Issues with Elvira I/II and The Legacy

[kyods]

I've found some issues with Elvira I/II and The Legacy. I remember all three games working fine in DOSBox-X roughly two or three months ago, however in the latest version:

• Elvira I and II fail to launch showing a black screen. Games downloaded from here: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/elvira-ii-the-jaws-of-cerberus-2md - this version works perfectly fine in Boxer;
• There is audio in the intro of The Legacy, but no audio whatsoever in the main menu nor the game itself. https://gamesnostalgia.com/game/legacy-realm-of-terror#download-section

DOSBox-X 0.83.14 on Mac mini M1.

[Wengier]

I have tried games from both URLs you linked in both Windows and Intel macOS builds of DOSBox-X version 0.83.14 (or the latest code), and they appear to launch properly with sound, both the default setting and my customized setting. You can perhaps try the default DOSBox-X configuration (start DOSBox-X with -defaultconf command-line option), and the Intel macOS build on your M1 and see if it works. Hope this helps.

[kyods]

Thanks for looking into this! I confirm that both Elvira games work fine with the Intel build of DOSBox-X, but not with the ARM64. However I still can’t get the music and sound to work past the intro in The Legacy.

[grapeli]

I was running these games - Elvira II and Legacy under dosbox-x 0.83.14. They work.

The audio quality in the intro of this game is disappointing (Legacy). Huge DC Offset, resulting in a strong Click/Pop. Effects - thunder, opening the door, footsteps are too accelerated, which makes them far too short. It is worst under dosbox-x, better under dosbox-staging, best under dosemu2. Although the game itself did not work in dosemu2. dosbox-x https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430528-36ae7380-cf83-11eb-9959-7e7f959b6ddb.mp4 dosbox-staging https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430601-475ee980-cf83-11eb-8329-38a10ccf7835.mp4 dosemu2 https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430670-534aab80-cf83-11eb-8159-b1a548787cfd.mp4

Effects only samples: dosbox-x https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430890-7ffec300-cf83-11eb-9395-8f87cf7f4634.mp4 dosbox-staging https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430922-855c0d80-cf83-11eb-801e-a0409bf758b1.mp4 dosemu2 https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122430945-88ef9480-cf83-11eb-99ad-996c7b0016c1.mp4

[grapeli]

I ran the full version Legacy realm of terror. I set up the sound on SoundBlaster Pro (later). I started Dosbox-X with sbtype=sbpro2 and now these effects sound as much as they probably should.

legacy.dosbox-x.sbpro2.mp4 https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/452325/122478076-45fbe400-cfb8-11eb-8719-4faa44d696c3.mp4