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I don't hear any of the music either, but I DO hear the other game sounds.

I have a (new) Palm Tungsten E, and I installed Village Sim on a 256MB SD card with about 200MB free space. The game works great... I just don't have the music.

I DO hear music and game sounds with other games that are installed on the SD card. It's just Village Sim that I don't hear any music.




I'm following up to my previous post on this.

Yesterday I deleted all the Village Sim files (program, music files, database), installed Village Sim fresh onto my expansion card, and I started a new game -- to give a totally fresh start and to also see if the music might work. Amazingly, this actually did the trick. When I started a new game, the music worked for the first time since I purchased the game.

However, I've seen yesterday and today that when I run a HotSync and then start the game again, sometimes the music works and sometimes it doesn't. I'm not sure why it works sometimes and not others, but I have a theory. It MIGHT be related to opening the game with Hi-Launcher (Hi-Launcher creates menus but that's it, unlike ZLauncher that does a lot more).

I've tried opening Village Sim from my PDA's usual menu system (click SD card in the PDA menu, then the game's icon) and from Hi-Launcher's menu. I **think** the music comes on more consistently when I open it from my PDA's usual menu system than if I open it from Hi-Launcher, but I'll be testing that theory during the next couple of days.
-- The music comes on about half the time when the game is launched via Hi-Launcher.
-- I'm not sure if it comes on every time via the PDA menu or not. So far today (4 times), the music comes on each time that way, but I want to give a day or two of testing this theory.

FYI:
1. Whenever I do a HotSync, I always put Village Sim on Pause first.
2. For this new game I've been running it on Slow or Normal speed.
3. I have a Tungsten E, and as I've mentioned, I've installed the game to the 256MB expansion card (150+MB free space).
4. I use Backup Buddy Pro and Backup Buddy VS (backup for the expansion card).
5. I set my PDA to stay on while charging. Therefore, as long as I leave my PDA plugged in, the game will continue playing with the screen showing, etc. I can then glance over at it while at my desk working. So for this new game, so far it's only played in the background when I'm using another app on the PDA.

Game Stats so far for this new game as I write this email:

Realtime hours played: 22
Villagers born: 7
Villagers cured: 5
Villagers buried: 0
Oldest villager: 61
Max village population: 13
food harvested: 10,378
Crabs caught: 0
Total tech points earned: 50,152
Tech levels completed: 5
Island events encountered: 2
Puzzles solved: 1 of 12

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Preferences:
Sound: on
Music: on
Music Volume: high
Difficulty: low
Game Speed: Normal
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Once I've tested out my theory for a couple of days, I'll respond again with an update.


Edited by Schatzie (04/24/05 06:56 PM)