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Sound blaster live!, easy method to make it work on mugen  (Read 9144 times)

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Sound blaster live!, easy method to make it work on mugen
#1  February 24, 2004, 11:51:44 am
(Dunno if it has been posted before) Well i brought a sound blaster live! sound card, and was a bad discovery to find that it didn't work with mugen or ms-dos applications, some time passed, then i found a zsnes FAQ and it showed a way to make that sound card accept any ms-dos program with good sound perfectly, just go to your computer Bios menu (the one u enter when the PC is starting up by pressing the DEL key), then check all your menus so you can find and option than says: parity boot check: <----- turn it to ON and presto! it will automatically enable the sound when you use applications on ms-dos on windows

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Re:Sound blaster live!, easy method to make it work on mugen
#2  February 25, 2004, 03:06:09 am
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Weird. AFAIK the parity boot option is to check the RAM. Maybe the SBLive has bugs with the RAM, but... :blank:

Serge

Re:Sound blaster live!, easy method to make it work on mugen
#3  February 25, 2004, 05:23:35 am
well, this is what the ZsnesFaq document says:

Q : I get a sound initialization error using my SB Live! (or any other PCI
    card)  How do I fix it?

A : Here is a solution : (Thanks CyberGodz for the post on the wwwboard!)

SB Live uses what is known as a NMI or Non Maskable Interrupt to emulate
SB 16 sound. Don't ask me exactly what it does (it's a type of IRQ) but
that is pretty much all it is good for.

The problem is that many boards either lack NMI support or don't have it
enabled. (No NMI = No Dos Support)

To try and solve this problem do the following :

1. Check your BIOS. If there is an option for RAM Parity Checking ENABLE IT.
It usually turns on NMI support. If there is something that says NMI turn it
on

2. If you don't find anything in your BIOS, then go to your motherboards
website and download the latest BIOS flash. Install it and try your dos
sound. (You may still have to enable the stuff in the BIOS after)

3. Failing the first two things you will either have to get a new
motherboard or install a SB 16, or other Compatible sound card alongside
the Live. Just attach a cable from the Line Out of the SB 16 to the Line In
of the Live. Enable line in on the mixer of your SB Live and it should route
the sound through the old sound card. (Don't use the SPDIF to connect the
cards if you have one. Wave sound doesn't pass through SPDIF only MIDI)
Last Edit: February 25, 2004, 05:24:31 am by Serge

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Re:Sound blaster live!, easy method to make it work on mugen
#4  February 25, 2004, 03:57:14 pm
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So it has to do with the SBLive emulating SB16 sound. Very interesting. :yes:
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