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Hi - have recently set up a mister and been enjoying it immensely. Have set up multiple console and computer cores. Have an MT-32 pi as well that works great in all ao486 games that support it … except Monkey Island.

The MT-32 doesn’t seem to be working with the MT-32 version (0mhz dos collection) of Monkey Island. The game runs fine and I am getting sound but there is no indication on the MT-32 pi OSD that it is working, meaning there are no jumping bars on OSD when MIDI sound is playing. All other MT-32 games show these bars when MIDI sound is playing. Also, the sound seems a bit hollow and makes me think the MT-32 is not being used.

Any help or thoughts appreciated!

There's possibly something wrong with that 0Mhz version. It has been working well with the Top 300 pack. When I get back home I can check if it works on my setup.

Testing 0Mhz and it doesn’t appear to work. I am getting no action on my MT32p even using Monkey Island (MT-32)

I unplugged my pi and the baked-in MIDI kept playing.

Thanks for the replies! I hadn’t really considered that the issue was with the 0mhz version since they have all worked so flawlessly for me. Cheers again for responding.

Trying 4D Sports Driving (MT-32) and it works.
7th Guest (MT-32) works
A-Train (MT-32) works

I only tried these 3 but they all worked.

FYI user ‘iso70x’ posted the following in the GitHub issue thread:

It looks like there's a slight mistake in the c:\autoexec.bat file in the monkey island 1 mt32 vhd. If I replace MONKEY.EXE with RUNGAME.BAT it fixes it and uses mt32. RUNGAME.BAT launches the game with the additional switch needed to use mt32.

Op8glum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:37 pm

FYI user ‘iso70x’ posted the following in the GitHub issue thread:

It looks like there's a slight mistake in the c:\autoexec.bat file in the monkey island 1 mt32 vhd. If I replace MONKEY.EXE with RUNGAME.BAT it fixes it and uses mt32. RUNGAME.BAT launches the game with the additional switch needed to use mt32.

I just edited the autoexec.bat (been decades since I've done that!) but is doesn't seem to do anything different other than I did notice the MT32-Pi responding to changes in settings but I still can't get any audio to actually process through the MT32-PI as I can disconnect the serial cable and nothing happens, music still continues.

Has anyone else had any luck?

Try mine?

https://www.area536.com/dosk8s/disks/mnkyvga.zip

dickhardpill wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:31 am

Op8glum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:37 pm

FYI user ‘iso70x’ posted the following in the GitHub issue thread:

It looks like there's a slight mistake in the c:\autoexec.bat file in the monkey island 1 mt32 vhd. If I replace MONKEY.EXE with RUNGAME.BAT it fixes it and uses mt32. RUNGAME.BAT launches the game with the additional switch needed to use mt32.

I just edited the autoexec.bat (been decades since I've done that!) but is doesn't seem to do anything different other than I did notice the MT32-Pi responding to changes in settings but I still can't get any audio to actually process through the MT32-PI as I can disconnect the serial cable and nothing happens, music still continues.

Has anyone else had any luck?

In fact replacing monkey.exe with rungame.bat in the autoexec.bat worked for me.

uli wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:07 pm

dickhardpill wrote: ↑Tue Apr 16, 2024 1:31 am

Op8glum wrote: ↑Mon Apr 15, 2024 8:37 pm

FYI user ‘iso70x’ posted the following in the GitHub issue thread:

It looks like there's a slight mistake in the c:\autoexec.bat file in the monkey island 1 mt32 vhd. If I replace MONKEY.EXE with RUNGAME.BAT it fixes it and uses mt32. RUNGAME.BAT launches the game with the additional switch needed to use mt32.

I just edited the autoexec.bat (been decades since I've done that!) but is doesn't seem to do anything different other than I did notice the MT32-Pi responding to changes in settings but I still can't get any audio to actually process through the MT32-PI as I can disconnect the serial cable and nothing happens, music still continues.

Has anyone else had any luck?

In fact replacing monkey.exe with rungame.bat in the autoexec.bat worked for me.

I ended up running the 0mhz_downloader.sh and it updated the vhd. I still needed to edit the bat file but it works now.