“What Has Improved?”
We fixed a bug that caused players on touch screened devices to have to listen to the Letter Grid music while the ending scene was simultaneously playing.
“What caused the bug?”
The undesirable overlapping audio playback happened because the Letter Grid theme plays on PowerPoint’s main audio channel, on which all non imported transition and animation sound effects reside; but the FMV ending renders on a separate channel that only takes imported audio data, such as the character dialogue in “GIGA STREET FIGHTER II: The Final Round™”, which, given the right slide count and ordering settings, can overlap as copiously as a developer wants them to.
That being said, the main channel works like any one of the voices for the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), meaning that if it’s set not to turn off on its own, and nothing interrupts it, it’ll essentially just go on forever, unless it’s turned off or interrupted later, and since the FMV ending played on a different channel, that’s why that happened. We’re so very sorry about that!
Thankfully though, because the final boss quest of the deluxe edition already automatically knew how to handle multi channel management, we don’t need to release a patch for that, and so now, all bugs are truly fixed!
Please enjoy, and as always, “Happy Jading!™”
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