Strangeness with GBA ames on DS speakers

[Querjek]

Has anyone noticed that, if you play a GBA game on the DS with the volume not very loud, that, occasionally, the speakers with "cap". I know that there's some technical term for this, but I don't remember it right now--it's the sort of scratchy noise that a speaker makes if it is pushed to produce too much sound.

Anyways, I really enjoy the sharpness of the DS screens for GBA games, but I can't stand the sound problems! Anyone else have this?

[Zoe F]

The word you're looking for might be clipping? That's the term for what happens when a waveform is made too loud for the space provided to it, causing the tops of the audio samples to be cut, or clipped off, which creates a really nasty sound.

I have not had any sound problems with mine, though I haven't played too many GBA games on my DS either. Does this happen for you on all games?

[Querjek]

The word you're looking for might be clipping? That's the term for what happens when a waveform is made too loud for the space provided to it, causing the tops of the audio samples to be cut, or clipped off, which creates a really nasty sound.

I have not had any sound problems with mine, though I haven't played too many GBA games on my DS either. Does this happen for you on all games?
"Clipping", yeah, I think that's it. The only GBA games that I've used on it are Kingdom Hearts: COM, Final Fantasy 1+2, and Donkey Kong Country 2, and all 3 of those had this problem occasionally.

[tededfred]

I noticed this today playing Mario 64 DS. Turned the volume up a bit and it was fine.

[jonjandran]

Well it's not clipping.

Clipping only occurs when the amplifier circuit is overloaded.
And having the sound low wouln't cause the amplifier circuit to overload.

It must be a bug , like the GP32 sound bug. Sometimes this type of thing happens when certain things are emulated. maybe the DS has some GBA sound emulation happening ?

[Gamereviewgod]

I've noticed it gets real bad with games that use Musy X sound. Iridion immediately comes to mind as do some of the Jurassic Park games. It's almost inaudible.

[NintendoMan]

Haven't noticed this problem yet.