MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Big Thank You for improving Galaxian, Super Cobra; something wrong with Amidar though

> I would like to say THANK YOU to all people behind the big improvements of sound
> emulation in AY 3-8910 based games, also Galaxian.
>
> Super Cobra has finally the right sound as the original board. It took years, decades
> of misery but finally it's where it is supposed to be. Thank you!!! Finally time to
> play Scramble based games in MAME...
>
> Also big thank you for improving Galaxian sound. I can hardly believe it but YES. The
> boomy sound of explosion is just as the original arcade board. It again took years of
> misery - the Galaxian simply did not sound like the original game. I know the early
> builds used samples but then they stopped supporting them and it was a huge step
> backwards in terms of the authenticity of the sounds.

The work that was done was not so much AY related but more in line with advances in discrete sound emulation.

Now, I know you mean this message to sound thankful for all the work done but when I see terms such as "years of misery", it hurts. I wouldn't think that being able to play any game even if the sound were missing or not quite right qualifies that time spent as "misery". You always had the option of not to play it...

> OK now I still have a felling Amidar has something wrong with the volumes of the AY
> channels - being - the background music plays too silent OR the foreground sound
> effects play too loud. Definitely the original game was more balanced. I hope people
> behind these drivers already know about this issue and will fix them one day, as they
> did with "now perfect" Super Cobra and Galaxian (and many others).

This is a subjective observation. The best way to back up your words is to provide to the MAME team a recording from an actual PCB - directly from the board itself. Speaking for myself, in the current release (0.141u2), Amidar sounds pretty good. In the past I had noticed volume issues, but I don't notice them so much currently.