DosBox conf

[Emi]

I have a little question. D-Fend reloaded has different DOS profiles for each game depending on the md5 of the exe or whatever. If I wanted to do that, the only way would be to use the Create a conf or create a new one myself and add the options myself? isn't there something like DFR has in LB, different profiles and such? because if not and trouble happens in some games, I would just copy the conf settings from DFR prof to a conf to be used in LB. Also, why LaunchBox doesn't show like resolutions when you edit the Dosbox.conf? you only get 0x0, and I had to manually change the 640x480 to 800x600 or higher in the DosBox conf (I like playing on window mode). I am just now using LB for Dos games too, and I would stop using DRF since I am LB premium, but I was wondering about these minor details I got in DRF that I don't see in LB. I usually add games as I play them so I haven't seen if default DOS conf on LB is good for every dos game I have, but I want to be ready. and if I create a custom conf is there an easy way to edit it like the "Edit Default DosBox configuration"? or I have to manually do it as well? Maybe I am just blind and don't see these options.

[Zombeaver]

In LB you create a base/default profile via the "Edit Dosbox" menu (it has some default settings which you may or may not want to change). After that, any DOS games you add to your library will use those default settings unless you tell it to do otherwise. If you do want to use a unique .conf for a particular game, all you have to do is open the game details section and go to dosbox tab and in the field for specifying a .conf click on "create". This will create a new file that has the default settings that you specified previously but you can change them and it will only affect that specific game.

[Emi]

Oh I see it, the first time I clicked "create" it didn't come with an Edit option for the UI. or maybe I didn't see it, I didn't even see the "Open in Notepad" menu. haha. weird. I didn't even try it again, so maybe it was just that day or maybe I was too distracted thinking about all the options and edits that I wanted to do. Still the edit should be manual, there is no individual profiles like Reloaded, that's not a problem, I mean, reloaded just have some .prof files, that cointain the settings. so it's only about looking for it if I ever have a problem with a game, I wish Launchbox read them but Launchbox reads true/false and DFR is about 1 and 0. Well thank you! it was proven once again, I was being blind this time, I am making my DOS transition to LaunchBox and it works differently than DFR which I used since many years ago. I still have to change the resolution manually on notepad, but it's good one dosbox.conf file rules all games. so I don't have to change it on every single game.

[Zombeaver]

No problem! I see what you're saying about the resolution now. I'm not sure why it only has desktop, original and "0x0" in the resolution drop-down (0x0 is actually the same thing as "desktop" as far as DOSBox is concerned). I feel like it used to also have some common resolutions like 640x480, 800x600, etc. but it's been a while since I looked in there. I pretty much always leave it as desktop unless there's a problem like videos playing at the wrong size (small). If you manually edit it though, it'll stay like that for any other games unless you specify otherwise with a unique .conf. Honestly, I use the "create" function for almost every game anyway - I just use the default as a starting point. I've got about 150 DOS games in my library so it's something I'm very familiar with. If you have any more issues I'm happy to help.

[Jason Carr]

Sounds like I've got a glitch to work on there with the resolutions. Thanks guys. :)

[Emi]

Jason Carr said Sounds like I've got a glitch to work on there with the resolutions. Thanks guys. :)

Well it seems it was not normal and it wasn't reported by anyone until I came in :P, I just play on window mode so I find it important to change the resolution. I hate playing on fullscreen. so thank you Jason! But thanks for your help Zombeaver! I am sure I won't bother you. I actually spent the evening planning how I would do the transition if I need better settings for a game, or on any game I load (I don't add games often since I add games when I play them) But I found a workflow, I just grabbed the Prof file from Dfend reloaded, open it on Notepad++ the settings are there so to make it work only need to change =1 to true and =0 to false so Launchbox would load it fine. but there are some lines frameskip=0, dma=1 and dma1=1, so if there is a normal replace it would turn those values to false or true, and while Launchbox convert them to 1 or 0 again, I wanted to go and make it look nice right away, just to be ready to load. so I used expression to search for (?<!dma)(?<!dma1)(?<!frameskip)(=1$) and replace it for =true (?<!dma)(?<!dma1)(?<!frameskip)(=0$) and replace it for =false Then I loaded the prof file (sounds like a good point to rename the file to conf lol) in Launchbox click on edit, now it should load the file with all the settings. nothing special, Launchbox seems to add few lines but everything loads fine. But Dfend Reloaded seems to have a lot of extra stuff for the autosetup, junk for Launchbox so I wanted to go further and remove all the extra stuff that DFend Reload and make it look nice like if it was done through Launchbox. All I did was I click edit the prof/conf file again, I went back to notepad++ deleted/replaced everything in that prof with dosbox.conf text from Launchbox folder and saved the file with the default dosbox.conf info. Then it was just about going back to Launchbox and clicked Ok to save again the values, and since I had the dosbox.conf structure in the file, the values would be updated in that way, which means they looked finally nice, like if they were made by Launchbox. it might seem like too much for just a profile and make a conf file for individual games, but I trust D-Fend Reloaded settings on many games, so at least I don't have to manually tweak anything, or if I do it, would be just because default DosBox.conf and the one taken from DFR just don't work! But I found a way to import the game and take the settings from DFR. not straight forward but good enough for me! better than full manual tweaking like I would have had to do. It's not like I add games in bulk, I just add the ones I will play so I make sure everything is okay. Anyway thank you! have a good day both of you.