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With MAME, we all have our flaws, irritate each other in little ways, there's tension, and sometimes it does boil over, but we get something out the door. The lack of assistance, or even acknowledgement on the multichannel audio thing is a personal bugbear right now for example.

To be honest? The lack of assistance or acknowledgement is that most of us don't know shit about the OSD. That applies pretty broadly to everyone but a person or two on the team. Most of the stuff added to the OSD layer lately has been cargo-culted.

In this case, the same advice applies that would apply to a new developer wanting to write a driver - just dive in, try to learn from what's already there, and if you hit a blocking issue, eat crow and share it on a more temporally-permanent venue than the Bannister shoutbox.

I'd personally be happy to try to dig into multi-channel audio on the Windows OSD side, but I have 1 monitor and my output devices are all stereo. So if you have suggestions on how I can side-step that in order to test things, let me know, and show me how to induce issues to fix.

you can get external USB sound cards pretty cheap if you really don't have more than one stereo output jack, otherwise, if you have the jacks, just plug some throw-away headphones into each, you can get yourself 6 channels to test with 3 pairs of £2 headphones on a 5.1 card.

Imagine I'm working on a PC that belongs to my employer (which I am), and so am unable to make changes to the underlying cards within the system, so that's a no-go. As for headphones, I have plenty of shitty headphones. What colour sockets do I plug them into?

https://www.hobby-hour.com/electronics/sound-card-color-code.php … those are your basic colours. Lime Green / Orange / Black would be your basic 6 channels for a 5.1 setup. Some might dual-purpose the Mic-In (pink) for some channels, or to get 7.1 if they don't have dedicated.

So they're literally just standard 1/8" audio sockets that just add two output channels for each device plugged in? My mind is blown. Alright, I'll have a look.