#5893 closed defect (fixed)
SWORD1: Wrong background sound in Windows demo
| Reported by: | SF/simsaw | Owned by: | eriktorbjorn |
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| Priority: | normal | Component: | Engine: Sword1 |
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| Cc: | Game: | Broken Sword 1 |
Description
When playing the English Windows demo of Broken Sword 1, there is always the repetitive endless chirping of a bird which is very annoying. (NB: The Mac demo seems not to have this issue.)
It seems to be there in 1.2.0 and was not there in 1.0.0 rc1.
I checked with the latest Daily Build from October 29, 2011 to make sure this bug is still present.
Ticket imported from: #3431552. Ticket imported from: bugs/5893.
Attachments (5)
Change History (16)
comment:1 by , 12 years ago
comment:2 by , 12 years ago
Bisection shows that this bug was introduced by the following commit: commit 9cc0dc3d9126245afda5e3e3605ecdae18c84767 Author: Torbj��rn Andersson <eriktorbjorn@users.sourceforge.net> Date: Sun Sep 13 21:38:47 2009 +0000
Fixed bug #2847910, "Loss of background audio loop". It would probably be safe to backport this to the 1.0 branch, but I'm not 100% sure, and it's getting pretty late here. (On the other hand, the missing sound effects are pretty faint, at least in the cases I've seen, so we haven't been missing much. That's probably why it's gone unnoticed until now.)
svn-id: r44073
comment:3 by , 12 years ago
I should note that the refrenced bug is #2857910 "SWORD1: Loss of background audio loop", rather than #2847910 as noted in that commit message: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2857910&group_id=37116&atid=418820
This should allow checking of an amended fix which corrects the Marib market issue without side effects.
comment:4 by , 12 years ago
I tried the Windows demo in DOSBox, and ScummVM definitely isn't playing the correct sound effect. The only looping sound that's supposed to be in the first room is the drone of traffic; what is called FX_TRAFFIC2 in staticres.cpp. I believe _fxList[] is a list of all the possible sound effects in the game, with some directions about how they should be played, and _roomsFixedFx[] is a list of sound effects that are played in each location. (So all of this is hard-coded into the game engine itself, rather than being scripted.)
My almost completely unsubstantiated guess is that the DOS/Windows demo has a slightly different hard-coded value for FX_TRAFFIC2, but I lack the tools and expertise to figure that out. I did notice that the PARIS1.CLU file from the demo has a slightly different size than the one in the full game, which could indicate a slightly different set of resources.
comment:5 by , 12 years ago
I think I have found the start of _fxList[] in SWORD.EXE and WINSWORD.EXE (which, of course, should be the same in this regard), so I may be able to reconstruct the list for the demo, and create a mapping for it. It'll take a bit of time, of course.
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | dumpsword.c added |
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Program to extract sound effects data from DOS/Windows demo
comment:7 by , 12 years ago
I've attached my program to extract the sound effects data structure from the demo's SWORD.EXE or WINSWORD.EXE. I haven't studied the resource files themselves, but the structure I'm generating seems pretty similar to the one already in staticres.cpp. Mind you, I'm not suggesting adding a whole new sound effects list even if there are some minor differences in the roomVolList for some of the effects, that's probably not worth the trouble of replicating.
Rigth now, I have two ideas on how to adjust the resource id. One idea is to write a function to remap the id for the demo. This is probably fairly easy, since it seems that most of the differences are from sound effects missing, causing the subsequent ones to be renumbered. The other idea is to store the alternative id in the _fxList[] data structure. This could probably be done without increasing the size of the data structure by replacing the id with an array containing the most significant byte (0x06, 0x07, ..., 0x0E), and the least significant bytes for the demo and full game.
The second idea is slightly more intrusive, I guess.
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | fullres.txt added |
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Sound effects list from staticres.cpp, reformatted for easier comparision
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | demores.txt added |
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Sound effects list from DOS/Windows demo, reformatted for easier comparision
by , 12 years ago
| Attachment: | dumpsword.2.c added |
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Updated version, but the chances are just cosmetical.
comment:8 by , 12 years ago
I've attached reformatted sound effects lists from the full game (staticres.cpp) and the demo to make it easier to compare. The main difference is, of course, that a lot of sound effects are missing from the demo. Other than that, there are some differences in volume settings and delay/chance, but as I said before I don't think that's worth the trouble to fix.
comment:9 by , 12 years ago
And now I've attached a possible patch. It seems to work for me, though I've only given it a quick test.
comment:10 by , 12 years ago
I've played through the demo without noticing any problems, so I've committed a slightly updated version of the patch to the trunk.
comment:11 by , 12 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → fixed |
| Status: | new → closed |
Replicated with latest Git master on Linux x86_32. Bisecting to locate the point of regression.