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First post, by exofreeze

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I am attempting to play a freeware game called Tank2 (http://users.compaqnet.be/arnout.swinnen/) in 0.74. On launch it gives the error:
DIV Execution error: No se pudo cargar el efecto de sonido. (load_pcm)
eg: Could not load sound effects

In the setup file, the sound test works perfectly fine. Running debug didn't seem to throw up any obvious flags for me, in regards to missing files or anything like that.

Reply 1 of 5, by ripsaw8080

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Some needed sfx files are not installed. You can at least get the game to run if you copy the SETUP.PCM file to these files in the PCM subdir:

AGUA9.PCM
AGUACAE.PCM
CARGA.PCM
COCHE2.PCM
DISPAR00.PCM
EXPLOSI2.PCM
EXPLOSI3.PCM
EXPLOSI6.PCM
METRALLA.PCM

The sound is a bit repetitive this way, though. 😉

The TANK2.001 install archive file does not contain the sfx files; you can see in its header that only SETUP.PCM is in there. Maybe try to contact the author to see if he can fix his install files, or otherwise include anything that's missing.

Last edited by ripsaw8080 on 2013-03-19, 17:23. Edited 1 time in total.

Reply 2 of 5, by exofreeze

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this guy has lots of issues with his games... his paratrooper game is mislabed... the english one is german and the german one is english. I was worried there were files missing.... Thanks for looking into it.

Reply 3 of 5, by P4R4D0X

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The game was made in DIV Games Studio, and if you can find a copy you may be able to get the missing .PCM files. I checked the log and I found some references to the library that the developer used. Seems like he didn't even care to test after packing the installer. Most likely the game just ran fine on his machine because he had the files on his E:\ drive.

   1971344: FILES:file open command 0 file e:\data\pcm\library\war\shoots\dispar00.pcm
1971358: FILES:file open command 0 file pcm\e:\data\pcm\library\war\shoots\dispar00.pcm
1971358: FILES:Makename encountered an illegal char : hex:3A in pcm\e:\data\pcm\library\war\shoots\dispar00.pcm!
1971358: FILES:Makename encountered an illegal char : hex:3A in pcm\e:\data\pcm\library\war\shoots\dispar00.pcm!
1971358: FILES:Makename encountered an illegal char : hex:3A in pcm\e:\data\pcm\library\war\shoots\dispar00.pcm!
1971369: FILES:file open command 0 file dispar00.pcm
1971383: FILES:file open command 0 file pcm\dispar00.pcm

However there are two versions DIV1 and DIV2, and they may be hard to find. Even if you disable the sound in the setup utility the game still tells you that the files are missing.

http://z4g0.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/div.png
http://z4g0.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/div2.png

Reply 4 of 5, by P4R4D0X

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Just as I expected. Every single .PCM file can be found in Div Games Studio. These sounds mentioned by ripsaw are pretty much the same ones that are missing from the PCM folder. Also it matches the directory structure I found in the log file.

Anyway here are the missing files. I'm pretty sure the developer will never reply to any of your messages so don't bother with that. Shame on you Arnout Swinnen for not testing your stuff. 😁

#  Archive C:\Users\Tihamér\Desktop\PCM_FILES.ZIP
1999-09-27 13:59 20387 17795 45e03bf2 AGUACAE.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 8191 6450 bfd4a83e AGUA9.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 6810 6340 71037b86 METRALLA.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 10432 4154 d62a3a78 EXPLOSI6.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 27235 18489 5f5b2b8c EXPLOSI3.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 15854 12680 83b12f73 EXPLOSI2.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 10125 8720 fe0f008a DISPAR00.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 10753 5843 3d508520 CARGA.PCM
1999-09-27 13:59 8179 6556 89da463b COCHE2.PCM
#
# Total Size Packed Files
# 117966 87027 9

Reply 5 of 5, by exofreeze

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awesome work p4r4d0x.