Ok, I went into the menu with your saveste... then I went out, in the village to compare the menu sfx. I found no difference between the menu sfx in the village and in the cave.

A jingle did not play for me either, does it play on other locations?

Guess we have to wait for Relikk or anybody else testing it, I never played the game myself (only did the codings).

it works fine everywhere else - unless this theme is playing. However, in that very specific place a jingle will play normally.

So I guess it's no coding issue with your patch, but something special related to that specific music file.

Can you load your savestate in a normal rom (not spekkio or another 4 mb) like I did? Then we can exclude the possibility that the msu patch is responsible


Edit you can also take another pcm, rename it to the cave pcm to see whether this makes a difference.
Cave is luf2_msu1-23.pcm, so just delete it, and rename luf2_msu1-24.pcm into luf2_msu1-23.pcm to check whether it is really the pcm.

Same happens in a normal ROM.

However, switching two tracks actually does not fix it. For some reason this problem seems to be tied to maps where track 23 is playing regardsless of what this track is.

That's strange then, because I don't have this bug. Maybe somebody else can try with your savestate

Here's a video, do I everything correct trying to reproduce your bug?
https://streamable.com/m99d6


As said, I cannot hear a difference with the menu sfx, when comparing the village with the cave. Maybe it's also the snes9x version, I use 1.58

You have to go into a submenu to hear a difference. Like going into ITEM or SPELL.

I uploaded another video maybe you saw the old,
https://streamable.com/m99d6
I am in item submenu, no difference

Here's another one
https://streamable.com/i5ohn

where is the difference?

Conn wrote:Here's a video, do I everything correct trying to reproduce your bug?
https://streamable.com/m99d6


As said, I cannot hear a difference with the menu sfx, when comparing the village with the cave. Maybe it's also the snes9x version, I use 1.58

(since were on the subject) https://www.romhacking.net/translations/3807/

Ogre Battle 1.2 seems to just plan freeze on snes9x, or perhaps its because update didn't filter through the development process yet, either way.

I had this random idea that with lufia2, the sound problem is caused, because, processing for the emulator takes a momentary dip only when that file/track is accessed.  

(there was this method originally when the dual processors first began to come out between 1998 and 2000 (?), where you had to disable one processor in order to get some software to work properly, but the other one would be get called anyway, and still cause trouble)

The difference is in case of track 23 for some reason the confirmation sound always plays twice (instead of only once as it should) whenever you choose something in the menu. This seems to be bound onto track 23 regardless if you switch the music files.


Another issue I have is, here the sound is strange too: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1gv81mdcfnm7m43/saves2.zip/file

For some reason not all sounds are working anymore for a reason I cannot replicate. For example the hook sound is missing when you press Y. In the second save there an ear-jarring sound added for seemingly no reason (don't know what triggered it). Ironically the aforementioned "plays sounds twice" issue is no more present here.


But yeah, this stuff might be emulator issues.

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Another minor thing I noticed  is that the music doesn't get stopped when you do a soft reset (select+start+L+R). However, this is nothing that definitely needs fixing, anyway.

For some reason the sound channels seem to be affected so that e.g. the input sounds in the menus sound wrong like when you choose to go to item usage screen.

The difference is in case of track 23 for some reason the confirmation sound always plays twice (instead of only once as it should) whenever you choose something in the menu. This seems to be bound onto track 23 regardless if you switch the music files.

So first the channels, now the confirmation sound... how strange. I neither have such a bug in my gameplay, if you watch the video (except I do anything wrong). If the confirmation sound in my video was played twice that could be reasoned because I pressed twice, I do not know the game at all, neither the controls.

Either way, I'd hope a third person can check for something unusual with the cave music and your savestate.

In the end however, it does not matter since I am incapable to fix it due to the code architecture. It uses a hard mute, so any sfx issues coming up because of this are non-fixable unless a soft mute is found. I remember I had much troubles finding the hard-mute, so I doubt a normal (soft) mute is in reach. Guess we have to live with this bug

It's also in your vid and you didn't press twice every time. It's something you have to listen carefully.

However, so I guess the only thing we can do is to check out whether it'll happen on other emulators as well. So that in the best case we might have a solution by switching emulator then.

I see, guess you have a special hearing and can notice such differences, so it is annoying for you. For me everything sounds normal. Ah well, maybe another emu can help you out

The download link for the patch doesn't work. Is there any known mirrors? I was able to download the music files but not the patch.

Quote from earthbound thread, 2 hours ago:

Yes, there are again server issues, unfortunately.
Here are all patches:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=11xhLJIGdOaddDb_WFszsXhv4zLnQBajl

Server ist online again

I made an update for Spekkio:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/gs4wkwohurh4d85/Lufia2_-_Spekkio_Lufia_v4-9.zip/file

Please update the download in the beginning.

uüdated, thanks

Another update for Spekkio:
http://www.mediafire.com/file/iioiznh41iq8eyo/Lufia2_-_Spekkio_Lufia_v4-10.zip/file

Updated the files, thanks

It does not work in the Spanish PAL version. This version is very similar to the German one, but officially translated into Spanish.

I have tried using the German patch, at first everything works fine, but in the first conversation with Tia, the game shows the initial Nintendo logo and you cannot continue playing. It's a shame that you can't play this great game in Spanish and with this great sound. Any ideas or how could I help to make this possible?

I think we only have a German port for it ATM.

If I find time tomorrow I'll port it (hope there is no Dutch around requesting as well)

Code:

https://mega.nz/file/sqYQUD7b#_h63221dPNjCnoh62wp2A7nN3EbOgJJbeAY67DH-nE4

You should find a spanish folder with an ips inside

  Works! I haven't been able to fully test the game, but I will! Thank you! I'm impressed by how quickly you've fixed it, awesome!