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Dragon's Lair -- what to get
Dave Dribin:
--- Quote from: Frostillicus on July 23, 2002, 09:00:29 pm ---
Anyway, if you go with digital leisure, get the PC DVD ROM, not the Xbox and console DVD ones. Apparently the DVD ROMS are more compatible with mpeg ripping or something.
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Yes, go with the DVD-ROMs. I think the regular DVDs are missing some video clips that Daphne needs or they're necrypted.
-Dave
Jakobud:
I am running Daphne on my cabinet. You need the DVD ROMS. THe DVD Video discs or the PS2 DVD's or XBOX DVD versions will NOT work. Your best bet is to buy the triple DVD pack from DIg Leis. (DL, DL2 and SA). Daphne currently doesn't support DL2 yet, but there is some someone has some sort of driver written roughly for it so it should support it soon. Then just find a program called DVD2Daphne. Download it and run it with DL or SA in your DVD Drive. It will do a whole bunch of stuff and within about 15 minutes you will have all your mpegs and ogg files on your harddrive ready for Daphne. This is what I did and it works VERY well. I personally wouldn't go through all the trouble to find a DL or SA laserdisc and a laserdisc player and stuff and try to manually capture the video feed and stuff. That would be a huge pain. DVD2Daphne was a one click operation for the whole thing. As for all the other Laserdisc video games that Daphne supports, well...there are not any DVD's of them. Only laserdiscs.. ..You 'can' find the MPEGS if you look in the right place(s).....
jakobud
Keith O:
The problem with the mpeg rips I've seen is that they are horribly bad. They are usually poorly captured and have major compression artifacts. The DVD's of DL and SA however, are pretty decent captures - you probably won't be able to tell the difference on a TV or arcade monitor.
Howard_Casto:
You must be getting your rips from the wrong place. Also realize that rips of the other games are NEVER going to be as good a quality as sa or dl as these two can be ripped digitally from the dvd and the others must be captured via a capture card from a most likely very aged laser disc player.
Not to mention the fact that these laserdiscs are next to impossible to find now.
Keith O:
They're the same rips everyone else is getting. However, rips from the laserdiscs can be better than the DVD. DVD, as good as it is, is still a compressed format. I have both the laserdiscs (DL and SA) and DVD's, and I can say for certainty that the laserdiscs are better quality. Regardless of the age of the laserdisc player (they're still made), many are s-video and a very clean signal can be captured with great quality. An exception to this may be Cliff Hanger, where the quality of the laserdisc footage is pretty bad to begin with.