I'm trying to get the MIDI music for the 1996 SegaSoft game Lose Your Marbles (http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=9196) working. The game itself remains Platinum under 1.3.34-- it runs great, without any overrides, and the sound effects work fine too... it's just the MIDI music that does not play, or rather, is not heard. I went to the Wiki and performed all the checks to confirm that MIDI does work 1) on Linux (Mint Debian)-- audacious didn't want to play LVL1.MID from the game install folder, but banshee played it without even blinking. aplaymid -p128:0 LVL1.MID worked fine as well. 2) in Wine-- I downloaded the MCI shell as advised by the Wiki (http://wiki.winehq.org/MIDI?highlight=%28midi%29) and was able to play LVL1.MID after selecting the mapper as instructed in the "Since wine-1.1.41.." instruction set. Because my aconnect -o reads as follows Code: za dec 17 02:06 motub Marbles $: aconnect -o client 14: 'Midi Through' [type=kernel] 0 'Midi Through Port-0' client 16: 'C-Media CMI8738' [type=kernel] 0 'C-Media CMI8738 MIDI' client 17: 'OPL3 FM synth' [type=kernel] 0 'OPL3 FM Port ' client 128: 'TiMidity' [type=user] 0 'TiMidity port 0 ' 1 'TiMidity port 1 ' 2 'TiMidity port 2 ' 3 'TiMidity port 3 ' I presumed that I had exactly the issue stated in the Wiki (that Wine is using the first device found, which is essentially inaudible to me as I don't have any actual MIDI hardware), so I set the Registry entry as specified in the Wiki: [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Multimedia\MIDIMap] "CurrentInstrument"="#1" This made no difference. I then set the instrument to #4, which I hoped would be the TiMidity port. Also doesn't work. So just for the heck of it, I tried #2 and #3 . Naturally, no joy. I can no longer check that all the devices are present in winecfg, because that functionality has been removed. I wondered if in the meantime, the Registry entry might have changed as well, or might not apply to Win95/98 which are the only two Win versions this game runs on. There is a demo available (http://download.cnet.com/Lose-Your-Marbles-demo/3000-2111_4-10004124.html), but sadly it does not include any MIDI music, so it's no use for friendly testers. But if anyone has a clue as to why the Registry entry doesn't seem to be of any use, even though it seems like it should be working, I'd be grateful to hear your thoughts.
