert sounded great. Mame 182, the sound is crackling, and the initial "Hello I am turned on" at start sounds very slow and drugged. I updated the sample file and still the same. Did Qbert break in the new Mame? Is there a way around it?


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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2017, 04:20:20 pm »
Because mamedev added discrete sound emulation and Votrax chip. Game rely now on emulation not on external samples (except one sample).

Heh.  Well that only took 20 years. ;)  Good job to them. 

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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2017, 07:45:15 pm »
Thanks for the tip. I'll have to use 169 on my arcade till they fix it. Don't fix what ain't broken :)


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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #6 on: February 16, 2017, 05:36:41 am »
Don't fix what ain't broken :)

... is not a philosophy that programmers follow  ;D

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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #7 on: February 16, 2017, 06:29:32 am »
Don't fix what ain't broken :)

... is not a philosophy that programmers follow  ;D
Very true.


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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #8 on: February 17, 2017, 05:57:14 pm »
Technically it was broken though and now it is closer to being fixed, so that philosophy doesn't really apply.

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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2017, 12:12:45 pm »
I was doing some work trying to upgrade my Groovymame and noticed the same issue. I made a patch to revert it back to the old samples so I can play it while they are still working on the new votrax code. You will need the old samples. I have only tried this with plain mame and groovymame v186 but it probably works with the current version at this time (v189).

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7HaN49URy_BVjc1YnlfMVZuVDQ




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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #10 on: October 29, 2018, 09:50:15 am »
Thanks for the reply. I saw your votrax code, but dont know how to implement it. Do I make a qbert.ini, or a votrax.ini, or what? Thanks for any help you can provide.

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Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
« Reply #11 on: October 29, 2018, 01:43:49 pm »
What he provided is a patch that you can use to compile your own MAME executable build.
The MAME team has instructions on how to do that here.
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