Opened 11 years ago
Closed 4 months ago
#6467 closed defect (fixed)
TSAGE: Ringworld2 - Digitized percussion sounds slightly off
| Reported by: | eriktorbjorn | Owned by: | eriktorbjorn |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: TsAGE |
| Version: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Game: | Return to Ringworld |
Description
English CD version of the game, current Git snapshot of ScummVM
At least when using AdLib music (which is all ScummVM seems to support at the moment; the original had a few other options like General MIDI and Roland MT-32) the game plays digitized sound effects for some percussion and stuff. Interesting idea, but unfortunately they're a bit off.
I'm attaching recordings of ScummVM and DOSBox. Though since the original game uses a very silly way of setting the volume, I had to amplify the DOSBox recording quite a bit. This is more of a "this doesn't sound as good as it should" than a "this doesn't sound as good as DOSBox" bug report, really.
It's possible the the problem is caused by latency in the ScummVM mixer. I'm guessing that playback of a sound doesn't actually happen until the current audio buffer has been drained, and I guess that could take a noticeable amount of time in a case like this. I don't really have any good ideas for fixing that, though.
Maybe it would be possible to have AdlibSoundDriver::readBuffer() handle the digitized sounds as well, though I still don't know how to properly synchronize them.
Ticket imported from: bugs/6467.
Attachments (2)
Change History (6)
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | rw2-dosbox.ogg added |
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by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | rw2-scummvm.ogg added |
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comment:1 by , 11 years ago
comment:2 by , 11 years ago
| Component: | → Engine: TsAGE |
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| Game: | → Return to Ringworld |
comment:3 by , 4 years ago
| Summary: | RINGWORLD2: Digitized percussion sounds slightly off → TSAGE: Ringworld2 - Digitized percussion sounds slightly off |
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comment:4 by , 4 months ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
This sounds ok to me now. I think the SDL audio buffer was made smaller a long time ago, maybe that's what fixed it?
This is the ScummVM recording. Can't I add attachments without posting followups like this? Really?