Update for Square Sound Rape

Holonet · Post by **Holonet** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 11:12 am

I've just been wondering what occurred or what progress (if any) was made with the sound chip emulation/Square sound rape issue. I remember Pagefault mentioning in a thread in 2005 somewhere that he was going to try to address this. Certainly no small task, and no complaints if it didn't go anywhere, but I've done a search in here and couldn't find much of another word about it.

I've just downloaded 1.51. I'm running an Athlon 4200+ Dual Core, 2GB of DDR2 400 RAM, GeForce 7600 GS, Gigabyte SLI motherboard. ...and also Windows XP x64 Edition (I know, I know...Curse you Microsoft).

Anyway, been out of the loop for a while (as is typical of me), and my first curiosity was if that sound issue had been helped...

Anyhoo, I have noticed some change, but the major issue still seems present. It does seem a little better in spots. I have been testing it with Chrono Trigger, which seems to be the perfect test for this problem. The beginning wind sound and such seems fine. The monster cry when you enter a battle is on; however, most of the time you just hear a fruity wail instead of the "growl" part of the sound. There are a few times when you hear it properly, which I've noticed are when there isn't music or a lot of other sound going on. A good place to try this is the canyon when you first get to 600 A.D.. It seems to me like there's a limited number of audio channels, just like with MIDI, and that monster growl takes up enough to become a problem in many spots...though that is purely analogical thinking, I'm not at all sure how it actually works.

Anyhoo, for the most part, it's pretty good, but the one test that never passes is the Heckran Cave water noise...always sounds metallic and way off, which is still true in 1.51. I'm sure there's plenty on the developer's plates, but I'm curious, what's the report on this one?

Post by **Agozer** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 12:02 pm

The new sound core has been in the works for some time now. If you want to test it, grab the latest ZSNES revision from SVN and compile it. Or use ZGet.

Firon · Post by **Firon** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 8:59 pm

1.51 doesn't really have the new sound core. You'd have to compile from SVN (using zget or whatever you want) to test it, but be warned that it's still buggy. No bug reports are accepted for it either.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 9:11 pm

Read this before you sound stupid for not paying attention: http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9526

Holonet · Post by **Holonet** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 1:03 am

Sorry about that. I honestly did a search yesterday and I did not see anything with "Announcement" in front of it. Maybe I was just tired. In any case, I wasn't complaining.

Post by **pagefault** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 4:03 am

Most all sound issues are fixed in 1.60.