You can't have both sound blaster FX and MT-32 at the same time in some of these older games, it'll try and do the FX via MT-32, which obviously doesn't sound too flash. Not even the music sounds good via MT-32 for these '4D' games IMO, I just stick to sound blaster.

Stunts doesn't use digitized sound at all. Only Adlib for both music and FX. When running on MT-32, you should indeed hear everything sounding via the MT-32, including engine and skid and crash sounds.
The only thing I don't remember is whether Stunts programs the MT-32 at start up, or just use the stock instruments as-is. If it's the latter, don't expect the SC-88 to be able to handle it. There are other games that work with the base MT-32 instrument list (e.g. Monkey Island), and that will work fine on SC-88 as well.

wbahnassi wrote on 2024-03-05, 11:00:

Stunts doesn't use digitized sound at all. Only Adlib for both music and FX.

I didn't realise that but you're right - Adlib and Sound Blaster are listed separately in the sound setup but they both sound exactly the same 😀

wbahnassi wrote on 2024-03-05, 11:00:

Stunts doesn't use digitized sound at all. Only Adlib for both music and FX. When running on MT-32, you should indeed hear everything sounding via the MT-32, including engine and skid and crash sounds.
The only thing I don't remember is whether Stunts programs the MT-32 at start up, or just use the stock instruments as-is. If it's the latter, don't expect the SC-88 to be able to handle it. There are other games that work with the base MT-32 instrument list (e.g. Monkey Island), and that will work fine on SC-88 as well.

Would I basically hear the audio effects if I had a real mt-32? 😁

Yes 🙂

MT-32 mapped midi playing piano notes for sounds is fun in its own way too, especially for that nascar game dsi did 😀

wbahnassi wrote on 2024-03-05, 11:00:

The only thing I don't remember is whether Stunts programs the MT-32 at start up, or just use the stock instruments as-is.

At least for the sound effects, Stunts does define custom sounds on the MT32 during start-up usinig SysEx messages, so any solutiion trying to map MT32 patch numbers to GM/GS patch number and then playing back those GM/GS patches will not work with Stunts.

mkarcher wrote on 2024-03-06, 06:33:

At least for the sound effects, Stunts does define custom sounds on the MT32 during start-up usinig SysEx messages, so any solutiion trying to map MT32 patch numbers to GM/GS patch number and then playing back those GM/GS patches will not work with Stunts.

If I remember correctly, music plays fine but sound effects are replaced with nonsensical piano notes and such.

Azarien wrote on 2024-03-06, 07:40:

mkarcher wrote on 2024-03-06, 06:33:

At least for the sound effects, Stunts does define custom sounds on the MT32 during start-up usinig SysEx messages, so any solutiion trying to map MT32 patch numbers to GM/GS patch number and then playing back those GM/GS patches will not work with Stunts.

If I remember correctly, music plays fine but sound effects are replaced with nonsensical piano notes and such.

Exactly, but in a very soft way