Daphne & Dragon's Lair repro scoreboard problems

[AllisterFiend]

Hello,

   I have been having problems with my Dragon's Lair repro scoreboard for a while now and since they just released a newer version of Daphne with a parallel I/O controller built in for Win XP I thought I would try it out again.

  I'm using Win XP with Daphne version 0.99.6c with a repro scoreboard and a parallel port cable plugged into LPT1.

  Everything works and plays just fine with Dragon's Lair (us enhancement vers 1.1L & 2.0) and Space Ace (enhancement 1.0).  My problems start when I change the setting in Daphne Loader from scorboard mode MPEG VIDEO OVERLAY to EXTERNAL LPT1.  Then after I start the program under Dragon's Lair it ask for me to parse the video and then crashes and displays an error message that does not say much.  I will post my error log below.


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--DAPHNE version 0.99.6c
--Command line is: L:\Arcade\Daphne\daphne.exe dle20 vldp -framefile L:\Arcade\Daphne\mpeg2\DLE20\DLE20.txt -fullscreen -scoreboard -scoreport 0 -bank 0 11011011 -bank 1 01110111 -x 640 -y 480 -nohwaccel
--CPU : GenuineIntel 3350 MHz || Mem : 1024 megs
--OS : Windows XP/.NET || Video : ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 SERIES
LDV1000 : Instantaneous seeking enabled!
Enabling external scoreboard...
Setting scoreboard port to 0
Setting screen width to 640
Setting screen height to 480
Set 640x480 at 32 bpp with flags: 80000000
Initializing sound system ...
No joysticks detected
Loading roms/dle20/DLE20_U1.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/dle20/DLE20_U2.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/dle20/DLE20_U3.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/dle20/DLE20_U4.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
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Just seems to stop after loading roms?


My repro scoreboard is lit up with a couple of what I assume are random characters in certain area's.

anyone have any suggestions, do I need to put those .dll files in the system32 directory. any help would be appreciated.  Thanks.


UPDATE:
  I just tried Space Ace (enchancement 1.0) and the scoreboard works fine (I thought I had tried space ace with the newer version of daphne but I guess I forgot  ).  So at least now I know it is not he repro scoreboard or the parallel port or cable.  I will post my error log below of everything working fine.


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--DAPHNE version 0.99.6c
--Command line is: L:\Arcade\Daphne\daphne.exe sae vldp -framefile L:\Arcade\Daphne\mpeg2\SAE\SAE.txt -fullscreen -scoreboard -scoreport 0 -bank 0 10011001 -bank 1 01100111 -x 640 -y 480 -nohwaccel
--CPU : GenuineIntel 3350 MHz || Mem : 1024 megs
--OS : Windows XP/.NET || Video : ALL-IN-WONDER 9800 SERIES
LDV1000 : Instantaneous seeking enabled!
Enabling external scoreboard...
Setting scoreboard port to 0
Setting screen width to 640
Setting screen height to 480
Set 640x480 at 32 bpp with flags: 80000000
Initializing sound system ...
No joysticks detected
Loading roms/sae/sae10_u1.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/sae/sae10_u2.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/sae/sae10_u3.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/sae/sae10_u4.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Loading roms/sae/sae10_u5.bin ... 8192 bytes read into memory
Opening parallel port 0
PAR-IO.DLL initialized.
Booting ROM ...
LDP : Since disc was stopped, we are flushing the timers (remove me later)
Play
LDP : disc is already playing, play command ignored
Play
Display disable received
Search to 148 received
NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate.
Play
Display disable received
Search to 44 received
Freeing memory used to store audio stream...
Search to 1162 received
NOTE: converting FPS from 23.976000 to 29.970000. This may be less accurate.
Play
Closing parallel port 0...
Freeing memory used to store audio stream...
Shutting down sound system...
Shutting down video display...
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  I still can't get it to work under Dragon's Lair.

Allister Fiend

[AllisterFiend]

I also posted this message in the Daphne forums and they helped me track down my problem

I'm posting my solution here also just in case someone else has the same problem.

All I really needed to do was redo my Dragons Lair using my 20th anniversary disc.  I used DVD2DAPH on Dragons lair and then parsed the files and after that, the repro scoreboard started working.

I guess my files got corrupted somehow.


Later,
Allister Fiend