Mortal Kombat - Unchained

[solarmystic]

Tested with 0.7.6-593-windows with rig in sig.

I can confirm what NGboo mentioned above.

The game now hangs after a short while at the main menu. The game used to be playable (albeit with the known flickering problems and broken shadows).

Media Engine has already been disabled (otherwise the game wouldn't be able to go past the title screen in the first place).

Here's the logfile for 0.7.6.-593 until the game hangs. (a massive 15MB logfile compressed with 7zip):-

http://www.mediafire.com/?txh4tzadxh4fac1

There seems to be a new error besides the usual one, spammed over and over again in the logfile:-

Code:

49:02:166 snd_stream_s E[HLE]: HLE\sceAtrac.cpp:495 avcodec_decode_audio4: Error decoding audio -1094995529

Audio decoding which worked fine in previous builds for this game, is now broken, leading to the crash.

Mods, if you can verify this issue, please move the game to from playable to ingame or to intro/menus since it reliably hangs at the main menu after short while. The game is NOT PLAYABLE at all as of the latest git revision. Thanks in advance.


UPDATE:-

Tracing the issue back throughout the past git revisions has yielded the following results:-

(All tests done with Media Engine disabled)

0.7.6-556 - The game worked normally, exhibiting the usual known flickering and broken shadows issue but was still playable.

0.7.6-567 - The game worked normally as per 0.7.6-556, and music loops properly.

0.7.6-570 - The game works normally. This is the LAST git revision to have no audio issues. (besides the usual visual ones)

0.7.6-571 - The game doesn't crash but now, the music has started not to loop properly.

0.7.6-576 - The game doesn't crash but the music is not looping properly now.

0.7.6-586 - Similar to 0.7.6-576, the game doesn't crash but music is not looping properly.

0.7.6-587 - This is where the game started to crash after a short while in the main menu.

0.7.6-589 - Same as 0.7.6-593

0.7.6-593 - Game is broken and now hangs after a short while at the main menu

During the process of tracing the hanging issue in past git revisions, I discovered another issue that MK has which wasn't apparent in older builds; the music is now not looping properly.


So, to summarize, we now have 2 new issues here for Mortal Kombat that can be traced back to two revisions, one starting earlier than the other:-

1. Game now hangs after a short while at the title screen (issue started from 0.7.6-587):-

After much testing, I've a very strong suspicion that oioitff's commit done in v0.7.6-587-g1a2bcb7 is reponsible for the hanging behaviour as this particular problem occurs right after 0.7.6-586 in revision 0.7.6-587.

TL; DR 0.7.6-586 is the last revision where the game is playable without hanging, but with the music not looping properly.


2. Game's music is not looping properly (issue started from 0.7.6-571)

This issue started on a revision much earlier that 0.7.6-586. After some testing I have traced the origin of this issue to raven02's commit in v0.7.6-571-g61c7779. The problem only started showing itself in all revisions after that particular commit.

It seems like while the commit fixed the issue of music looping in Three Kingdoms VIII, it broke the music looping in Mortal Kombat.

In conclusion, Git revision 0.7.6-570 is the last revision where the game exhibits no audio issues at all and doesn't crash. (besides having the usual visual problems)

Thanks for reading this long winded issue report.