Found cause of slowdown in Empire Strikes Back

[psycopathicteen]

Apparently it has something to do with the sound chip, probably streaming sound effects. I'll look more into this.

[MottZilla]

Which slow down are you talking about? Just general slow down when there are a lot of objects on screen at once or something more specific?

[psycopathicteen]

Slowdown in general.

This morning I patched it to skip over the routine, and there wasn't even a difference other than the slowdown disappearing.

[Diskover]

I've never noticed any slowdown in that game

[psycopathicteen]

This game has as much slowdown as Super Ghouls and Ghosts.

[psycopathicteen]

Okay, I found out that the game over screen uses it for Yoda's voice, and it doesn't allow me to continue until Yoda's voice sample ends. Now if there was a way of only getting it to work during the game over screen.

[MottZilla]

Care to share what routine you patched out that eliminates slowdown? So others can try it out? I've played the game recently and am aware of the slowdown problems.

[psycopathicteen]

The routine at $83829f

[MottZilla]

So you're saying this eliminates the slowdown?
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