Popping sounds

Unknown Ninja · Post by **Unknown Ninja** » Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:29 am

Hi,

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I was playing Mega Man Zero yesterday and i noticed a really weird popping sound whenever i fight a boss or there are many things on the screen.

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My original copy broke for some unknown reason (battery is empty) so i can't test it with the original. I have heard the same popping sound all the time in Tales Of Phantasia on the real GBA. I also hear a popping sound when starting a game in Castlevania Circle Of The Moon. Just after the text screens fades away i hear a strange pop. This doesn't happen on VBA-M. Tales Of Phantasia does pop occasionally on VBA-M but not as frequent as the original. It's really weird that i hear popping sound in a lot of GBA games. The 3 games i mentioned above do it really bad.

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I am autistic and i have stronger hearing that normal. High pitched noise are very annoying to me.

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My brother hears the same popping so it isn't me that's only hearing it.

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I watched some Youtube video's of Mega Man Zero and they to have the popping sounds when fighting a boss and not when going through the levels normally.

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Can anyone tell me if the popping is normal for GBA games. Ik have a lot of DS games and i don't hear those games make those sounds.

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Thanks in advance.

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:43 pm

If its on the GBA its a limitation of the sound hardware, however enabling the Pop filter in the audio configuration might help.

Unknown Ninja · Post by **Unknown Ninja** » Fri Jul 17, 2009 5:36 pm

Thanks for the reply.

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Can you please tell me where i can find the pop filter option. I can't find it anywhere.

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Thanks in advance.

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 11:09 am

Options > Audio > Core settings.

Unknown Ninja · Post by **Unknown Ninja** » Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:54 pm

Thanks.

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I can't find a pop filter. Here you have a picture of my settings.

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Sorry if i did something obviously wrong. I am a bit of a novice with emulators.

Squall Leonhart · Post by **Squall Leonhart** » Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:34 am

Declicking ..heh same thing different name lol.

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its already ticked though so not much can be done at this point... its either just due to accurate emulation of the gba audio, or because the audio core is a mess.