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From a post i made 3yrs ago on page 1, i got it to work like this. Different game but same concept. Good luck and let us know. This reply box will not allow me to use backslashes. So all backslashes will be replaced with forward slashes "/". Installing a MS-DOS game with multiple floppies Mortal Kombat 2. In this guide E:/LaunchBox is the location of LaunchBox and E:/Setup is the location of the floppy disk images. 1. Run e:/LaunchBox/DOSBox/dosbox.exe 2. At the command prompt type: mount e e:/ type: e: (here is where you mount all of the floppy disk images. I put them into a batch file and saved it at the root of E) type: run.bat (runs the command below) or type: imgmount a e:/setup/mk2_1/MK2_1.IMA e:/setup/mk2_2/MK2_2.IMA e:/setup/mk2_3/MK2_3.IMA e:/setup/mk2_4/MK2_4.IMA e:/setup/mk2_5/MK2_5.IMA e:/setup/mk2_6/MK2_6.IMA e:/setup/mk2_7/MK2_7.IMA e:/setup/mk2_8/MK2_8.IMA -t floppy (the DOSBox status window will show this) Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 1 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active type: a:/install (Answer E as the drive and answer e:/emulat~1/launch~1/games/mk2 as the install path) When prompted for the next disk press Ctrl + F4, then enter. (repeat as needed). In the DOSBox status window you can see it switching to the next disk. Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. 3. Open LaunchBox. From the menu bar click on Tools/Install Dos Game. 4. Type Mortal Kombat 2 and press Next. 5. Select Yes, my game is already installed into a folder. 6. Browse to E:/LaunchBox/Games/MK2/MK2.exe and press Next then Finish. 7.On the Edit Game screen press the search TheGameDB.net button to download all the meta data and box cover.

I posted the procedure i got to work with the floppy disk version of Mortal Kombat 2 on this thread. But that was 2 years ago. Maybe it still works? Lets us know. It's on the first page of this thread and now here: "This reply box will not allow me to use backslashes. So all backslashes will be replaced with forward slashes "/". Installing a MS-DOS game with multiple floppies Mortal Kombat 2. In this guide E:/LaunchBox is the location of LaunchBox and E:/Setup is the location of the floppy disk images. 1. Run e:/LaunchBox/DOSBox/dosbox.exe 2. At the command prompt type: mount e e:/ type: e: (here is where you mount all of the floppy disk images. I put them into a batch file and saved it at the root of E) type: run.bat (runs the command below) or type: imgmount a e:/setup/mk2_1/MK2_1.IMA e:/setup/mk2_2/MK2_2.IMA e:/setup/mk2_3/MK2_3.IMA e:/setup/mk2_4/MK2_4.IMA e:/setup/mk2_5/MK2_5.IMA e:/setup/mk2_6/MK2_6.IMA e:/setup/mk2_7/MK2_7.IMA e:/setup/mk2_8/MK2_8.IMA -t floppy (the DOSBox status window will show this) Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 1 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active type: a:/install (Answer E as the drive and answer e:/emulat~1/launch~1/games/mk2 as the install path) When prompted for the next disk press Ctrl + F4, then enter. (repeat as needed). In the DOSBox status window you can see it switching to the next disk. Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. 3. Open LaunchBox. From the menu bar click on Tools/Install Dos Game. 4. Type Mortal Kombat 2 and press Next. 5. Select Yes, my game is already installed into a folder. 6. Browse to E:/LaunchBox/Games/MK2/MK2.exe and press Next then Finish. 7.On the Edit Game screen press the search TheGameDB.net button to download all the meta data and box cover. "

SentaiBrad said If you use the library system in RetroArch, you select the game which opens another menu, you select run which then asks you what Core to use. If you didn't have both cores downloaded it might pick the only one you had available? Otherwise if you don't use that Library feature you load the core then the game or you select the game and RA gives you a list of cores based on the file extension you chose and you choose the core that you want. I am unsure where it is automatically picking cores for you. I made sure that everything was up-to-date through the online updater before i launched my first game. I did have both cores. There must be some logic somewhere that tells RA to use one core over another if i don't specify one.

I did see that thanks. But when i had it scan a directory of 7800 games it associated the mess core instead of the prosystem core. So it must have a config somewhere with that info.

Imgema said Jason Carr said Thanks @Imgema for clarifying that. Just so I'm following correctly, do I need to change the default Retroarch configuration to make this easier? If so, how? Ok, to avoid any confusion let me wrap this up. My original problem was that i couldn't play Atari 7800 games in LaunchBox when i used the RetroArch emulator option. The broblem was that RetroArch was trying to use it's MESS core to run it. I resolved this by going to "manage emulators", then RetroArch, edit and in the associated platforms there was the atari 7800 but with the -L "cores\mess_libretro.dll" command. I changed that to -L "cores\prosystem_libretro.dll" and it worked. I didn't change anything to my RetroArch settings or anything, i just guided Launchbox to use the prosystem core in RetroArch instead of the MESS core. I couldn't make either MESS core or MESS standalone to work through Launchbox. Now a day later i managed to make MESS standalone to work with Launchbox. That's because i wanted more odd systems like Arcadia 2001. So here's what i did. I added the MESS emulator in the list (because it doesn't exist by default) and in the wizard i selected it to be the emulator for Arcadia 2001. At first it didn't work. What i did to fix it was going to "manage emulators" again, then MESS, then "associated platforms". There i added the Arcadia 2001 tab and in the command line tab i added the line arcadia -cart. This way Arcadia games worked in LaunchBox, by using the standalone MESS, but not the MESS core in RA. Obviously, each system has it's own command line in order to work this way. So, in other words, RetroArch MESS core doesn't play any part in this, i use LaunchBox and a standalone MESS. I haven't managed to make the RetroArch MESS core to work with LaunchBox so far. I also haven't managed to make MESS work in RetroArch itself at all. The only thing that makes the MESS core in RetroArch work for me, is RocketLauncher for some reason. Otherwise, i just use the standalone MESS for everything. By the way, the default emulator check box doesn't matter much. In order to change what emulator to use with a system, go to your system tab, select all the roms with alt+A and right click, then edit. This will bring up a new "bulk edit" wizard that allows you to change the emulator to use with these roms. Thank you so much for this. I was having this exact same problem. I could not find the setting in Retroarch to complete this. I didn't realize how easy it was to fix in LaunchBox. Launchbox to the rescue! Does anyone know how to specify a core in Retroarch for a platform? In case i ever ran Retroarch without Launchbox and it picks the wrong core again.

Merry Christmas and thanks for the great product.

VMware Workstation can do both. But that would require him to install an operating system. I have used Windows XP Mode in the past to try out old games and it worked perfectly. The point of using a virtual machine is see how the expansion pack installs.

i think that "Illegal command e" means Illegal command error. Blizzard states this game is for MAC and PC. http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/games/legacy/ Wiki states this game should work on MS Dos and Windows and was released in 1996. So it should work in MS Dos. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warcraft_II:_Beyond_the_Dark_Portal There are 2 things you can try. 1. Take the mounting of the ISO out of the Equation. Extract the ISO to a directory and try to run the install again. Maybe the ISO is bad? 2. Do you have windows 7? Download this Windows XP virtual machine. Install it there to further troubleshoot the issue. Windows XP Mode v1.3.7600.16423 (Windows 8 does not support Windows XP Mode v1.3.7600.16423.) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us.....px?id=8002 Windows Virtual PC v6.1.7600.16393 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us.....px?id=3702 If it installs in that virtual machine, you might find out that it only copies the contents of the ISO to the installation directory. You can then do the same and bypass setup.exe with DOSBox. LaunchBox contains a great feature that will export the game you installed for easy install at a future date. In LaunchBox, highlight the game you installed, then click on Tools in the menu bar. From the drop down select Export Selected Games --> To LaunchBox Zip Package. EviLEd

Make sure you are using the newest LaunchBox. At the time of this writing it is v4.9 1. Run DOSBox C:\LaunchBox\DOSBox\dosbox.exe. Your LaunchBox install might be at a different location. 2. Copy the ISO to a location of your choice C:\LaunchBox\DOSBox\ISO\Beyond the Dark Portal.iso 2. Mount Beyond the Dark Portal.iso as a volume Z:\>IMGMOUNT E C:\LaunchBox\DOSBox\ISO\Beyond the Dark Portal.iso -t iso http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT 3. Change the volume to the E drive E: 4. Try to install the expansion again. You should receive a more specific error. I wouldn't be surprised if you can't install the expansion in DOS. You will receive an error like illegal command win or this program cannot run in DOS. A little bit more info here http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/GAMES:Warcraft_II Please let us know your results.

Rick, Can you tell us exactly what you are doing to install the 2nd CD and what happens when you try to launch the expansion?

It either cannot find the CD you mounted or the game will now require a cd crack to run. Like Jason said, enable debugging in DOSBox and confirm the ISO is mounted. You could also try to start DOSBox, mount the ISO in DOSBox and try to start the game. Mounting an ISO-File as volume Z:\>IMGMOUNT E C:\Images\MyImage.iso -t iso http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/MOUNT http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT Please let us know how you made out.

Maddog said Just downloaded it today, so I should have the latest version. I did tinker with adding it manually but could not get it to work when I came to the DosBox prompt. It tells me when i run setup, which is the installer, "illegal command win" and it automatically puts "win" before setup when I press enter. illegal command win means that you cannot run this in DOS. You must run it in windows. I remember running this game in Win95 or Win98se. Check out what i did here with another game from that era https://www.launchbox-app.com/forum/games/the-simpsons-cartoon-studio-1996-no-dos-install

This reply box will not allow me to use backslashes. So all backslashes will be replaced with forward slashes "/". Installing a MS-DOS game with multiple floppies Mortal Kombat 2 In this guide E:/LaunchBox is the location of LaunchBox and E:/Setup is the location of the floppy disk images. 1. Run e:/LaunchBox/DOSBox/dosbox.exe 2. At the command prompt type: mount e e:/ type: e: (here is where you mount all of the floppy disk images. I put them into a batch file and saved it at the root of E) type: run.bat (runs the command below) or type: imgmount a e:/setup/mk2_1/MK2_1.IMA e:/setup/mk2_2/MK2_2.IMA e:/setup/mk2_3/MK2_3.IMA e:/setup/mk2_4/MK2_4.IMA e:/setup/mk2_5/MK2_5.IMA e:/setup/mk2_6/MK2_6.IMA e:/setup/mk2_7/MK2_7.IMA e:/setup/mk2_8/MK2_8.IMA -t floppy (the DOSBox status window will show this) Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Mounted FAT volume is FAT12 with 2847 clusters Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 1 of 8 now active Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active type: a:/install (Answer E as the drive and answer e:/emulat~1/launch~1/games/mk2 as the install path) When prompted for the next disk press Ctrl + F4, then enter. (repeat as needed) In the DOSBox status window you can see it switching to the next disk. Drive A: disk 2 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 3 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 4 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 5 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 6 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 7 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. Drive A: disk 8 of 8 now active Diskcaching reset for normal mounted drives. 3. Open LaunchBox. From the menu bar click on Tools/Install Dos Game. 4. Type Mortal Kombat 2 and press Next. 5. Select Yes, my game is already installed into a folder. 6. Browse to E:/LaunchBox/Games/MK2/MK2.exe and press Next then Finish. 7. On the Edit Game screen press the search TheGameDB.net button to download all the meta data and box cover. So now the kicker....the game prompted me to enter a word found in the manual....which i no long own

I am exploring this myself. I have Mortal Kombat II for DOS v5.0. It has 8 3.5" floppy discs. If i extract all the files it works until it prompts for disk 2. If i discover a process i will post it.

Jason Carr said Yeah, agreed. I have an old Pentium II just for that. But that said, it certainly would be nice to be able to run them all from one machine. All of my testing is on a Dell Optiplex 745 (2006). Intel 3ghz dual core, 800mhz FSB, 8GB DDR2 ram with a Nvidia Gefore GT 430 http://www.nvidia.com/object/product-geforce-gt-430-oem-us.html.