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1 Jul 30, 2012 10:02 pm

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Alright, so I posted about this in another thread, but that one sort of returned to obscurity before I could get an answer.

Here's the problem: when I sync two instances of LSDJ Master/Slave in live mode, the slave gameboy plays significantly quieter than usual, almost to the point its inaudible. Without touching the volume pot, when I play the same gameboy as Master it plays at normal volume and the other gameboy is quieter. This doesn't seem to happen when syncing in song mode either.

Does anybody have any suggestions? I get the feeling this problem is just some dumb mistake I'm making, rather than anything being faulty.

2 Jul 30, 2012 10:48 pm

herr_prof

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are the gameboys modded?

3 Jul 30, 2012 10:55 pm

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Also, how are you mixing the audio?

4 Jul 30, 2012 11:10 pm

Fudgers

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I had each gameboy running into separate portable speakers. Both are backlit/prosounded. One was running out of the prosound jack; the other is RCA and was using the stock headphone jack. Each played quietly is Slave mode.

In both cases, when played without sync, they put out more than enough volume.

My first thought was that perhaps LSDJ mixes automatically somehow by limiting an overall db level sort of like what happens to the Wav channel when the Pulse channels are too loud, so when I would play second Gameboy it would come out quiet. I can't imagine that would be true though, because I had them playing on a totally different speaker, so it would have to be capping it internally which makes no sense.

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5 Jul 30, 2012 11:44 pm

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im just wondering if something is wrong with your mods, and when the 5v from the link goes from one to the other its fucking with the prosound mod on the affected dmg.

LSDJ doesnt do what your describing.

6 Jul 31, 2012 12:02 am

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That's totally possible. I'm gonna try it out on a couple stock DMG's and see if I get the same thing.

herr_prof wrote:

im just wondering if something is wrong with your mods, and when the 5v from the link goes from one to the other its fucking with the prosound mod on the affected dmg.
LSDJ doesnt do what your describing.

7 Jul 31, 2012 12:19 am

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Alright, so I've done some troubleshooting, and I think I've narrowed down the issue to a specific EMS card of mine. The problem only shows itself when that card is running as a slave in Live mode; doesn't seem to change with the Gameboy. I think LSDJ might be corrupted on it. Are there any issues with holding LSDJ on the second page of a 64m card?

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8 Jul 31, 2012 1:25 am

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Ive never heard it doing so, so the problem goes away when you run a different card in the affected gameboy? Still feel like its a electrical issue.

9 Jul 31, 2012 1:29 am

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Yep, runs totally fine with LSDJ on the other card. I've also tested the affected card of several modded and non-modded gameboys, and it's the same deal.

An electrical issue makes sense. What leads me to believe it's something with software is that Song mode syncing remains unaffected, and I would think the same signals would be coming in for that.

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