Managed to get American Laser Games working...

[mohanned85]

16 minutes ago, Johnny T said:

If you can do American Laser then Daphne is just exactly the same. You shouldn't have any problems (fingers firmly crossed!) 🙂

i getting this error

how i change location as my old hdd was full so how i change location

Edited January 14, 2022 by mohanned85

[Johnny T]

12 hours ago, mohanned85 said:

i getting this error

how i change location as my old hdd was full so how i change location

You need to get them working from the Daphne launcher first. Then check the Daphne-log.txt to see what files the software is looking for. From there you'll have a better understanding of which (if any) files are in the wrong place.

Hope that helps 🙂

[mohanned85]

On 1/15/2022 at 7:08 AM, Johnny T said:

You need to get them working from the Daphne launcher first. Then check the Daphne-log.txt to see what files the software is looking for. From there you'll have a better understanding of which (if any) files are in the wrong place.

Hope that helps 🙂

woohoo working

[Johnny T]

6 hours ago, mohanned85 said:

woohoo working

Excellent! Well done! Now the tricky part is playing the bloody things! I always struggle playing Dragon's Lair etc. Can never get the timing / controls correct 🙂 But, enjoy!

[vince16]

I'm installing American Laser Games in Launchbox by way of emulating the 3DO personally, from the looks of it it's a lot easier. I don't know if they're perfectly 100% arcade-accurate ports though...

[PhattyStu]

I hope someone is still reading this 2 years later....yikes!  I recently obtained a bunch of these laser games and they seem to be setup a little differently...maybe?  Mine all have their own exe files and they just launch without needing daphne or singe.  I added the exe to my LB and it starts to load the game but then just stops and goes back to the menu....any thoughts/help would be hugely appreciated.

[sundogak]

37 minutes ago, PhattyStu said:

I hope someone is still reading this 2 years later....yikes!  I recently obtained a bunch of these laser games and they seem to be setup a little differently...maybe?  Mine all have their own exe files and they just launch without needing daphne or singe.  I added the exe to my LB and it starts to load the game but then just stops and goes back to the menu....any thoughts/help would be hugely appreciated.

I have never seen any of these types of games as "stand alone" executable.  They are roms with mixture of emulator executable like other emulation systems.  In case of laser games it also means a video file has to be present which is copy of the actual laser disk. My guess, if you are saying it works outside LB, is it is some zipped up version with VLPD, roms, and emulator with batch file in auto-extracted zip file.  If you take winzip or 7-zip open the zip application and then see if you can open the executable from within the zip application. If you see files inside then just an auto-unzip file.  If not, something oddball that I have never seen and would be a bit suspicious of this type of executable tbh unless confident of source.

Edited October 19, 2024 by sundogak

[PhattyStu]

On 10/19/2024 at 4:04 PM, sundogak said:

I have never seen any of these types of games as "stand alone" executable.  They are roms with mixture of emulator executable like other emulation systems.  In case of laser games it also means a video file has to be present which is copy of the actual laser disk. My guess, if you are saying it works outside LB, is it is some zipped up version with VLPD, roms, and emulator with batch file in auto-extracted zip file.  If you take winzip or 7-zip open the zip application and then see if you can open the executable from within the zip application. If you see files inside then just an auto-unzip file.  If not, something oddball that I have never seen and would be a bit suspicious of this type of executable tbh unless confident of source.

It's weird. When I downloaded the content it was a zip file, with a folder inside of it.  In that folder were several subfolders (some with videos) and just normal content like you would see for any installed program, including the exe.  Guessing I just picked up something that someone has ripped and it works outside LB...I just need to figure out how the heck to get them working in LB or re-source the content from somewhere else. 

[PhattyStu]

I just went back to the site that I got them from and they have them 2 ways....the first (the one that I grabbed) is a repack as a CD-Rom, the second has the LD and Singe packed together....guess I'll grab those....seems like it will be the easer/more common way to go.

[PhattyStu]

This might be a stretch again, but when I was adding the content to LB, a lot of them didn't download the clear logos which is what I use in my setup.  Does anyone have a a media pack with them all or have a good lead on where I could find them?  I'm not having much luck.

[Tsigarinho]

3 hours ago, PhattyStu said:

This might be a stretch again, but when I was adding the content to LB, a lot of them didn't download the clear logos which is what I use in my setup.  Does anyone have a a media pack with them all or have a good lead on where I could find them?  I'm not having much luck.

Do you mean the artbox of every game?

[PhattyStu]

9 hours ago, Tsigarinho said:

Do you mean the artbox of every game?

Clear logo is its own category.  It is usually just the game name in the font.  Its a tidy way to display the games.

[Tsigarinho]

31 minutes ago, PhattyStu said:

Clear logo is its own category.  It is usually just the game name in the font.  Its a tidy way to display the games.

Then Unfortunately i don't use clear logos.