ZSNES Problem

[Zaiden]

I'm having an issue with ZNES. After I recieved it from the command "sudo apt-get install zsnes", I tried a few games out, and every game had skipping and staticy sound. Can anyone help me with this?

[ddrichardson]

What are your system specs?

[Zaiden]

From my memory:

Intel Celeron D 2.4ghz
512MB RAM
nvidia FX5200 128MB PCI

[Steveway]

Play around with the sound-settings.
Set the bitrate lower to something like 22150 or so till the sound sounds normal.
This worked for me.

[ddrichardson]

The problem with emulation is that it needs powerful hardware. What it boils down to is that you cannot run Super NES programs on a PC so you need to develop a system that can communicate with PC hardware yet act as the original system intended.

So you create a virtual machine, and these take resources. Unfortunately, sound is really intensive. So Zsnes will chop it - to give the framerate priority as the speed the game runs at has a higher priority than the sound.

You can lower the sound rate to 11kHz and that should help, but ultimately the Celeron's lack of cache will cause problems.

[NightCrawler03X]

I often had crackling sound with zsnes myself.

Try setting the bitrate in the sound options to "48000" hz, worked for me.

[Marrshu]

Try installing "libsdl1.2debian-all" That fixed it for me.

I doubt it's your processor... ZSNES can/should run fullspeed on a Pentium 2.

[BigSilly]

I usually always have this problem with ZSNES, and I have to install libsdl1.2debian-oss from the repository. It removes libsdl1.2debian-alsa, but that's never caused any further problem for me.

[dfreer]

Also, if you are using gutsy and have version zsnes 1.51, you should be able to use libao which solves most sound issues for me.
zsnes -ad oss
If that doesn't work, you can always go back to using alsa:
zsnes -ad alsa

[Juco]

yeah i just got zsnes and i got the same problem. then i did what marrshu said, and instaled that sdl thing, and now when i run zsnes, it opens, but when i click load, it immediately exits. how do i change it back?

[dfreer]

To uninstall that program that Marrshu recommended:
sudo apt-get remove libsdl1.2debian-all

But it's probably better to try to troubleshoot what is making zsnes crash. Try running zsnes from the terminal and see if it gives you an error message when it crashes.

[Yfrwlf]

yeah i just got zsnes and i got the same problem. then i did what marrshu said, and instaled that sdl thing, and now when i run zsnes, it opens, but when i click load, it immediately exits. how do i change it back?

Also try removing your .zsnes folder in your home directory if you can't figure it out, you can save your game saves in it but you can delete the other files, then reload ZSnes and see if it then loads OK. I've run into some config settings that make so it won't load up and that fixed it.