I'd say it's rather a problem when merging the files to create a romset.
Was working before well on mister or did it also have bad sound?
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Was working before well on mister or did it also have bad sound?
Yeah i know but i just wanna mention it because mister use the same multimvs romset.
@Darksoft the rom was working ok on the mister exept the sound pitch issue who was fixed in the last core update.
IMO, you shouldn't really report bugs using a non-100% core as a sample against real hardware.
Bugs reported should only be tested against original carts IMO. I love the MiSTer, but this is just opening up a can of worms.
Bugs reported should only be tested against original carts IMO. I love the MiSTer, but this is just opening up a can of worms.
I followed the directions that Mitsu posted about concatenating the sound roms to form vroma0, but the example he showed only had adpcma roms so it wasn't clear how to handle the adpcmb roms. I inspected the existing rom and noticed that there was 1Mb of zero-padded data between the concatenated "a" roms and the "b" rom. I started to inspect some of the other games that had "a" and "b" sound roms, and noticed that sometimes the filesize was bigger than the total of straight-concatenation, so there must be some padding going on. Then I noticed Cyber Lip looked like it was straight concatenation of a+b, so I tried that with Ghost Pilots. The sounds were off, but the melody was more complete. It seemed like it was accessing all of the sound data, but the wrong data. I recognized at that point that it was likely that the sound driver was accessing the zero-pad region for part of the music where we noticed the missing instruments in the original rom. So I tried it with 512 zero padding before the "b" rom and it worked!
The structure of the old (non-working) vroma0 stacked top to bottom:
v11 (1Mb, pcma)
v12 (512b, pcma)
zero pad (1M)
v21 (512b, pcmb)
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total size 3Mb
The structure of the new (working) vroma0:
v11 (1Mb, pcma)
v12 (512b, pcma)
zero pad (512b)
v21 (512b, pcmb)
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total size 2.5Mb
I tried samurai showdown III AES or MVS rom.
I have some random freeze too. I use the latest firmware and menu and MV-1FZ motherboard and unibios 3.3.
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Then it was an error when making the romset. No need for a new firmware.
Hats off. You saved me a lot of time
I roll back to previous firmware/Top/CPLD and no random freeze appears on samurai showdown 3. But still the same sounds issues on KOF 2003.
Super Spy seems to have the same arrangement (1M "A" + 512 "A" rom + 512 "B" rom).
Edit: And missing sounds!! I checked against mame and with the unibios jukebox 0x0725 it's clear.
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Yes I have the same one.Do you have the same checksums for your KOF2003?
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Thank you for the test. Other people who tested have good sound too
but I read on another french forum about neogeo that some people have same sounds issues with original playmore cart like kof 2003 and samurai showdown 5 and some motherboard. One people test 3 original samurai showdown 5 on his motherboard but any of them worked on his motherboard, only a bootleg work. He advised to play on PCB KOF 2003 or with a bootleg one.
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Sorry to hear that @angel2501 
Here's a fixed vroma0 for Super Spy. Give it a shot!
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I have an original Super Spy cart I can test with if you need a comparison
Maybe the solution in my cas, and if it's possible, would be to try on my on my multimvs a bootleg rom of KOF 2003 or a rom make about the dump files of the PCB version.But I don't know how to do those things.Sorry to hear that @angel2501
