{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12","repository_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12/events","html_url":"https://github.com/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12","id":299945527,"number":12,"title":"ES2: INMM.DLL restores music play/loop, but kills joystick emulation","user":{"login":"blam666","id":31192322,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/31192322?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666","html_url":"https://github.com/blam666","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"assignees":[],"milestone":null,"comments":2,"created_at":"2018-02-24T14:39:41Z","updated_at":"2018-02-26T22:12:52Z","closed_at":null,"author_association":"NONE","body":"Hi, I'm working on WIN1064 playability of ES2, which is quite a task, as you surely know.\r\n\r\nI discovered you looking for hints on issues with that game in the internet, you seem to be one of the most advanced experts working on these problems, I re-discovered many of the issues in your ES2 sections I was already fiddling with before.\r\n\r\nMy problem sadly is still not listed anywhere, so I'll try to explain. I got everything working fine so far but there is still one annoying issue. If I use my ripped ES2 CD for the redbook audio tracks via physical or virtual drive, the game starts to play the music correctly, but never loops. After 2 minutes+Xseconds everything is silent, kinda non-atmospheric. Now inmm.dll provides help for this and actually works well. It's the same method that was used by the old Sierra Help Pages installer. You just patch the DBSIM.EXE with INMM and the game can play and, more importantly, loop my ripped wav or mp3 from the folder.\r\n\r\nBut as soon as I do that, the registry patched joystick emulation as recommended by your tips (I actually used the compatibility administrator 32bit manually for this) ceases to work. I have no clue why this happens. It doesn't help re-installing, the order of implementing either the inmm patch or the compatibility settings doesn't have any effect either. It certainly is a result of the modification by inmm, I can just use the backup exe provided by inmm.dll after that and joystick starts responding again.\r\n\r\nI know I could maybe write some batch file for making the files loop manually with hotkeys, but this sounds rather annoying to do within gameplay. INMM.DLL is actually very useful with this issue, if I could just prevent it from killing the joystick compatibility settings.\r\n\r\nDo you have any ideas for a workaround for this? \r\n\r\nCheers,\r\n\r\nn"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/comments/368669552","html_url":"https://github.com/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12#issuecomment-368669552","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/juanitogan/rbxit/issues/12","id":368669552,"user":{"login":"blam666","id":31192322,"avatar_url":"https://avatars2.githubusercontent.com/u/31192322?v=4","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666","html_url":"https://github.com/blam666","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/blam666/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2018-02-26T22:12:52Z","updated_at":"2018-02-26T22:12:52Z","author_association":"NONE","body":"Hi and thanks a lot for your reply!\r\n\r\nSorry for bothering you about this, if you don't have the time for this immediately, I can just wait for days to even months for you looking further into it. It's not a life-depending issue, of course, lol. Still, after fighting with this game for years now to make it run properly on modern pcs, it would be nice to get around this problem, as it is the last bug I still have problems with by now, otherwise ES2 runs fine on my Win10 64. \r\n\r\n(I actually use the \"Borderless gaming\" tool for getting rid of the window remnants at the bottom of the screen that appear on my 1920x1080 monitor. I can't really set full screen, the movies won't play. In windowed 640x480 mode everythings works fine, but there is a bar remaining at the lower edge of the picture. BG helps here by resetting the window to fs in half a second or so when starting the game and switching between game screen and menus. So far, no problems with that. It's a minor issue, but that's the only fix I found out myself I haven't read at your tips list at this site.) \r\n\r\nI will post a screenshot of my CA settings tomorrow, but I can already say the very same thing happens with exactly applying your method from scratch, inmm installed last.  I re-installed a new folder to properly check this and uninstalled all my own settings before applying your SDB settings to make sure this doesn't interfere. Still the same joystick bug, sadly. (The settings were identical, anyway, joy and ram emu compatibility settings for the three exes, 256 color mode for es.exe.) I'll even try and test this on my other PC/laptop to get entirely sure about this tomorrow.\r\n\r\nTo re-check this problem I THINK (not entirely sure) it's not necessary that you own the original tracks. If I'm correct about this, you could just set up inmm with any random mp3s you like and check if they loop or not, if you get trouble with the joystick, too, or not.\r\n\r\nCheers,\r\n\r\nb666"}}
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