SPSD glitched with "old" formats? by fronzel at 11:06 AM EDT on October 3, 2009
Another problem. Not as annoying as the problem with the mono voice files, but i think i still should report it here.
I was browsing through the files of the rare japanese "What's Shenmue" Demo as it contains some interesting stuff that didnt make it into the final game.
I am having problems again with some SPSD files again. They do convert well on first glance but have some huge problems with volume control. As "What's Shenmue" is neither a rwla game (Just a very early demo of Shenmue) nor a very "common" release i have taken the freedom of uploading a sample to make it easier to get what i mean.
I really got no idea why thats happening, but my best guess is that as "What's Shenmue" is one of the earliest AM2 Dreamcast releases that they use some earlier version of the SPSD format. It prolly handles volume information a bit different than the "final" SPSD format. At least thats my guess. Again this is no "bother" to me, I'd rather like to get the problem with the mono voice files fixed, but i thought for the sake of completeness i just mention it.
by manakoAT at 3:53 PM EDT on October 2, 2009 "Is there anything i can do to override stereo creation?"
Only with a Generic Header for now, it's because the SPSD header doesn't provide infos about the channel count... -----------------------------------
You see, I already explained it in the other topic. This is the same now, the file will be played as stereo, but in fact it's just mono, here's a GENH file which includes your test file: Clik me
edited 2:15 PM EDT October 3, 2009
thanks by fronzel at 4:54 PM EDT on October 3, 2009
Hey, is that GENH file made from the SPSD i posted? as the GENH i can rip it fine...
Is there any tool that makes a GENH with matching header based on the source file SPSD? Sorry for asking this, but I'm not that familiar with the SEGA formats yet...
Also sorry as i thought it was a different problem, as the file now only had the volume skipping, not the simultaneous playing of 1st and 2nd half of the file on both stereo channels. To me it looked like a different problem.