First post, by AWesker
Circa 1996-1997, Infogrames released several DOS/Windows conversions of some of their SNES (and in some cases, also Mega Drive) games branded under the "All your cartoon favourites" games. As far as I know, these were Asterix & Obelix, Lucky Luke, Spirou, The Smurfs, Tintin in Tibet and Tintin Prisoners of the Sun. And I wasn't able to get any of the Windows versions of them to properly run on Windows 10. They all demand 256 color mode, but even if you enable that, there are problems with all of them. Lucky Luke and Tintin Prisoners of the Sun show the game, but with wrong colors. Spirou and Tintin in Tibet show a black screen. And Asterix & Obelix and The Smurfs don't even show the screen. All of them seem to play and music/sounds effects come if you press buttons but it's useless if you can't see anything or you have wrong colors in the case of Lucky Luke and Tintin Prisoners of the Sun.
All these games have DOS versions which can be easily run under DOSBox, true, but neither of these DOS versions have MIDI support for the music. They can only be configured to use Sound Blaster/Pro/16/Awe 32, Adlib Gold and Gravis Ultrasound. The Windows versions, on the other hand, rely on MIDI music. And with the proper MIDI equipment, the music of all these games can reach fantastic. Much better than the SNES versions of all of them in my opinion, so I find the Windows versions to be the absolute best for all these games. I tried to get them working with dgVoodoo, which allowed me to get some old Windows games working, but there was no luck with these.
The only way I could get all the Windows versions of these games working was through WMWare running Windows 98, except Asterix & Obelix which doesn't work for some reason (and The Smurfs goes too fast in the intro/language screens, but then it gets fine). But I have two problems. First of all, I can't get my USB gamepad (which is a PlaySega gamepad) natively working. I can easily solve that with JoyToKey although moving the character can be somewhat laggy and I so would prefer having native support if possible. What it worries me the most is the MIDI, the major reason why I would like to play these. WMWare seems to default to a standard MIDI which is very poor sounding and what I want is using the Soundfont I use in Windows 10, but no matter what I tried, I can't find the way to do so.
So please, I would like some tips to either get all these games working on Windows 10, which seem to be pretty much impossible, or getting both my USB gamepad and especially being able to use my desired Soundfont for MIDI support, along with the fact of getting Asterix & Obelix to work which I don't why it doesn't work in my WMWare's Windows 98. It doesn't run at all, while in Windows 10 it does and the game and music/sound play (actually you can try to move through the intro/language logos, the title screen and start a game by the sounds) but you can't see absolutely anything.
