Daphne - Thayer's Quest

tfpHumorBlog

Oddly specific question, but has anyone been successfully able to get Thayer's Quest to work? All the other laser disc games work great. I'm running latest Daphne on Pi 3. The game makes it to "insert coins" screen, but I can't seem to add any credits. I know it's a bit of a goofy game with known issues, so just wondering if anyone has got it working. Thanks!

vikingrock

I have same problem here with my pi3, all other gamer works normally, but i can't insert coins with joystick or pc keyboard.

I would like to know a solution to this issue to play this amazing game.

caver01

@tfphumorblog have you checked or tried the virtual DIP switch settings referenced here? You would have to use a tq.commands file to set the parameters. DIP switches don't work the same across multiple ROMs in Daphne, and often not even amongst clones of the same title.

vikingrock

Thanx for reply, but I dont know how I can acess dip switches menu to change a single game config in daphne on retropie.

Do you know how?

caver01

@vikingrock Yes, you need to setup a commands file described here and put in the -bank parameters in that file. Don't just use the example text. You really need to decide what parameters you want to add for that ROM. for purposes of this discussion, we are talking about a text file that contains -bank X YYYYYYYY where X=the DIP switch bank, and YYYYYYYY is the binary values of each switch. You can follow my reference link above for the switch values for TQ.

vikingrock

I have Daphne working with all games, including Dragons Lair and Space Ace, in Pc Keyboard there are all Daphne keys preconfigured, and I have tried to play Thayer's Quest with Pc keyboard to find a way to discover the especific imput controls to this game, but including on keyboard, there's no command to put coins in Thayer's Quest.

caver01

@vikingrock Yeah, I understand. Are you issuing any commands in the file described above? A lot of folks don't realize that they copied a commands file file (I guess in this case it would be tq.commands) from another ROM setup. For example, you don't want to use a commands string from Dragon's Lair on Thayer's quest because the DIP switches are totally different.

Do you have a .commands file for tq? If you do, you might have it set to FREE PLAY so no coin input will work.

I wish I could do more, but I don't own tq to test it.

vikingrock

Thanx again my friend... I´m surrender... I dont have a command file for tq.

Daphne emulator is a very complicated to configure on retropie, because he dont have a system menu.

caver01

@vikingrock Fortunately there isn't much to configure besides getting the files themselves in the right folders which it sounds like you did.

You are aware that the actual arcade game uses a strange membrane keyboard to play. . . And I think I may have found the answer.

According to the daphne emu web page it has the keys setup for thayer's quest as follows:
Thayer's Quest is different from other arcade games in that it used a keyboard instead of a usual joystick and buttons.
Thayer's Quest keys cannot be changed as of the time of this writing.
The keys are as follows:
F1 Choice #1 (triangle) / Clear
F2 Choice #2 (circle)
F3 Choice #3 (square) / Enter (NOTE : the regular Enter key on the keyboard does nothing)
F4 Choice #4 (pentagon) / Space (NOTE : the regular spacebar on the keyboard does nothing)
F5 Insert Coin
F6 Insert Coin
1 Yes
2 Items
3 Drop Item
4 Give Score
5 Replay
6 Combine Action
7 Save Game (NOTE : saving games is not supported at the time of this writing)
8 Update
9 Hint
0 No
The rest of the keyboard is the same as it is on a Thayer's Quest keyboard, which is shown below:
http://www.daphne-emu.com/graphics/tq_keyboard.jpg

Here's another one that looks nicer:

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vikingrock

I have tried with keyboard, the f5 key dont put coins in game, maybe a bug in retropie port of daphne emulator.

Thanx and thanx my friend you are kind person...

Best regards,
Dante

skj

@vikingrock said in Daphne - Thayer's Quest:

I have Daphne working with all games, including Dragons Lair and Space Ace, in Pc Keyboard there are all Daphne keys preconfigured, and I have tried to play Thayer's Quest with Pc keyboard to find a way to discover the especific imput controls to this game, but including on keyboard, there's no command to put coins in Thayer's Quest.

I can only get the following games to work

Astron Belt
Dragons Lair
Dragons Lair II
Esh's Aurunmilla
GP World
Interstellar
MACH 3 (no sound)
Space Ace
Super Don Quiote
Us vs Them

What other games do you have working? I checked here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Hy2VpPXgs4a9imeu0_w3SpehKEkhUNOLzD1jhcgwS3o/htmlview#gid=0 there's a few more games that claim to be working but I'm having no luck.

vikingrock

I have following one games working on my retropie Pi3:

Astron Belt
Cliff Hanger
Cobra Command
Dragon's Lair
Dragon's Lair II : Timewarp
Esh's Aurunmilla
Galaxy Ranger
GP World
Interstellar
M.A.C.H. 3
Space Ace
Super Don Quix-ote
Thayer's Quest (controls problem)
Us vs Them

I have black screen on Bega Battle, Badlands and Road Blaster.

skj

@vikingrock

How do you get Cliff hanger to download files via daphne PC, I keep getting an error saying can't download video/audio files, cliffhanger has been removed until a complete version can be presented?

Any ideas?

vikingrock

Hello friend, I have downloaded the Cliffhanger game in Arcade Punks 64gb nachos image.

Any doubt, contact me.

skj

@vikingrock

Thanks for the heads up on cliffhanger, do you happen to know the file size of the cliffhanger video files/folder? I don't really want to download a 64gb img just for a few files, will try and google CH if I know the file sizes

Thanks for you help friend

pjft

@vikingrock please don't point others to where to download Roms.

vikingrock

Hello friend, The Cliffhanger game folder "cliff.daphne" have a 1,15 GB.

skj

@vikingrock

Thank you for the file size info, I managed to locate the exact file without having to download a 64gb img

However, I'm missing the frame file can you post the info inside the cliff.txt file

I created my own can you verify its the same as yours:-

.
0 cliff.m2v

Thanks for you help :)

vikingrock

My frame file is:

.

6 CH_640x480_30i.m2v

skj

@vikingrock said in Daphne - Thayer's Quest:

My frame file is:

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6 CH_640x480_30i.m2v

Hmmmmmm interesting, are you using the "restored" version then?