[Scummvm-devel] SCUMM GM/MT32 Preference

[yotam barnoy]

Is there a fallback to Adlib for those devices that don't support
General Midi/MT32? Adlib should be the default for them since they
don't support anything else.

Yotam

2010/7/4 Torbjörn Andersson <eriktorbjorn at telia.com>:
> On 2010-06-28 02:56, Travis Howell wrote:
>
>> This change should have happened long ago, these games were designed for
>> MIDI, so MIDI really should be the default.
>
> Even if a game engine says "I prefer MT-32", should it actually get it
> unless the "True Roland MT-32 (disable GM emulation)" option is set?
>
> For instance, Beneath a Steel Sky apparently supports both General MIDI
> and MT-32, but now it always gets MT-32 which doesn't sound as nice on
> my sound card as General MIDI used to.
>
> (Other games that don't sound as nice as they used to for me are Flight
> of the Amazon Queen and Simon the Sorcerer 1, but there may be others.)
>
> Also, at least for me the default setting for "MT32 Device" was "MT-32
> Emulator" so some games wouldn't even start for me since I don't have
> the necessary data files for it. (From what I understand, I would need
> to extract them from a real MT-32, which I don't have.) It would be nice
> if there was a more graceful fallback for that.
>
> Torbjörn Andersson
>
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