Joe Montana Football (DosBox) sound effects are static on any SB setting

jamrom2

Retropie 4.4.9
Pi3B+
DosBox settings:

core=simple
cputype=386
cycles=4500
cycleup=10
cycledown=20

I've tried everything else under the sun to get better sound effects, but nothing works. Very static, or none at all. I've changed the SB type, port, IRQ, DMA... etc.. etc. Changed CPU cycles, core type, everything.

Always worked great with DosBox on a PC. Is there something I am missing, or am I stuck using the Sega Genesis version over the PC version?

Thanks for the help!

jamrom2

Some more info...

I do use seperate config files for all of my DosBox games, so I can manipulate each game individually. I set JMF to a 386 and slowed down the cycles as it ran much better this way.

The Joystick (gamepad) is super fast even at these settings.

I had sb16 set, but changed it to this.. and several other sb settings...
sbtype=sbpro2
sbbase=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
sbmixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplemu=default
oplrate=44100

Anything else you need, let me know. This is a great classic Football game that I hope to get running at it's full settings and sounds.

mitu

I'm not sure if something is needed besides the default settings. I have a stock Dosbox(SDL2) install and all I did was add a simple .conf file with

[autoexec]
mount c: /home/pi/roms/pc-data
c:
cd jmf
montana
exit

The game is copied in roms/pc-data/jmf.

These are the settings in-game:

Music blasts through and everything seems to be ok.

jamrom2

@mitu how's your sound effects? Does the title say "Hi, this is Joe Montans... " clearly?

My music is fine, the sound effects are all scratchy and the joystick is wicked fast

mitu

@jamrom2 said in Joe Montana Football (DosBox) sound effects are static on any SB setting:

Does the title say "Hi, this is Joe Montans... " clearly?

It seems so, it's identical to what appears in the video below

My music is fine, the sound effects are all scratchy and the joystick is wicked fast

Didn't get that far.

jamrom2

@mitu Yup, that's how it should sound.

Not sure why mine doesn't unless it's just a crap ROM... which could be the case.

jamrom2

@mitu I have all my dos ROMs in a folder called dos: with pointer ".sh" files in home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc

Works fine in all other games. Here is the 'exe' setup in the jmf.conf file

mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/dos
C:
CD jmf
MONTANA.COM
EXIT

jamrom2

with a different ROM, my joystick is working good now, but the sound effects are still crap.
Same rom works fine in a DosBox session on my PC. Go figure.

Not sure what is causing this one.

jamrom2

@mitu I got it... I updated DosBox and it's working good now. Thanks for your input! I always appreciate how fast you reply to these issues.