Dragon's Lair Working
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I wanted to share that using Gameroomsolutions tutorial I was able to get Daphne to run Dragon's Lair without any real issues. Of course I have not played with getting the controllers to work. I was just happy to see that it would run so well on the RP3.
https://gameroomsolutions.com/setup-daphne-raspberry-pi-3-retropie/
--BC
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Thanks for this post. I have all the Laser disc games and would love to add them to my Pi3. Will try this out.
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Got Daphne working on my Pi3 today, It was a little hairy with controls but I figured it out.
This video along with the above posted page by battlecat was very helpful.
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@battlecat said in Dragon's Lair Working:
I wanted to share that using Gameroomsolutions tutorial I was able to get Daphne to run Dragon's Lair without any real issues. Of course I have not played with getting the controllers to work. I was just happy to see that it would run so well on the RP3.
https://gameroomsolutions.com/setup-daphne-raspberry-pi-3-retropie/
--BC
Works perfectly well on pi2 also.
The biggest problem is finding a good set of video for Dlair, Dlair2, Cliffhanger, and Thayers Quest. I've yet to find TQ.
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I'm getting the following error:
ROM dl_f2_u1.bin couldn't be found in roms/lair/, or in ./roms/lair.zip
My folder structure is exactly like the video, any clue on this?
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@dishins said in Dragon's Lair Working:
I'm getting the following error:
ROM dl_f2_u1.bin couldn't be found in roms/lair/, or in ./roms/lair.zip
My folder structure is exactly like the video, any clue on this?
means you either don't have the roms, or have wrong roms, or the rom zip is in the wrong place. There should be a file called lair.zip in daphne/roms, and that zip should contain four files, dl_f2_u1.bin, dl_f2_u2.bin, dl_f2_u3.bin, and dl_f2_u4.bin.
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my folder structure is:
daphne
roms > lair.zip
lair.daphne > lair.m2v,lair.ogg.lair.txtis that correct?
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@dishins said in Dragon's Lair Working:
my folder structure is:
daphne
roms > lair.zip
lair.daphne > lair.m2v,lair.ogg.lair.txtis that correct?
yes, try checking the contents of the lair.zip file, it may be a zero file, or corrupt
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the contents of lair.zip are: dl_f2_u1.bin, dl_f2_u2.bin, dl_f2_u3.bin, and dl_f2_u4.bin
some more information:
I followed @plasmah77 video using the same 20th Anniversary DVD, but did that on my Mac instead of Windows, the game works fine on My Mac
I'm on RetroPie 3.8 on a Rpi2
Contents of daphne_log.txt: http://pastebin.com/KGPXfKtT
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@dishins That's all i got then, all i can think of is that there may be some permissions problem in linux, or there's a config file being used that looks elsewhere for roms. is lair.zip named in all lower case?
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@gomisensei yes, all the files are all lower case :(
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@dishins I am running Daphne on a Linux Mint 18 box. I used the Dragon's Lair DVD that I bought on eBay. When I started Dragon's Lair via Daphne it verified the DVD and downloaded, via torrent, the correct Dragon's Lair files. I did not have to go anywhere to download anything.
I copied over to my RPi3 those files. I made sure to edit the lair.txt file so that it matched the tutorial that I was following.
Otherwise I did nothing special.
--BC
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@gomisensei said in Dragon's Lair Working:
Thayers Quest. I've yet to find TQ.
You would need a keyboard to play it. The original laser disc game developed by RDI had a keyboard with a membrane using roughly 40 keys instead of a joystick just never set well for me.
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151 lair.m2v
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@battlecat NOTE there are 3 lines not 2. There is the DOT then a blank line and then 151 lair.m2v
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@battlecat yours look exactly like mine. Well, guess i'll give up then :(
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@dishins Well no you really don't HAVE to give up.
If Daphne is throwing a fit about the lair.zip can you download that rom file from another site? Sometimes the rom files are a bit wonky and you need to try a few.
The lair.zip I am using was created on my Linux box when I ran Daphne for the first time with the DVD in the drive. I assume that the lair.zip was downloaded with all the other files on that first download.
I think you are a MAC. I do not know if the lair.zip file that is downloaded in the inital download is different or not.
Try another lair.zip rom and see what happens.
Let us know.
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@dishins said in Dragon's Lair Working:
I'm getting the following error:
ROM dl_f2_u1.bin couldn't be found in roms/lair/, or in ./roms/lair.zip
My folder structure is exactly like the video, any clue on this?
I agree with Battlecat. I would try another lair.zip as the official site you'll see the EPROMs inside the archive do change. If you own one of the Digital Leisure qualifying products to use with Daphne it will do the rest. You can dump the space in your lair.txt file but it don't hurt anything either.
Here's the steps that worked before if using Daphne and the 20th Anniversary DVDs.
- Download and install Daphne Loader
- Start Daphne and click "Start" on your preferred game (downloads games via torrent files)
- After it downloads the game it will give you a list of qualifying DVD's to authenticate the game
- Insert correct DVD and click "Ok" to authenticate
- After it completes click "Ok' to start the game and parse the files
- Exit the game and Daphne Loader
- Browse to the install folder and look for the subdirectory named "vldp_dl"
- Under "vldp_dl" look for the game you just installed (i.e. Dragon's Lair=lair; Space Ace=ace; etc.)
You want to copy all the files except the *.bf, *.md5, *.dat files to your Pi using SCP or another program.
The directory structure is defined in the official Wiki here:
https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Daphne
In step 2 it can take a while depending on your internet connection to download the *.bf files. It seems the *.bf files are some type of encrypted file. It's basically all the *.m2v & *.ogg files encrypted.
In step 4 it can take a while also. It uses the DVD to authenticate all the downloaded files but I do not think the workable downloaded version used with the Daphne Loader is the same as the qualifying DVD versions. I believe the DVD is only used to authenticate the files. The Daphne Loader uses some type of decryption key to decrypt the *.bf files to usable *.m2v & *.ogg files after it verifies the DVD is genuine. You end up using twice the space as once it completes you have two sets of files the downloaded encrypted *.bf files and the decrypted *.m2v & *.ogg usable files.
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