58410847 - Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

[Blackbird88]

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Tested with benvanik/xenia@e6461f3

• Playable with major GPU glitches ie. everything is blue

Log

state-gameplay and gpu-corrupt-drawing ?

[Ichigo14]

with this hack https://github.com/benvanik/xenia/issues/479 but very slow

[bdeimos]

Tested on (https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/f89b4626a37dd4d1e5a817909252d3d4dd054299)

Character moves very slowly while other animations are OK.

xenia.zip

[Ichigo14]

Character still moves very slowly

but you can play.

in this little zone game runs fullspeed

[hansbonini]

If u disable enhanced graphics the speed increases, not at full speed but better.

[Sleepy93]

Update

Game starts goes into gameplay but the background images are flashing and there are some vertex mismatches. Game speed is good.

On the background screens there are rendered triangles.

Tested

On (https://github.com/xenia-project/xenia/commit/c43ccc073da10fcf2ba43c4f90746cbc9b26880d)

Issues

!> 00000028 ResolvePath(ShaderDumpxe:\CompareBackEnds) failed - device not found !> 0000000C libav: invalid number of fill bits

GPU

Writes to unk. register

• 0081
• 0082
• 1E4E

Log file

Castlevania_SOTIN.zip

Labels

• gpu-corrupt-drawing
• state-gameplay
• tech-emulator-backbone
• tech-emulator

[Alocks]

The game is working perfectly now. But still doesn't play the BGM of the game

[felipemaxplay]

Same here, the game work perfectly, but have a sound delay and does not have background music.

[gesandovalr]

I'm in the same spot the game works, but the audio is totally bugged, missing BGM and there is some kind of sync issue too. https://streamable.com/6kry4l

[OddOttAllen]

no BGM still, but was able to fix the sound delay in the config file

i did so by changing "apu_max_queued_frames" to 3

[AmericanSlacker]

Here to echo what others have said: game plays fine AFAIK, just no music.

[DavidinCT]

Tried to run this on my SteamDeck, and just gets to the opening logo. Too bad I wanted to replay the XBLA version again and be portable...

[OddOttAllen]

i dunno why my sound delay comment was deleted but okay?

still no BGM as of this newest build

[DavidinCT]

i dunno why my sound delay comment was deleted but okay?

still no BGM as of this newest build

Yea, I tried it in Windows (not on the SteamDeck), and it runs fine sound seems ok, no background music. That is a deal killer for this game.

[felipemaxplay]

Guys, I don't know if everyone knew this, but the behavior of the original Xbox with regards to Castlevania SotN is that when you open the Xbox menu and play any music, even if it doesn't exist, the background music disappears. For those who want to speedrun, this is good because it saves time, but for casual play, it's bad not to have the soundtrack. I don't know if this information helps at all, but I recently discovered it.

[zaphod77]

i suspect that this is why it mutes the music. it thinks you are using the xbox system menu to do custom soundtrack or play music.

so i think this might be fixable with a game patch.

[zaphod77]

either that or it really is wma somehow being unimplemented. there seems to be an empty placeholder struct in the source for wma buffers, but i don't really understand it.

ffmpeg can certainly decode the wma files, i've tested that. and there is more than one other game with .wma files that don't play, for whatever reason.

[Gliniak]

Game uses normally integrated into system XMP (Xbox Media Player) to playback .wma files. Xenia doesn't support it yet, so that's the whole reason - lack of independent media player. I have a build where I started implementing it and had little success with it. It was loading file and was trying to playback it, but for whatever reason was super glitchy. I will come back to it one day, but not anytime soon

[zaphod77]

so i was right the first time. lack of system software. that's also why it cause performance hits in game. I'm guessing that most games with WMA do this.