Alone in the Dark 3 not working in Retropie

bkumanchik

Has anyone got Alone in the Dark 3 to work in DosBox it just hangs on the Infogrames screen

Thanks

quicksilver

@bkumanchik how are you launching the game?

VictimRLSH

Getting those old DOS games to work even on PC hardware was sometimes pretty difficult. You might want to check your Expanded/Extended memory settings against what that game originally ran with, those are usually the culprit.

bkumanchik

[autoexec]
@echo off
mount d: /home/pi/PetroPie/roms/pc-data/alone3 -t cdrom
d:
dir
cd indark3
aitd3.exe

It runs but then hangs on the title screen, I have alone 1 and alone 2 working just fine, so it's either a sound or memory issue.

I have purchased them off of GOG and it works on my PC fine in DosBox, I don't see anything special in their [dosboxAlone3_single.conf] pertaining to sound or memory settings

bkumanchik

@VictimRLSH

Thanks!

quicksilver

@bkumanchik try updating your retropie setup script and then update dosbox from source.

When you say hang do you mean freeze? Can you exit dosbox cleanly after it hangs?

bkumanchik

@quicksilver

In DosBox on my desktop PC at the title screen you just have to hit Enter to get into the game but nothing happens on the Pie after hitting Enter (so it's not a crash it's more of a hang)

bkumanchik

@quicksilver

oh, and yes I can exit DosBox cleanly

bkumanchik

@VictimRLSH

I tried:

EMS=true
XMS=true

Still didn't work :(