First post, by Olaf
Okay. I'm going to ask this at the risk of sounding like a complete idiot. I've been working on this for hours now and I just can't get it to work. Here's the problem.
I have installed the drivers as instructed on the download site. I have MIDI music playback set to "MT-32 Synth Emulator". I've tried listening to the Roland MT-32 tunes on http://queststudios.com and they don't sound right. I can't think of how to explain it. I hear things like drum beats and such, but it sounds like some instruments may be missing and others are off key. Maybe I just don't know what I'm doing (which is the most likely explanation). I've been grabbing the files that say that the SysEx patch bank is embedded. Is there something else I need to do in order to listen to these properly?
I've also had some problems running the DOSBox version that is included on the MT-32 Emulator download site. I have downloaded all of the DLLs it has asked for:
SDL.DLL: 1.2.6.0
SDL_NET.DLL: 1.2.5.0
MSVCP70.DLL: 7.0.9064.0
MSVCR70.DLL: 7.0.9064.0
I can repeat the problem. I'm trying to play King's Quest IV in MT-32 mode. I can run it in the other version of DOSBox just fine in Adlib or MT-32 mode. I can run it in the MT-32 version of DOSBox if I have the game set for Adlib... but when I try to use the MT-32 DOSBox and have the game configured for MT-32, it crashes just after I try to start the game. I get an error message that says "dosbox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." It's one of those "Please tell Microsoft about this problem" error messages with "Send Error Report" and "Don't Send" buttons. When I click to see what the error report contains, it says it will send the file I have attatched to this message. Of course, I choose not to send the report.
I must be doing something wrong! Can someone please help me?
Here's my system info:
Processor: 1.4 GH Athlon
Motherboard: ABit K7-Raid
Memory: 256 MB RAM (1 256 MB DDR. I usually have 512 MB total, but one 256 MB DDR went bad about a week ago and I'm waiting for it to be replaced).
OS: Windows XP SP1
Sound card: Sound Blaster Live! PCI
Video card: NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti 4200
Thanks!
Olaf