Games sound problem

[anema]

Mi zsnes works fine except in the sound, no matter what game i play the sound of all my games is a bit diferent from what just to be (i know that because in the zsnes of my friend the sound is normal), and ive tried many other emulator included snes9x (btw i am dumb) and snese and sound is still bad. One example of it is the spell earthquake multitarget sound of seiken densetsu III ,it sound very distorsioned or the growl of the dragons in bahamut lagoon is very annoying. I hope someone can help with this problem, and by the way the english is not mi native lenguage, so sorry for any error o misunderstod while reading this post. And finally mi directx is 8.0 and my sound card is C-MediaAC97 Audio Device

[Deathlike2]

I'm going to tell you this right now.. this is "normal" at this point in time. The current status/progress of emulation has not gotten to the point where emulating all of the sounds in the SNES games will be played correctly or perfectly. There is a thing called "Square Rape" (you can do a search on this board to find posts about it) that has yet to be fully emulated.

So. for now.. 90% (I'm not sure if 90% is close) of the sounds are pretty much correct. There's just the other 10% (what you are experiencing) is part of the imperfect sound emulation. Until it is solved (it will take perhaps at most 2 years to figure out), you will have to live with it... annoying or not. That is why it seems to occur in all emulators.

Btw, this info should be in the ZSNES FAQ (IMO), if it isn't already.

[Agozer]

Fixing this sound issue what we like to call the 'Square Sound Rape' is in the works. Word has it that there's going to be some improvements in the future WIPs, but as it stands, it may take a long while before it's completely emulated.

[SquareHead]

I'm either getting used to it, or with the newest wip its getting better.

[Agozer]

I'm either getting used to it, or with the newest wip its getting better.

I have gotten used to it; it doesn't bother me that much anyway. Oh yeah, people who are annoyed by it should use the 1.337 version since it has some l33t features that make the sound better...

[grinvader]

Since he finds that the sound on his friend's zsnes is "normal", I'd ask him what kind of settings he's using.

8000Hz sampling rate is bound to make those noises even more awful.