I'm trying to get the MIDI music for the 1996 SegaSoft game Lose Your
Marbles (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9196)
working. The game itself remains Platinum under 1.3.34-- it runs great, without
any overrides, and the sound effects work fine too... it's just the MIDI
music that does not play, or rather, is not heard.
I went to the Wiki and performed all the checks to confirm that MIDI does work
1) on Linux (Mint Debian)-- audacious didn't want to play LVL1.MID from the
game install folder, but banshee played it without even blinking. aplaymid
-p128:0 LVL1.MID worked fine as well.
2) in Wine-- I downloaded the MCI shell as advised by the Wiki
(http://wiki.winehq.org/MIDI?highlight=%28midi%29) and was able to play LVL1.MID
after selecting the mapper as instructed in the "Since wine-1.1.41.."
instruction set.
Because my aconnect -o reads as follows
Code:
za dec 17 02:06 motub Marbles $: aconnect -o
client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel]
0 'Midi Through Port-0'
client 16: 'C-Media CMI8738' [type=kernel]
0 'C-Media CMI8738 MIDI'
client 17: 'OPL3 FM synth' [type=kernel]
0 'OPL3 FM Port '
client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user]
0 'TiMidity port 0 '
1 'TiMidity port 1 '
2 'TiMidity port 2 '
3 'TiMidity port 3 '
I presumed that I had exactly the issue stated in the Wiki (that Wine is using
the first device found, which is essentially inaudible to me as I don't have
any actual MIDI hardware), so I set the Registry entry as specified in the Wiki:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\MIDIMap]
"CurrentInstrument"="#1"
This made no difference. I then set the instrument to #4, which I hoped would be
the TiMidity port.
Also doesn't work. So just for the heck of it, I tried #2 and #3 .
Naturally, no joy.
I can no longer check that all the devices are present in winecfg, because that
functionality has been removed. I wondered if in the meantime, the Registry
entry might have changed as well, or might not apply to Win95/98 which are the
only two Win versions this game runs on.
There is a demo available
(http://download.cnet.com/Lose-Your-Marbles-demo/3000-2111_4-10004124.html), but
sadly it does not include any MIDI music, so it's no use for friendly
testers.
But if anyone has a clue as to why the Registry entry doesn't seem to be of
any use, even though it seems like it should be working, I'd be grateful to
hear your thoughts.
