Daphne

[shaggyoh]

Does any one have a Dragons Lair.bat they can post or any help creating one?
:banghead:

[Thebutcherjb]

Its looking at it as a pc game, Just take off the .bat in the hyperloader if your using the roms and .m2v`s . I'm still trying to get this thing running myself, the .bat and getting the emu to work without HS was my first hurdle.

[BadBoyBill]

Im about to release hyperlaunch which suppliments hyperspin in getting all your emu's running really well. It has built in daphne support which will eliminate the need for daphne .bat files. If you can hang for a day or two that would be cool, its actually already done, I just have some people testing it for me right now to make sure its running good, had a little feedback which is fixed now and will be putting it out either tomorrow or the next day.

[Thebutcherjb]

Thanks Bill, Gives me time to fix up my collection.

[BadBoyBill]

Its going to need you to make sure your framefiles are the same name as your roms and located in your framefile folder or any single one folder.

Will work like this for daphne which is a special case.

It uses your normal settings in each ini file like this.
path = path do daphne
rompath = path to dahne framefiles
romextension = txt // this is your framefile extension, text file.
exe = daphne
hyperlaunch = true

Daphne xml
name = "lair"
description = "Dragon's Lair"

The only thing to make sure with your daphne setup is that your framefiles point to your mpegs and you'll be good to go.

[brian_hoffman]

Excellent insight!

Couldn't have done it better myself. :)

Lets get this out there in the wild :)

[Thebutcherjb]

On the roms issue, Am I going to need to unzip them with the m2v and ogg files?

[brian_hoffman]

Rom files go into the roms folder... Mpegs can go anywhere as long as your FRAMEFILE point to them. Your FRAMEFILE should go into the Framefiles folder.

[magostin]

i almost have this working.
hyperspin tries to load the game then i get the "specify wich game to run...." error.


i think my problem is with daphne setup.

how do i make the framefiles point to the mpegs?

is it the written stuff in the lair.txt file?


help,

magostin:banghead:

[Visitor Q]

Has anyone got this to work yet? I am having no luck what so ever...

Is hyperlaunch out? I did not see it in the download section.

If my roms are under Daphne in the roms folder and my framefiles are on another dir with the laserdisc images, is this even going to work?

[Thebutcherjb]

I believe making a BAT file with your daphne commands would be your best bet until hyperlaunch comes out.

[Visitor Q]

Can some post and example then?

[magostin]

EXAMPLE PLEASE.....


MAGOSTIN:banghead:

[Dazz]

Just wait for HyperLaunch. It is very easy to get Daphne running without the need of bat files. Shouldn't be much longer till the release.

[Thebutcherjb]

I've been trying the bats for a day and no go. :( Couldn't get it to work so I hope hyperlaunch will come out soon.

[Visitor Q]

Just wait for HyperLaunch. It is very easy to get Daphne running without the need of bat files. Shouldn't be much longer till the release.

I heard today! I hope I don't have to rename any files or sorta silly $hit like that.

[shaggyoh]

daphne.exe lair vldp -framefile "D:\Daphne\framefile\dl_framefile.txt" -fullscreen

Just open up notepad enter this. You might have to change "lair" thats the rom name and the "dl_framefile.txt" to your framefile. Save it as a bat file and place in your rom folder.

[WASTEDMIND]

proper bat file is
(YourDIR):\daphne\daphne.exe lair vldp -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -nohwaccel -framefile (YourDIR):\(Your Path to TXT)\lair.txt

[chrisseear]

Sorry to drag up this old thread, but how do I actually make it launch the BAT files. My bat files work perfefctly when double clicked, and work perfectly in other front ends, I must be dumb, please help

[councilface]

Theres no need to use Bat files

Im assuming you know how the framefiles work?

Just make sure that your framefiles and oggs and M2Vs follow the same naming convention.

Configure them using DaphneLoader.

Robert is your Fathers brother.

[chrisseear]

Thankyou, I do know how the framefiles work. Ended up getting the bat files working, Just had to rename them to match the xml.

I am new to hyperspin, not easy to understand at first. But the end result looks like it will be worth it.

[brian_hoffman]

Well bat files are not the way to go. We used them at first but they spawn a cmd window that isn't needed.

[councilface]

Glad you got it working.

Yep. Hyperspin is the mutts nuts and the most important development since MAMEs inception (IMVHO)

[volumetric]

Well bat files are not the way to go. We used them at first but they spawn a cmd window that isn't needed.

Ah yes, but can you specify different options for each game without the bats? (actually, im sure you can with hyperlaunch, but my coding is just not up to scratch). Unless you use bats, its very difficult to specify fastboot, or any of the options which apply only to particular roms (running the protype dragons lair machine is a good example of this).
Each to their own though, i dont mind the command window, so i go with the bats

[Godfather]

i believe the only way to get this game to work other than what was said above is you actually need a copy of the game it's self and put it in your dvd drive..if im not mistaken?

[Dhanen]

I'm almost ready with games of Daphne in Hyperspin. Them work all on DaphneLoader and I just tryed work Dragon's Lair. Only problem I have is running games 'cause them must be loaded with Daphne.exe and not DaphneLoader.exe, so configurations (as controls or enable fast boot) doesn't work... Does anybody knows how run it with DaphneLoader or how to introduce options of DaphneLoader.exe in Daphne.exe?
Thanks

[Firebat138]

i could use some help on this as well... the games work GREAT in Daphneloader, but not in HS. I am using Hyperlaunch and it says that daphneloader isnt supported yet... any ideas guys..

thanx

[ACE]

I don't have this working yet, but I can try to help.... Does your .ahk file look like this?


;************************************DAPHNE******* ******************************
else if (systemName = "Daphne" && executable = "daphne.exe"){
hideDesktop()
Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess
daphneParams = vldp -fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -nohwaccel -framefile
frameFilePath = %romPath%%romName%%romExtension%
RunWait, %executable% %romName% %daphneParams% %frameFilePath%, %emuPath%, UseErrorLevel
}

[Firebat138]

here is mine

else if (systemName = "Daphne" && executable = "daphne.exe")
{
hideDesktop()
Hotkey, %exitEmulatorKey%, CloseProcess

if (romname = "dle21")
{
daphneParams = dle21 vldp -framefile F:\Hyperspin\emulators\Daphne\framefile\lair\lair. txt -blank_searches -min_seek_delay 1000
-seek_frames_per_ms 20 -homedir . -bank 0 11011000 -bank 1 10110111 -prefer_samples -sound_buffer 2048
-fullscreen -x 640 -y 480 -opengl
}