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I just bought the 20th anniversary dragons lair pack CD-rom. I can get Dragons lair to work through the external app section fine but with the same settings dragons lair II will not work. Well it works but it plays behind gameex. The game starts but gameex comes back over the top. ANy Suggestions? Thanks

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I just bought the 20th anniversary dragons lair pack CD-rom. I can get Dragons lair to work through the external app section fine but with the same settings dragons lair II will not work. Well it works but it plays behind gameex. The game starts but gameex comes back over the top. ANy Suggestions? Thanks

Whats the command line your using to launch it as an external app?

Have you got Show Desktop turned on? It needs to be.

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I just bought the 20th anniversary dragons lair pack CD-rom. I can get Dragons lair to work through the external app section fine but with the same settings dragons lair II will not work. Well it works but it plays behind gameex. The game starts but gameex comes back over the top. ANy Suggestions? Thanks

are you using daphne?

do u have showdesktop enabled? Opps it seems tom beat me to it :)

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Whats the command line your using to launch it as an external app?

Have you got Show Desktop turned on? It needs to be.

Show desktop is on. I need to check on the command line but it is set up exactly the same as Dragons Lair.

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Show desktop is on. I need to check on the command line but it is set up exactly the same as Dragons Lair.

No im not using daphne. Just running the disc off a image in Alcohol.

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No im not using daphne. Just running the disc off a image in Alcohol.

does the game use a launcher?

I believe the new version of daphne supports these discs and rips the video from them and uses it to play the game.. Id be tempted to try that.. As emulation would probably be more accurate

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does the game use a launcher?

I believe the new version of daphne supports these discs and rips the video from them and uses it to play the game.. Id be tempted to try that.. As emulation would probably be more accurate

Yea , that was my plan. unfortunatly I purchased the CD-rom set instead of the DVD-rom set. So Im out of luck there. I was trying to salvage my 30 bucks and get these to work.

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Yea , that was my plan. unfortunatly I purchased the CD-rom set instead of the DVD-rom set. So Im out of luck there. I was trying to salvage my 30 bucks and get these to work.

Run DL2 after it goes back to gameex close gameex and navigate to the start menu where gameex is and run last game bat...What happens?

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Run DL2 after it goes back to gameex close gameex and navigate to the start menu where gameex is and run last game bat...What happens?

I dont see a run last game. there is a last mame game? but that obviously wont do :)

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This is driving me crazy. They look like they are the exact same application just with different content. :(

Anyone else have any Ideas?

Like I said post the command your using to launch it. Then Ill give you a modifed one.

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Like I said post the command your using to launch it. Then Ill give you a modifed one.

Sorry Tom I misunderstood, In the CMD line of the configurator I have "DL2.exe" no quotes of course. The Path is "e:\". Show desktop is set to "Yes" . Map keys is set to "yes" and Keys to send is set to "f" for fullscreen. If thats not what you are asking for then I apologise.

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Still goes back to Gameex and plays in the background :(

Yeah your right, I just tried it. Very strange.

I have it setup as an emulator here. That works fine, so yourll have to do that.

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Yeah your right, I just tried it. Very strange.

I have it setup as an emulator here. That works fine, so yourll have to do that.

ok, now gameex crashes. Looking for Rom Path. what should I Put there?

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Same as working path the path where DL2 is.

I put the paths to e:\ and gameex launches again. When I go to emulators dragons lair II is there. Click on it and it get a couple of option: autorun, dl2 and some other name. I can run either of the first 2 but I get the same issue. It runs behind gameex.

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I put the paths to e:\ and gameex launches again. When I go to emulators dragons lair II is there. Click on it and it get a couple of option: autorun, dl2 and some other name. I can run either of the first 2 but I get the same issue. It runs behind gameex.

Oh yeah sorry, I have it setup as a shortcut. Its still very odd though.

Do this, create a shortcut for dl2.exe with the same name. For the emulator config, put the rom filter as dl2.lnk, and tell it to run as one pc game.

(Yourll need to update the two paths to point to the shortcut.)

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Oh yeah sorry, I have it setup as a shortcut. Its still very odd though.

Do this, create a shortcut for dl2.exe with the same name. For the emulator config, put the rom filter as dl2.lnk, and tell it to run as one pc game.

(Yourll need to update the two paths to point to the shortcut.)

I made the shortcut pointed the paths to it. I had to remove the rom filter dl2.lnk though because it couldnt find anything. I also changed it to PC game. Now when I try to play I get a windows error that says it cant find the exe. If I click the shortcut outside of gameex it plays fine. Ugg!

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I made the shortcut pointed the paths to it. I had to remove the rom filter dl2.lnk though because it couldnt find anything. I also changed it to PC game. Now when I try to play I get a windows error that says it cant find the exe. If I click the shortcut outside of gameex it plays fine. Ugg!

Weird... I sent you a pm. maybe we can get this going

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I made the shortcut pointed the paths to it. I had to remove the rom filter dl2.lnk though because it couldnt find anything. I also changed it to PC game. Now when I try to play I get a windows error that says it cant find the exe. If I click the shortcut outside of gameex it plays fine. Ugg!

Sorry should be dl2.exe.lnk

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