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Is MAME in mono?
Lost Monkey:
--- Quote from: javeryh on August 19, 2009, 07:17:54 am ---I think I need one of those converters. The games sounded horrible last night. I have MAME running in a DK cabinet but there is only the one speaker cutout for sound to escape. I couldn't hear any of the squeaking of Mario as he runs and the sound of jumping over barrels was also not there. I need to think of a good solution - the speaker cutout is also much bigger than the crappy little speakers I was planning to use so I'm thinking I need something bigger.
Any ideas? What would you do?
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That may be a result of the mame version you are using and the mame rom. Some of the sounds were sampled in an older version of mame and are now emulated.
Derrick Renaud:
Even old 70s games use 2 speakers. Canyon Bomber, Sprint 2 and other games of the era used a separate speaker for each player.
jcroach:
Looking at MAWS, these games are vertical from that era that are stereo.
1984
Complex X
1983
Fighting Roller
Gyruss
Journey
Spy Hunter
1982
The Electric Yo-Yo
Tron
1981
Gorf
Kick
Qix
Satan's Hollow
Solar Fox
Space Dungeon
1980
Space Invaders II (Midway, cocktail)
Ummon:
Space Dungeon is dual 8-way, and Gorf, Gyruss and Tron are 8-way. Spy Hunter don't count.
Mono games that used more than one speaker were wired in....you guessed it....mono.
I'd go with two speakers, man, just cos.