| Game Title | Year | Notes | |------------|------|-------| | Street Fighter Alpha series | 1995-1998 | Including Alpha 2, Alpha 3 | | Marvel Super Heroes | 1995 | First CPS-2 game to use QSound | | X-Men: Children of the Atom | 1994 | Early CPS-2 QSound implementation | | Alien vs. Predator | 1994 | Beat'em up classic | | Dungeons & Dragons: Shadow over Mystara | 1996 | Tower of Doom also uses QSound | | Darkstalkers series | 1994-1997 | Vampire Savior, Night Warriors | | Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo | 1996 | Puzzle game with QSound audio | | Progear | 2001 | Horizontal shooter | | 1944: The Loop Master | 2000 | Vertical shooter |
: If you use custom directories, open your mame.ini configuration file using a text editor and ensure the rompath line points to the folder containing your device files. Best Practices for MAME Romset Management
Inside the physical QSound audio chip sat an internal program, stored as a data block known as .
RomCenter may show QSound-using games as incomplete even with qsound_hle.zip present. This is because RomCenter doesn't always recognize that device files can satisfy dependencies. The games should still work fine in MAME even if RomCenter shows them as yellow (incomplete). qsoundhlezip mame
Last updated: This guide reflects MAME as of version 0.201 and later. Always check official sources for the most current information.
Use a tool like LaunchBox or MAME's own internal audit feature to check if the file is recognized.
The experimental version of OpenEmu requires both the game ROM (e.g., dino.zip for Cadillacs and Dinosaurs ) and qsound_hle.zip . However, a complication arises: simply dragging both files into OpenEmu does not work. The solution is to extract the contents of both ZIP files into a single folder and recompress them into a new archive. While technically unconventional, this method resolves the issue for many users. | Game Title | Year | Notes |
Alternatively, it could be an like ClrMAMEPro, which sometimes concatenates descriptions: qsound + hle + zip into a single word for logging purposes.
A: Verify qsound_hle.zip is correctly installed and contains the proper dl-1425.bin file.
: Inside the zip, there must be a file named dl-1425.bin . RomCenter may show QSound-using games as incomplete even
audio processor, which was famously used on hardware like the Capcom Play System 2 (CPS2). Why is it needed? Starting with MAME 0.201
If your frontend (like LaunchBox or RetroArch) or command-line emulator crashes with this missing file prompt, follow these troubleshooting steps:
For those auditing their ROM sets with tools like ClrMAMEPro, the qsound_hle.zip usually contains one main file, often labeled dl-1425.bin . Description qsound_hle.zip The container zip file required by MAME. dl-1425.bin The crucial audio binary file within the zip. Summary Checklist * Game: Capcom CPS2 (e.g., Street Fighter Alpha 3 ) "QSound HLE missing" or "dl-1425.bin missing" Solution: Download qsound_hle.zip . Placement: Put in /mame/roms/ .
As of MAME 0.201 and later, the emulator split the QSound implementation into two parts: : The original, "low-level" audio data. qsound_hle.zip : The high-level emulation supporting file.
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