We have decided to completely scrap MAME’s old ICS2115 core, and write our own based upon the old core and our own findings. So far, we have achieved great success for the amount of time that has been put in.
As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. If this is true, a video is worth over a million ;D Anyways, here’s a sample video of our new sound core, being used to play Knights of Valour 2 (Ketsui and DDP3, unfortunately, do not sound very good at this point in time, and I did not want to disgrace their soundtracks with this emulation).
We will continue working on this new sound core until it is as accurate as humanly possible. Thank you for your time.
Good work,trap15,if it means all PGM game sound will be perfect except Ketsui and DDP3?
Comment by john — 2010/12/16 @ 00:12
The ultimate goal is completely accurate ICS2115 emulation; once that is achieved, Ketsui and DDP3 sound will be completely perfect as well. Hopefully Ketsui and DDP3 sound better before it’s 100% accurate, but time will tell.
Comment by trap15 — 2010/12/16 @ 01:09
Do you know that MAME0.97 and maybe previous versions too are said to sound really better than the further ones? I don’t know why. Maybe you could have a look at it.
Keep the good work.
Thanks.
Comment by Sanders — 2010/12/16 @ 06:46
I did not, but it doesn’t matter much that “it is said”. The emulation could not have gotten worse since then, as the sound core has never changed.
Comment by trap15 — 2010/12/16 @ 06:52
trap15,so far the Ketsui and DDP3 music if has been fixed or still have other issue?
Comment by john — 2010/12/18 @ 23:49
It is not currently fixed, but it is extremely close. Just wait on a bit longer and it will be
Comment by trap15 — 2010/12/19 @ 00:08