First post, by Sephiroth
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I have noticed that several games do not function properly with the current (v0.70) version of the emulated CDROM. I also note that the CDROM does not spin up when you search it, which may be part of the problem. If the directory structure is cached or something and it never gets spun up, games that used copy-protection don't get the chance to scan for bad sectors or whatever.
The two games in question are Blood and Mechwarrior II. Mech2 simply says it cannot find the game CD. The thing is, the CDROM doesn't spin up when you try to run the game, so it isn't scanning the CD, it's simply erroring out. Blood will start and get to wher eit plays the first demo, and when it should start playing CD audio, it instead ejects the CDROM and DOSBox itself dies. Not sure why, because the game runs with MIDI music just fine, but the CD audio REALLY helped set the mood in that game.
Has anybody else managed to get these two games working? Redneck Rampage which shares the Build Engine with Blood runs fine and plays the music fine. Mech2 installs fine, and many other games ahve installed and/or run fine. I will toy around with it some more, but it's being problematic.
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