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Resuming Redbook Audio in G-Police with Wine

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As part of my continuing adventures in getting G-Police to run, I tried running it through Wine using the Lutris launcher, and it worked! The game runs great, with working joystick controls.

There's a problem with the redbook audio soundtrack though. When you pause the game, it pauses the music. When you resume, it's supposed to unpause the music, but instead the music never returns. I managed to improve the situation by hex editing the exe to use YELLO-belly's cdaudio-winmm, but it's not perfect. Now instead of resuming immediately like it's supposed to, it restarts the track after a one second delay.

Is this as good as it's going to get, or can I improve it further?

Reply 1 of 7, by BEEN_Nath_58

Posted on Yesterday, 06:30

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dxwnd was working fine the last time I tested 3yrs ago

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Reply 2 of 7, by Space Cad

Posted on Yesterday, 07:03

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I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

Reply 3 of 7, by BEEN_Nath_58

Posted on Yesterday, 07:43

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Space Cad wrote on Yesterday, 07:03:

I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

I mean DxWnd's USP is redbook audio playback...

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Reply 4 of 7, by Space Cad

Posted on Yesterday, 18:04

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 07:43:

Space Cad wrote on Yesterday, 07:03:

I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

I mean DxWnd's USP is redbook audio playback...

It is? I thought it was for running fullscreen games in a window. Anyway, can you explain how to use it for this? It doesn't seem to have a manual.

Reply 5 of 7, by Space Cad

Posted on Yesterday, 18:45

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Correction: it does have a manual, but the landing page is broken so you have to access it piecemeal. Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to run through DxWnd. I get an error message saying to insert the CD, which doesn't happen when I run the game without DxWnd.

Reply 6 of 7, by RetroGamer4Ever

Posted on Yesterday, 23:37

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If you really want to play G-Police and you have a PS4/PS5, you can play it on there, as it was released on the PS Marketplace. Otherwise, you can just wait for the spiritual successor, G-Rebels, to hit current platforms.

Reply 7 of 7, by Space Cad

Posted on Today, 04:39

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I'm familiar with the PS1 version. I'm playing the PC version because the PS1 version has a suffocatingly low draw distance and I want to see what the game is like without that limitation.

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