ePSXe / Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage sound and music problem.

[Anjalena]

I own Spyro 2 but my PS2 is refusing to play PS1 games anymore. So I decided I would rip the game to my hard drive and play it with ePSXe. But I've got sound issues. Partway through one of the initial cutscenes, the sound cut completely out. And once I get into the game, voices aren't playing at all. Also, the game isn't playing any music at all even though I checked the music volume in the game options. It's not even playing the music on the initial screen where you Press Start to start the game.

I'm using ePSXe 1.60 and the Sound plugin I'm using is Eternal SPU Plugin Lite 1.41. I have tried the Non Lite version and a few others but to no avail.

Any ideas?

(Please see all my information below. I hope I've included everything.)



Plugin: Pete's OpenGL2 Driver 2.9
Author: Pete Bernert
Card vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
GFX card: GeForce GTX 550 Ti/PCIe/SSE2

Resolution/Color:
- 1920x1080 Fullscreen - NO desktop changing
- Internal X resolution: 1
- Internal Y resolution: 1
- Keep psx aspect ratio: on
- No render-to-texture: off

- Filtering: 5
- Hi-Res textures: 0
- TexWin pixel shader: off
- VRam size: 0 MBytes

Framerate:
- FPS limitation: on
- Frame skipping: off
- FPS limit: Auto

Compatibility:
- Offscreen drawing: 1
- Framebuffer effects: 2
- Framebuffer uploads: 1

Misc:
- Scanlines: off
- Mdec filter: on
- Screen filtering: off
- Shader effects: 0/1
- Flicker-fix border size: 0
- GF4/XP crash fix: off
- Game fixes: off [00000006]



**Hardware**
CPU - Intel Core i5-3570K CPU ... either a dual core or quad core. I can't recall.
Graphics Card - See above
RAM - 4GB
Operating System. Windows 7 64bit, SP1


Emulator
What emulator - ePSXe 1.60
What plugins - Video (see above), Sound - Eternal SPU Plugin Lite 1.41
Have you tried other Roms/Images - No. I'm using a backup from the actual game CD that I created using Alcohol 120%.
Tried other emulators - No.



More about my Sound options:
On the Config Sound page (on the page where you choose a plugin): Enable Sound and Enable CDDA Sound are checked, the other two aren't.

Inside the Configure dialog:
Under "Audio Device": DirectSound with Buffer size of "40"
Under "Audio out method": SPUasync with Async mode "Simple"
Under "Misc": Nothing checked or changed (except the "Wait for XA buffer is free" is checked but it's greyed out)
Under "Special game fix": Nothing is checked

[gladiator (psx datacenter)]

Did you tried with the configuration posted in the game entry of the PSX Datacenter?
And the game works a lot better in epsxe v170 than in epsxe v160.

http://psxdatacenter.com/games/P/S/SCES-02104.html
or
http://psxdatacenter.com/games/U/S/SCUS-94425.html

[Anjalena]

Did you tried with the configuration posted in the game entry of the PSX Datacenter?
And the game works a lot better in epsxe v170 than in epsxe v160.

http://psxdatacenter.com/games/P/S/SCES-02104.html
or
http://psxdatacenter.com/games/U/S/SCUS-94425.html

Actually, I'm brand new to this site. That was my first post. So I didn't know about the Datacenter. But thank you muchly for pointing me that way! Now I've gotta figure out where to get those plugins. I wonder if you guys have them on this site?


Edit: Okay, gladiator, I see that you've stated that the plugin can be found on your page in the downloads section. But I can't seem to find it. Can you help me find it? I'm having trouble finding the download on google. I suck. =(

[Zorlon]

http://www.pbernert.com

from his homepage

[gladiator (psx datacenter)]

Or here:
http://psxdatacenter.com/downloads.html

[Anjalena]

Thanks all. I've got it up and running. The sound is still a little iffy in a few places here and there but very minor issues only. It's nice to be able to play my favorite little dragon again.