Randalf Posted March 4, 2016 Author Share Posted March 4, 2016 Hello all, I have been trying to chase down an audio issue with (so far in my small collection) just 3 roms that produce crackling/white noise while playing. Those are Burger Time, JT-104 and Mario Bros. All arcade games use the latest Retroarch. All the other games I have work with no audio issues. I tried some other suggestions I have seen on other platforms like moving the audio up to 128, toggling sync, lowering frame rate (all within retroarch) to no avail. If I play these games out of MAME directly however, I have no issues. I am trying to avoid a mix and match of emulators if I can with the arcade games and hoping maybe there is something I have overlooked, or if for now I should use MAME for those games that don't present any issues. Everything is on a PC hooked up via HDMI to my Samsung TV. Thanks in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lordmonkus Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 I have found it best to just use standalone Mame over the Retroarch Mame core. Personally I use Groovymame, it has the option to turn off the rom load nag screens within the ini file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randalf Posted March 4, 2016 Author Share Posted March 4, 2016 Thanks! I will check that out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fromlostdays Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 This may be obvious, but its actually really easy in LaunchBox to have just those three games Launch with Mame. I understand the desire for unification and symmetry on the back end though (as in only using 1 emulator). Keeps things more clean. Just in case you didn't know, you can right click those games in Launchbox, click edit, and change the emulator they launch with. I have over 100 emulators installed because its been my experience that no single emulator offers 100 percent compatibility. Having said that, I still use RetroArch for MAME and just ignore the quirks. If I ever hit a wall that makes a game I want to play unplayable, I'll just switch that game over to Mame.exe. Unfortunately, you seem to have tried all the ideas I know about in terms of how to fix the audio within RA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randalf Posted March 4, 2016 Author Share Posted March 4, 2016 It is sound, I could in reality move on, but it gets annoying for me, but I did not realize about changing for just those three games (I thought I would have to change an entire platform or have some logical mess at hand) but that made it easier, sound is good, everything looks good and honestly, it is not really noticeable that a separate emulator is being used. I think I will stick with Retroarch where I can and if needed I can just switch it for that game only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 So I had this audio issue in the past, but with every bit of audio coming out of my system, when LaunchBox was open. It took Jason and myself a long time but we figured out it was the Gamepad option in the options menu. Once I unchecked "use a gamepad" in the options menu, the crackling audio immediately stopped. That may not work for you, but that is my "give it a try" answer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randalf Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 Thanks for the suggestion, no harm in trying, but luck is not on my side. Oh well, I am not going to worry about it too much, this is more testing for me as I am eventually going to put the MAME side of things on another PC and setup a cabinet. Just wanted to get an idea of how things are going to work to build up that arcade experience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SentaiBrad Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 It could work flawlessly on another PC though, so test it on the machine you want to use. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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