4.1 Dosbox Little Big Adventure 1 and 2

[Alladin0]

@dragu Hi, thanks for these tips. I actually want to make LBA 2 work in recalbox 4.1 (I have a RPi3), following your instructions, but replacing RELENT.EXE by LBA2.EXE, etc...
When I launch the game, I have a message saying "please insert LBA2 TWINSEN's ODYSSEY CD-ROM", did I misunderstand the copy part when you said "copy apart the iso file..." ?
I put the lba2.gog file in /recalbox/share/roms/dos/, and not in /recalbox/share/roms/dos/lba2.pc

Thank you in advance !

[Dragu]

@alladin0 said in 4.1 Dosbox Little Big Adventure 1 and 2:

@dragu Hi, thanks for these tips. I actually want to make LBA 2 work in recalbox 4.1 (I have a RPi3), following your instructions, but replacing RELENT.EXE by LBA2.EXE, etc...
When I launch the game, I have a message saying "please insert LBA2 TWINSEN's ODYSSEY CD-ROM", did I misunderstand the copy part when you said "copy apart the iso file..." ?
I put the lba2.gog file in /recalbox/share/roms/dos/, and not in /recalbox/share/roms/dos/lba2.pc

Thank you in advance !

Yes, thats the wrong place It must be in your game directory lba2.pc. In the case, if you have in dosbox.cfg

imgmount d "/recalbox/share/roms/dos/lba2.pc/LBA(2).DAT" -t iso

this must correspond to the place where he find the iso.
With lba2.exe instead of relent.exe, you are right. I was first trying with another cd. Strange that they sold it under different names.

[lmerckx]

@dragu
Hello Dragu,
If I remember, when I configured dosbox for Recalbox, I created an environment variable containing game root:
Have you tried:
imgmount d "%ROOT%/LBA(2).DAT" -t iso

[Dragu]

@lmerckx
That may also function well. Important that dosbox.conf is treated before dosbox.bat. But if you use the keymapper, you need a local dosbox.cfg to have an individual keymapping for this game. But I think you know this.

[Alladin0]

@dragu Thanks a lot, it works !!

[lmerckx]

@dragu Yep indeed !
The aim of the ROOT variable was to make .bat files independant of the underlying directories.

[voljega]

@lmerckx if you use the imgmount command in dosbox.bat you don't even need %ROOT% because the internal '.' of the dosbox emulated dos file system is already positioned in the game directory, and so is

[lmerckx]

@voljega Ok, good to know. Thank you.

[franmr1979]

Hi, Ia have the original CD but can´t make it work on raspberry pi. I just see a little square with dosbox and the logo of adeline but afterwards it goes back directly to recalbox.
I have followed your steps creating the iso of the CD.
Any help please?

[Dragu]

Finally, I had also the time to begin to replay LBA1
So, the problem with this game are the controls, Twinsen is moved around like a battle tank, front and backward directions works normally, left and right make him just turn. Very tricky and even more tricky with joysticks. So I tried out other versions, just from curiosity. The PSX version brings nothing new in this sense but picture is horrible and sound also, quick forgot. Ok, on steam you have the "enhanced" edition with mouse controls, what a mess. Pictures and sound also more for smartphone. Sure in all this Dosbox leads by milestones.
So I tried to find a combination on my 2 stick bartop to manage this game somewhere. Like I make always descriptions of my game layouts, because in some month I will not remember, here also my solution for LBA1 (LBA2 is different, to come). It can give you some idea for your own use.

As you can see I put on joystick 1 y-, x-, x+ all three the forward movement, and just y+ backwards. This avoid all lack in mouvement if you fail to have the stick exactly in forward direction or if instinctly you move left or right. The real left right mouvement I put on A, R of the second gameplace. I am satisfied with this.
For the other keys :
F1 --> NORMAL
F2 --> ATHLETIC
F3 --> AGRESSIF
F4 --> DISCRET
Shift --> Inventory
F5 --> Zoom
1,2,3 For my menu selection game, setup, leave
Space --> main action key near side directions
LAlt --> Magic Ball
Esc and Enter

[Dragu]

Encore un petit truc pour LBA1. La musique est en général assez forte et couvre les dialoges, ce qui énerve avec le temps. De mon coté les modifications du volume dans le menu n'ont apportés aucun changement. Mais il y a un truc avec Dosbox.cfg qui marche en ajoutant les 2 lignes à la fin

mixer cdaudio 10:10
mixer master 50:50