ISO Loader 0.8.x Beta + preview of DreamShell v4.0 RC 5

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(04.04.2023 19:58)pcwzrd13 писал(а):  4 Wheel Thunder music doesn't loop anymore.

Hmm, I will check what happened to the loops again.

(04.04.2023 19:58)pcwzrd13 писал(а):  Super Runabout seems a bit better with this build. The music doesn't skip anymore but there's still a lot of distortion sometimes.

The music skipping issue has been fixed with Monaco Grand Prix Online but there is some really bad occasional distortion and looping no longer works.

This is probably what I was talking about. Timer out of sync with channels position sometimes.
Perhaps when I replace the timers with performance counters, I can fix this.

(04.04.2023 23:16)pcwzrd13 писал(а):  

(04.04.2023 23:04)megavolt85 писал(а):  

(04.04.2023 19:58)pcwzrd13 писал(а):  Maybe CDDA is interfering with the modem?

yes, CDDA emulation occupies the G2 bus

Yeah, I thought you had mentioned that before. I guess there's no way around this?

Try use SQ mode. It's not async as DMA, so maybe it help.

(05.04.2023 02:40)fafadou писал(а):  kao : a freeze but this game was always a quite unstable, so same as before

KAO has a lot of IDE DMA errors, I think better use SQ for it.

(05.04.2023 02:40)fafadou писал(а):  Maybe a little improvement with new KOS, it's no more bad anyway.

KOS does not affect the ISO Loaders firmwares, only the core, modules, apps and bootloader.


BTW, I should test not only these games. For example I'm constantly checking with Extreme Sports and others that have distortions.
These changes are complex, it can get better in one game and worse in another, so I have to check with different ones. But I can't always check everything.
I try to make a universal/auto solution, with a minimum number of settings, but it's not easy because games very different in hardware usage.