<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>GameCube - Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd.</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY class="fmod" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" leftmargin="10" topmargin="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0"> <center> <IMG src="fmod.jpg"> <BR> <BR> <BR> <H1>GAMECUBE SPECIFIC ISSUES / FEATURES</H1> </center> <font color="#00005F" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2"> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#506080"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#FFFF80" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Introduction <small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> <UL> This section describes how to get started with FMOD for Gamecube<br> </UL> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#506080"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#FFFF80" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Compiling and linking <small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> <UL> Include <b>fmod.h</b> in your project, this is found in api/inc.<br> <br> To link FMOD to your project, there are the following files.<br> <li><b>/api/lib/fmodgc.lib</b> - Link to this file if you are using <b>SN Systems</b> compiler. <li><b>/api/lib/fmodgcD.lib</b> - This is the debug version of fmodgc.lib and outputs a log of FMOD's progress and any error messages (in plain english) to the TTY. <li><b>/api/lib/fmodgc_cw.a</b> - Link to this file if you are using the <b>Metrowerks Codewarrior</b> compiler. <li><b>/api/lib/fmodgc_cwD.a</b> - This is the debug version of fmodgc_cw.lib and outputs a log of FMOD's progress and any error messages (in plain english) to the TTY. <br> </UL> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#506080"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#FFFF80" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Running the examples <small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> <UL> Simply load their .dsp files into Dev Studio and hit F7.<br> <br> <b>NOTE</b>: You will need to copy all files in the media directory to <br> <ul> $DVDROOT/fmod. For example: <br> <br> copy media\*.* c:\DolphinSDK1.0\dvddata\fmod </ul> <br> </UL> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#506080"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#FFFF80" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Conversion tools <small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> <UL> <b>dspadpcm.exe</b> <br> <br> FMOD supports the Nintendo DSPADPCM format as output by the Nintendo tool "dspadpcm.exe". FMOD expects the file extension ".dsp" on these files.<br> For clarity and consistency, FMOD refers to this format as FSOUND_GCADPCM. <br> <b>NOTE</b>: dspadpcm.exe can only convert MONO samples!<br> <br> <b>fsbank.exe</b><br> <br> This is a Windows app that creates .fsb files - FMOD's native sample bank format.<br> Use it to create sample banks of either MONO or STEREO ADPCM samples suitable for playing or streaming using the GameCube ADPCM hardware. <br> <br> </UL> <table border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#506080"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font color="#FFFF80" face="Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Performance issues and Gamecube specific FMOD features. <small></small></font></td> </tr> </table> <UL> <b>Hardware voice dropping</b><br> <br> Due to a design issue with the Gamecube hardware, the processor will drop hardware voices if it's DSP chip gets overloaded.<br> Call <b><a href="../HTML/FSOUND_Update.html">FSOUND_Update</a></b> each game cycle and FMOD will automatically reacquire voices that get dropped. <br> FMOD's priority system has been linked into this, so it is likely to drop lower priority sounds that have their priority set with <b><a href="../HTML/FSOUND_Sample_Defaults.html">FSOUND_Sample_Defaults</a></b>.<br> <br> <b>Direct DVD streaming</b> <br> Use FMOD's stream API to play streams using the GameCube's DVD audio streaming capability. <br> When opening a stream, simply specify a file with a .adp extension and FMOD will stream it using the GameCube's hardware straight from the DVD to the AI, completely bypassing both ARAM and MRAM.<br> <br> <b>Gamecube extras</b><br> <br> Look in <b>fmodgc.h</b> for GameCube-specific functions relating to such things as DVD status callbacks, AUX effects, specifying a block of ARAM for FMOD to use and accessing IPL sound settings.<br> </UL> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> <BR> </BODY> </HTML>