Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???

[Dr. Jay]

Hey all,
 I don't know where else to post this, so I'm trying here.  Does anyone else get really choppy sound in mame when running mortal kombat 2, 3 or nba tournament???  I'm just curious if it's mame drivers right now, or if it's something with my cabinet speakers, or if it's just my computer.  My speakers play everything else fine, so I don't think it's them.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks

[Dr. Jay]

False Alarm...
 I was playing around with the sound options, and as long as I leave mk2's sound on 11025 it's fine.  I had it trying to resample at a higher frequency.  So if anyone else is experiencing this, now you know.  

[Howard_Casto]

Good point... for anyone who's interested the best thing to do is set mames sample rate at teh highest possible rate your sound card can handle and then turn OFF resampling.  This gives you overall better sound quality for all games.  

[SirPoonga]

Just because I know someone will ask.   To clarify, how do you do the above tasks...

I don't know otherwise I'd say how.  It just doesn't interest me enough to figure it out right now;)

[Howard_Casto]

In your mame.ini...............

### Mame CORE sound options ###
samplerate              44800
samples                  1
resamplefilter          0
sound                     1
volume                   0


That should do it for most cards.  

[rampy]

In your mame.ini...............

### Mame CORE sound options ###
samplerate              44800
samples                  1
resamplefilter          0
sound                     1
volume                   0


That should do it for most cards.  

General comment (not for original poster)

Let me just add that if you don't have a mondo PC and are getting choppy
sound/framerate, sometimes (if you are on the cusp of having enough CPU horsepower) you can go with a lower sample rate 22050 or 11025 to eek out a bit more performance.  

Definitely keep reseample filter at 0 for performance reason on slower machines.

I had another thought but lost it.

rampy

[Lsturbo91]

Anyone know how to change this in ArcadeFX?  I will get the crackling sometimes.  I have a P4 1.5ghz, 512mb, SoundBlaster128pci.  I still get this crackling sound off and on  

[Howard_Casto]

It's a mame option, not a front-end option... check your mame.ini

[Rahzel]

On my cabs' sound card (some cheap ISA card) and even on this comp (sound blaster live) I get crackling even when I have the frequency at 11025. Seriously I'm having really bad luck with my cab. It looks good and all but everything that can go wrong IS going wrong. wtf :(

[Lsturbo91]

It's a mame option, not a front-end option... check your mame.ini

yea i tried looking for a mame.ini and I could not locate it under my mame directory

[Howard_Casto]

It's a mame option, not a front-end option... check your mame.ini

yea i tried looking for a mame.ini and I could not locate it under my mame directory

Well then you must be a complete and total newbie.

Open a command prompt, navigate to your mame directory and type mame.exe -cc
That will generate a default config.... it is crucial for a good setup that you use this.