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First post, by jif26

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Don't want to sound like a complete dumbass, but reading the guides and the forums, I never found anything about how to play games through Dosbox and hearing the MT-32 sounds.

I downloaded the Dosbox with MT32 included. I found a copy of the PCM rom file. So I installed the MT32 emulator through the control panel no problem and I am able to start games using DOSBOX. The problem is, I can only hear the normal soundblaster sound. I'm trying to play "Legend of Kyrandia 1". How do I set DOSBOX or the emulator or whatever to be able to hear the MT32 songs in the game ?

Thanks. 🙄

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Reply 2 of 16, by jif26

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That's it ? I forgot to do that. How stupid of me. But, yes, the game does indeed support MT32.

I'll try tonight.

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Reply 3 of 16, by Iron

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And if you use the MT32 version of dosbox you dont need the mt32 emulator coz it has the mt32 support included in it. If you use the MT32 emulator you use the normal dosbox version and just choose it to output the sound so that the emu plays it.

Reply 4 of 16, by jif26

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Mmm...I setup the game to MT-32, now I just don't have any sound.

Any ideas ?

Gigabyte : GA-7VTX
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
256 DDR Ram
Ati Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Generic cheap 10$ sound card
WinXP Pro
Using DosBox 0.61

Reply 5 of 16, by teamster1975

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Don't use the Driver version of the emulator, it is very out of date. Use the Dosbox version.
I could never get the driver to work anyway; same problem as you, no sound 🙁

Reply 6 of 16, by jif26

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Is there anything to configure ?

What am I doing wrong ?

See, I downloaded Dosbox with MT32... I start DOSBOX and mount the drive.

Then I run the game's setup (Kyrandia) and make sure MT32 is the sound selected.

Then I run the game. No sound.

Is there anything to configure somewhere ?

Gigabyte : GA-7VTX
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
256 DDR Ram
Ati Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Generic cheap 10$ sound card
WinXP Pro
Using DosBox 0.61

Reply 7 of 16, by teamster1975

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There wasn't anything to configure at all, it just worked. It's possible that your ROM file is corrupt, can you check if it works on someone elses computer? Canadacow listed the MD5 checksum for the correct ROM file, it may be worth comparing yours with that. Good luck!

Could someone please hash the MT32 rom file?

Reply 8 of 16, by jif26

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Thanks for the tip...Unfortunately, I looked at it and it's indeed the good one.

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Reply 9 of 16, by robertmo

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hm.. have you got all these fies:

2004-01-21 22:41 1˙634 patchlog.cfg
2004-07-04 18:26 5˙033 dosbox.conf
2002-01-05 06:37 344˙064 msvcr70.dll
2003-08-30 21:33 229˙376 SDL.dll
2003-03-09 13:01 24˙576 SDL_net.dll
2004-02-08 11:49 487˙424 MSVCP70.DLL
2004-06-20 18:52 638˙976 dosbox.exe
2004-07-08 08:48 524˙290 mt32out2.raw
2004-02-29 15:45 1˙410˙000 waveforms.raw
2004-07-08 08:48 524˙290 mt32out.raw
2003-04-14 23:14 524˙288 MT32_PCM.ROM
2003-07-09 14:52 2˙566 drumpat.rom
2000-11-13 11:51 18˙525 Preset2.syx
2000-11-13 11:50 18˙555 Preset1.syx

Reply 10 of 16, by priestlyboy

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From what I can tell you need:
patchlog.cfg
dosbox.conf
SDL.DLL
SDL_net.dll
drumpat.rom
MT32_PCM.ROM
Preset2.syx
Preset1.syx
waveforms.raw
MSVCP70.DLL---- Most likely you will have these files already in your Windows/System32 folder.
MSVCR70.DLL |||
The other files I don't seem to need from the DBMT32.zip and the Mt32out*.raw are made by DOSBox.

EDIT: Oh yes and of course the lastest CC modified DOSBox.exe with MT32 support from here
download.php?id=968

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Helping Debug DOSBox.

Reply 11 of 16, by jif26

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Is that a different dosbox.exe than the one at www.artworxinn.com/alex/ (cus this is the one I was trying to use) ?

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AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
256 DDR Ram
Ati Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Generic cheap 10$ sound card
WinXP Pro
Using DosBox 0.61

Reply 14 of 16, by jif26

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God darn it, that worked! Actually, half worked.

Space Quest 3 works aok. But Kyrandia 1 and Wing Commander 1 don't give me any sound.

Any reason why this would work on one and not others ?

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AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
256 DDR Ram
Ati Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Generic cheap 10$ sound card
WinXP Pro
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Reply 16 of 16, by jif26

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It works if I configure the game for soundblaster, I hear sound then. Just not the gorgeous MT-32 sound.

Gigabyte : GA-7VTX
AMD Athlon 1.4 Ghz
256 DDR Ram
Ati Radeon 64 MB DDR VIVO
Generic cheap 10$ sound card
WinXP Pro
Using DosBox 0.61