Oh Noooooooooooooo... 😵 🙄
I'll have to check this, will report back! BTW, protected mode was already available way before 0.63 .

Hmm... I noticed that I was running a non-DOSBox-official build of 0.6.3. I'm not sure where it came from. I found an entry on VersionTracker but the download links were broken. If it helps I can put up the binary somewhere.

0.6.5 (the official one) actually seems slightly worse in general compared to the 0.6.3 binary I had. Going full screen and changing screen resolution is slower and I noticed occasional vertical refresh problems when playing Zeliard (ie. vertical refresh happens when the screen is half drawn).

A whole bunch of games I tried failed on my 0.6.3 binary but work fine on 0.7. They all seem to be using protected mode.

I've tried the game on 0.72 and it's working, no sound stuttering in status screen. Can you attach RESOURCE.CFG you are using with Zeliard?

Hmm... I somehow messed up the version thing. It seems I was running 0.65 but it's a universal build... that would explain the slightly better performance than the official 0.65 which would be running under rosetta.

I've attached the resource.cfg file. It should say EGA and Sound Blaster for music and sound effects. I prefer the appearance of EGA compared to MCGA and I tried Roland music via CoreAudio but it was too jarring because it's not the same noise I grew up with.

I'll try to describe what I did (so you can hopefully reproduce it).

The savegame I attached before is at Llama. Leave and go get the keys then head towards the boss. At the part where you have to jump up 2 slopes with the silkarn shoes is where the game would have the problem. It was eerily reproducible (I did the same thing 4 times with different versions and it always happened in the same spot).