Emulator

usually after 20mins of play

OK i realized that hang was only happening when using xaudio

Works fine here with Xaudio.

iceman, please test this on latest master.

Unfortunately I suppose that this issue is not fixed, because on my system (WinXP 32-bit) using r3.0-616 revision f28e0cff1527 I'm still experiencing random hangs (0 fps 60 vps 100% speed) in the intro of Skies of Arcadia Legends - GEAE8P (I think my issue is related to this one, so I didn't create another one).

it works fine under dsound
will check latest bit later,need around 20 mins of gameplay time to experience hang

yes it happened again with xaudio,just played 3rd map and it hanged(~10mins each map)

Well I'm no more really sure it's the same issue, because after trying a lot of versions I got back even to 3.0 (7617) to find out that it was affected as well (seems it was a lot of time I didn't test Skies of Arcadia)...so I think I'll have to open another issue (furthermore for me Dsound has the same problem as Xaudio2)...

i cant reproduce your problem with skies of arcadia,although i own ntsc version of the game.to try out i watched everything from start of game trough intro video and all the way to first battle,no problems.

i forgot to mention that my last galaxy xaudio was done on r616-git Revision: f28e0cff1527

On my system it is random: sometimes intro works, sometimes not.

hatarumoro, there is an issue open for Skies of Arcadia in issue 4523.