I've always wanted to get a surround sound set-up for my gaming consoles and I'm looking for something that'll go along friendly with the N64 and Dolby Pro Logic II. Couple of questions: 1. Have you tried surround sound on the N64 with compatible games? What did you think of it? 2. I'm guessing the Audio jacks from the composite cable go into the surround sound receiver? I'm using a N64 with HDMI connection with the UltraHDMI set-up, how does this change things? 3. What receiver/speaker set-up would you recommend that is compatible with Pro Logic and N64?
1 ocarina of time, in the water temple. You hear water falling all around you, which is impressive considering. 2 correct. Composite audio into a audio receiver that supports dolby pro logic. The output is only 4.0 though AFAIK. Left, right, center and mono rear. I think subwoofer would have to be "faked". 3 I think any that supports dolby pro logic really. I have no idea if the hdmi mod passes through the dolby pro logic encoding or not. You'd have to ask the people who made the actual mod. Keep us posted on any progress. Interested to know what you manage to get out of this (confirmed audiophile)
Almost any "non supermarket" receiver decodes dolby surround, prologic, prologic II. Look at the game options or instruction booklet regarding compatibility. Some games like Ocarina or earlier titles don't do prologic II, they do an older format with just one surround channel. Some later titles like Conker, Banjo Tooie, Majora's Mask, Perfect Dark, Mario Party 3 I think, etc, do 5.1. Playstation, Dreamcast, Gamecube, Xbox, Wii... They all have prologic, so it shouldn't be difficult. If you are new to prologic yes, the red and white cables are used and the receiver does the job of decoding. Prologic is just that, emulated surround up to 5.1 (depends on software) from analog 2.0. The software really helps. It's just the best audio available for the systems that do only prologic. Some purists will say 2.0 is better, though. Some lazy people turn on prologic or generic surround decoder for anything. I guess you want what is the best option the game offer, so you really need to see game by game for older systems like N64 and Playstation. About the HDMI thing, I don't know what is that. Is it a box that converts composite/s-video to hdmi? I believe the receiver still decodes prologic from stereo audio regardless of connection, no? I mean, I've never used a non standalone receiver, but a friend was asking about this the other day, with one of these receiver/bluray player combo. He used prologic for everything, even Xbox 360 and PS3, because the receiver didn't had 6 channel inputs at all, the 6 channel "pure" feature was exclusive to the built in player.
guys, I've just bought a onkyo hts5805 system. running a n64 through the front 3 phono (red white n yellow), i have to set the onkyo amp to surround/dolby n the set the game settings to surround. I know on the n64 has ocarina, majoras mask, donkey kong 64, conkers n perfect dark support dolby surround. Also jurassic park on the snes supports dolby surround, only when in fps mode inside buildings. The ps2 supports Dolby n dts via opttical....my personal fave is ssx 3 in dts mode. switching from stereo to that makes a HUGE difference.
Glad you got it working. Im going to see if my receiver will do it through hdmi from the framemeister. That'd be interesting.
