Who recognizes the following problems using BASIC.BIN:

* Playing a song which uses 9 fm-pac channels will screw up the drum settings for every next song using 6 channels plus fm-pac drums; in particular for the hi-hat/cymbal sounds.

* Some channels in songs using 9 fm-pac channels will produce noise. And I don't mean a bit of crackling, but a good deal of some nasty hardcore "KSHSHSHSHSH"-ing. Seems to occur especially with the "violin" instrument at higher tones.

Sometimes -but not in most cases- this problems are solved by stating a call mbchip command.
A (soft) reset always helps, but that's ofcourse not one of the most classy solutions.

It happens on every PC that I used for emulation.

Is this an emulator (NLMSX) glitch, or should I use a different (newer) tsr?

Dude, you makin' a replayer for something? Nice

In them days, I recall having some problems with BASIC.BIN. At least, I recognize the _MBCHIP issue which sometimes worked. I guess the driver doesn't reset all channels/default mode upon loading a new song. Maybe some ASM hacker around here can look into it.

As far as I know, the BASIC.BIN delivered with MB1.4 is the only one, as in, you can't get any better.

Oh, this is why I can't recall your other problems: at the time, I only owned a Toshiba MSX-AUDIO (actually, my father did & still does) I've got an FMPAC ever since I bought my turboR, 5 years ago. I was foolin' around with this stuff in 1995 orso

Damn, was I young back then!

DemonSeed: in any case, if you use an emulator, better also try on some other ones to make sure it's not an emulation glitch. Best thing to do: try it on a real MSX

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Dude, you makin' a replayer for something? Nice

I'm working on the game again.
The game! Always the game...

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As far as I know, the BASIC.BIN delivered with MB1.4 is the only one, as in, you can't get any better.

@Manuel: Good idea, indeed!

The sources of the replay routine are available on the net somewhere. Can't be too hard to insert a few lines of ASM that reset all FM-PAC settings before starting a new song...