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Title: Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Dr. Jay on September 15, 2002, 10:48:45 pm
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
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Dr. Jay on September 15, 2002, 10:58:54 pm
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.  
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 16, 2002, 01:07:58 am
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.  
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: SirPoonga on September 16, 2002, 01:15:46 am
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;)
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 16, 2002, 01:36:46 am
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.  
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: rampy on September 16, 2002, 01:18:02 pm

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
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Lsturbo91 on September 17, 2002, 12:02:02 am
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  :(
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 17, 2002, 12:07:15 am
It's a mame option, not a front-end option... check your mame.ini

Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Rahzel on September 17, 2002, 05:30:41 am
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 :(
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Lsturbo91 on September 18, 2002, 02:08:36 pm

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
Title: Re:Mortal Kombat II sound... My speakers???
Post by: Howard_Casto on September 18, 2002, 08:49:30 pm


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.