Broken external sound insertion (possibly insertion in general)

[thane98]

Bugs encountered while testing archive and set creation:

• External sounds are not inserted correctly. When done from scratch, nothing plays. When imported, the sounds fades out shortly after it starts playing.
• When inserting sounds through the set editor, some sounds fail to play. Haven't found a pattern to this yet.

These bugs were also encountered when starting from a vanilla BCSAR, so they might not be related to archive and set creation.

[thane98]

The problems with external sounds have been resolved.

Still not sure what's going on with voice sets. Need to test out some different files to see if there's just something wrong with the actual sounds.

[thane98]

After some more experimenting, it looks like the problem is the buffer size for internal sounds.

Sounds go through a player which has a buffer for whichever sound it's currently playing. If the buffer's too small for the sound you want to play, the player will skip it. In this case, the player for Fates gives up around 300 kB. There's a couple of solutions to this:

• Use an external sound instead. These are streamed, so file sizes shouldn't be a problem. Fire Emblem Fates uses these for longer voice lines.
• Increase the buffer size. This can be done through the "heap size" field in the Players tab of BCSAR View. This is the easiest solution to the problem, but chances are those heap sizes are limited for a reason. If you make them bigger, it could cause out of memory problems on an actual 3DS.

Either way, the issue isn't with how BCSAR View inserts sounds.