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    • roman126
      roman126 last edited by roman126

      I have been playing Pro Pinball Timeshock on DosBox through Retropie and it runs great ๐Ÿ˜„

      Iโ€™m struggling to get this working in Recalbox, copied over the game folder, created a DosBox.bat file etc, but no joy.

      Has anyone been successful in getting this to work on a Recalbox, or any other of the Pro Pinball games for that matter.

      Tried some PSX versions on Recalbox which just black screen as others have experienced.

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      • voljega
        voljega Banned @roman126 last edited by

        @roman126 yes it works.

        Please read https://github.com/recalbox/recalbox-os/wiki/How-to-use-DOSBox-to-emulate-DOS-games, it should help you.

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        • roman126
          roman126 @voljega last edited by

          @voljega cheers, with a bit of trial and error in the DosBox.bat file I managed to get it to run, it was very slow and than gave me an out of memory message.

          Iโ€™m guessing there were other game specific config details that havenโ€™t pulled across

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          • voljega
            voljega Banned @roman126 last edited by

            @roman126 I will send you my dosbox.cfg for that game

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            • roman126
              roman126 @voljega last edited by

              @voljega cheers appreciated ๐Ÿ‘

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              • voljega
                voljega Banned @roman126 last edited by

                @roman126 my dosbox.bat : https://pastebin.com/cghAcjbj

                my dosbox.cfg : https://pastebin.com/ZjJTjWJ6

                but the game is lagging, picture ok, but sound is very cracky, game is playablen, though

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                • roman126
                  roman126 @voljega last edited by roman126

                  @voljega thanks again, very much appreciated ๐Ÿ‘

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                  • Dragu
                    Dragu Banned last edited by Dragu

                    @roman126
                    @voljega

                    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
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                    • voljega
                      voljega Banned @Dragu last edited by

                      @dragu I thought all my games where using dynamic core but I guess not

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                      • roman126
                        roman126 @Dragu last edited by

                        @voljega
                        @dragu

                        Cheers, I thought it was unusual because it runs perfectly on Retropie, I can post the settings if it helps.

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                        • Dragu
                          Dragu Banned last edited by

                          @roman126
                          In general Recalbox is more speed as Retropie, so games are different and for this I told you to try. ๐Ÿ™‚

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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
                            ๐Ÿ˜„
                            @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
                                  ๐Ÿ˜„
                                  @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 ๐Ÿ™‚

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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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