MagicEngine

Rugal · Visitor Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 12

Hey there, im new to the magic engine and im currently having some trouble with Dracula x rondo of blood.

The game runs fine, but the sound is messed up and I get no CD audio music....

For the sound, it plays and it gets muffled and plays again...This didn't happen on the demo version of the magic engine, I don't know why its happening on the full version.

as for the CD music, it just doesn't play at all. Any ideas on how to resolves these problems? Thanks

Im using windows XP

Rugal · Visitor Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 12

triple post.. sorry Sad

Rugal · Visitor Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 12

oh and does anyone know when version 1.0 is going to be released? sorry if I sound like a total newb.

Jabberwok · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 1:20 am Post subject:

First, be sure you're using version 0.99b5. Second, for CD audio under Windows XP plug an audio cable between your cd-rom & your sound card. Or, wait 'till version 1.0 ( or revert back to any Windows 9X )...
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Rugal · Visitor Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 12

whats an audio cable?? im sorry, im stupid.

Kaminari · Posted: Wed May 05, 2004 6:32 pm Post subject:

Cablemax

detheavn · Member Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 28

You might as well just enable digital CD audio for your CD-ROM in XP ...

device manager --> lookup your cd-roms properties --> click the properties tab --> check 'Enable digital CD audio for this CD-ROM device.'

Kaminari · Posted: Thu May 06, 2004 12:26 pm Post subject:

The current version of Magic Engine doesn't support Digital Playback. Besides, I'm pretty much certain it's enabled by default on every WinXP system :)

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

All of that stuff doesn't work. Windows XP doesn't like PC Engine CDs for some weird reason. It's not a Magic Engine problem. Windows sees the CD as being empty. No audio tracks. The only programs that will see the PC Engine CDs for what they really are is burning programs like Nero. Windows XP problem. If there's a solution, some Windows XP guru would know. If it was the audio cable playback option, Windows XP would at least play it as a music CD. It does not.

I just reinstalled Windows XP, and it still doesn't work. So it doesn't work with a fresh default installation of XP. Sad

Kaminari · Posted: Sat May 08, 2004 2:51 pm Post subject:

You've misunderstood something. You just cannot listen to PCE discs as mere audio CD under Windows (any version). PCE discs are not standard ISO discs. The behaviour you've noticed is perfectly normal; only the burning programs are capable of detecting the audio tracks. But you *need* the audio cable to get CD music to work with Magic Engine.

elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

Actually with Win98, whenever I popped Rondo in the drive (with autoplay enabled) it always played the cd through media player. I constantly heard track 01 every time I inserted the disc.

And I have a cd audio cable on both drives. I have yet to assemble a computer without them.

Specineff · Elder Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 258 Location: Arizona

Disable Auto play and see if that fixes it. Also try opening magic engine and booting a music CD. If it takes you to the PCE CD player app, then the Rondo disc could be faulty if it's a burn.

Good luck.

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elbryan42 · Visitor Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 17

Oh, the autoplay is disabled. I'm just remembering that when I first installed Win98 a long time ago (before I disabled autoplay) that Windows DID see it as an audio disc, instead of XP just seeing the disc as blank.