Cannot get anything to run in dosbox

[aintmichael]

So I've googled and read everything i can find in these forums, but I cannot get any dos applications to run on my recalbox. It seems like it's not running anything in the .bat files I create. As IN: If i add pause commands or try to force errors or anything the results are always the same. The DosBox logo pops up for a second, then it goes right back to the menu. I'm happy to post any logs or config or whatever, but this is a brand new install with zero changes on my end. I have the installed version of the application, and have tried every version of a bat file I can find here in the forums. I would really love some help on this or at least some troubleshotting steps.

Thanks!

[voljega]

@aintmichael post your bat files on pastebin and cfg and we'll work from here.

Also name of the game and content of .pc dir

[voljega]

also do you have an official version of recalbox with untweaked es_systems.cfg ? because last person which had your problem had copied a bad es_systems.cfg in its system

[aintmichael]

dosbox.bat

dosbox.cfg

I downloaded latest recalbox version and used etcher to put it on sd card. I created my .pc folders, copied over files, made .bat and .cfg files and other than that I have not made any changes to the system. The above links are for oregon trail, but I'v tried 5 separate games: arkanoid, oregon trail, duke 3d, paperboy, discworld...maybe others even but i forget.

As far as the bat file goes, the above is one iteration... i've tried all the suggestions i could find on the forums here. Including just the exe, with a mount command first, uppercase, lowercase, with a c:, with a cd, possibly others... I can't recall all the attempts.

[aintmichael]

Oh, here is the file list of the otrail.pc folder

[voljega]

Try adding :

pause
dir /p

between the two lines in your dosbox.bat

And do screenshots on each stop with ssh command raspi2png

[aintmichael]

So I made that change, but there was nothing to screenshot. the dosbox logo pops up and then it goes black for just a second, then back to the menu.

[aintmichael]

also just as a note. I can run this install of oregon trail on dosbox on my pc. it's the folder from my PC that i copied over to the Pi.

[voljega]

@aintmichael hmmm it's very very strange, maybe check rights of your game files including dosbox.bat ?

[aintmichael]

I'll take a look. Do you happen to know what the rights should be?

[voljega]

@aintmichael give it everything it will be simpler

chmod 777 * in your game directory

[aintmichael]

i like the way you think

unfortunately... no change

[voljega]

@aintmichael hmmm and still not working ? try to remove dosbox.cfg

[aintmichael]

same result. Dosbox logo, then back to menu.

[Dragu]

@aintmichael
take away the in your dosbox.bat, he is there.

[aintmichael]

@Dragu only has oregon.exe in it now. still same result. Dosbox logo, then pops back to menu

[Dragu]

@aintmichael
I am not sure, it is the reason. You have in your dosbox.cfg the name of the mapper file as :
mapperfile=mapper-0.74.map
Try perhaps to limit to 8 characters and no special. Best give it the same name as your folder .pc as otrail.map for example. Anyway if they all have the same name you will never find them back.

[aintmichael]

I'll give that a try. I'm also trying another pi, I have a 1 a 2 and a 3, i tried the 1 and the 2, now I'm trying the 3.

[Dragu]

@aintmichael
but always with the appropriated PI version of Recalbox, I suppose.

[aintmichael]

@Dragu Yup. i've even redownloaded each version just to make sure i was getting a good solid copy for each