The name rings a bell. King Guppy of Amiga fame? If I'm not mistaken, Jerome used to work at Vapor. Been a while since they released an update for their Voyager browser... 😀

Dean, any chance to see this incorporated into your builds?

Here's the change log from the ScummVM CVS:

Major MT-32 emu overhaul based on KingGuppy's code.
o added configure option
o mi2 intro doesn't freeze anymore and has no sound glitches
o missing instruments in many titles are fixed
o numerous memory overwrite bugs are fixed
o code is cleaned a lot and splitted into many smaller files
o mt32.cpp went to backends/midi
o synced with upstream code
o reverberation fixed

@Kaminari: I did do some work with VaporWare, but Olli is the person to complain to about the lack of Voyager updates. Just don't complain too loudly or mention I sent you, because these days he's my boss at a new company 😀

The emulator integration in ScummVM is intended to be temporary; I'm starting a new SourceForge project (registration pending review). I've now got the emulation core building as a static link library, and updated DirectX/WinMM and alsa drivers wrapping it. ScummVM (and, presumably, DOSBox) will then also just link with the library.

I was waiting to post here until the project was started and the first code committed; I'll do so again when that happens.

Good luck with the development effort - this sounds like cool news!

Yeah, this sounds great. I'm going to have to check it out. Ultimately the linkable library could make things even easier for writing an NT driver (if you haven't already). I'm sorry I haven't kept up with things... I've been rather busy, as usual.

canadacow - Just remember that without your fantastic work, we'd probably not have anything at all 😀 I still long for the driver but hey, as I cannot contribute (out of my field of experience) I'm happy to wait!

I just listened to Monkey Island 1/2 with the daily SCUMMVM Win32 snapshot. I'm impressed with improvements in the MT-32 emulator. Somehow, it has been made less noisy and the wind instruments sound better. Download here:

http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/scummvmwin32.exe

Edit: Listening to canadacow's version again I realized that there is almost no difference in Monkey Island 1/2 between the to versions. Seems I simply expected a new version to sound better. Indeed, some off-tune problems are worsened by the new version (MI 2 intro). Still, I think it's less noisy.

Since I cannot compare games which do not run with ScummVM it's hard to tell the difference since Monkey Island sounds already very close to the orginal MT-32. Games which are far from perfect are: Wing Commander, Ultima Underworld, Civilization (just listen to the music if you are defeated - it should be from Beethoven's third symphony but in the emulator it's hardly recognizable).

Alkarion, thanks for the link. I just tried it out, and ScummVM seems to crash (no error message) when I boot up Monkey2 (edit: ANY MT-32 capable game) with emulated MT-32 sound. I've tried putting the patch ROM file in the same directory as the game, as ScummVM, and even adding it as an "extrapath" in ScummVM's INI.

I tried looking for answers on the project's Sourceforge forums, but didn't even see any mention of the new emulation. Any idea why it's crashing?

You may need other files from canadacow's emulator, too. I just copied all the syx files and patchlog.cfg into the scummvm directory. I don't know exactly which are needed.

You may need other files from canadacow's emulator, too. I just copied all the syx files and patchlog.cfg into the scummvm directory. I don't know exactly which are needed.

Sure enough, that was it. The files needed are:

drumpat.rom
MT32_PCM.ROM
patchlog.cfg
Preset1.syx
Preset2.syx

Also, there seems to be a long delay the first time you start up any game with MT-32 support. But everything seems to work fine after that.

Sounds really good, there are a few off-key notes here and there (listen to the intro for Fate of Atlantis) but it's still very good to see this emulation in ScummVM!

The delay is due to ScummVM building its own waveforms.raw file depending on your selected output frequency. Also, AFAIK, MI2 is not supported yet (MT-32 wise).

MI2 is certainly supported; I did most of my tests on the intro to this game.

Mmm, that's odd. I didn't think it was worth reporting at that stage of development, but on my 'puter, it does a complete system freeze just after the LucasArts splash screen. Every other game supporting the MT-32 works ok. I'm using the Win32 CVS build from November 10th.

[Edit] Interesting. I went to the Audio tab and unchecked 'Mixed AdLib/MIDI mode' (which I usually keep enabled by default for every game supporting MIDI). Works like a charm now 😀

Interesting. I went to the Audio tab and unchecked 'Mixed AdLib/MIDI mode' (which I usually keep enabled by default for every game supporting MIDI).

Thanks, I just confirmed that problem here. I'll try to get it fixed.

(This is now fixed on scummvm CVS)

I have downloaded the mt-32 emulator, so happy I could listen to the games I so much liked 15 years ago. But I tryed everywhere to find the mt32_pcm.rom needed to install the drivr in wondows Xp. Can someone help me PLEASE! And do I need other files for it to work properly. I am willing to exchange anything I can. Thanks! franckgothique@hotmail.com

1. Buy MT32
2. Hook up to PC.
3. Download ROM to PC.
4. Transfer ROM to DosBox folder.
5. Play game with MT32!

Sorry, we don't support distribution of MT32 ROM files, so if you want one you'll have to find it elsewhere. DON'T ASK FOR THEM HERE.

First of all, way to necropost, guys! reviving a 7 month old thread that should've stayed dead.

Secondly: DosFreak, you missed a few steps and got #s 2&3 wrong (theres no way to download the rom directly from the MT-32)
Here's how to dump the MT-32 roms:
1. purchase mt-32
2. open mt-32
3. desolder the PCM rom and the two control roms (and optionally the reverb rom too but munt doesn't use that yet as the encoding isn't understood)
4. hook rom dumper to PC
5. set dumper for rom type and plug rom into rom dumper
for the control roms(IC26/IC27) and the reverb rom(IC13), thats 27c256 mode
*for the PCM rom(IC37 on the 1.3 AKA revision 1 mt-32), thats TC574000/TC534000 mode
*for the PCM roms(IC12??? and IC13??? on the 1.0/1.1? AKA revision 0 mt-32, with the la32 on a mini-bga board instead of surfacemounted like on the revision 1. (the revision 0 is the one listed on the schematic that's been floating around.))
It may be 27c256 or 27c512 for each rom, I don't know as I don't own one of these yet. In fact the control roms from this version are not supported by munt yet, so if you have dumped them, send them to kingguppy!
6. dump roms to pc
7. plug roms into munt
8. profit!!!!

Lord Nightmare

Of course, if you have a real MT-32 you can hook it up to your PC and DOSBox, SCUMMVM, etc. can use it directly.