Music Skips in soul calibur, please help!

#1 05-02-2001, 08:11

Ive borrowed 2 copies of soul calibur from different people and they both do exactly the same thing, the music skips! can this be corrected? Does anyone else have this problem?

BrAvO_BoY · #2 05-02-2001, 09:38

Get the CNN release (self-booting) it doesn't have the sound problems that the original Utopia release had.

#3 05-02-2001, 09:59

is there anyway to fix the utopia release?

BrAvO_BoY · #4 05-02-2001, 17:16

Not that I know off

ZeroBlade · #5 08-02-2001, 15:36

You can modify the Utopia version but it's a long winded process. (Took me the better part of a day.)
I'm gonna give the credit to CCN for this method. I've cut and pasted their .nfo file and added my own comments to it.
SoulCalibur has 2 raw .pcm files for each background track, a left and a right one.
They each end in the extension .04, .08 & .16.
With the Left tracks having the last letter in the filename as L, and the Right tracks as R.
[Leave the .04 files alone as modifying them can cause sound errors.]
Okay now you need a program that can read PCM files and convert them to WAV. I searched the net and downloaded Acoustica from www.aconas.de.
I then opened each Right and Left file then converted then to wav. Then I loaded up Windows Sound Recorder with the Left audio file, and chose the option "mix with" the picked the corresponding Right audio file. Now the WAV of the right channel can be deleted as it isn't needed anymore. open up the combined L channel WAV in Acoustica and choose Sound-->convert Sample format, then untick Stereo recording. (Converted the file to MONO). Now save the file as a PCM file and rename back to the correct name as it was in the game. Also now create a new 0 byte file and name it according to the right channel.
Repeat this for all the files.
Then open up the 1st_read.bin file in a Hex Editor (HexWorkshop www.bpsoft.com) to change all references from the right channel to the left channel. Search for the filename of the right channel, and then change the R in the name to an L.
The result? More than enough space to selfboot and put in a dummy file for faster loading, (about 340Meg!) without losing any movies and pleasantly enough increasing sound quality.
Any probs reply to this post with them.