First post, by Saotome Ranma
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There are some Japanese Gal-games ("迷走都市" and "雪猫 ゆがんだ记忆", sorry, I don't know their English name) I missed a lot and wanna replay again in DOSbox recently. I found that there are midi bgm files I wish to play with because the better quality than its default bgm.
But there is the problem: those games have neither any functional configuring files such as "setup.exe", "install.exe" or "setsound.exe", nor available midi bgm options in games. Those games were firstly played when I was a small little boy and a very NOOB at later 90s DOS era, just knowing some simple dos commands and to launch games with pre-configured "play.bat" or "XXX.exe" files. So there is little basic knowledge of configuring hardware drivers or DOS environment via autoexec.bat and etc manually in my head, I just simply installed win3.x drivers and run memmaker.exe to make rest of things done automatically.
I found some information on internet about how to run those games with midi bgm but can't understand commands very well. I think the text is written by some Japanese dos veterans, it's written as (with my translations in square brackets on key information):
音楽環境設定について [about the bgm configuration] […]
音楽環境設定について [about the bgm configuration]
・まず、ゲーム起動バッチ MEI_HD.BAT の以下の部分をお手持ちの音源付属のドライバーに書き換えます。[firstly, change the commands mentioned below in the patched MEI_HD.BAT with ur owned drivers]
echo off
rem set path=c:\sndscape;%path%
rem ssinit gm --------------+
rem tapis2k ----------------+ この３行 [these 3 lines]
rem vmp /loop /clp:32 ------+
PMDIBM /M6 /V1 /E1
logo
MEI
PMDIBM /R
vmp /rem
tapis2k /rem注意点は、[3 things need to be mentioned]
１．演奏用バッファ（トラックバッファ）を３２ｋバイト以上確保する。[make sure there are over 32KB track buffer(?) could be used for performance]
２．ループ演奏モードにする。[play bgm in loop mode]
３．ドライバー及びプレイヤーをゲームディレクトリにコピーしておく。[copy ur drivers and player to the game directory]の３点です。
・しかる後に、ゲーム付属のバッチファイル EM_DRV.BAT を以下のようにリライトして下さい。[re-writer game's patch file "EM_DRV.BAT" with the followings ]
プレイヤーファイル名 %1 [player file name %1]
・プレイヤーは、必ず呼出元に制御が戻る物を使用して下さい。また、メッセージを押さえるオプションを必ず使用して下さい。[Always use the player which could control returns to the caller(? don't understand quite much here). And be sure to use the optional command to hidden messages]
＜注意！＞ [Cautions]
・画面にゴミが出たり、色がおかしくなったりしたらコンベンショナルメモリが不足している証拠です。不要な常駐物を外すか、消費メモリの少ないドライバーをお使い下さい。[wrong display or irregular colors means the insufficiency of memory, plz release unnecessary resident objects in ur memory or change to the drivers with less memory consumption]
・この件に関する質問等は一切受け付けておりません。トラブルが発生しましたら、ご自分の責任と知識において処理して下さい。
So could some really nice guys give me some detailed explanation of each command mentioned above and tell me how to change the general midi driver and player in this case.
I really do appreciate it if some one could help me on solving this problem. This is not only about games, but also some basic ideas and knowledge I might manage to use in real dos when my owned dos gaming rig built.
The NOOB of noobs!!
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