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      escc1986
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      Hi quicksilver

      Nice to hear back from you

      It should run fine , Thank you letting me know , I was having doubts

      Yes , I would love to hear if you got it working , I would appreciate that a lot , thanks for for going to test it out

      I having had luck

      And ok I will follow your direction with installing it to the D drive instead of C

      If you get it to work , hope you can make me a step by step guide

      Thank you once again

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        quicksilver @escc1986
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        @escc1986 so try installing the game by following the commands you used above but instead of

        imgmount c "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/willy /willy.iso" -t iso -fs iso
        

        do:

        imgmount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/willy /willy.iso" -t iso -fs iso
        

        Then when it asks for the install location, choose C:

        once the game is installed the easiest way of running the game will be to make a .conf file for the game. Create a blank file named nameofgame.conf (name Willy or willy beamish or whatever as long as it is .conf extension). In the .conf file create a section that looks like this:

        [autoexec]
        # Lines in this section will be run at startup.
        mount c "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/"
        imgmount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/willy/willy.iso" -t iso
        c:
        cd willy
        willy.exe
        

        Obviously make sure that the file paths I listed above actually are the same as what is on your pi, if they arent the same then change what I wrote above so that they point to the right file correctly. Also make sure that you use upper/lower case exactly too.

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          escc1986
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          Wow you got it to work !!!! , that's amazing

          I'm going to try to give it a go

          Thanks for the simple instructions

          If I get stuck I will inform you

          Thank you once again for the instructions, means a lot

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            escc1986 @quicksilver
            last edited by

            @quicksilver

            Hi quicksilver

            Did you get the game working ?

            I tried and I tried to follow your directions exactly how you instructed me

            I'm not sure what I did wrong

            The last try I attempted ,Froze my system

            I would try to boot my Pi back up and it wouldn't get to the main retropie menu it hanged and froze at command

            It made a dynamix folder in the Willy folder

            Had to delete that folder with every other thing thing that had to do with Willy to get the main menu on boot

            This games seems actually seems so weird to get running compared to other games

            Any more advice you may share with me ?

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              quicksilver @escc1986
              last edited by

              @escc1986 are you using the stock pi image?

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                escc1986
                last edited by

                Yes using the stock image

                I guess I must be doIng something wrong

                I must try again later today

                Well let me ask you ...

                When you start dosbox

                Do you first

                mount C

                Then

                Do the Imgmount

                Because when I first did the imgmount , and tried to install it said that there was no C drive to install to

                But when I did mount C first , then the imgmount it allowed me to install it on C

                Please verfy what I should be doing first

                I have the right steps but maby in doing them in a different order ?

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                  escc1986
                  last edited by

                  Wheni mentioned imgmount

                  You know I'm referring to

                  Imgmount D

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                    quicksilver @escc1986
                    last edited by

                    @escc1986 yes sorry you should

                    mount c "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/"
                    

                    First, then imgmount the iso to the d drive

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                      escc1986 @quicksilver
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                      @quicksilver

                      Hi Quick Silver

                      It's been a long time and I must ask for your help once more ... I tried to follow your steps again but let's try to do it step by step

                      I have been out of the loop for a very long time and forgot everything

                      Please help me

                      So this time I'm trying to install Mad Dog

                      I have a Pi 3 B

                      Running a New Stock image

                      You can say I have been trying to follow your directions all day on this theard and haven't had luck with my game " Mad Dog "

                      Lets start at the beginning ....

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                        escc1986 @escc1986
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                        @quicksilver

                        First I downloaded the dos

                        PC folder pops up in my roms

                        I put a folder named "maddog"
                        ( with Mad Dog McCree.iso) in there

                        I Start Dosbox from the menue +Dosbox+

                        First thing I notice it says

                        Drive C is mounted "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/"

                        So the first thing I write is

                        imgmount d "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc/maddog /Mad Dog McCree.iso" -t iso -fs iso

                        C:

                        Install Mad Dog McCree.iso

                        I get to the install page and it's says it's going to install is as

                        C:\maddog

                        So it completes

                        Note says to run press MADDOG

                        I'm back at dosbox

                        C:\MADDOG:

                        I type in MADDOG as show here

                        C:\MADDOG:MADDOG

                        The game runs

                        I followed your advice here as shown

                        About creating a .conf file with what you provided

                        So I restart emulation

                        I see 2 MADDOG files

                        I click them both

                        They both bring me to the command

                        I don't know what to do to run my game from here

                        The game only ran once , how come it won't start again , I thought I instlled it

                        Please help me , don't know what to do

                        Hope you could help

                        Thank you

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