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Any game which uses AX Ucode (for example Bust-a-Move 3000). I will not fill in further since other information does not apply to the problem.

I reversed the AX mixer procedure (huge procedure called by Command 0x03 handler) and found that the ADDPAXZ instruction does not work as it is guessed by context.

At the very end of the mixer is a small code from a series of ADDPAXZ instructions that increment pointers of current Sample Buffers.

Original disassembled code, according to the Duddie document and the current implementation of ADDPAXZ in Dolphin:

0457 00 83 0E 08 	lri  	ar3, #0x0E08
0459 1C 03       	mrr  	ar0, ar3
045A 1F F5       	mrr  	ac1.m, prod.m1
045B 19 1A       	lrri 	ax1.l, @ar0

045C F8 58       	addpaxz	ac0, ax0      	l    	ax1.h, @ar0   

045D FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1      	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m 
045E F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax0     	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m 

045F FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1      	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m
0460 F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax0      	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m

0461 FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1      	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m
0462 F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax0      	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m

0463 FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1      	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m

0464 F8 3B       	addpaxz	ac0, ax0      	s    	@ar3, ac1.m
0465 1B 7E       	srri 	@ar3, ac0.m

If you try to decompile it, then it will do absolutely not what it intended.

But if you fix the ADDPAXZ decoding as follows:

ADDPAXZ *   1111 10sd xxxx xxxx         // ADDPAXZ $acD, $ax1.[l|h]

That disassembled code will look like this:

045B 19 1A       	lrri 	ax1.l, @ar0

045C F8 58       	addpaxz	ac0, ax1.l     	l    	ax1.h, @ar0 

045D FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1.h     	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m 
045E F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax1.l     	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m 

045F FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1.h     	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m
0460 F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax1.l     	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m

0461 FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1.h     	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m
0462 F8 B1       	addpaxz	ac0, ax1.l     	ls   	ax1.h, ac1.m

0463 FB A0       	addpaxz	ac1, ax1.h     	ls   	ax1.l, ac0.m

0464 F8 3B       	addpaxz	ac0, ax1.l     	s    	@ar3, ac1.m

0465 1B 7E       	srri 	@ar3, ac0.m

And if you translate this into c, now it works as intended:

AdvanceSampleBufPtr() 			// 0459
{
	ar3 = 0xE08;
	ar0 = ar3;

	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;	
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
	*ar3++ = *ar0++ + 0x40;
}