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ARM optimized PCSX fork
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[Audio] Squaresoft Xenogears sound effects are inaccurate and distorted #171

Closed jmaneyrol69 closed 11 months ago

jmaneyrol69 commented 4 years ago

Description

Most of Xenogears sound effects (ambiance, gunshot, effects in the option screen, etc.) are inaccurate and distorted. Music, XA and video audio are not affected.

Game versions

Seems to affect every versions I have tried (JAP, US/NTSC), including the undubbed patched version.

PCSX version

This has always been present since early PCSX and still present with its various forks (Reloaded, ReARMed, PCSX4ALL).

OS

Windows, Linux, Android

Plugins

Default

Misc.

ePSXe, Mednafen and Duckstation are the only emulators for ARM I know which render Xenogears sound effects properly.

jayare5 commented 3 years ago

Can this be fixed? I ask because PCSX ReARMed is an abandoned emulator, but if it's possible for others to come in and fix it, I'd be willing to help with a bounty at least... :D

taquitoboy commented 3 years ago

Can this be fixed? I ask because PCSX ReARMed is an abandoned emulator, but if it's possible for others to come in and fix it, I'd be willing to help with a bounty at least... :D

This has been an issue with the super duper outdated sound plugin used in rearmed - P.E.Op.S. DSound v1.9. I've known this for the longest time. I believe Eternal SPU v1.50 should be able to give you better sound, but I don't know how to do this

ghost commented 2 years ago

I have the same issue.

notaz commented 11 months ago

Is this still an issue in the latest version? I'm not familiar with this game and don't know how it's supposed to sound.

dhemgren commented 11 months ago

@notaz I'm running this on the latest Onion OS on a Miyoo Mini so not entirely sure how that affects things, but the sound is extremely bitcrushed (most other games are not). Here is a snippet of how the menu should sound: https://youtu.be/Nt7AEkzOmyE?si=gdXR9EjUiaWGdAWo&t=64

notaz commented 11 months ago

This has now been fixed, the menu sound a least. Note that you also need to set "Sound Interpolation" to "Gaussian" for this game or there will be occasional minor crackling. If something still sounds wrong in this game feel free to reopen.

jayare5 commented 6 months ago

I just tested this, it sounds great!!!! Man, PCSX ReARMed is behaving a lot better these days, I am really glad to see this and a whole lot of other improvements including proper scaling!! Thank you so much notaz.