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[Azimer]

Here's what's new in this bug fix release
(From readme.txt)

*** v0.56 WIP 2 ***
- Bug Fix release... nothing much new
- Finally received Project64 1.6
- Hydro Thunder and Tarzan work well by using Project64 1.6's
- Fixed those nasty SP_DMA_READ Errors
- Fixed hangups in all roms which worked before
- Eliminated some pops and crackles in games that shouldn't have them
- And no... configuration has not been changed (least of my worries)

[ScottJC]

Yay, an update *gets to testing* will edit post once i've done some.

edit: definitely got rid of the crashing bugs, thanks for the update! :D

[olivieryuyu]

Sweet release all nasty messages are gone :)

1) Top gear rally still doesn't boot, even with PJ64 Audiofix. was working with 0.55.1 with Pj64audiofix, even if sound was not very good.

Please notice that Stunt racer and World driver championship suffers the same problem (to get gfx use last Rice video plugin)

2) i noticed that there is now "crispy" sounds that was not in the first release : the more obvious is with Beetle Adv Racing: the sound is crispy with this release and was perfect witht the first release (but i got the message in games)

3) 1964: sometimes i get a thread errors (need to close and open again the emu and it works: weird ?) ,hangings, in some games sound is disappearing, or there is no more music but still ambient sound. Weird. it was working quite well with first release i think. :(
(ex: DK64, SFRush 2049, Iggy's Reakin' Balls )

[Extreme184X]

bout to test it

[Extreme184X]

Some Testings:with pj64 either with Jabo v1.6 or Rice Video v6.1.1 Beta 10

Cruis'n USA - Works Perfect at 60fps(this was tested with jabo 1.6)

Cruis'n World - (Game Works Now)Audio runs too fast, if you enable "Force old audio Sync" or turn off "Emulate /Simulate AI" the game runs ar 35fps. No way to make the audio at normal speed.(this was tested with jabo 1.6 & With Rice v6.1.1b10)

Cruis'n Exotica - works at 60fps(this was tested with jabo 1.6) if you activate activate "Super 2XSai texture" and "Always use Texture Filter" in jabos plugin, speed randomly goes from 45fps to 60 fps during races. Dont no if this is a video plugin issue, but thats what happens when you activate them.

Hydro Thunder - Works Great, Music during races sound much better than wip 1.(this was tested with Rice v6.1.1b10)

Legend of Zelda OOT - Works perfect during gameplay(this was tested with Rice v6.1.1b10), causes the emulator to crash when reseting(pressing F1) when having "Load High-Res texture if available" activated in rices plugin.

Legend of Zelda MM - Same as ocarina of time.

More to come.

[dragon_rider]

(Using PJ64 1.6 w/Jabo's 1.6 D3D8 plugin)
Games with faster-than-normal audio - The Legend of Zelda: OOT, Goemon's Great Adventure, Hybrid Heaven, and others.

Games with slow FPS w/old audio-synching on - Mystical Ninja 64, The Legend of Zelda: OOT, GGA, Bomberman 64, Hybrid Heaven

Games with less than 50% FPS with this plugin - FZeroX

Games with normal sound/FPS - Mario 64, GoldenEye 007, Banjo Kazooie,
Banjio Tooie, Hydro Thunder, Mario Golf 64, etc.

Games that still crash - Bomberman 64: The Second Attack, Killer Instinct Gold, etc.

EDIT (5/9/05) - Keep in mind that this plugin has improved alot over the previous releases. I do not intend to insult Azimer's project. Besides, I don't know jack about computer programming.

[Federelli]

In Resident Evil 2.

Audio stutters in the main menu, but not on the options menu. Then if the "Resident Evil 2" voice lasts too long, then the voice during the introduction sequence won't appear.

[Jesterhead]

Nice work, all games i´ve tested work (i´ve tried only booting and waited for the first sounds), only Banjo-Tooie crashed the first time started, but only once, so it mustn´t be your plugins fault.

[Reznor007]

Azimer, I noticed you were talking about the surround sound options in an earlier thread, and have the answer for you. The N64 only supports stereo of course, so the audio stream will look basically the same. The surround option in games changes the way the game does its stereo calculations so that a sound that would be behind the player is given a different phase or is assigned to both speakers at once. Then, you connect the N64 stereo audio outputs to your stereo system and turn on Dolby ProLogic(aka Dolby Surround or ProLogic2 if you have it) decoding, which takes the sound ques and applies them to the proper speaker in a surround system.

The stuff that actually does the surround encoding is the game's sound program itself, not anything special in the N64 hardware. Some SNES games have the same options, and ProLogic2 games on Gamecube use the exact same thing.

To do auto-detection in your plugin, you would have to check the CRC of the game and a certain data address(game specific) that holds the game's audio config(stereo/surround) and if that matches a table of known surround capable games then turn on surround decoding.

[ggab]

To do auto-detection in your plugin, you would have to check the CRC of the game and a certain data address(game specific) that holds the game's audio config(stereo/surround) and if that matches a table of known surround capable games then turn on surround decoding.
sounds too difficult to implement........


PS: excellent plugin :) keep up your great work, carrying the whole N64's scene towards the perfection :)

[Poobah]

There is no need for auto detection. The plugin could easily always try to do the decoding (like what most receivers will do), or have a user option to enable or disable it.

[Harlock]

I tested all my games with PJ64 and 1964 (Rice 6.1.0 and Azis WIP2)
Well, some games that did not work well before now work perfectly like San Francisco Rush 2049. Also Fighting Force works brilliant at last!!! THANKS.

BUT: I can't get Hydro Thunder running...black screen and emulation hangs...

also some other games still show the black screen and nothing else...

[FloW3184]

isnt there somewhere a dolby sourround prologic -_live_- filter? something like ffdshow or something that can do that (just like ac3 decompressing and assigning the sound to the right speaker)?

[Reznor007]

isnt there somewhere a dolby sourround prologic -_live_- filter? something like ffdshow or something that can do that (just like ac3 decompressing and assigning the sound to the right speaker)?

You're thinking of Dolby Digital Live, which is AC3, not ProLogic. That just takes your 6 channel PC audio and compresses it to AC3 for output to a 5.1 receiver. It doesn't do ProLogic decoding then AC3 encoding though.

[otomo]

I`ve noticed some sort of problem with state loading, sometimes it freezes the game and sometimes it won`t load at all, and in hydro thunder the first few times an state is loaded, it will work ok, then it will start loading without sound and a game reset is needed.

[Pongi]

Awesome work Azimer! I'm using this with PJ64 1.6 and the games I've tested (albiet a few; Mario64, Zelda:OOT, PD, Doom64 etc..) have ran wonderfully with this plugin. No Snap-Crackle-and Pop anymore. So far I haven't found any glitches attributed to the plugin, so far so good.

I hope you keep up the excellent work! (All hail Azimer!) :party:

[Reznor007]

sounds too difficult to implement........


PS: excellent plugin :) keep up your great work, carrying the whole N64's scene towards the perfection :)

Not really. I don't know if audio plugins have full access to the emulated RAM, but it would be fairly easy if they can. It would be like a Gameshark cheat that only monitors that 1 variable.

[Windman]

Sorry for my bad language but I'm French and don't speak good English, but I try !!!

I had a big crash while launching Zelda Ocarina of Time : all stopped and it shows the famous Windows blue screen !!! I tried it twice.
I scared to run the plugin again.
Did I something I should'nt ?


Edit : I forgot to say that after it, I lose all the settings of half of my games.

[Azimer]

More information is necessary. i.e. Operating System, System specs, DX version, version of Project 64 you are using...

I personally can only support Windows 2000 or better. BSOD tends to be Win9x related. :(

[Legend]

Just wanted to thank you for making the best audio plugin to date-I've been emulating 64 for many years so I know what I'm talking about. I'm using your plugin for EVERY one of my games.
The near perfect sound does make up for crashing 1964 after I try playing another game. But I do hope that compatability problem is something you might work on. Also, the music speed in Mario party 1 is quite irratic but that's probably something to do with 1964's speed limiting calculations or something. Oh well, thanks again and glad to hear the emu scene had'nt actually lost you. :party:

[Windman]

Oh sorry, I'm unable to activate my profile !

I used 1964 0.9.9 with Rice's video plugin 6.1.0.

Windows XP
P4 3.0 Ghz
Nvidia Geforce PCX 5300
C-Media Rear Panel Audio
1024 DDR

I'm a newbie :bunny: but as it was a big crash, I think it's interessant for you (and I love your plugins :bouncy: ! They're wonderful :bouncy: !).

[Windman]

Aïïïaaaaaaaaïïïïaaaaaaaa !!!!!!!!!

I tried again but with Project64 1.6 and Jabo's Direct 3D8 1.6, and I had the same crash (with Window's blue screen) !!!

[RJARRRPCGP]

If the BSOD is:

***STOP: 0x000000BE ATTEMPT_TO_WRITE_TO_READ_ONLY_MEMORY

Then get a different video driver version!!! You probably have a bad video driver.

Buggy video drivers are known to cause that BSOD.

[Azimer]

I really don't have an idea what may be crashing Project64 1.6. As far as 1964 goes right now, It's unsupported. I decided it was best to chose one emulator to get the plugin to work on. I will see if it's a simple problem with 1964 at some other time. There is nothing I am doing with direct sound that would cause a BSOD. If there was a bug in the audio plugin, you would likely get an access violation error as opposed to a blue screen. I will see what I can do at a later time.

[Windman]

Ok.

But my emulators work very well with previous versions of your plugins with various video's plugins. The error message said that Windows had stoped before endomaging hardware : "Windows a rencontré un problème et a fermé pour éviter tout dommage à votre matériel...(quelque chose comme ça)". And then my computer launched again.

My driver version is recent; but I will do a point of restoration (I don't know if we say as it) and try again with another driver if there is one.

And Zelda Ocarina of Time work well with 1964 and Project64 and different audio plugins, but when I try this version of audio plugin (only change), it crashes.

Edit : my driver are already the most recent !!!

[Azimer]

Best advice I can give you, is wait until WIP 3 and see if anything is fixed. I am doing another experimental audio code revision that may save me some CPU time and allow for easy buffer changes for MusyX games.

[Windman]

OK !!!

You do very very very... very wonderful work (compared to you, I feel very little ;) !), I trust you !!!
I will not fail to give the result of the next WIP in my computer !

Bye bye, and good courage !

[ggab]

1964 + glide64/jabo

i get an "exception in emulation thread" (and stops the emulation)

when i reset any game in fullscreen (F2)

with WIP2 and
- NONE rsp plugin
- Jabo rsp plugin
- Mupen's rsp plugin


weird, WIP1 does not have this problem....

[Ryuran]

Why its so hard to make Top Gear Rally sound work correctly?

[Trotterwatch]

Tell you what Ryuran, as it is so simple (as you said in another post) why don't you go and pick up the released source and do it yourself.

If it were simple then Azimer would have done it alongside many other sound plugin authors - they ain't daft ;)

[4real]

Nice work on the new wip2 but seems unstable for me crashes where the other versions didn't.

Keep up the good work as this plugin has always been a fav for me and has worked very well in the past.

[smokeyjoint]

Work good overall still a buffer problem generating choppy audio.fix that you,d be a n64 god.

[Azimer]

I am hoping Project64 1.7 will fix the problem. I am still awaiting a build with some different audio code in it. Zilmar and I spoke about this and then I will begin working on my plugin again for this next release. I am satisfied with my hacked up audio I managed to pull off thus far for Project64 1.6.

[smokeyjoint]

fanastic news,i hope pj 1.7 is the one that conquers the n64 curse.i admire all you guys.i love these games .i had a freind with a n64 console in the day but he only had super mario and mario kart i never got to play 90%of the games now i can.thxz again best of luck.

[Azimer]

Thank you for the comments. You are most welcome. Keep an eye on these forums for any updates to my audio plugin. You will see them publically announced here first (even before my website).

[Sirmatto]

Thank you for the comments. You are most welcome. Keep an eye on these forums for any updates to my audio plugin. You will see them publically announced here first (even before my website).
Good to know the best audio plugin is going to get better.

[emutalkfreak]

Anyone have any idea when exactly the Project64 v1.7 will be released? Am I on the wrong forum to ask this question? I am new :bouncy:

[Azimer]

Yes, you are on the wrong forum... and no, no one can tell you when.

[emutalkfreak]

What forum should I be on?:unsure: I am sorry:(

[Azimer]

http://www.emutalk.net/project64/

It's 4 spots under this one...

[64fanatic]

Are you still developing this plugin? or have you taken a break/stopped completly?


If so, whats been happening?!!

:p

[Persephone]

Are you still developing this plugin? or have you taken a break/stopped completly?


If so, whats been happening?!!

:p

Read previous posts before talking!:sombrero:

[Gatech]

Hello!!, I have a question:

I have Paper Mario. The sound in the game without this plugin was bad... whit noise, but now with the Force Old Audio Sinc all is good!. The problem is that the game now is slow... About 42-43Fps, Can I change it? I need it fast!.

Thanks.

[axcc123]

resident evil 2 will your plugin suport the sound on it ever???:bouncy:

[Dukelord]

Can someone do something about the Resident Evil speech problem?
I've tried all existing sound plugins I know of including WIP2 but no luck emulating well.Thanks.

[Poobah]

Is the source available for the latest version of this? I want to try to fix the annoying configuration screen.

[rabiddeity]

Is the source available for the latest version of this? I want to try to fix the annoying configuration screen.

Cancel...

Cancel cancel cancel...

CANCEL!
...

*sigh* OK (closes)

[Legend]

Funny!! I just got that! :happy:

[mudlord]

OK, I fixed that button problem. The "Cancel" button is removed, leaving only the "OK" button.

PS: If anyone has objections to the attached file, feel free to remove it. Also, I will be more than happy to remove the DLL on request :).

[Poobah]

I was considering doing the same, but that button isn't the only problem with the configuration screen! It doesn't appear to even save its settings, and a proper cancel button would be quite useful.

[Legend]

Good Job Mudlord! I wonder if Azimer will ever continue his work on the plugin since it's still a "WIP". But it's pretty damn good the way it is. It just doesn't get along with 1964 that well. And I don't know who's fault that is. 1964 is pretty buggy.

About the options config, I've never had to adjust anything before. Can you guys suggest any games that might work better with a different, non-default setting?

[Azimer]

I wonder if Azimer will ever continue his work on the plugin since it's still a "WIP".

I am sorting out my life's problems. In the last couple years things have gone from bad to worse. I am finding it impossible to focus on anything else. I do plan to pick it up again and will be more than happy to submit source in the meantime. I will post within a couple days. Thanks all for staying interest in my venerable work.

[Sirmatto]

I am sorting out my life's problems. In the last couple years things have gone from bad to worse. I am finding it impossible to focus on anything else. I do plan to pick it up again and will be more than happy to submit source in the meantime. I will post within a couple days. Thanks all for staying interest in my venerable work.
Best of luck to you in figuring out your problems. All your contributions to the community were and still are very appreciated.

[FloW3184]

Good Luck Azimer!
You have a big name in the scene.
I wish you the best!

[Azimer]

bump so I can find this later.