Skies of Arcadia Sound query

**diablo2121** · October 16th, 2004, 03:16

I ran SoA after running it rhough fastboot, and it works great. I am extremely satisfied with the video, BUT the shound emulation is choppy. I read through the Compatibilty list and it says the game is running great and doesn't mention a sound problem. Is anone else experiencing this problem? Is there anyway I can get the sound to game quality? Any help is appreciated.

**MikeEx** · October 16th, 2004, 04:42

every one has this problem, expect it to be fixed within the next release

**diablo2121** · October 16th, 2004, 05:12

Would I have to re d/l the game or no?

**General Plot** · October 16th, 2004, 08:50

No, you'd just have to rewait the re release. As he said, it's an emulator issue, not a game issue.

**jareg** · October 16th, 2004, 10:15

Actually in the tal version the sound is much better thats because in the echelion release the sound is compressed

**dreamer** · October 17th, 2004, 00:09

anyone tried the echelon version on a real dreamcast to check out the sound?

**General Plot** · October 17th, 2004, 02:58

Originally Posted by dreamer

anyone tried the echelon version on a real dreamcast to check out the sound?

On my Dreamcast the echelon version's sound is flawless.

**aika-san** · October 17th, 2004, 08:43

I'm assuming that it must be due to the processor overhead of Chankast needing to decompress the echelon sound on-the-fly. It's a pretty demanding emulator. I am working at replacing the echelon sound files with their uncompressed equivalents. If this works then I will release a patch, or update SOAPatcher so it does both the echelon removal and the sound update. I'm fairly busy at the moment but I will do some more work on this soon.

**diablo2121** · October 17th, 2004, 19:48

I'm sure that would be greatly appreciated, aika-san. Take your time, I'm looking foward to it.

**aika-san** · October 22nd, 2004, 10:24

ok, here's what i have found so far:

The echelon version has a 'SOUND\' folder. In that folder there are 695 files totalling 78.2MB. On the talon version the 'SOUND\' folder also contains 695 files but this time the total size is 91.6MB. I replaced the echelon sound files with the talon ones and rebuilt the cdi. It loaded, and played fine. I played for over 2 hours before it locked on a black screen. The sound still does not sound completely right. It seems to have made the game more responsive though and the sound is generally more reliable.

I'll keep testing now.

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