Request : Help on Dos box

escc1986

Hi

Im In Need Of Some Help

I'm Using Retropie , With Emulationstation ( an Image I Grabbed online)

Under my PC Games Menue I have a ton of games , all dos floppy games no CD Games
(On PC under /roms/PC All games Are in there folder and at the root each game has a .bat file for it to be shown to run the game

I Want to install a CD game ( The Adventures of Willy Bemish)

I'm not sure how to do this

I have the game in a folder (no ISO) lots of files including the WILLY.exe file

I then make a .bat for the game and place it the root of the /roms/pc

I then place the willy folder (Game file ) also in the root of the directory /roms/pc

I restart emulationstation

Now it shows up 2 Willy files to choose in PC games menu

I click the 1sr one , nothing happens , it loads then returns to me the menu

I click the 2nd, it loads and brings up the installation screen , (i didn't know what to do , I just pressed continue and it said install complete ... then it returned to the PC games menu

Now I click the 1st Willy again and nothing happens , loads and reruns me to the menu

I'm New to all this and not sure what I'm doIng wrong

Hope someone will be able to Help me

Here is a link of a video of my issue

https://dropmefiles.com/tiqam

Hope someone is able to help

mitu

@escc1986 Please don't post multiple topics for the same problem. I've merged your new topic with the previous one.
When posting a support topic, please add the info requested in https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first to your post.

quicksilver

You don't want to extract the files from the iso. We need to mount the .iso as if it's loaded in a CD ROM drive. Probably best to start over, what are the original files you are working with? Can you post a picture of the directories?

escc1986

@mitu

I do apologize for the repost , I felt I didn't explain myself well enough in the first post

Thank you for the help to merge

I do apologize for the mistake

escc1986

@quicksilver

Ok I'm kind of confused ...

Don't know what or how to mount

and not sure what you meant about the ISO

Here is a picture of the directory of my willy folder now

https://dropmefiles.com/G1JG3

If you could explain step by step on what I should do would help me a lot

Thank you for the replys to help

escc1986

@escc1986

I guess you could say another BIG issue I'm having

Is

I don't know how to get to the command line of Dos box ?

Or I don't know how to launch dos box to get the command line

Because if i need to mount something I'm sure in need the command line in dos box

mitu

@escc1986 said in Request : Help on Dos box:

Or I don't know how to launch dos box to get the command line

The first entry in the pc system is +Start DOSbox - this is what you can run to get a DosBox command line.

escc1986

@mitu

Alright from my Main Retropie screen

I pressed start then
"Quit Emulationstation"

I then was in command line

I typed : +Start DOSbox

and it said command it found

Here is picture (please let me know what I did wrong )

https://dropmefiles.com/bLsAE

mitu

@escc1986 said in Request : Help on Dos box:

Alright from my Main Retropie screen
I pressed start then
"Quit Emulationstation"

Who said anything about quitting EmulationStation ? You go to the PC (or MSDOS) system in EmulationStation, where you have copied your game, and there you have the +Start DOSBox entry:

escc1986

@mitu

My Apologias

Unfortunately I do not have that option when I see go into the PC Menu

https://dropmefiles.com/3wcfU

quicksilver

@escc1986 did you configure this image yourself? Or is this a pre-configured image that you downloaded with games already on it?

escc1986

@quicksilver

This was an already made image

escc1986

Ok ... I found out how to start dosbox on my retropie

"Quit Emulationstation"

I then typed

cd /opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin (enter)

Then I pressed : sudo ./dosbox (enter) To start dosbox

quicksilver

@escc1986 we can't support third party images. See: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/3/read-this-first

If you want troubleshooting help youll need to start with the official stock image. Otherwise you'll need to ask the that image's creator for help.

escc1986

think you could still help me , im just a noob at this and it shoulnt be that hard .

ok ... i encounter another issue

i entered Dosbox command

the keyboard is typing different keys ... so the keyboard is messed up

here is my config file for dosbox

https://dropmefiles.com/gvDUp

escc1986

ok if i made a new image by myself ... and encounter this same problem ... would you help me ... when i get to that point

quicksilver

@escc1986 said in Request : Help on Dos box:

think you could still help me , im just a noob at this and it shoulnt be that hard .

ok ... i encounter another issue

i entered Dosbox command

the keyboard is typing different keys ... so the keyboard is messed up

here is my config file for dosbox

https://dropmefiles.com/gvDUp

All of the issues you are having is because you are using a third party image. There is no way to know what settings the image creator messed with, which means we have no baseline for troubleshooting. I'm sorry but I don't want to spend all day trying to blindly troubleshoot your third party image.

quicksilver

@escc1986 if you start with a stock image I would gladly assist you

escc1986

Thank you ... appreciate that .. that ok let me create a new image and try

escc1986

do i have to post a thread , so you guys can delete this one ?