How do I get sound effects working on Emulation Station on x86.

zombie_ryushu

I am trying to get sound working on x86 Emulation Station. I am using standard OpenSuse Linux, running on an x86_64 PC. It is version 2.10.12 built from the RetroPie github repo
#help

mitu

What are your settings for Audio in EmulationStation ? This is where you can set the audio card/device used for sound.

Can you also run

amixer -l
amixer

and post the output ?

What theme are you using ? Not all themes have sounds enabled or sound effects added.

zombie_ryushu

@mitu said in How do I get sound effects working on Emulation Station on x86.:

amixer

Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined
Playback channels: Front Left - Front Right
Limits: Playback 0 - 65536
Mono:
Front Left: Playback 51118 [78%] [on]
Front Right: Playback 51118 [78%] [on]
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Capabilities: cvolume cvolume-joined cswitch cswitch-joined
Capture channels: Mono
Limits: Capture 0 - 65536
Mono: Capture 65536 [100%] [on]

My theme is called 'WahCade' and its a custom theme I did myself I can upload.
Sorry I forgot about this thread for a month.

zombie_ryushu

@zombie_ryushu I can get zip up my theme.

mitu

If you set Audio Card to default and Audio Device to Master, you should get audio from EmulationStation. You can try with the default theme and see if sounds work.
If they don't work for your theme only, then check the paths to the sound files that you added in the theme and make sure the filenames are correct- Linux filesystems are case sensitive so make sure the audio files are correctly named.

zombie_ryushu

@mitu I have done that, where can I upload my theme? No setting I seem to try seems to work.

mitu

@zombie_ryushu I don't know, any file sharing site ? Or, if you have a project on Github/Gitlab/etc, provide the link to the repository ?

zombie_ryushu

@mitu Good idea.
I created a github Repo.
https://github.com/Zombie-Ryushu/emulationstation-wahcade-theme

mitu

You've added the scrollSound option just for the Basic style gamelist - it works there if the audio settings are correct. If you're using the Automatic view style and have details for the ROMs, then the Basic view is not used and instead the Detailed/Video view is used.

BTW, Github complains you've got some 'hidden' Unicode chars on line 67 of wahcade.xml, and although ES doesn't complain, it may cause issues.

zombie_ryushu

@mitu
What changes do you suggest I should make to get my sound effects working?

mitu

@zombie_ryushu Add the scrolling sound element to the other gamelist view types (detailed/video).

zombie_ryushu

@mitu Can you give me a syntax example?

mitu

You can look in your own theme on how to use the scrollSound element, from wahcade.xml:

<textlist name="gamelist">
			<pos>0.1234375 0.245833</pos>
			<size>0.75 0.633333</size>
			<alignment>center</alignment>
			<horizontalMargin>0.01</horizontalMargin>
			<fontPath>./art/font.ttf</fontPath>
			<fontSize>0.045</fontSize>
			<selectorColor>000044</selectorColor>
			<selectedColor>ffffff</selectedColor>
			<primaryColor>909090</primaryColor>
			<secondaryColor>f0f0f0</secondaryColor>
			<forceUppercase>0</forceUppercase>
			<scrollSound>./sounds/21H.wav</scrollSound>
		</textlist>

The default Carbon theme definition is also a good example.

zombie_ryushu

@mitu Excellent News! It's working! Now all I need to do is Source the Sound effects from:
[link text]