NEW DAPHNE program is awesome & very very easy to setup!!!!

[Jeff AMN]

So if I order the 20th Anniversary DVDs, can I rip them and use them with DAPHNE? I just want to get these on my cab and to do it the best way possible.

[fatfingers]

If you use the new Daphne, no ripping is needed.  Just start Daphne, insert the DVDs, and select Dragon's Lair and it does all the magic for you.

[shorthair]

Except for a glitch in MACH 3, where it just crashes, I've had no probems with .99.7 .  The new beta, on the other hand, though it did auto d/l the DL suite, it won't do anything but tell me I'm missing files on any of the other games. I ran into this with the pre-beta version in-between .99 and beta.  The only reason I'm interested in the beta is it's supposed to be higher quality video an all...not even sure if it's smaller, though they were saying it was supposed to be...but it's been a small hassle.

[Moose13]

OK, so I don't have the Official DVD's. If I DID, do you only have to load the DVD in once (to get the auth code) or do you have to insert it every time you play? Reason I'm asking is, I'm in the process in building a cabinet, and don't want to have to access the DVD drive every time I want to play a Daphne game. If that's the case maybe I should just stick with the previous version on Daphne?

[shorthair]

No, the whole reason to use Daphne is so you don't have to use those DVD's, as they're complete in themselves.  It's a single-time authentication.  I mean, would you expect anything less?....Matt and company aren't a company.

[KenToad]

Wow I didn't know there was a Dargon's Lair II... how is it compared to the first? I have to get Daphne running next on my machine, I'm on dial-up though But I remember Dragon's Lair in my local arcade... I remember dying over and over too... so it would be nice to finally beat that game... kind of like an unanswered question that needs righting in my life 

The amount of memory work required on DL2 is staggering. Difficulty 10/10 unless you have lightning reflexes. There are directional prompts on the first two levels which help somewhat.

Thanks, Buddabing.  Now I feel really good, although I never grabbed all those special items and made it to the last level.   

I did beat Dragon's Lair 1, though.     The ending is very short, unfortunately.

[SodaPopinksi]

Dragon's Lair II seems like one of those NES games that can drive you to throw the controller against the screen or try and break the controller in half     

[jasonbar]

FYI, after tons of searching & buying CD-ROM versions of the DL 20th Anniversary that were advertised as DVD versions (TWICE!!!), & watching eBay auctions, I found what appears to be the best deal on the Digital Leisure 20th Anniversary Dragon's Lair DVD set:

The $29.99 item from volcanogames on half.com: http://product.half.ebay.com/Dragons-Lair-20th-Anniversary-Edition_W0QQprZ56462774QQtgZinfo


Just got my DL, DL2, & SA set up & running through batch fiiles in MALA.  Hooray.

-J

[divemaster127]

I received my sets & quest dvd also this week, after I finish taxes im going to get these going
dm

[jasonbar]

Divemaster, what's the best deal you found on Thayer's Quest?

Thanks,
-J

[divemaster127]

29.99 was the best I could find its higher on ebay
dm

[jasonbar]

Ouch, that's kinda stiff just to get 1 game running...a game which I never saw when it was in the arcades & have dinked around a little bit w/ an older of version of Daphne & wasn't blown away by...

Thanks for the info,
-J

[Timoe]

what if you already have all the files.  Is there a way to get it to work without buying all the extra stuff?

[jasonbar]

The latest version of Daphne requires a Digital Leisure product (DVD or newer, not CD-ROM!) the first time you launch one of their games (Dragon's Lair, Dragon's Lair 2, Space Ace, or Thayer's Quest), as a sort of copy protection scheme.

-Jason

[King Friday XIII]

I just ordered the 20th anniversary edition from half.com. I've never run Daphne before so I'm not too familiar with it. Will it work with Mamewah? If not, is there a FE that will work with MAME and Daphne?

[jasonbar]

I'm a relative newbie to all this, but I'll try to understand--anybody feel free to chime in & correct me.

I'm using MALA & it runs both MAME & Daphne files fine.  For Daphne, I created *.bat files for each game & MALA is essentially running the bat files that are the command line text to launch Daphne, rather than generating its own command lines.

To figure out the command lines for Daphne, I used the Daphne Downloader & set up everything how I liked it for each game (coins/credit, lives/game, difficulty, video options, etc.), then launched the game, quit the game, then looked at the daphnelog.txt file generated, which shows the command line text that was sent to launch daphne.exe with the correct settings, & I essentially copied & pasted that text into the bat files that I created, which MALA launches.


Clear as mud?

-J

[jlfreund]

I'm confused about what I need to buy.  There are two versions of the 20th anniversary edition on Amazon (one PS2 one PC) for around $20.  But it seems the PC version is CD-ROM< and my understanding is that won't work.

This one http://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Lair-20th-Anniversary-Edition/dp/B0002MHEZU/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2/102-4183184-3501709?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1191200229&sr=8-2
has a quote:
"I was originally looking for a DVD-ROM version of this particular Anniversary edition but was informed by Digital Leisure that they did not make one, nor were there any plans to make one. They did inform me that there is an HD-DVD version of Dragon's Lair, but as I do not own an HD-DVD player, that option was out. "

However the DigitalLeisure site does have a 20th Anniversary version that says "Now Available on DVD" for $59.95.

Do you have to spend $60 and buy this version direct from Digital Leisure to get something that will work with Daphne?

[EDIT] Oops, I noticed a post on this thread referring to volcanogames on Ebay.  I did a search and now they claim to have the HD/DVD version of 20th Anniversary Edition for $19.99.  So I ordered that one and we'll see how it goes.

Jason

[Havok]

what if you already have all the files.  Is there a way to get it to work without buying all the extra stuff?

Sure - just change the options to point to your files instead of the automatically download setting. Or, run AtomicFE and use my Daphne Plug and Play module...

[WCBoudreaux]

Ok... Just to shed a little light on this subject being a member of the Daphne community...

1) There's 2 types of discs you can buy to decrypt the video files that Daphne downloads for DL, DL2, SA, and TQ... They are DVD-ROM (20th Anniversary Edition) and DVD-VIDEO (the ones that say X-Box and PS2 Compatible)... Both versions will decrypt the downloaded footage...

2) DVD2Daph was an option to use your dvds, but honestly, let Daphne download the files, and use those instead... They are the actual laserdisc footage, and look 100 times better than the DVD footage... And, the moves and timing is better if you use the laserdisc rips... The DVDs  have a known issue with the timing of the moves...

3) Thayer's Quest has issues, AND requires a lot of buttons (that aren't able to be re-mapped), and IMHO, it's not worth spending the money on the DVD unless you just have to have it in your collection... There's other means of getting Daphne to play TQ...

4) All of the other games in the list of Beta 1.0 will automatically download the footage, and roms needed to play the games...

5) CD ROMS WILL NOT WORK PERIOD!

6) The new Dragon's Lair HD WILL NOT WORK PERIOD!

I can't stress enough that you should just be patient, and let Daphne download everything it needs to download, and also, that the footage that Daphne downloads, it soooooo much better than the quality that you'll get from using your DVDs... And the pirated MPEGS that are floating around out there, cannot compare to the quality of the footage that Daphne uses...

I hope this clears up some things, and if not, I'll be glad to help any one out that needs it... You can pm me, or email me if you have any questions!

 

[WCBoudreaux]

Or feel free to stop by the Daphne forums, or the Daphne chat! There's lots of cool peeps there, that will help you out as well!

[jlfreund]

[EDIT] Oops, I noticed a post on this thread referring to volcanogames on Ebay.  I did a search and now they claim to have the HD/DVD version of 20th Anniversary Edition for $19.99.  So I ordered that one and we'll see how it goes.

My order arrived 3 days after placing it and it works great with the Daphne Downloader (luckily I'd ordered the "PS2 & XBOX" DVD version).  It's interesting that the box claims you can play this directly from your DVD player using the arrow buttons and enter key on your remote.  I'll have to try that sometime.  I didn't know the DVD player could conditionally jump to different scenes based on the timing of when you press a button on the remote.  It'll be nice seeing it all hooked up to MaLa in my cabinet.

Jason