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    • voljega
      voljega Banned @Baude last edited by

      @baude said in How do I install and run daggerfall on recalbox?:

      Daggerfall run well on recalbox rpi3b, I frequently play this game. I advise yout to use Daggerfall setup on your pc and then put the files in recalbox. It works with me.
      Here the link to Daggerfall setup(very easy to use):http://theelderscrolls.wiwiland.net/Fichiers/DaggerfallSetup-2.15.0.exe

      Please read forum rules, posting copyrighted stuff or asking for it is forbidden.

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      • martymcfly7
        martymcfly7 last edited by martymcfly7

        @voljega From my understanding, the game is looking for the disc in the cd-rom drive. So that is why the DFCD directory is needed as well as the -label Daggerfall. I haven't been able to figure out how to make recalbox work when mounting a secondary directory like this.
        I've tried the following:
        imgmount d "c:\DFCD\dagger.iso" -t iso -fs iso -label Daggerfall
        😄
        cd DISK\DAGGER
        But this gave me an error that I had inserted the wrong CD. The only thing I can think of causing this is that it doesn't like the label I used when I created the iso. I've gotten a few other games too work this way except I haven't had to specify the -label before. When I created the iso the label had to be in all uppercase: DAGGERFALL.

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        • rummy1
          rummy1 @voljega last edited by

          @voljega Thanks for your help and testing to make sure it runs correctly! Sorry about the late reply.

          To answer your question... no I have not really used dosbox before. The only thing I was ever able to launch was the installer. I could not get any further than this. Could you perhaps give me a step by step guide on installing this game specifically? Explain it like I’m 5 please haha. Dos has went over my head on installing this game since it tells me I need a disc. And yes I’ve tried reading through that guide but it went over my head 😅

          @Baude Thank you for your suggestion! I do not own a windows computer to use for that specific installer. I have Mac and Linux computers. If I use wine do you think this would work?

          Also isn’t what @Baude linked me to okay since Bethesda made the game f2p? It’s only being sold on sites like gog since they’ve included extra stuff with it, correct? Just curious I honestly don’t know.

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned @rummy1 last edited by voljega

            @rummy1 afaik no it's not a game released from its copyright.

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            • rummy1
              rummy1 @voljega last edited by

              @voljega Oh okay I gotcha. Is there a way you could give me a step by step guide as far as the installation goes? I’m still a bit lost. Thanks again for your help!

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              • martymcfly7
                martymcfly7 last edited by

                @rummy1 Ok, I finally figured out how to run this on recalbox! It's took a lot to get it work but here goes. First create a folder, I named my dagger.pc. In the dagger.pc folder create a new folder named DAGGER, this where you will copy all the game files. You will also need a dosbox.bat for run the game. To create the dosbox.bat file, I'm assuming you are using a mac so you would use TextEdit program to create a text file. In this text file, copy this code:

                c:
                cd DAGGER
                FALL.EXE Z.CFG
                

                Save this file as dosbox.bat, you might need to remove the file extension at the end if it saves as dosbox.bat.txt. You will also need the dosbox.cfg, you can copy the code for this file from the following link: https://pastebin.com/13xrJdkw. Using TextEdit, you'll need to change the line that says mapperfile= to mapperfile=dagger. Also, the only way this would game would run was to increase the memsize= to memsize=48.
                You'll need to edit the Z.CFG file too. Using TextEdit, edit the second line: path 😄 and the third line: pathCD 😄 to read like this:

                path C:\DAGGER\arena2\
                pathCD C:\DAGGER\arena2\
                

                Out of all the dos games I've gotten to run on dosbox this one is the most complicated. I'm pretty sure there are many different ways to run the game. This is just one way that worked for me.

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @martymcfly7 last edited by voljega

                  @martymcfly7 hmmm it seems my version is not the same as you, so in case rummy needs another conf, here is mine
                  the dosbox.cfg :
                  https://pastebin.com/Cuu3JzKj

                  my dosbox.bat :

                  imgmount d .\ESdagger\cd\daggerf.iso -t cdrom
                  @c:
                  cd ESdagger
                  @dagger
                  

                  So basically my game folder is named ESdagger.pc and I have inside that one the dosbox.bat, dosbox.cfg and another ESdagger folder containing all the data for the game

                  This is already installed, so @rummy1 if you need to install it, you can do it directly on your recalbox.
                  Change the doscbox.bat to

                  imgmount d .\ESdagger\cd\daggerf.iso -t cdrom
                  d:
                  dir /p
                  

                  and look at the files to find setup.exe or install.exe or any other exe name which looks like installer

                  when found, change dosbox.bat to

                  imgmount d .\ESdagger\cd\daggerf.iso -t cdrom
                  @d:
                  install.exe
                  

                  (or setup.exe or the installer exe on the last line)

                  when install is finished put back first version of dosbox.bat

                  imgmount d .\ESdagger\cd\daggerf.iso -t cdrom
                  @c:
                  cd ESdagger
                  @dagger
                  

                  the last two lines should correspond to your installation so your ESdagger.pc rom folder is C:, the next two before lines need to provide path to your main game launcher, basically change the next to last line to your local install path

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                  • rummy1
                    rummy1 @martymcfly7 last edited by

                    @martymcfly7, @voljega Thank you guys for all the help here! I will use your instructions and get daggerfall to finally run on my pi! Sorry for the late replies. I’ve been a bit busy lately.

                    Will these instructions translate over to daggerfallsetup? I would like the modified version if possible but the original will be fine as well. I was so lost but you guys explained this very well! Thanks again for everything!

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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @rummy1 last edited by

                      @rummy1 said in How do I install and run daggerfall on recalbox?:

                      Will these instructions translate over to daggerfallsetup? I would like the modified version if possible but the original will be fine as well.

                      I'm not aware of this version ? Is it a modded one or somethign ? Anyway if it's running on DOS originally you should be able to run it on recalbox with DosBox

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                      • rummy1
                        rummy1 @voljega last edited by rummy1

                        @voljega it is the one that @Baude linked me to earlier. I believe it comes with dosbox and it’s preconfigured. It has extra bug fixes and content.
                        Here is a link to the unofficial wiki page: https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Daggerfall:Files

                        Edit: the only thing is that it’s made for newer versions of windows. Still uses dosbox though

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