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    • roman126
      roman126 last edited by roman126

      @voljega
      @dragu

      Please excuse my inexperience, the boot file from Retrope reads as follows;-

      /opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox
      -c "@mount c $HOME/RetroPie/roms/pc/pptime"
      -c "@imgmount d $HOME/RetroPie/roms/pc/pptime/pptime.cue -t iso"
      -c "@c:"
      -c "@pinball"

      for the dosbox.bat in Recalbox, does this translate to;-

      imgmount d .\cd\pptime/pptime.cue -t iso
      😄
      @cd pptime
      @cls
      @pinball

      as for some reason im struggling to even run the program now!

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @roman126 last edited by

        @roman126 I gave you my dosbox.bat file, start from that and adapt it to your paths

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        • Dragu
          Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

          @roman126
          In general when I have something to mount, I make it in dosbox.cfg
          and with the direct path :

          [autoexec]
          # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
          # You can put your MOUNT lines here.
          imgmount d "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/pptime.pc/pptime.cue" -t iso
          
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          • voljega
            voljega Banned @roman126 last edited by voljega

            @roman126 said in Pro Pinball Timeshock DosBox RPi3:

            for the dosbox.bat in Recalbox, does this translate to;-
            imgmount d .\cd\pptime/pptime.cue -t iso
            😄
            @cd pptime
            @cls
            @pinball
            as for some reason im struggling to even run the program now!

            Well you have to have the right path, what you wrote is nonsense. Your game should be in a pptime.pc folder I suppose, and then you must have the right path to everythign you use.
            You can use the pause command to debug your dosbox.bat file

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            • voljega
              voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

              @dragu said in Pro Pinball Timeshock DosBox RPi3:

              Some ameliorations may be possible in cfg,
              to try :
              windowresolution=1024x768
              output=opengl
              more memory :
              memsize=63
              to try also, even with risk of deformations, game dependent :
              aspect=false
              I found better graphics and speed with the following :
              scaler=none
              Also important for speed :
              core=dynamic
              cycles=auto
              what can resolve a sound problem :
              sbmixer=false
              for keyboard some layouts

              german :
              keyboardlayout=de129
              french :
              keyboardlayout=fr120 (fr189)
              english :
              keyboardlayout=us103

              well sadly this doesn't change anything, the game is working the same, passing sbmixer from true to false just adds musics which weren't playing before, but the sound is still awfull/laging

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              • Dragu
                Dragu Banned last edited by

                @voljega
                Therefore I wrote "may be"
                Some games will never play in full speed on Raspberry, so I cannot understand for what reason it should run better on Retropie, based on Debian ? Perhaps an older Dosbox version ?

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                • voljega
                  voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                  @dragu mi PI3 is not overclocked, maybe it could help a little

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                  • Dragu
                    Dragu Banned last edited by

                    @voljega said in Pro Pinball Timeshock DosBox RPi3:

                    @dragu mi PI3 is not overclocked, maybe it could help a little

                    Me also dont like CPU's running around on crutches 🙂

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                    • Jimboy00
                      Jimboy00 last edited by

                      @roman126 I've running Pro Pinball Timeshock under dosbox (recalbox) on my overclocked RPi3, but also not really playable.

                      Sound is ok in my case, also the background CD tracks plays quite well. The issue I have is, that the game in general runs to slow. It seems the (emulation) speed from an RPi3 is too slow for such a late dosgame as Timeshock is.
                      In my case, I have 10-15 fps max. I tried to optimize a lot in settings, but I don't get it really smooth.

                      As from my experience, the last generation of triple A dosgames from 1994 onwards (especially 3D games) are too advanced for the RPi3.

                      As you already said above, it's also not possible to run the PSX version of Timeshock. I got it working on Retropie, but what I remember, they offer a second emulator core for PSX, with which it has worked.
                      But as the recalbox team is doing such a good job in general and also with the fast update intervals, maybe a further update will bring us on Recalboxos also a second (for ARM) or updated emulator core for the PSX, which covers the incompatible games.

                      RPi3@1350Mhz / FLIRC Case / 8bitdo SF30 pro

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                      • roman126
                        roman126 @Jimboy00 last edited by

                        @jimboy00

                        Check out this video, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SVRoGyX37Kk I downloaded and works perfectly, sadly on Retropie, but goes to show that it can work perfectly 😄

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                        • lmerckx
                          lmerckx last edited by

                          @Jimboy00 @roman126 There is a speed regression for the last versions of DosBox (under Recalbox), it should be resolved in next version.
                          You can see this post for more information:
                          https://forum.recalbox.com/topic/13588/strange-error-in-dosbox/44

                          Recalbox 9.1 on RPI 4, SSD 250Gb, 2 Logitech F710, Nespi4case
                          Contributions for DosBox, ScummVM, ResidualVM, Daphne (Hypseus)

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