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First post, by psychofox

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Hi,

I purchased recently for christmas nice and clean Roland MT-32 (old) for gaming.
For most MT32 supported games it works just fine. But some older title are problematic -

Silpheed (no MT32 sound, just beeper);
Ski or die (hangs up at game startup, black screen);
Test drive 3 (no sound and terrible lag, even with P200mmx);
Out of this world (no sound and lag)

I even re-downloaded these titles in case some files are corrupt, but no luck.

Tested my MT32 with different computers (386DX40, P133 and P200) and soundcards (Aztech, ESS, and Creative).

Can anyone give me some hints, is the problem with MT32 or on computer/soundcard side?

Reply 1 of 3, by Pierre32

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Might be a silly question... are you running SoftMPU? You'll need that for many games on UART (non-intelligent) MPU-401's, which is what you have in those cards.

Reply 2 of 3, by psychofox

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Pierre32 wrote on 2021-01-08, 06:51:

Might be a silly question... are you running SoftMPU? You'll need that for many games on UART (non-intelligent) MPU-401's, which is what you have in those cards.

No, actually i am not familiar with SoftMPU. Years ago i had LAPC-I and i clearly remember playing these games with roland sound (without Softmpu). So i thought MT32 usage is similarly easy.

EDIT: Thanks, Pierre. With SoftMPU every game works!

Reply 3 of 3, by Pierre32

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Good stuff. Enjoy the beautiful new toy! 😀