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Help with Dosbox mt32 munt cvs build and Companions of Xanth

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First post, by plutonick

Posted on 2009-03-21, 03:30

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I am trying to play Companions of Xanth using mt32 sound. So far I have failed miserably.

I am rather new to dosbox, but after significant research, I managed to find
Gulikoza's build and the relevant mt32 roms which I copied to the folder of the game i mount. I am using the following parameters, taking care to use the mt32 option for MIDI
[note that i tried both mpu401=uart and intelligent]

1# Config file for profile "Companions of Xanth"
2
3
4[cpu]
5core=auto
6cycles=10000
7cycleup=500
8cycledown=20
9
10[mixer]
11nosound=false
12rate=22050
13blocksize=2048
14prebuffer=10
15
16[midi]
17[b]mpu401=uart
18device=mt32[/b]
19config=
20
21[sblaster]
22sbtype=sb16
23sbbase=220
24irq=7
25dma=1
26hdma=5
27mixer=true
28oplmode=auto
29oplrate=22050
30
31[gus]
32gus=true
33gusrate=22050
34gusbase=240
35irq1=5
36irq2=5
37dma1=1
38dma2=1
39ultradir=C:\ULTRASND
40
41[speaker]
42pcspeaker=true
43pcrate=22050
44tandy=auto
45tandyrate=22050
46disney=true
47
48[dos]
49xms=true
50ems=true
51umb=true
52keyboardlayout=US
53

I omitted pasting the rest of the parameters.

The result is that I get no music, just the voices. Also the game's .ini file [legend.ini] is the following

1MOUSE=MOUSE
2MUSIC=MT32 2 330
3SOUND=BLASTER 7 220
4GAMEDATA=c:\XANTH\
5SAVEDATA=C:\XANTH\

I suspect I will have the same mt-32 issues with any game of Legend's [eric the unready, gateway 1 and gateway 2], therefore helping me here, will help me in the other games as well.

Reply 1 of 4, by ripa

Posted on 2009-03-21, 16:12

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If you're on Windows, you can use the mt-32 emulation with the official Dosbox. You install the MT-32 emulator driver, then select it in Windows' control panel for the MIDI output, then in Dosbox you just configure your game to use MT-32 MIDI (provided that the game supports MT-32). Basically no need to touch the dosbox config file.

edit: Looks like you're on Vista. I don't know anything about Vista.

Reply 2 of 4, by plutonick

Posted on 2009-03-21, 18:06

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yes, I am on vista. But I thought that getting an 'mt-32' enabled cvs build would overcome the problem of having to install mt-32. Am I wrong?

Reply 3 of 4, by Srecko

Posted on 2009-04-02, 20:14

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You must use mpu401=intelligent for this game in dosbox.conf.

Also try to play with other MIDI synthesizer on windows to see if that's the problem (look at "sound" control panel and check which midi device is default).

Also you can try to start the game exe with mt32 as parameter (like "cxanth mt32").

Reply 4 of 4, by Miki Maus

Posted on 2009-04-02, 22:57

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plutonick wrote:
the relevant mt32 roms which I copied to the folder of the game i mount.

Shouldn't roms go to the DOSBox folder? 😕

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