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[Retroplay]

Turrican II - Works until sub level 3 (world 1) then it just hangs, you can still exit DosXbox.
To even get this game to load you have to make a new .bat file and add following lines:

@echo off
set t2dir=C:\
t2.exe

Copy all files from CFG dir to main dir.
In T2 setup use Soundblaster PRO, SB16 doesn't work.

In DosXbox config set Core to Full and add 16Mb.

This post has been edited by Retroplay: Apr 28 2006, 06:32 PM

[DragonOmega]

Loom - perfect!!!

^ love that old game

[gunchum]

Has anyone tried 'Big Red Racing'?

(P.S. How do i create a new thread, i can't find the button? - sorry its a noob question)

[xystus]

QUOTE(gunchum @ May 12 2006, 09:32 PM)

Has anyone tried 'Big Red Racing'?

(P.S. How do i create a new thread, i can't find the button? - sorry its a noob question)

Yep I tried it, but it didn't work well. The game starts just fine, with sound. But ingame it's very slow.. actually it's extremely slow. Tried all kinds of settings; cycles up to 10000, simple core and more, but it didn't do much good.

[xystus]

Wacky Wheels - works perfectly!
I play the shareware version; would really like the full version, but can't find it anywhere  

GUIDE:
- Use the setup.exe to change the detail level to medium (single and multiplayer mode). High detail makes the sound skip and framerate stutter.

- Settings:
Core: simple (very important!)
RAM: 16mb
Cycles: 7000
Sound: Soundblaster Pro2

[ash_link]

Zelda Classic - No Dice.

[Rababunny]

can anyone confirm if little big adventure or twinsens odyssey work?

[ash_link]

QUOTE(ash_link @ Jun 2 2006, 11:45 PM)

Zelda Classic - No Dice.

Oh Lol. I'm Dumb

Slow as hell.

[ocsisajt]

Hi guys!

I purchased THIS JOY
 unfortunately it seems the latest dosbox(and winuaex build too) lack of support with my joy...
is there any hope(next bulids) this great emu will support my joy?

[jeffroiscool]

Got Little Big Adventure working with sound, just set sb16 in the setup.exe

Edit: I am now trying Little Big adventure 2, i only have the original cd version , but the xbox seems to read it fine, ill just have to get a nocd crack, or play with cd.

This post has been edited by jeffroiscool: Jun 21 2006, 10:49 AM

[robot2]

the 7th guest - fully working
YOU must have dosbox change the cd rom drive to the S:

other then that setting, dosbox itself is left at default

HOWEVER in order to get this stupid thing to run in dosbox you must do the following below (copy of post I made in the forums)

"I GOT IT!!!! I finally got this damn game to work. Here is what you have to do. Well what I did. It is a minor pain in the ass and most of it you only have to do it once and never again. Here we go

firstly I ran out of cds. So I made disc 1 of this game on a dvd. I used ultraiso and changed the specs to match dvd (UDF format, NO joilet and made sure the DOS name thing was selected). Copy the files from disc 1 of the game and place them exactly as they are into ultraiso and make your disc. Of course if you have cds on hand ignore this step totally

onto the actual game itself:

Ok
1. make the stupid thing on a pc and have it install. It will give you a folder called ID/t7g/"files in here"
Its only about 13 megs or so in size. It will usually put this folder in the root of c:

2 ftp or somehow get this folder on your xbox,. PUT IT in the C drive on your xbox

3. Once this folder is on your xbox drive browse into it and scroll through the files in location
c:/id/t7g and click on the groovie.ini file

you will be able to edit this
edit this " datadir=E:/t7g". Change the drive letter from E to S
S is the drive letter the xbox sees when you put in disc 1 which is the game content
It should now read datadir=S:/t7g
Now save this info when you back out

4. start up dosbox, point to your c drive and go into the folder for this game where the files are.
Click on the file called install.exe. DOsbox will load the 7th guest's setup screen. The trick with this game is you have to reinstall it again.

the main screen comes on and it ask you about sound setup. CHOOSE soundblasterpro 2. Anything but this
option it will tell you it cannot find the card. Save this info. You will see it install files and THEN IT WILL CRASH. Once you see it freeze on a file name during the copy process, exit the game and exit DOSbox

5. Now on your xbox browse to the folder c:/id/t7g. In addition to the regular files you will notice another ID folder in here, IGNORE IT. This is the crap folder you had to make in order to trick the system and think it was fully installed. However go inside the crap folder until you see the same files that you normally would. Click on that groove.ini file and scroll down to the bottom under the soundblaster section. Note the irq it gives (in my case 7). Go back out into the main ID/t7g folder and now click on your first groovie.ini file. Scroll down to the same part and make sure the irq number is the same as the other. If it is not change it so it is. Do not worry that one will say soundblaster and the other will say soundblaster2pro.

ALMOST THERE

put in disc 1 of this game in your xbox dvd drive

next

start up dosbox. Scroll to c:/id/t7g and click on the v.exe It will give you a dos type screen saying their was an error or it cant find the file. It will bring you to a c: . You have to remount the cdrom drive to S as dosbox usually sets it to D. So in this new prompt type c:/ mount S -t cdrom S. hit enter. It will say you cannot have it point to the same directory but under that it will say S mounted as cdrom.
It will bring you to a new c prompt, type in t7g.bat. You are done sit back and enjoy the game

Playing it after this, the only thing you have to do is FIRST have dosbox load the v.exe and then change the mount cdrom command to S and type t7g.bat and it will run. Trying to load t7g.bat first will make dosbox give you an error

forgive me if I made this more confusing then it should have been"

This post has been edited by robot2: Nov 21 2006, 03:21 AM

[harlekin]

"Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers (Talkie)"

Finaly got "Gabriel Knight - Sins of the Fathers (Talkie)" to work, it took a few tweaks in the config file, but its running stable now. Can't use the controller mouse-emulation though as the game crashes when I do so (move the analog stick). I havent played with the sensitivity or other optional settings that might cause this problem, because I rather play it using my USB-Adaptor and the attached mouse...

Right now I'm using the VGA setting (install.exe) as the performance on VESA wasn't quite perfekt (as I increased the cycles the voices starded to get scrambled). Haven't tried to set the emulation "Core Settings" to "Simple" though, which might give a performance boost on Xbox.

This is the Resource.cfg I use:

CODE

videoDrv  = VGA.DRV
soundDrv  = SBPRO.DRV
audioDrv  = DACBLAST.DRV
joyDrv    = NO
language  = 49
cmd       = GKCD
mouseDrv  = none
memoryDrv = none
minmemory = 4M
CD = YES
smartdrv = YES
mode = protected

audio=.\;.\;.\sfx;.\patches;.\aud
sync=.\aud
movieDir=.\seq
patchDir=.\;.\;.\patches
audiosize=45k

Dosbox Settings:
Cycles: 4000
RAM: 8
--

If you don't use the german version (SierraOriginals-Series to be precise) of the game, you might want to remove the "language" line from the config.

The path-settings work with an install that is nothing more but all the files on the CD copied to a folder on the Xbox's HDD. If you want to use the Xbox's DVD-drive you might have to adjust them.

edit: Information on the Core settings:
http://dosbox.source...p...nf/cpu/core

[Smothermunchie]

Wow.  That's great news harlekin!

Are you sure that there's no way around to using the analog stick on the Xbox controller to be used as a mouse though?

I attempted the same thing and got similar results with the game crashing if I pushed on the controller.

Just curious, that's all.

[SlyBeast]

Has anyone bothered to try Command & Conquer with the latest release?  If so, what were the results?

[harlekin]

QUOTE(Smothermunchie @ Jan 22 2007, 09:33 AM)

Are you sure that there's no way around to using the analog stick on the Xbox controller to be used as a mouse though?

I fooled arround with the mouse sensitivity as well as the joystick sensitivity, the memory settings and the config file for about an hour now, but so far had no luck getting the mouse emulation not to crash the game.
I figured that if you move the thumbstick really slow, and stop as soon as the sound starts to stutter it will prevent the game from crashing (for a while, this is in no way a permanent solution), so that you could at least watch the intro, or start the game to see that the performance of the emulation actually is pretty decent. (Sorry, I had to.. )

Btw: If you change the emulated sound card in the game settings (X on the *.exe) you slightly alter the soundquality of the speech track. I found that using SB1, although it adds some noise, is actually the one I prefer, as it covers some of the inevitable crakles. Be sure to fiddle with that too, if you got the game running.