Need Help With DOSBOX

quicksilver

I am trying to run little big adventure 2 on dosbox. I am using the GOG version of the game and I have successfully installed the game and I can get it running using this script:

/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c "mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2" -c "imgmount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2/LBA2.dat -t iso" -c "d:" -c "cd /LBA2/" -c "LBA2.EXE" -c "exit"

The problem is the language is in French and the voice overs are missing. There is a config file that controls the spoken and written language and it is set to English by default so Im not sure why the wrong language is displaying in game. If I play this game on my windows PC the voice overs are present and it is in English. Anyone have any experience with GOG games for DOS?

Pi Model or other hardware: 3B
RetroPie Version Used: 4.3
Built From: Pre made SD Image on RetroPie website
Emulator: DOSbox

mediamogul

@quicksilver said in Need Help With DOSBOX:

There is a config file that controls the spoken and written language and it is set to English by default so Im not sure why the wrong language is displaying in game.

Could be a permissions problem with that, or another governing config file.

quicksilver

@mediamogul So I was able to try a standard bin/cue version of the game and I run into the same issue. I set permissions to 755 for everything in the LBA2 folder. Yet everything is still in french even though the config says it should be english.

KN4THX

I found this site with a similar issue and someone offered a config file if you want to compare your settings.

https://forum.magicball.net/showthread.php?t=14394

mediamogul

@quicksilver

There's also this that might help...

https://www.magicball.net/games/lba1/lba1_2_dosbox_guide

quicksilver

@mediamogul unfortunately thats mainly for a windows installation. It works perfect for me through windows but on my raspberry pi everything is in french. I suspect its something to do with running dosbox on linux but I dont know enough about linux to figure it out. :/

@edmaul69 I know you are a bit of a dosbox guru, have you run into something like this before?

mediamogul

@quicksilver said in Need Help With DOSBOX:

unfortunately thats mainly for a windows installation.

I may be wrong, but it looks like the only Windows-specific part is creating the shortcut, which is essentially the same as the launch command. I take it that you've already followed the other parts without success? Also, it notes that a pretty powerful host computer is required for the games. I'm not sure how well these will run on the Pi.

edmaul69

@quicksilver you are doing it wrong. here is an example of how the .sh needs to look. this is for the gog game bio menace.

#!/bin/bash 
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -conf "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/BMENACE.conf"

you need to put that games .conf file in your /roms/pc folder. then at the bottom of the .conf file under [autoexec] you need to edit it to point to where the game is on the pi using the info you originally had in the .sh file

edmaul69

@quicksilver also dont change the stuff under the [autoexec]. you just need to put the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/ to the "mount c" and "mount d"

edmaul69

@mediamogul you didnt tag me in a dosbox question? i had to find this out on my own. for shame! i cant even look at you right now.... 😂

mediamogul

@edmaul69

Hey, we tried to reach you.

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quicksilver

@edmaul69 going to try this out when I get off work. Thanks!

Brigane

@quicksilver said in Need Help With DOSBOX:

@edmaul69 going to try this out when I get off work. Thanks!

If this works out for you please post the solution here. I've been struggling with this french language problem myself and never found a solution.

edmaul69

@quicksilver can you post the [autoexec] section of your .conf file?

quicksilver

@edmaul69 I will when I get home. I should use the one that came with the game right? Not a copy of the generic one that retropie uses?

edmaul69

@quicksilver yes you use the one that came with the game. And that is the one i need the autoexec part of. If you post it i might be able to make you a correct .sh file that doesnt need the .conf file.

quicksilver

@edmaul69 Success! You are the man!

# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@echo off
mount c "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/"
imgmount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2/LBA2.DAT" -t iso
c:
cls
cd LBA2
LBA2.EXE
exit

This is what I used to get it to work. I had to use/duplicate the default dosbox.conf file included with retropie to get the keyboard to work properly.

quicksilver

@brigane

To get the game to work properly I created the shell script below and placed it in my /roms/pc folder

#!/bin/bash 
/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -conf "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2/dosboxLBA2.conf"

then I copied the default dosbox config located here:

/opt/retropie/configs/pc/dosbox-SVN.conf

to my LBA2 directory located in my /roms/pc folder, renaming it dosboxLBA2.conf

At the bottom of the .conf file is a section labled: [autoexec]

Place this right below it:

# Lines in this section will be run at startup.
@echo off
mount c "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/"
imgmount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2/LBA2.DAT" -t iso
c:
cls
cd LBA2
LBA2.EXE
exit

If you want to change the language options you can edit the LBA2.CFG

edmaul69

@quicksilver actually nothing special with this game unlike some from gog.com. the problem you had is that you switched to the d: drive instead of the c: drive. so this should work just fine

/opt/retropie/emulators/dosbox/bin/dosbox -c "mount c /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/" -c "imgmount d /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/LBA2/LBA2.dat -t iso" -c "c:" -c "cd /LBA2/" -c "LBA2.EXE" -c "exit"

quicksilver

@edmaul69 yea I realized my mistake shortly after my original post. But even switched to c: it still has the wrong language selected. Oh well, your original solution worked just fine so I'll stick with it. I have tried and given up on this game so many times in the past. And I have finally gotten it working thanks to you!