Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24577221-20141023153856/@comment-24145588-20141023205629

BunsenH wrote: There's one interesting little bug that's appeared... so to speak. The Fung Pray doesn't do anything but sit there, doing its "tum te tum, waiting for my turn" action. It doesn't play. If you Mute it, it doesn't go to sleep, though the little "Zzz"s appear.

'Disclaimer: Please do not attempt these steps unless you are very familiar with moving around Windows application data; doing it wrong could tragically break your game. Also, my attempted fix doesn't seem to have made any difference anyway.'

Yup, you're right. I poked around some in the resource files, comparing what's in the permanent files (Program Files\My Singing Monsters\data) vs. the cached appdata (Application Data\BBB\MySingingMonsters\1\downloads), and found some differences related to the Fung Pray.

Three files are missing from the permanent files:


 * \audio\music\07-LM_Monster_01.ogg
 * \audio\music\LM-Memory.ogg
 * \xml_resources\spore_LM.xml

And at least one file has changed significantly:


 * \xml_bin\monster_lm.bin is 913K in the permanent location, 966K in the appdata cache

The spore_LM.xml doesn't seem as important, since it would only apply to eggs, and there is a generic spore_.xml to cover for it if needed.

Looks like those weren't part of the permanent resource download, but they remain in the cached App Data. On the assumption that maybe the game was doing something smart, and saying, "since the sound files are missing, I won't go through the motions of playing," or that the sound/animation controller was in the missing monster_lm.bin, I dropped those files into their correct locations.

I tried dropping them into their intended target locations, but after restarting the game (so the resources would be forced to reload), I still didn't see any difference; the Fung Pray still just sits and nods. I suppose there must be a problem in the program itself, or maybe in one of the other resource files that I didn't mess with.

All of which makes me glad I took a screenshot of my Ethereal Island with the Fung Pray in action, before I updated this morning.