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Legally playing Palm OS/Pocket PC games + H.M VV5?
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11/04/24 09:17 PM
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#6403 - 04/14/05 10:28 PM Re: Music
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OK - that's the same result our beta tester had. Thanks.
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#6404 - 04/15/05 04:19 AM Re: Music
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I don't hear any of the music either, but I DO hear the other game sounds.

I have a (new) Palm Tungsten E, and I installed Village Sim on a 256MB SD card with about 200MB free space. The game works great... I just don't have the music.

I DO hear music and game sounds with other games that are installed on the SD card. It's just Village Sim that I don't hear any music.

I wonder if it would matter if I try installing the music files to the main Palm device rather than the SD card. Well, I suppose I could install the game and music files to the main Palm device. Let me know if you want me to try that to see if it makes any difference.

I love this new game, BTW. Fantastic.

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#6405 - 04/24/05 06:54 PM Re: Music
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Quote:

I don't hear any of the music either, but I DO hear the other game sounds.

I have a (new) Palm Tungsten E, and I installed Village Sim on a 256MB SD card with about 200MB free space. The game works great... I just don't have the music.

I DO hear music and game sounds with other games that are installed on the SD card. It's just Village Sim that I don't hear any music.





I'm following up to my previous post on this.

Yesterday I deleted all the Village Sim files (program, music files, database), installed Village Sim fresh onto my expansion card, and I started a new game -- to give a totally fresh start and to also see if the music might work. Amazingly, this actually did the trick. When I started a new game, the music worked for the first time since I purchased the game.

However, I've seen yesterday and today that when I run a HotSync and then start the game again, sometimes the music works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure why it works sometimes and not others, but I have a theory. It MIGHT be related to opening the game with Hi-Launcher (Hi-Launcher creates menus but that's it, unlike ZLauncher that does a lot more).

I've tried opening Village Sim from my PDA's usual menu system (click SD card in the PDA menu, then the game's icon) and from Hi-Launcher's menu. I **think** the music comes on more consistently when I open it from my PDA's usual menu system than if I open it from Hi-Launcher, but I'll be testing that theory during the next couple of days.
-- The music comes on about half the time when the game is launched via Hi-Launcher.
-- I'm not sure if it comes on every time via the PDA menu or not. So far today (4 times), the music comes on each time that way, but I want to give a day or two of testing this theory.

FYI:
1. Whenever I do a HotSync, I always put Village Sim on Pause first.
2. For this new game I've been running it on Slow or Normal speed.
3. I have a Tungsten E, and as I've mentioned, I've installed the game to the 256MB expansion card (150+MB free space).
4. I use Backup Buddy Pro and Backup Buddy VS (backup for the expansion card).
5. I set my PDA to stay on while charging. Therefore, as long as I leave my PDA plugged in, the game will continue playing with the screen showing, etc. I can then glance over at it while at my desk working. So for this new game, so far it's only played in the background when I'm using another app on the PDA.

Game Stats so far for this new game as I write this email:

Realtime hours played: 22
Villagers born: 7
Villagers cured: 5
Villagers buried: 0
Oldest villager: 61
Max village population: 13
food harvested: 10,378
Crabs caught: 0
Total tech points earned: 50,152
Tech levels completed: 5
Island events encountered: 2
Puzzles solved: 1 of 12

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Preferences:
Sound: on
Music: on
Music Volume: high
Difficulty: low
Game Speed: Normal
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Once I've tested out my theory for a couple of days, I'll respond again with an update.


Edited by Schatzie (04/24/05 06:56 PM)

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#6406 - 04/25/05 04:42 AM Re: Music
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i have a tungsten c, and get no music. i have the three files installed. anything special i should be doing?

thanks,

s.

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#6407 - 04/25/05 09:03 AM Re: Music
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You should be getting the music on your Tungsten C, as it works fine on other Tungsten C Palms. How are you running the game - main memory or expansion card? Are you using ZLauncher, by any chance? If you are, the fix for the problem is to put the music files in internal RAM if you run the game off the card through ZLauncher. (Some of the beta testers discovered this during testing.) Also, make sure that music isn't turned off in your preferences and that the volume setting is high enough. Post back here if you're still having a problem.
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#6408 - 05/11/05 01:15 AM Re: Music
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On my treo 600 I only get sound effects as well, and I do have the music files intalled.

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#6409 - 05/11/05 09:31 AM Re: Music
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Registered: 04/13/05
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VSS, check your preferences. You have the option of turning your music on or off as well as the sound. They both work on my Treo 600.
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#6410 - 05/11/05 01:43 PM Re: Music
Arthur Administrator Offline
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Registered: 10/04/04
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Loc: San Francisco
One common problem is that the music files may only work if they are installed onto internal memory. Could this be your problem?
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#6411 - 12/06/05 10:43 AM Re: Music
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Help! I have a Clie NZ90 Series and I have no sound or sound affects. Please help.

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#6412 - 12/06/05 11:04 AM Re: Music
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Sony handles audio differently from the way that Palm does, and there have been multiple reports from Clie users that they get no sound when running Village Sim. There is a possible workaround that's described in this post, if you want to try it.
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