Topic: Technophobe Pro Logic Help Please.

[Stu]

Hello,

I went out a purchased a 'home cinema' system the other day, and after unpacking it, setting it up and playing a DVD (Saving Private Ryan) I was very impressed... the opening beach scene sounds fantastic on my system.

Anyway, I know it's probably mind-numblingly obvious, but how do I get my Gamecube to use the surrond sound speakers?  My Cube is connected to my TV via a Scart lead, and my DVD cinema system is also connected to my TV via a scart lead.  I assumed that the Cube would use the surround sound speakers, as they are both connected to the TV with scart leads, however my Cube just uses the TV speakers.

The Cube is on AV2, and the DVD cinema system on AV1.  What lead am I supposed to connect the Gamecube to the DVD cinema thingy with?  They are not actually connected to each other at all, just both connected to the TV, so at the moment, I can watch a DVD with surround sound, but not play on the Cube.

Sorry if it's a stupid question, but I can't get it to work.

Many thanks.

[Stu]

Actually, I am getting the sound from the cinema speakers, but do I have to select pro-logic on the game I'm playing?  I get the option to display in 60hz when starting up, but no option to use 5.1

Would a game, like say Rogue Leader, display this option?  I can still only select stero or mono from the sound menu.

[Grey Ninja]

GameCube "mimics" 5.1 audio by using a stereo signal to produce a surround sound.  All you should have to do to enable surround sound on your GameCube is select "stereo" in the audio menu.  Some games such as Mario Sunshine will give you a "surround" option to better your sound quality as well.

What you need to do is enable "Prologic II" on your receiver.  Your receiver should say "Prologic II" on the front of it if it supports it.  If it doesn't, it should at least support "Prologic".  The difference there being that you can't hear a difference between rear left and rear right.  Things that are behind you won't seperate into left and right channels.  Prologic II takes that one step further and seperates the left and right audio.

Once you have Prologic enabled on your receiver, start up Rogue Leader and go to the audio test in the options menu.  It will show a TIE Fighter flying around the screen.  When it flys behind you, you should clearly be able to track the TIE Fighter as it flys around your head.  If you can do that, then you have the game set up just fine.