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    Dosbox and .dsk

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      Vodkanakas
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      Ok i have Mega Man (1990)(Hi-Tech Expressions).dsk and i remember as a kid playing it on a computer that looks exactly like the pic of the apple2 but it wont load. So i did some research and it should run under dosbox but it dont accept .dsk is there a way to play this on retropie?

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        mitu Global Moderator
        last edited by

        This looks like a disc/floppy image, have you tried mounting it with imgmount in Dosbox ?

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          Vodkanakas @mitu
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          @mitu

          C:\>imgmount a "/RetroPie/roms/pc/Mega Man (1990)(Hi-Tech Expression).dsk" -t floppy
          Drive A is mounted as /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/Mega Man (1990)(Hi-Tech Expression).dsk
          

          But when i do

          C:\>boot -l a
          Booting from drive A...
          

          Nothing happens

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            Vodkanakas
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            So the issue i had with previously was that its not a bootable disk you still have to locate the .exe file. So i wrote this

            #!/bin/bash
            /opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c "mount c ~/RetroPie/roms/pc" -c "c:" -c 'imgmount a "~/RetroPie/roms/pc/Mega Man (1990)(Hi-Tech Expressions).dsk" -t floppy' -c "a:" -c "mm.exe"
            

            It launches with the dosbox but the character constantly moves left even with removing all keys from left mapping. So my next issue would be controls. Now if i try the same thing with lr-dosbox it acts as if the .sh file was typed rather then the text within it. But if i manually mount and boot the character does the same thing but am able to stop it with disconnecting the second controller. So one step at a time.

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              Vodkanakas @mitu
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              @mitu
              Well quick search found the problem with the .sh here. Guess ill make .conf files instead.

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