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Title: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: MydknyteStyrm 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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Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: haynor666 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).
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: MydknyteStyrm 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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Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: B2K24 on February 15, 2017, 02:41:41 pm: Quote from: MydknyteStyrm 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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There's nothing you can do. It's still a W.I.P.
http://mametesters.org/view.php?id=6462 (http://mametesters.org/view.php?id=6462)
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: Howard_Casto on February 15, 2017, 04:20:20 pm: Quote from: haynor666 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).

Heh. Well that only took 20 years. ;) Good job to them.
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: MydknyteStyrm 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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Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: headkaze on February 16, 2017, 05:36:41 am: Quote from: MydknyteStyrm on February 15, 2017, 07:45:15 pm
Don't fix what ain't broken :)

... is not a philosophy that programmers follow ;D
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: MydknyteStyrm on February 16, 2017, 06:29:32 am: Quote from: headkaze on February 16, 2017, 05:36:41 am
Quote from: MydknyteStyrm on February 15, 2017, 07:45:15 pm
Don't fix what ain't broken :)

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

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Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: Howard_Casto 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.
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: billfor 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
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: MydknyteStyrm 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.
Title: Re: QBert Mame 182 sounds drugged
Post by: TheManuel 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 (https://www.mamedev.org/tools/).