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Azure, I'll let you know if this bug is shared when I've mapped decent keys and found my first.
Pickle, this is awesome and looks amazing on the Pandora so many thanks.
I didn't have a PC back when these surfaced so I'm just embarking on this nausea inducing ride with fresh eyes. Hence I have a couple of questions to follow.
Now, I just picked up the GOG.com version of these and without patching, Descent1 ran fine (but no music) with just the 2 files you listed on page 1 but Descent2, ran its intro movie with very stuttered sound at 500mhz (smoother but still jarred at 1ghz) before quitting out after the movie.
I then tried just the whole GOG folder of files for each and Descent2 now plays properly but again with jittery sound in the intro movie and zero music in-game.
I then fixed the music in Descent1 by using this file http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.zip which was linked by Hopez (thanks) on the WIZ versions page of his port here http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,20,353
I placed that unzipped 'Freepats' folder (renamed 'timidity') in 'pandora/appdata/d1x' and within the folder is the 'freepats.cfg' file, which needs again renaming 'timidity.cfg' and cutting and pasting to the 'pandora/appdata/d1x' folder on its own, rather than within the folder it came from.
Then it also needs the top line of its contents editing from 'dir /mnt/sd/games/d1x/freepats' which is WIZ based, into 'dir media/<YOUR SD CARD NAME>/pandora/appdata/d1x/timidity' and now Descent 1 has very good music from the Pandora speakers to compliment its GFX.
It looks and sounds great and I am looking forward to getting into this once I map decent keys, as my left nub is now dead.
I have a few questions though if anyone has the time.
1) Does Descent2 need a separate 'timidity' type file? As the intro movies have music but not the menus or ingame. I've looked but not found anything.
2)Has anyone else experienced the jittery sound in D2, or is this a product of not patching it, a lack of timidity or just my Pandora?
3) I have only found a patch for D1 at the site listed earlier in the thread. Is this to be used on both D1 and D2, or is another more elusive patch required to fix D2?
4) Would anyone still like some video of these games running on the Pandora? As I will gladly make video of any game anyone wants to see. Yet may need a few pointers as to how to get them running at their best first.
thanks again to all
Pickle, this is awesome and looks amazing on the Pandora so many thanks.
I didn't have a PC back when these surfaced so I'm just embarking on this nausea inducing ride with fresh eyes. Hence I have a couple of questions to follow.
Now, I just picked up the GOG.com version of these and without patching, Descent1 ran fine (but no music) with just the 2 files you listed on page 1 but Descent2, ran its intro movie with very stuttered sound at 500mhz (smoother but still jarred at 1ghz) before quitting out after the movie.
I then tried just the whole GOG folder of files for each and Descent2 now plays properly but again with jittery sound in the intro movie and zero music in-game.
I then fixed the music in Descent1 by using this file http://freepats.zenvoid.org/freepats-20060219.zip which was linked by Hopez (thanks) on the WIZ versions page of his port here http://dl.openhandhelds.org/cgi-bin/wiz.cgi?0,0,0,0,20,353
I placed that unzipped 'Freepats' folder (renamed 'timidity') in 'pandora/appdata/d1x' and within the folder is the 'freepats.cfg' file, which needs again renaming 'timidity.cfg' and cutting and pasting to the 'pandora/appdata/d1x' folder on its own, rather than within the folder it came from.
Then it also needs the top line of its contents editing from 'dir /mnt/sd/games/d1x/freepats' which is WIZ based, into 'dir media/<YOUR SD CARD NAME>/pandora/appdata/d1x/timidity' and now Descent 1 has very good music from the Pandora speakers to compliment its GFX.
It looks and sounds great and I am looking forward to getting into this once I map decent keys, as my left nub is now dead.
I have a few questions though if anyone has the time.
1) Does Descent2 need a separate 'timidity' type file? As the intro movies have music but not the menus or ingame. I've looked but not found anything.
2)Has anyone else experienced the jittery sound in D2, or is this a product of not patching it, a lack of timidity or just my Pandora?
3) I have only found a patch for D1 at the site listed earlier in the thread. Is this to be used on both D1 and D2, or is another more elusive patch required to fix D2?
4) Would anyone still like some video of these games running on the Pandora? As I will gladly make video of any game anyone wants to see. Yet may need a few pointers as to how to get them running at their best first.
thanks again to all