How are you installing and running the game?

As far as #3 is concerned, I know that much of the music was redbook (if your install supports it, otherwise it falls back to MIDI in most cases)... SAPUCDEX should solve this.

I installed it by the instructions here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~infernofilecabinet … T/rtz_setup.htm
I've been re-running the install program in order to try different sound cards by right clicking as choosing Run with VDMS - no music notes. I've been running it the same way by right clicking rtz.bat and choosing run with VDMS - no music note.

In 2.1.0 there is no option to run without the Launchpad (it's integrated) unless you go into a DOS shell and type "dosdrv".

I have 2.0.4 it says that's the newest release on the website? So there's a new one? 2.1.0?

HA! I just found it, duh! right there in front of my face, ok I'll try that and let you know what happens.

OK, so I just install 2.1.0 and there's no difference. I still have the No Sound Driver Resident appear as the game starts and when I exit the game it says Sound Driver Isn't In Memory. And the animations still go really fast.

I didn't say there was going to be a difference. I was just commenting on the fact that there is no longer that option.

The game works for me with vdmsound.
But i had no sound (only music) in dosbox.
rtz.bat looks like this:
@echo off
C:
cd \
LOADHIGH DRIVERS\SBLASTER
MADE RTZ -M:DRIVERS\ADLIB -O -X
DRIVERS\SBLASTER u
As dosbox does not understand "loadhigh" command, I have deleted that parameter and the game works fine in dosbox now.

The line without "loadhigh" should look like this:
DRIVERS\SBLASTER

So that .bat you posted doesn't work for me, BUT when I took the word LOADHIGH out, it did work in dosbox, kinda. The Tele-Orb and many other videos don't play, a little text shows up saying it can't open file yadayadayada.pmv but the sound effects worked! Dosbox is really slow though and the music sounded crackely - worse than VDMS - so I wish I could just get VDMS to work. I just don't understand why it would say No Sound Driver Resident when I start the game. Here's what my .bat file looks like:
@echo off
C:
cd \RTZ-CD
DRIVERS\SBLASTER

DIR D: > nul
MADECD RTZCD -O -X -L -M:DRIVERS\ADLIB -P:D:\ -F
DRIVERS\SBLASTER u

I finally got it working well in Dosbox. It's amazing what reading the readme.txt can do! Thanks for the help anyways.

i can't seem to get the dosbox to detect my cdrom drive. everything's working fine 'cept when it comes to the movie sequences. wat's the command line that u guys normally use?

below is wat i typed in:
dosbox c:\rtz\rtz.bat -t cdrom

i have a feeling i'm missing out some stuff..

I use the following:
mount c c:\
mount d d:\ - t cdrom

i still can't get it to work...
wat is the full syntax line that u type in?

i've tried dosbox c:\rtz-cd\rtz.bat mount e e:\ -t cdrom
still doesn't work...

try
dosbox c:\rtz-cd\rtz.bat -c "mount e e:\ -t cdrom"

It's in the readme (the -c part)

it's kinda lagging, more so during the transition cut-scenes..otherwise, i've got it working!! thanx a huge bunch guys...