Snatcher problem, please help

[UnAngel]

Ok, I just got snatcher from the Area51 ftp site, and its worked up untill the first turbocycle ride. From there, it shows gillians face, continues animation and sound, and the access light stays on. Its been going on like that for several minutes now (its running in the backround), but its never progressed.

I know the compatability list said there were long load times, but what does that mean? A few seconds, several minutes, hours?

Im running a P4 1.3 ghz, 386mb SDRAM, ect ect (its a great computer) so is it the game? If someone could clue me in to this I would be very appreciative.

 

[Mo Threat]

Something is wrong. There aren't any points in Snatcher that take that long to load. Nothing should take more than ten seconds [if that long] to load.

 

[megametalgreymon]

the problem is probabbly the emulator either not being setup properly (check your aspi setup) or just it doesnt support the game fully

what emu is it?

 

[IceDigger]

the rip should be ok, I have burned the game and it runs on a Sega CD with no problems, and Track 12 is in the rar files....

 

[MasterAkumaMatata]

How are you playing it? As an image (i.e., ISO/WAV or ISO/MP3) or burned to CD-R? If you've burned ISO/WAV to CD-R, did you make sure to use the cue sheet posted by Mo Threat in this thread, so that you get the cool FMV intro?

 

[UnAngel]

I figured out the problem. I had to rename the .ISO to Snatcher.ISO and then rename all the mp3's to Snatcher 02.mp3, Snatcher 03.mp3, ect.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[Shareef187]

Hi, I'm having the same problem, at the first turbocycle ride, it just keeps showing Gilian's face throughout the whole scene including Gilian, the Snatcher, and the guy shot in the leg. The ISO is already named Snatcher.iso, all the mp3 tracks are already named snattcher02.mp3, snatcher04.mp3, .... , to snatcher21.mp3 (is there supposed to be a space between snatcher and the track #, eg : snatcher 02.mp3?), none are missing to my knowledge. UnAngel, are you sure that's what fixed the problem? Are you sure it wasn't some setting that you tried?

 

[kevbec]

Shareef187 ever get you snatcher working iam haveing the same problem as you??? is it a bad iso maybe??

 

[Rumata]

Has anyone figured out the solution to the problem? My Snatcher is also suffering from it. I am emulating it with Kega, all the files are named correctly.

 

[jim993]

it's deffinatly a mp3 problem. either you named them wrong or just messed up the order of them or something but it's a mp3 problem. the game is looking for a sound to play and if that sound doesn't play then it stops at that point. it'll also happen in further points if you do not fix the problem. but it's most deffinatly a sound problem and not a iso problem or a emulator problem.

 

[Gallstaff]

I had the same problem. And, coincidently, i got it from area 51 as well. You have all the mp3's named correctly? Then it's the MP3 itself. YOu will need the program sound forge. What you must do is open sound forge and load track 12 in there. Go on google and find a site that lists the times of how long the mp3's should last. Then just go into sound forge and fix them. simple. There is more to it, but i'm sure you'll figure it out.

 

[M3d10n]

Since it was mentioned the problem happens on the real SCD too, I'm sure it has to do with the audio tracks.

Snatcher can hang if some audio tracks are shorter than they should be (shitty ripping). So they end before they were supposed to, and the SCD automatically tries to play the next track, but the SCD needs to load files, but the CD unit becomes busy.

My Snatcher burn came full of problems. First, ALL audio tracks had 2 extra seconds in the beginning, making the cutscenes get aout of synch audio. I fixed that, but then the intro (the coolest thing in the game) stoped working. It hang in the logo, and wouldn't play the intro (but I could skip with start).

I realized that the track 5 was shorter than it shoud be, ao I added 2 secs of silence at it's end. I got it all here, waiting to be burned. I couldn't test the whole game on the emu, but I beat it on the SCD and it ran fine.

The track's lenghts, from my rip:

02 - 0:06

03 - 2:14

04 - 4:33

05 - 0:19

06 - 1:09

07 - 2:43

08 - 3:31

09 - 1:24

10 - 2:05

11 - 1:45

12 - 4:26

13 - 1:51

14 - 1:17

15 - 1:15

16 - 0:14

17 - 1:36

18 - 0:44

19 - 6:58

20 - 0:30

21 - 7:35

Check if any of those in your game is shorter than those, and fix them by adding slience at the end. Might work (at least on the real hardware).