[RESOLVED] Nestopia - no sound when playing NES games

[VinceF]

Hi,

Did some searching online and on this forum and not finding anything that will help.  When I run a game via GameEx using Nestopia for NES games, there is no sound at all when in the game.  There is sound as I scroll through the games in GameEx but nothing once a game is entered to be played.  Any ideas where to start?

[Draco1962]

Hi, please attach copies of your gameex.ini and log.txt files when reporting a possible issue.

Also, do you get sound when you attempt to play games through Nestopia outside of GameEx?

[VinceF]

I tried playing them through Nestopia outside of GameEx but when I do that, all I get is a black screen .  I'm assuming there should be some sort of menu bar in Nestopia but it's not there.  Tried Googling that and didn't find anything that told me how to "turn on" the menu bar so I couldn't fully explore that avenue.

Attached are the ini and txt files as requested.

GameEx.ini log.txt

[Draco1962]

We will try to help, however, you need to ensure that the games play through the emulator you have chosen first. 

Nestopia's last update was in 2008 so there may be issues as it continues to age. 

https://www.emulator-zone.com/nes/nestopia

[RedDog]

Hey Vince,

To toggle between window and full screen in Nestopia, hit Alt-Enter. You will also find a setting in Nestopia under Options > Preferences for switching to full screen when the emulator launches once you have everything set to your liking.

As far a the lack of sound, in Nestopia under Options > Sound, perhaps your (sound) Device is set incorrectly. Windows 10 also can also at times have some wonkiness with sound settings and programs which may require some tweaking and investigation.

Not sure if these will solve your problem, but may help to sort a few things out. Good luck.

[VinceF]

4 hours ago, RedDog said:

Hey Vince,

To toggle between window and full screen in Nestopia, hit Alt-Enter. You will also find a setting in Nestopia under Options > Preferences for switching to full screen when the emulator launches once you have everything set to your liking.

As far a the lack of sound, in Nestopia under Options > Sound, perhaps your (sound) Device is set incorrectly. Windows 10 also can also at times have some wonkiness with sound settings and programs which may require some tweaking and investigation.

Not sure if these will solve your problem, but may help to sort a few things out. Good luck.

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Thanks Red Dog.  Both you're suggestions led me to be able to resolve the issue.  I was able to exit full-screen to get the menu bar and then went into Options>Sound and found no sound device was selected.  Once I selected it, sound worked both in Nestopia and via GameEx. so problem solved!  Again, thanks so much for your help.