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Thanks! And thank you for your help and bearing with me.

Success! Thank you, Thomas! Ok...so here's what I used in case somebody else looks for the solution (DON'T COPY-PASTE THE BOLD LETTERING). These settings used Thomas's guidelines: PinballX.ini file (found in "Config" in PinballX's root folder): [System_4] (OR WHICH EVER SYSTEM NUMBER YOU WOULD LIKE TO CHOOSE) Name=Daphne - Lair Enabled=True SystemType=0 WorkingPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE FOLDER ON WHICHEVER DRIVE YOU HAVE IT ON.) TablePath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\roms\ (THIS POINTS TO THE ROMS FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT.) Executable=daphne.exe (THIS POINTS TO THE DAPHNE EXE FILE IN THE DAPHNE ROOT FOLDER) Parameters=lair vldp -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080 -framefile "C:\Program Files (x86)\Daphne\vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt" (I PUT THE "VLDP_DL" DOWNLOAD FOLDER IN THE DAPHNE ROOT, THEN MADE A PATH TO THE "LAIR.TXT" BASED ON THAT. I MIGHT TEST IT TO SEE IF I CAN PUT THE VLDP_FL FOLDER ELSEWHERE BECAUSE I'M FANATICAL ABOUT ORGANIZING MY FILES, BUT THIS WORKS.) Daphne - Lair.xml file (found in root Daphne folder...make one in Notepad if you don't have one and be sure to tack ".xml" on it at the end when saving it.) <menu> <game name="lair"> <description>Dragon's Lair</description> <rom>lair</rom> <manufacturer>Cinematronics</manufacturer> <year>1983</year> <type></type> <hidedmd>True</hidedmd> <hidetopper>True</hidetopper> <hidebackglass>True</hidebackglass> <enabled>True</enabled> <rating>-1</rating> </game> </menu> You also can't forget to create a game file under "Daphne - Lair" in PinballX's Game Manager. You need to select "lair" when selecting the game to match this. Or rather, I had to. It's which ever rom matches your path. For some strange reason, the data that you're supposed to enter in the "parameters" path isn't the same as what the DaphneLoader spits out, so you have to trim it down as shown above. This isn't made obvious by the makers of Daphne so I'm glad someone here was able to direct me down the right path. Thank you, one and all, for your help.

Just checking in to see if you have any ideas. Thanks.

Yes, I have. I have about 100+ games set up. Here's the Daphne PBX XML file for you. Hopefully this helps. Daphne.xml

Not sure what you mean here. I uploaded the .xml file from Daphne. Also, the log from PBX is attached. log.txt

Apologies. And thank you. PinballX is one of the most awesome things I've ever used. PinballX.ini

I don't know where the INI file would be. Here's the rest of it. Thanks. daphne_log.txt config.xml lair.txt

Nope. Four hours later, I'm still getting the ol' "Bad command line or initialization" thing. I've messed with the command line multiple times and Dragon's Lair just won't launch no matter what I do. I put the command line in the parameters, I put the Daphne executable where it's supposed to go, pointed toward the ROM folder and the Daphne folder...it just plain doesn't want to work at all. It works with the Loader...so it MUST be PBX. I'm not a novice. I've been using PBX for over two years now with no issue up until I began to put Daphne in. Any help would be appreciated.

I've read that post. Several times, in fact. I've also read the other posts regarding PinballX and Daphne and they're vague in their solutions or the solutions the "successful" users used don't work for me. That's the reason I'm here. But, I will continue to guess and let you know if I ever get this working. Thanks for the help.

Is this possible? Nothing I have tried works (including using the command line option in Daphne) and the emulator keeps telling me to specify which version of Dragon's Lair to use. The game starts fine from the Loader so I'm assuming there's some sort of disconnect between PBX and Daphne.