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Dragon's Lair -- what to get
Frostillicus:
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Unless your going to be collecting the orignal pcbs a laser disc player is definately NOT the way to go. Only dragon's lair and space ace will display properly when using daphne and a laserdisc player. All the other emulated laser disc games only run right with mpeg rips.
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Why wouldn't you want a real LD player in your cab? Daphne uses LD players - I think it's a good idea if you want to run those few games without overlays. You need the original discs anyways to make rips(legally), so why not use the player for those few games, too? Not only does it cut down on HDD space but the computer doesn't have to be very fast, too.
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Now if all you want to play is dragon's lair (lamer :P ) then a laserdisc would work fine. And yes indeed only certain one's work... go to the daphne homepage or the dragon's liar project for more info.
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What's wrong with just playing Dragon's Lair? If that's all you like, then that's all you like. I don't think it's lame.
Jakobud:
Frosti
I why would you want to have a Laser Disc player in your cabinet when you can just do it all off of MPEGs from your hard drive ? No switching big laserdiscs or anything like that....
And legally, you dont need the Laser Disc. You just need some purchasable form of the media, like DVD (for those that are available on DVD). I bought Dragon's Lair I and II and Space Ace DVD's from Digital Leisure and ripped the MPEGs and have them in my cabinet. That sounds perfectly legal to me. I don't even use the DVD's. I just store them.
Jakobud
Frostillicus:
--- Quote from: Jakobud on July 29, 2002, 10:07:26 pm ---
And legally, you dont need the Laser Disc. You just need some purchasable form of the media, like DVD (for those that are available on DVD). I bought Dragon's Lair I and II and Space Ace DVD's from Digital Leisure and ripped the MPEGs and have them in my cabinet. That sounds perfectly legal to me. I don't even use the DVD's. I just store them.
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You're absolutely right. But I was talking about the other games that daphne plays, like Thayer's Quest and Cobra Command which don't have a DVD equivalent, just the original LD. I myself bought the Digital Leisure 3-pack, too, and those will end up sitting on my shelf after I use the MPEGS off of them.