King and Balloon making a humming sound

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Hi, this is my first post here. I searched the forum first but nothing on this issue. The game loads and plays very well, but there is a humming sound (like a continuous beeeeeee sound). Am i the only one experiencing this?

I tried several audio filters (included in mister) but none of them solves the issue. Hope somebody can help with a workaround.

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I reported this problem on the mister github months ago. Hopefully it will get fixed.
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One of my top 5 games. Hope this can be fixed. :)
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It's nice ASMR though (as long as you don't have headphones on) Made me cozy and sleepy :mrgreen:

Changes pitch as well! (I mean the humm)
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I have tracked the problem down and I am testing that a fix for this does not break galaxian etc.

I will do a pull request later today for it after I have also updated SYS to latest.
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This fixed it. I tested King and Balloon and also Galaxian. Both work perfect. --> Wow this is really great!!
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In Mame, this game used audio cpu binaries not present on the MRA of King and Balloon
https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/4f ... cpp#L12476

Is it normal ?
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oh yes, just looked - they have been embedded into the core - better go and fix that as well whilst I am making changes!
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Great ! Thanks a lot @macro.
This change will permit to have access different voices from Japanese version of King and Balloon (with a new MRA for this version) like describe in this wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_%26_Balloon#Voice
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Changes all made and ready to do a PR, but can someone get the MD5 of this for me - I only have a network connection to the MiSTer and I don't think I can get it via that. (will set up serial link when I get time)
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If you ssh to the mister and kill the /media/fat/MiSTer process, then run it interactively it will dump out the crcs / md5s run you load a core
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Cheers, MD5 now plugged in. :)

Have done a pull request with all the changes in and SYS updated to current.
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Thank you !
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Hi guys!! tried to play the King and Balloon game US version, and when the balloons get the king I can't here the HELP! HELP! or BYE BYE! sounds :(
is this only happening to me :( ?
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Tested Japanese version and the sounds work OK in that version "HERUPU HERUPUU". I edited the zip and renamed the english files to the japanese filenames but even that didn't made the HELP HELP in english voices work. Maybe the problem is in the core?
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jalbarracin wrote: Tue Jul 20, 2021 2:00 am Tested Japanese version and the sounds work OK in that version "HERUPU HERUPUU". I edited the zip and renamed the english files to the japanese filenames but even that didn't made the HELP HELP in english voices work. Maybe the problem is in the core?
Hi there I just tested this on my MiSTer and I also found King and Balloon (US) wasn't generating any speech. But I see that the "regular" King and Balloon works just fine. I have 3 King and Balloon entries in my list:

King and Balloon
King and Balloon (Japan)
King and Balloon (US)

Hopefully you have the same and it works for you too!
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Normally in Mame we have two entries for King And Balloon.
// 2nd CPU driving DAC for sound
GAME( 1980, kingball, 0, kingball, kingball, kingball_state, init_galaxian, ROT90, "Namco", "King & Balloon (US)", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE )
GAME( 1980, kingballj, kingball, kingball, kingball, kingball_state, init_galaxian, ROT90, "Namco", "King & Balloon (Japan)", MACHINE_SUPPORTS_SAVE )

What is the differences between two MRA :
King and Balloon
King and Balloon (US)

Edit: The speech part was externalise on the MRA to permit to have different sound on Japanese version. So my guess is the US MRA version don't have the speech part.

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I opened an issue here for the US MRA : https://github.com/MiSTer-devel/Arcade- ... /issues/45
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It is fixed and the US MRA with speeches is available on the update.sh script.
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tested and working O.K. :) !!!
wark91 wrote: Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:57 am It is fixed and the US MRA with speeches is available on the update.sh script.
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