[RESOLVED] Adding Daphne games in PinballX?

[tabascoman77]

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.

[Draco1962]

You will have to figure how to use the command line option. You may want to read this post to see if it gets you closer. You are perhaps the second person to request assistance in setting up Daphne to run via PinballX, so it is either not a common thing or others have done so with minimal issues (hopefully the latter and they will offer assistance if they are around).

If you are able to resolve the issue, please let us know what your solution was and provide us with your pinballx.ini and daphne.xml file so we can provide better assistance for others going forward.

 

[tabascoman77]

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.

[tabascoman77]

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.

[Draco1962]

Can you attach copies of your pinballx.ini, log.txt, and Daphne.xml files in reply to this thread? Might be of help in getting you going on the right path.

[tabascoman77]

I don't know where the INI file would be. Here's the rest of it. Thanks.

daphne_log.txt

config.xml

lair.txt

[Carny_Priest]

The link is right there is Draco's signature:

 

[tabascoman77]

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

PinballX.ini

[Draco1962]

Please attach a copy of the log.txt file referenced in the PinballX how to ask for help link in my signature. 

Also, based upon the files provided, you haven't created an xml file or entered your Daphne games in Game Manager.

[tabascoman77]

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

log.txt

[Draco1962]

Have you setup any other tables in PinballX? If so you should have a set of artwork paths created for each system you have setup within PinballX and a corresponding .Xml file  for each.

The file you provided appears to be something for Daphne itself and not for PinballX. 

[tabascoman77]

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

Daphne.xml

[tabascoman77]

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

[Tom Speirs]

I just looked at this for you.

This is what you need to do. You will need to setup each daphne game as a separate custom system.

See example for Dragon's Lair:-

 

In PinballX.ini

[System_4]
Name=Daphne - Lair
Enabled=True
SystemType=0
WorkingPath=G:\Dropbox\Daphne
TablePath=c:\
Executable=daphne.exe
Parameters=[TABLEFILE] vldp -fullscreen -x 1920 -y 1080 -framefile "G:\Dropbox\Daphne\lair_HD\lair_hd.txt"

 

Daphne - Lair.xml

<menu>
 <game name="lair">
  <description>Dragon's Lair</description>
  <rom></rom>
  <manufacturer></manufacturer>
  <year></year>
  <type></type>
  <hidedmd>True</hidedmd>
  <hidetopper>True</hidetopper>
  <hidebackglass>True</hidebackglass>
  <enabled>True</enabled>
  <rating>-1</rating>
 </game>
</menu>

[tabascoman77]

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.

[Draco1962]

Thanks for sharing your mini guide with instructions as this will be of help to others!

[tabascoman77]

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