Mario Party USFs crashing Winamp by P_L at 11:53 PM EDT on May 29, 2007
I downloaded all 3 N64 Mario Party USF sets yesterday (save for MP2, which I already had and moved to my larger hard drive) and they worked fine for me; then today I downloaded VGM soundtracks of a few old Sonic games and the Mario Party USFs promptly started to do nothing other than crash Winamp with a long string of error messages containing nothing but enormous gibberish number strings in them when I tried to play them. I'm using 64th Note v.1.1 final and they worked fine yesterday, so I know that's not it. I also tried deleting and re-downloading them to the same spot as well as a few others, and even tried the USF Central and Zophar's Domain links to see if perhaps the one I'd had was corrupted somehow and the other would work ... no such luck. The only things I changed today were the downloading of the Sonic soundtracks (as well as the moving of a couple sonic ones I'd had before to my bigger HD) and restarting the computer due to a (hopefully) unrelated problem (which, if it matters, was that MSN Messenger wouldn't sign in and when it did it wouldn't do anything). Any advice? :(
EDIT: Forgot to mention, I also installed the "in_vgm" Winamp plug-in to solve similar crashing problems with VGM files (they'd either play and never stop playing when I changed to another track or even closed Winamp or just not play at all) before the problems started.
I'll try removing the in_VGM file temporarily and seeing what happens. This is especially odd since all my other USFs still work as though nothing's happened ...
EDIT: Removing the plug-in didn't make any difference, but clearing my Winamp playlist seems to have solved the problem. Perhaps GYM/VGM files don't like to co-exist with USFs right near them on the list for some reason? (The addition of GYM files to my list was also something that seemed to contribute to the problem since that happened right before the songs screwed up) For now, I can just listen to them on separate lists, I suppose.
EDIT 2: Guess I spoke too soon ... the MINUTE I submitted this the whole thing died again, and this time without the in_VGM in the plug-ins folder OR the use of my master playlist. :(
EDIT 3: Updated to the new 64th Note v.1.2 beta; no luck there either, but now it tends more to sit at 0:00 play time than to all-out crash.
EDIT 4: Sorry for all the repeated edits, but ... now everything's working again. I re-downloaded the sets from Zophar's Domain instead of USF Central this time, is the only difference with the songs this time; perhaps a quick looking-into would be a good idea for the USF Central copy of the song archive for MP1 (specifically MP1, but also 2 and 3 as well just since those two showed trouble as well a little later on) to see if there's some kind of error with it?