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Re: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Midi music, wrong drums?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 20:57

You can also try GMGSMT32 in the youtube description that Vogons user Retro Erik posted DreamBlaster X2: The Rise of General Midi, to initialize the DreamBlaster X2 to GM/GS before starting the the game.

Re: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Midi music, wrong drums?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 19:27

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Software

The only way I could get the message about not finding the midi interface is disabling mpu401 in dosbox. The Serdashop website mentions the following at DreamBlaster X2 - Serdashop , which may be applicable to you. Please note: There are some older soundcards with a Waveblaster compatible header but …

Re: Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo - Midi music, wrong drums?

Posted on 2021-05-08, 16:21

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Software

1. Download Roland SCC1 Utilities Disk from vogons drivers. 2. Place scmode.exe in the same folder as SF2TURBO.EXE, or in the MS-DOS path. 3. Run scmode.exe gs before starting the game. Here is the way I have it set to run in my dosbox.conf as an example: Copy code to clipboard 1 scmode.exe gs 2 …

How do I make Doom MIDI sound like it is played on a Piano?

Posted on 2021-04-18, 14:26

by Stretch

in Milliways

How can I make Doom sound like it is played on a piano, like in this video? Evolution of Game Music (1980 - 2018) Would I need to modify the sound-font or the mus files in the game wad?

Re: Space Hulk soundfont/midi help.

Posted on 2021-03-06, 03:00

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Sound

I downloaded the Space Hulk demo and found that the instrument files are in the same folder as the MIDI files. Copy the MID_DIR folder to the PX folder, and rename HULK_AD.MID to SAMPLE.OPL or SAMPLE.AD. Then, make sure there is a DEFDRV.INI file with sbp2fm or adlib. HULK_A.MID should sound exactly …

Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2021-02-17, 17:53

by Stretch

in DOSBox Development

Played the first level of Jazz Jackrabbit. It was very playable on low quality, no animation. Dosbox set with core=dynamic, cycles=max 90%, cputype=auto, with GUS at 22khz. Some occasional minor slowdown but not enough to ruin the experience. The game will crash with an unhandled exception at …

Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2021-02-17, 15:40

by Stretch

in DOSBox Development

I got a score of 95388 parrots, 35.4 XT in speedtst with core=dynamic, cycles=max, cputype=486_slow I will try Jazz Jackrabbit on the wii later and report the performance.

Re: List of products for adding S/PDIF output to old sound equipment with DACs

Posted on 2021-02-14, 21:11

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Sound

This would be great for an ESS Solo-1. Too bad I don't have soldering expertise.

Re: ESFM details

Posted on 2021-01-19, 12:40

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Sound

Have you tried a newer ESFM.MDI driver? Maybe that will fix the music.

Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?

Posted on 2021-01-01, 07:55

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Software

Enabling EAX also added overhead when Deus Ex was new.

Re: PowerPC Dynamic Recompiler (patch)

Posted on 2020-11-27, 02:31

by Stretch

in DOSBox Development

For Nintendo Wii, is this patch intended for the source code from https://github.com/dborth/dosbox-wii or from another repo? I get many errors of "(different line endings)" even though I converted the patch to Windows line endings with unix2dos.

Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 12:18

by Stretch

in Milliways

I hadn't used my Nintendo Wii in ages. I have been playing Abuse and Duke3d(EDuke32) with the dgguspat GUS patches via homebrew, and having a blast.

Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2020-09-22, 23:48

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Sound

mattw, I have included 2 links to old posts with some info on modding the VST plugin: Roland Virtual Sound Canvas - VST sysex tune-up and Old Sound Canvas VST 1.6 Mod for SC-55 instruments

Re: About Roland Virtual Sound Canvas 3

Posted on 2020-09-22, 00:17

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Sound

mattw, there is code posted in vogons.org which decodes the bank format here: Virtual Canvas Sound Banks

Re: Sound Driver Enhancement Hacks - General MIDI

Posted on 2020-08-09, 22:09

by Stretch

in DOS

tikalat, I noticed in the MIDI file for Descent 1 Game10.hmp.mid, there are notes 92 and 93 in channel 10, which are invalid for the standard drum kit. Can you patch in a fix to remove that incorrect data?

Re: DOS alternative to lspci?

Posted on 2020-07-20, 01:29

by Stretch

in Marvin \ Software

You can compile pciutils with the instructions from this page DOS - flashrom lspci.exe worked on my computer in Win98SE and also in direct MS-DOS mode. I attached a screenshot.

Re: games that are better on a Macintosh

Posted on 2020-07-01, 11:17

by Stretch

in Macintosh Emulation

Many pre-Quicktime Mac OS games used an audio engine called SoundMusicSys. The engine eventually became the Beatnik Audio Engine, and is available as open source at Twang! | miniBAE To extract the music, you could use ResEdit in Classic Mac OS to access the music data in the resource fork. Or you …