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Issue playing Ghostbusters by Lieblich Russell #1

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JEmlay opened this issue Jan 5, 2022 · 1 comment
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Issue playing Ghostbusters by Lieblich Russell #1

JEmlay opened this issue Jan 5, 2022 · 1 comment

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JEmlay commented Jan 5, 2022

HVSC - MUSICIANS\L\Lieblich_Russell\Ghostbusters.sid

Very odd issue of only 2 LEDs being half powered once turned on and that's it. No response from anything else. Not sure what this SID is doing to the player but it does not like it.

EDIT:
Two other Windows based SID players play the SID just fine. There are 5 (tracks?).

EDIT2:
The player is doing the same thing with that SID file as it does with no SID file on the memory stick. Top left 2 LEDs are dim and nothing happens. So it looks like it's just flat out rejecting the SID and then of course, no SIDs to load. Just spent 2 hours going down a rabbit hole of SID conversion tools. Best I came across was SIDPlay v2.5 that will convert to PlaySID format??? That didn't work. Converting to SID Info with C64 DAT data didn't work either.

EDIT3:
I think I finally got to the bottom of what's going on. When I said earlier that I tried converting it to PlaySID, that was bunk. The app just dumped the file verbatim, bit for bit so that's bogus. The Ghostbusters file is RSID (Real SID) and not PSID (PlaySID). I tried a handful of other RSID files and this player will not play them. Good luck figuring out which is which, I had to use a hex editor to even see that info. Very first 4 bytes.

So until the player is updated to handle RSID you'll come across a lot of SID files that wont play. I assume though that comes down to the original source player being updated first.

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JEmlay commented Jan 5, 2022

According to the creator of the original player that is exactly the issue. No RSID support. Unfortunate but it is what it is. So watch out for those!

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