Dragon's Lair Working

gomisensei

@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?

dishins

@gomisensei yes, all the files are all lower case :(

battlecat

@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

Riverstorm

@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.

dishins

@battlecat can you please post the contents of lair.txt file?

Here's mine:

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151 lair.m2v

battlecat

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151 lair.m2v

battlecat

@battlecat NOTE there are 3 lines not 2. There is the DOT then a blank line and then 151 lair.m2v

dishins

@battlecat yours look exactly like mine. Well, guess i'll give up then :(

battlecat

@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.
-BC

Riverstorm

@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.