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    • rockaddicted
      rockaddicted @voljega last edited by

      @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

      @substring ah ah ok, so @rockaddicted maybe ?

      Sorry dude I didn't have time to test this emulator, can't help you.

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by

        @rockaddicted It's not related to the emulator, more an Emulation Station problem regarding how it shows folder as a menu item.

        Any way, i'll file a bug when 4.1 is released and when there will be a new bug tracking system

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        • rockaddicted
          rockaddicted last edited by

          ah ok, indeed I miss read. I'll check that on the current master build.

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          • rockaddicted
            rockaddicted last edited by

            @voljega I tested on 4.1 x86 version with that:

            # ls /recalbox/share/roms/dos/test/prince.pc/
            CDUNGEON.DAT  DIGISND1.DAT  EDUNGEON.DAT  GUARD.DAT     IBM_SND1.DAT  INSTALL.PDM   MIDISND1.DAT  PRINCE.EXE    SKEL.DAT      VIZIER.DAT
            CPALACE.DAT   DIGISND2.DAT  EPALACE.DAT   GUARD1.DAT    IBM_SND2.DAT  KID.DAT       MIDISND2.DAT  PV.DAT        TITLE.DAT     VPALACE.DAT
            DESKTOPD.CFG  DIGISND3.DAT  FAT.DAT       GUARD2.DAT    INSTALL.EXE   LEVELS.DAT    PRINCE.DAT    SHADOW.DAT    VDUNGEON.DAT  dosbox.bat
            

            And I have no problem, game boots fine.

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            • voljega
              voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by

              @rockaddicted strange.... i wil retry but on my 4.1 ES doesn't show on boot, I tried with a pc game with both dosbox.cfg and dosbox.bat inside he folder

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              • rockaddicted
                rockaddicted last edited by

                @voljega maybe a bug fixed between last unstable and current master.
                Please test again on next stable release once available.
                If problem, we'll check that.

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @voljega last edited by voljega

                  @rockaddicted I don't remember where the log is maybe there will be something in there regarding the crash of ES ?

                  @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

                  @voljega Tested Tyrian, joystick works but there is a deadzone problem, the ship goes toward the right by itself, is that configurable in the mapper file ?

                  Ok it was more a sensibility/calibrate problem with the joystick drifting by itself.
                  So to fix that you just need to edit dosbox.conf, go into [joystick] part and modify timed=true to timed=false

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                  • rockaddicted
                    rockaddicted last edited by

                    you can restart ES on ssh a check the error message.

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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @rockaddicted last edited by

                      @rockaddicted ok worked for me too the real bug seems to be when you have the same *.pc game in /recalbox/share/ros/dos AND in a subfolder of that too, but it isn't very important then

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                      • rockaddicted
                        rockaddicted @voljega last edited by

                        @voljega thanks for feedback

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                        • voljega
                          voljega Banned last edited by

                          @dragu
                          @voljega said in Confused Over Dos Games:

                          imgmount d .\cd\wackywheels.iso -t cdrom directly mount the iso located there /recalbox/share/roms/dos/WackyWe.pc/cd/wackywheels.iso

                          Well I was a little kick because it works with 'real' dos name for the iso but not with full name when the command is accessed from dosbox.bat, I saw by adding the pause command at the end of the command.bat, really usefull.

                          • if i change the line to imgmount d .\cd\wackyw~1.iso -t cdrom it works
                          • if i rename the iso to waky.iso imgmount d .\cd\wacky.iso -t cdrom it works
                          • if i leave like imgmount d .\cd\wackywheels.iso -t cdrom I get the error image is not found
                          • if i try imgmount d ".\cd\wackywheels.iso" -t cdrom, image is not found either

                          The game launched nonetheless but this is a bother for automatic converting.

                          Do you have an idea to adress directly more-than-8-characters names from dosbox.bat ?
                          Didn't try to put it back in [autoexec] part yet

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                          • Dragu
                            Dragu Banned last edited by

                            @voljega
                            Dosbox is always a 8.3 file naming system, not like DRDOS later. It has just the Microsoft standard.

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                            • voljega
                              voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                              @dragu so impossible to get more than 8 characters and forced to use ~1 and such ?

                              (I have seen examples like imgmount d ".\cd\wackywheels.iso" -t cdrom in some dosbox.cfg [autoexec] but I don't think I tested them)

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                              • voljega
                                voljega Banned last edited by voljega

                                @dragu well even more confusing, @Cthulhus discovered that you can even put some dosbox.cfg parameters into dosbox.bat
                                So the following dosbox.bat:

                                aspect=true
                                mapperfile=lba1.map
                                
                                imgmount d .\cd\wackyw~1.iso -t cdrom
                                c: 
                                cd WACKY
                                pause
                                WW.EXE
                                

                                will rightly set the display to 4/3 but the mapper file won't be used if dosbox.cfg is not present with the same parameters
                                @Cthulhus managed to set some parameters for the cpu and for graphics too

                                Well maybe it's better to separate the two anyway

                                On a side note, to finish with iso names having more than 8 characters : it seems to work to specify them in dosbox.cfg [autoexec] with the full name but then you also have to use the full path

                                And in the mapper with an xbox360 I can configure dpad directions with the internal mapper but the keys are then not working in game

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                                • Dragu
                                  Dragu Banned last edited by

                                  @voljega
                                  Yes, you can make alot of operations in the bat file. And create other batch files.
                                  I also find something concerning your relative path story, perhaps it can help you :
                                  https://www.gog.com/forum/general_archive/batch_bat_file_to_make_dosbox_games_portable_by_using_relative_directory_path_structure

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                                  • voljega
                                    voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by voljega

                                    @dragu nice but I don't have any trouble any more with the relative path, only with long names

                                    I'll keep it on the side, though

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                                    • cotedeporc
                                      cotedeporc last edited by

                                      @voljega

                                      Do you still have dead-zone problems with your joystick?
                                      I try to play on Captain Dynamo and the joystick (which is auto-detected) generate some ghost movements.

                                      Thanks!

                                      Thème FoolScreen / Squared

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                                      • rockaddicted
                                        rockaddicted last edited by

                                        Never used this emulator. If you could create a basic wiki to help users to use dosbox, could be awesome 😉

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                                        • voljega
                                          voljega Banned @cotedeporc last edited by

                                          @cotedeporc did yo try to modify timed=true to timed=false in the [joystick] part of your custom dosbox.cfg ? This solved my problem !

                                          But apparentlybthere is no easy way to configure deadzone in dosbox...

                                          @rockaddicted ok i will as son as i'll have tested a little more game, twenty or so (only 4-5 for now !)

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                                          • rockaddicted
                                            rockaddicted last edited by

                                            @voljega no problem, take your time 😉 Thank you.

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