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Title: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: tony.silveira on April 14, 2013, 12:33:35 am

hey guys,

now that i got my machine at about 90% after he upgrade to mala, i decided to start playing some games.  i notice in daphne that some games have no audio other than a beep or boop (dragons lair) while other games have the full audio playing (space ace, dragons lair 2).

any suggestions as to what might be happening?  fwiw, audio was fine under mamewah and i'm using the same command line.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: Gray_Area on April 15, 2013, 02:34:08 pm

Dude, I swear, you have the most and the weirdest issues.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: tony.silveira on April 15, 2013, 05:39:52 pm

tell me about it!  years into this hobby I'd like to think I know what I'm doing and then something like this happens.  I'm cursed.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: Wade007 on April 15, 2013, 05:57:49 pm

Not that I have a clear answer for you, but I thought I'd chime in anyway...

I haven't had that problem with Daphne. The audio is embedded into the mpeg files if I'm not mistaken. Check the setup in Daphne to make sure the audio isn't supressed anyway for the game(s) that don't have sound. That's the only think I can think of to offer as a solution. Since Space Ace and others work (sound) then it's probably not an operating system issue.  :dunno

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: Gray_Area on April 18, 2013, 02:23:57 pm

I'm thinking the command line arguments might be peculiar to MAMEWah. Try from scratch.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: southpaw13 on April 20, 2013, 09:27:35 pm

Daphne audio is not embedded into the MPEG.  It is a separate OGG file.  If it is working for some and not others, then check the LOG file to see if Daphne decided to turn it off.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: Wade007 on April 21, 2013, 09:29:16 am

Southpaw13 is right on the sound. My bad. I forgot about the ogg files.

Title: Re: daphne, no sound in some games
Post by: Gray_Area on April 21, 2013, 04:46:40 pm

Quote from: southpaw13 on April 20, 2013, 09:27:35 pm

Daphne audio is not embedded into the MPEG.  It is a separate OGG file.  If it is working for some and not others, then check the LOG file to see if Daphne decided to turn it off.

Which again suggests the command line arguments. Obviously in some cases Mala is handling things weirdly or more complicated than straight command line, so why not in this case?