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justincase

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justincase Advanced Member

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I understand people can get Daphne to use Gameex as a frontend. I'm having no luck what so ever getting it to run using Daphneloader though. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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I understand people can get Daphne to use Gameex as a frontend. I'm having no luck what so ever getting it to run using Daphneloader though. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

The loader is not used through gameex... Just the daphne program itself.. Gameex uses the command line options.

Ive setup a video tutorial here show how it works and how to setup gameex.

http://www.gameex.info/forums/index.php?s=...ost&p=22960

Hope this helps :)

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Appreciate the help, but it goes to black screen and when I pull up Windows Task Manager it tells me Daphne has encountered an error.

This happens when daphne cant decompress the video file you are trying to play... Make sure you have the latest codecs installed :)

Id suggest downloading the k-lite codecpack

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Does it m ake a difference if I'm using daphne 1.0 Beta?

It does if your trying to run a version of dragons lair that is ripped video file.

**EDIT** I noticed you stated that you have the legit version...

Gameex runs daphne by using the command line... Use the loader to generate a frame file.. If you can in the 1.0 build..

The command line should look like this daphne.exe lair vlpd -fullscreen -framefile "c:\frame file\dlair\dlair.txt" (or similar)

If you can run daphne via the command line it will work in gameex.

justincase Advanced Member

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Is the framefile folder supposed to be empty? My command line loooks like this

daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir . -bank 0 11111001 -bank 1 00100111 -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

Is there something special I should do to it?

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

Brian Hoffman

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Is the framefile folder supposed to be empty? My command line loooks like this

daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir . -bank 0 11111001 -bank 1 00100111 -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

Is there something special I should do to it?

Generally not... Looking at the daphne 1.0 config it automatically does it for you....Since it knows the discs.... I donot have the discs to replicate them..

Does that command you have there actually work?

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Gives me Daphne Got an Error could not locate roms/dle20 etc etc etc

Well I cannot tell you where to find the roms here. But I can tell you on the daphne page there is a program called DVD2DAPH.. This will rip your DVD to your hard drive and give you a working framefile.. Thats Half the battle

Once you aquire the ROMS your command line will be complete.

I know it seems like alot of work but in the end you will have an arcade accurate version...

More info on creating your own video from Digital leisure disc

http://www.laserarchive.com/dvd2daph/

justincase Advanced Member

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Ok finally got it. For those of you who are running the beta and have the 20th Anniverary this is how you set it up.

1. Start DaphneLoader

2. High light Dragon's Lair

3. Hit configure button

4. Choose Advanced tab

5. Next to Display Command Line choose Enable

6. Hit Apply then OK

7. Now hit the start button and a command line box will pop up

8. Copy what is in the box

9. Now exit Daphne

10. Make sure that you also Exit DaphneLoader from the bottom right of your screen by the computer clock

11. If you do not exit the DaphneLoader it WILL NOT RUN USING GAMEEX

12. Open Gameex Configuration Menu

13. Choose Daphne

14. Under Game 1 Rom type in dle21 which I beleive plays all new scenes

15. Under Game 1 Options paste what you copied from the Command Line Box

16. Make sure Game 1 ROM is Enabled

17. Enjoy

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Ok finally got it. For those of you who are running the beta and have the 20th Anniverary this is how you set it up.

1. Start DaphneLoader

2. High light Dragon's Lair

3. Hit configure button

4. Choose Advanced tab

5. Next to Display Command Line choose Enable

6. Hit Apply then OK

7. Now hit the start button and a command line box will pop up

8. Copy what is in the box

9. Now exit Daphne

10. Make sure that you also Exit DaphneLoader from the bottom right of your screen by the computer clock

11. If you do not exit the DaphneLoader it WILL NOT RUN USING GAMEEX

12. Open Gameex Configuration Menu

13. Choose Daphne

14. Under Game 1 Rom type in dle21 which I beleive plays all new scenes

15. Under Game 1 Options paste what you copied from the Command Line Box

16. Make sure Game 1 ROM is Enabled

17. Enjoy

Great work..And thank you for keeping us posted :)

Im glad you got it going... Do you mind If I Make this into a PDF and submit it to the tutorials section? Otherwise it might get lost in the masses of posts here..

Really sweet work!

Brian Hoffman

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By the way, Really appreciate all the advice you gave me. Don't think I could have ever got there with out your help.

Would it be possible to show your set up screens in game ex? I can run games from daphne loader. I copied the command line as you suggested and ran the game from the windows run command. I was able to get it to run drom an external app in game ex but NOT thru the game ex daphne section.

Not sure what I am doing wrong...

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Would it be possible to show your set up screens in game ex? I can run games from daphne loader. I copied the command line as you suggested and ran the game from the windows run command. I was able to get it to run drom an external app in game ex but NOT thru the game ex daphne section.

Not sure what I am doing wrong...

Gameex builds the command line as whats defined in the advanced config. Im assuming your doubling up on the command line.

When you copy the command line daphne loader give you is actually gives you the whole command including the daphne.exe vldp lair -framefile.

so gameex builds it based on the game options and paths defined and you paste it in twice.. It ends up being

daphne.exe vldp lair daphne.exe vldp lair -framefile framfile\dl.txt -framefile framfile\dl.txt

At least thats what happened to user justincase.

Which would also explain why it works in external apps.. All your doing is placing the command.. Not building it and placing it.

I sent you a PM.. I will also re-do the daphne video to a PDF as I do realize its probably easier. :)

justincase Advanced Member

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MAke sure you copy the WHOLE command line and paste it under game options. should look like

daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile vldp_dl/lair/lair.txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000 -seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir . -bank 0 11111001 -bank 1 00100111 -noserversend -sound_buffer 2048 -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480

settings.bmp

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Whats the daphne log say? (when it fails loading from gameex)

I still think the way I helped you set Dl2 is a more accurate reflection of a correct config..

I think you might be missing something... If Dl2 will work the right way so will the others...It must be something else..

Brian Hoffman GameEx God (Top Rank)

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Cqueally,

When you try and run it from gameex and it errors out.. Please do the following... In the root of your daphne folder there is a log... It will tell you why it didnt load.. (could be a missing rom) also Post that log here...

Additionally in the gameex program group in the start menu right click on run last game and choose edit and post the command thats its using to run daphne...

This will be the easyest way to determine what is wrong...

Look forward to hearing back from you

Brian Hoffman

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