MagicEngine

[][_aVey]

Hello there:

About a year ago (or maybe even more) I tried to play Macross 2039 in Magic Engine [v.1.0.0] and I noticed I had an audio problem with the game. Recently I tried a different version of it, now with Magic Engine [v. 1.1.3], and I noticed I still have the very same problem.

The problem is this: whenever a cinema plays and ends, the screen goes black and the audio for that cinema plays once more, then the game continues and I can play another chunk of the game until a new cinema comes, so I have to wait again until the audio loops once more with a blank screen. This way I've been able to finish the game (it's great!) but that audio issue really drives me away from the main experience.

I've checked the audio files and they seem to be correct, they play the audio once so the problem must be in how Magic Engine manages the files (NOTE: this is the only CD-ROM² game I have with this problem). I also have a correct TOC in my cuesheet, so I was wondering if I had a problem with my cuesheet or if you know if I could tweak an audio setting to fix this.

Here's a copy of my cuesheet:

FILE Track01.wav WAVE
TRACK 01 AUDIO
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track02.iso BINARY
TRACK 02 MODE1/2048
PREGAP 00:03:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track03.wav WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track04.wav WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track05.wav WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track06.wav WAVE
TRACK 06 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track07.wav WAVE
TRACK 07 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track08.wav WAVE
TRACK 08 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track09.wav WAVE
TRACK 09 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track10.wav WAVE
TRACK 10 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track11.wav WAVE
TRACK 11 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track12.wav WAVE
TRACK 12 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track13.wav WAVE
TRACK 13 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track14.wav WAVE
TRACK 14 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track15.wav WAVE
TRACK 15 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track16.wav WAVE
TRACK 16 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track17.iso BINARY
TRACK 17 MODE1/2048
PREGAP 00:03:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track18.wav WAVE
TRACK 18 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track19.wav WAVE
TRACK 19 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track20.wav WAVE
TRACK 20 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track21.wav WAVE
TRACK 21 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track22.wav WAVE
TRACK 22 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track23.wav WAVE
TRACK 23 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track24.wav WAVE
TRACK 24 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track25.wav WAVE
TRACK 25 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track26.wav WAVE
TRACK 26 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track27.wav WAVE
TRACK 27 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track28.wav WAVE
TRACK 28 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track29.wav WAVE
TRACK 29 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track30.wav WAVE
TRACK 30 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track31.wav WAVE
TRACK 31 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track32.wav WAVE
TRACK 32 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track33.wav WAVE
TRACK 33 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track34.wav WAVE
TRACK 34 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track35.wav WAVE
TRACK 35 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00

Hope you can aid me in my time of need, thanks for reading and have a good day.

[Kaminari]

Does this happen with the original copy? Your rip might be borked.
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[][_aVey]

I've tried yet another version of the game. The first one were ISO+MP3 files, the second one were ISO+APE files (which I had to convert to WAV files), and this time I've tried with a single ISO file in where the audio tracks are stored; no luck, the exact same problem emerged with each one of those three very different versions, that means it's a Magic Engine emulation issue.

I was just wondering how is it that nobody else seems to have this problem, as I searched these forums and only found two old topics with a similar problem, yet not the same.

Well, if anyone knows of a way to fix this, please let us know.

Thank you in advance, have a nice day.

[bernielindell]

I have this game, and it runs fine in ME for me. I have copied all my games with CDrWIN into BIN/CUE format and mount the cue in Daemon and it works fine that way as well. Sounds like you are having a problem with bad rips.

[housefull]

PREGAP 00:03:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track03.wav WAVE
TRACK 03 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track04.wav WAVE
TRACK 04 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
FILE Track05.wav WAVE
TRACK 05 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:00:00
INDEX 01 00:00:00
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