Daphne Dragon Lair

[Lordmonkus]

Thanks for the Astron.txt, mine was just abelt.m2v and wouldn't load. Now it does.

[ckp]

i think each game may have different bank settings, so it's probably best to go back to the individual batch file option. i think Rocketlauncher provides a daphne.ini file that contains all the correct settings for each game so that's how RL deals with it.

if i have time, i'll update the batch file to set the correct bank settings for each game.

[ckp]

ok, i have created a single batch file which also sets all the games with correct dip switch banks. 

you don't need to set your home directory.

just make sure you match the quoted txt game names in this batch file to the same as your txt game files.

if you don't want 1080p screen resolution, then also change the resolution.

@echo off



if "%1"=="ace" set bank= -bank 0 00000010 -bank 1 00000001& goto :start

if "%1"=="astron" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 00000000& goto :start

if "%1"=="badlands" set bank= -bank 0 00000010 -bank 1 10000011& goto :start

if "%1"=="bega" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 00000111& goto :start

if "%1"=="cliff" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 01000000 -bank 2 00000000 -bank 3 01111011& goto :start

if "%1"=="cobraab" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 01001000& goto :start

if "%1"=="esh" set bank=& goto :start

if "%1"=="galaxy" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 00000000& goto :start

if "%1"=="gpworld" set bank=& goto :start

if "%1"=="interstellar" set bank= -bank 0 00110001 -bank 1 00000000& goto :start

if "%1"=="lair" set bank= -bank 0 11011001 -bank 1 00100111& goto :start

if "%1"=="lair2" set bank=& goto :start

if "%1"=="mach3" set bank= -bank 0 01000100& goto :start

if "%1"=="roadblaster" set bank= -bank 0 00000000 -bank 1 00000001& goto :start

if "%1"=="sdq" set bank= -bank 0 00100001 -bank 1 00000000& goto :start

if "%1"=="tq" set bank=& goto :start

if "%1"=="uvt" set bank= -bank 0 00000000& goto :start



set bank= -bank 0 11011001 -bank 1 00100111





:start

daphne.exe %1 vldp -framefile framefile\%1.txt -blend -ignore_aspect_ratio -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir . -fastboot%bank% -nocrc -noissues -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080

 

[ckp]

i added a little tutorial here:

 

[Rauzzman80]

On 9/1/2016 at 10:42 PM, Lordmonkus said:

If you read a bit further down that page you would have come across a simpler way to get Daphne working in LB.

Here's a quick and simple way to get your Daphne games working in Launchbox. It may not be an elegant solution but it is simple and it works as long as you have your games loading through the DaphneLoader.exe.

Step 1) Make a batch file for each game, call the batch file whatever you like. I made these batch files right in the directory which contains the daphne.exe

Step 2) This step will be repeated for each game. Open your DaphneLoader.exe and for each game you have and want to import into Launchbox  click the Configure button and go to the Advanced tab. The bottom drop down menu "Display command line", set this to Enabled, click apply and ok. Now when you start that game it is going to popup with a bunch of text, select it all and copy. The game will launch but just exit back out.

Step 3) Open the batch file you created for the game in notepad you just copied the command line information from and paste it in and save.

Step 4) Drag the bat file into Launchbox and put into whatever platform you choose. I use the platform Daphne.

Step 5) Right click the game and click edit. Go to the emulation tab and uncheck "Use an emulator to play this game". After you click apply it will popup with a message saying you need to specify and emulator do you want to do this now, click no.

Now you can go back into each game and reverse Step 2 to disable "Display command line"

When you launch a game from Launchbox if you get an error message repeat Step 5 just to double check it.

Like I said this may not be an elegant solution to this emulator and Launchbox but it is the simplest that I know of and it does work.

got a way to keep launchbox and dafne from minimizing in big box mode?