DK64 USF Help by ShaneO64 at 11:03 AM EDT on October 6, 2005
Just wondering if anyone eles is having trouble getting the Donkey Kong 64 USF sets to work. Every time I try my Winamp causes an error and takes a crap on my floor. Please help if you can.
What version of 64th Note are you using? If you're not using 1.0 beta, then yah, it's going to crash a terrible, ugly, painful death. In other words, upgrade 1st, ask questions later. If you do this, more often then not, it will answer you questions. If you are using 1.0 beta, then it should be working. If it's still not working, then you better give a lot more info about your problem. 64th note wasn't working for me once, and to figure out what was wrong required that I check every plugin I had to see which one as conflicting with 64th Note.
Ok I allready have the upgrde and everything eles seems to work just fine with the 64th Note. But everytime I try to open a DK64 USF file I get a messege saying
"Error
TLBERROR BadVaddr:00000174PC:806014d4 what:8dd90174where: (then it just gives me a bunch of bad charicters like ??..something like that)
So i'm not sure what exactly is causeing this to happen, and like I said so far this is only happening with DK64. I've not tried every USF rip on here, but the ones I do have work just fine.
What version of 64th Note, specifically, are you using? Is it 1.0 beta 16? 1.0 beta 17? 1.0 beta 18? Anything earlier? What's the date on the DK64 files? The prelim set that is currently available should be around 10/2/05. Also, are you sure the *.usflib file is in the same directory as the *.miniusf files? What version of Winamp are you using? How much RAM do you have? What's your CPU? Are you using Windows XP? What output plugin are you using? What settings is 64th Note using?
Yes, that's a lot of questions, but some of that info is quite important to know if you want to figure out what the problem is. Hopefully, help can be found. Mouser X out.
Ok my 64th note that i'm useing is 1.0 beta 18. As for the date of the DK64 files i've just notest something odd. The .usflib goes as far back as September 26th, but some of the files them selfs are October 7th...thats tomarrow. What the hell, is it from the future?:P And the .usflib file is with the miniusf files. I'm useing Winamp 5.1. I have enough RAM..I'm pretty sure thats not the problem. And what do you mean by "what is my CPU" if you mean what kind I have a Compaq Persario with Windows M.E. that alone gives me problems with just turning the damn thing on somtimes. Wish I had XP. My settings for the 64th Note are, Play Forever, Detect Silence, Use Recompiler CPU. and I'm not sure what you mean by "what output plugin am I using." hope that answers well enough.
Well, that certainly helps narrow down the problem. Does Mario Kart run on your system? I know that it's one of the sets that has wierd refresh rates. If Mario Kart plays, then it's probably not a refresh rate problem (just so you're aware, some output plugins (and sound cards, for that matter) can't handle wonky refresh rates, so that can cause errors).
As for figuring out what output plugin you're using, if you don't know what that is, it's probably on the defualt setting. To find out, go to Winamp's option menu, go the plugins section (at the bottom), and one of them should be labled "output" or something similar. When that's selected, on the right hand side (in the big window) there will be a list of output plugins. I was simply asking which one is currently selected.
And when I asked, "What is your CPU?" sorry I was being ambiguous. I was asking for what type (Intel, Athalon, ect.), speed, (mhz, ghz, ect.) and stuff like that.
It looks to me like you've provided a fair amount of info (which is really good, that helps a lot), but since my computer is down (my hardrive died...) I can't really look into things to deeply from my end. If it's not a refresh rate problem, you might have to wait for HCS to provide a reply. And no, I don't know how soon they'll be along. Hopefully though, there will be enough info here for HCS to make an educated guess about what's wrong. The only other things I can think of is, do all the other sets run just fine for you (probably yes, that's what it sounds like)? What about the Mortal Kombat set? That one is pretty wonky with refresh rates as well.
You can also do what I did. Remove all of the plugins from Winamp's "plugins" directory, and put them back in, little by little, until you're able to find out what the problem is. If you do that, please take note that you should leave any of the "out_*.dll" in the directory, or else you won't get playback for anything (and of course, because this is the plugin you're testing, you'll want to leave "in_usf.dll" in the plugins directory as well). Depending on your determination to find the problem by yourself (and whether you get an answer here), you might want to wait on that as a last resort. Also, take notes as to when things change, and what changes them. I had a problem with "in_usf.dll" that originated from a plugin called "in_zip.dll" Now, because I was able to narrow things down and find the problem, "in_zip.dll" has been fixed, and runs great!
Hopefully that helps. If not, I'm sorry I wasn't able to do more for you. Also, if you still have questions, please feel free to ask. I hope I didn't provide to much info... Mouser X out.
Thanks Mouser X, I'll try out everything you said. It's not like it's the end of the world if I don't ever get it to work, it just would be nice because I really like the soundtrack. However if hcs has any good ideas there much welcome. I'll be sure to let you know if what you said worked or not Mouser, thanks for the help, your a real team player.
The date would say tomorrow for you if you are in the US because I (the ripper) and Wedge009 (the tagger) both live in australia which is about 15 hours ahead (just note that i am making this at 11:52AM 7th October.
What a strange error, i downloaded them fresh and i got it working ( the tlb error wont happen if no usflib).
I haven't tested it on anything less than Windows 2000 but i cant see whats going on here.
I've unfortunately not been able to test the new versions on anything but Windows XP, so I don't know if this could be a Win ME problem... Are you just using the files from dk64prelim.rar? They should only go the date 10/3/05, and that should be for the notes.txt file.
Here's a question: what are you using to extract the files? I've had reports of old versions of WinRAR and other extractors getting corrupted data from RARs. Try updating that program (I personally recommend 7-Zip).
also, if you uncheck "recompiler cpu" does it work?
Yes, I'm useing WinRAR. Since the error seems to be in Winamp i'm guessing thats the problem..or it could be my computer trying its best to piss me off. Oh well, thanks anyway guys, I'll keep at it but i'm not going to let it destory my life..*sigh* Take it easy everyone. Peace.
Ok, good news everyone! I uncheck the Use recompiler cpu and i get a couple of strange errors, and then it works! It's kinda skippy but i'll take what I can get. Thanks for the help guys. Wish there was somthing I can do for you guys...Why don't you look me up sometime..I'll take you to lunch..then we'll go back to my place..have a little wine..see what happens...ok ok maybe just a simple handshake will do. Peace homies mad props to yall!!
Check the 3rd post down (his 2nd). It was some form of TLB errors. I don't know what that means, but at the gamingforce forums, someone else got TLB errors when they didn't have the most recent version of 64th Note. Perhaps that helps? Mouser X over and out.
I just screwed up my hard drive trying to install Win98 to dual-boot with XP... I'll try again now that I think I know what I did wrong and see what happens. Surely someone else uses ME, though, and this is the only bad news I've heard for a long time. Thus I'm hoping that it's a misconfiguration on his part, since there is no reason for the interpreter to be giving errors only under specific OSes...
I'd like to know what the strange errors for the interpreter were as well. (He only mentioned the TLB errors in reference to the recompiler). [edit] Windows, in it's allmighty wisdom, deicded that my other hard drives needed checking as well, and now I'm missing most of my files (the usf dir is entirely gone) and a lot of the rest are corrupted. This includes the dir I had my copy of GetDataBack NTFS in, so I'm going to have to track that down again.
Crap.
The good news is that this means nothing for any USF stuff, since everything is online. It just menas I have to download my own stuff again if it turns out I can't repair it. It does mean I've probably lost any of my music I haven't backed up (about half of it).
That indeed does suck a great deal of balls hcs. But I got the DK64 working just like I want it to. All I have to do is turn off the recompiler when I wana listen to the DK64 set, and turn it back on for any other set. Kinda reminds me of that problem you guys had with Mario Party. But I know it's not the same thing..since I'm the only one with the problem.:P Oh well, no big deal. I got it working one way or the other.
Another issue with this usf by sonicbhoc at 10:53 AM EST on October 31, 2005
For some reason, this USF seems to be one octave lower than the actual game. Which sucks, but not as bad as loosing half of the crap on my PC. You should try and port your USF program thing into XMMS or BMP Media Player, and then switch to Linux. I've NEVER, EVER had a problem with that, aside from some hardware (but that's because my system is sh**y. and I fixed it, too. SuSE Linux is the best for newbies and it looks cool too.) Anyway. Um, good luck redooing all the stuff you lost, I know how you feel. I ended up loosing my whole harddrive because someone elses died, and I figured I'd give them mine because I'm a freakin bleeding heart. Now my PC's a monitorless, harddrive-less piece of crap that's wasting space on my desk. My dad says he'll get me a new hadddrive (which he did) and a new monitor (which he didn't). But back to USF matters, DK64 has a weird pitch. it's too low. I already said that. Well, if anyone who knows what's wrong could tell me I'd be in your debt. Thanks a bunch.