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Resuming Redbook Audio in G-Police with Wine

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First post, by Space Cad

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As part of my continuing adventures in getting G-Police to run, I tried running it through Wine using the Lutris launcher, and it worked! The game runs great, with working joystick controls.

There's a problem with the redbook audio soundtrack though. When you pause the game, it pauses the music. When you resume, it's supposed to unpause the music, but instead the music never returns. I managed to improve the situation by hex editing the exe to use YELLO-belly's cdaudio-winmm, but it's not perfect. Now instead of resuming immediately like it's supposed to, it restarts the track after a one second delay.

Is this as good as it's going to get, or can I improve it further?

Reply 1 of 12, by BEEN_Nath_58

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dxwnd was working fine the last time I tested 3yrs ago

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Reply 2 of 12, by Space Cad

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I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

Reply 3 of 12, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Space Cad wrote on 2025-12-26, 07:03:

I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

I mean DxWnd's USP is redbook audio playback...

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Reply 4 of 12, by Space Cad

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on 2025-12-26, 07:43:
Space Cad wrote on 2025-12-26, 07:03:

I'm confused. Does DxWnd have some way of fixing or improving Redbook audio playback?

I mean DxWnd's USP is redbook audio playback...

It is? I thought it was for running fullscreen games in a window. Anyway, can you explain how to use it for this? It doesn't seem to have a manual.

Reply 5 of 12, by Space Cad

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Correction: it does have a manual, but the landing page is broken so you have to access it piecemeal. Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to run through DxWnd. I get an error message saying to insert the CD, which doesn't happen when I run the game without DxWnd.

Reply 6 of 12, by RetroGamer4Ever

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If you really want to play G-Police and you have a PS4/PS5, you can play it on there, as it was released on the PS Marketplace. Otherwise, you can just wait for the spiritual successor, G-Rebels, to hit current platforms.

Reply 7 of 12, by Space Cad

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I'm familiar with the PS1 version. I'm playing the PC version because the PS1 version has a suffocatingly low draw distance and I want to see what the game is like without that limitation.

Reply 8 of 12, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Space Cad wrote on 2025-12-26, 18:45:

Correction: it does have a manual, but the landing page is broken so you have to access it piecemeal. Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to run through DxWnd. I get an error message saying to insert the CD, which doesn't happen when I run the game without DxWnd.

Use a no-CD... That skips the error.

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Reply 9 of 12, by Bladeforce

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I have been converting all my old games to flatimage containers using wine which in theory should eliminate any future compatibility problems on Linux. Along the way i have found this little utility ( https://github.com/ayuanx/ogg-winmm ) that has been a bit of a godsend when it comes to mixed mode cd's.

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 07:40:
Space Cad wrote on 2025-12-26, 18:45:

Correction: it does have a manual, but the landing page is broken so you have to access it piecemeal. Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to run through DxWnd. I get an error message saying to insert the CD, which doesn't happen when I run the game without DxWnd.

Use a no-CD... That skips the error.

I applied the nocd, confirmed that it works without DxWnd, then tried it with DxWnd, and it crashes to desktop where the error would've popped up.

Bladeforce wrote on Yesterday, 13:58:

I have been converting all my old games to flatimage containers using wine which in theory should eliminate any future compatibility problems on Linux. Along the way i have found this little utility ( https://github.com/ayuanx/ogg-winmm ) that has been a bit of a godsend when it comes to mixed mode cd's.

I tried this earlier, but dismissed it because it triggered the copy protection like DxWnd does. However, it works with the nocd, and the music resumes just like it should! However, with ogg-winmm and only with ogg-winmm, transitioning from a mission to the main menu causes the game to minimize for some reason. This would only be a minor inconvenience, except that minimizing or alt-tabbing out of the window and returning to it causes the game to ignore all mouse and keyboard input. Any ideas for that?

This is the strangest and most vexing early Windows game I've ever tried to run. It's like whack-a-mole. Solve one bizarre issue and another pops up in its place.

Reply 11 of 12, by BEEN_Nath_58

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Space Cad wrote on Yesterday, 19:06:
BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 07:40:
Space Cad wrote on 2025-12-26, 18:45:

Correction: it does have a manual, but the landing page is broken so you have to access it piecemeal. Anyway, I can't seem to get the game to run through DxWnd. I get an error message saying to insert the CD, which doesn't happen when I run the game without DxWnd.

Use a no-CD... That skips the error.

I applied the nocd, confirmed that it works without DxWnd, then tried it with DxWnd, and it crashes to desktop where the error would've popped up.

What DxWnd config are you using anyways?

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Reply 12 of 12, by Space Cad

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BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 20:25:
Space Cad wrote on Yesterday, 19:06:
BEEN_Nath_58 wrote on Yesterday, 07:40:

Use a no-CD... That skips the error.

I applied the nocd, confirmed that it works without DxWnd, then tried it with DxWnd, and it crashes to desktop where the error would've popped up.

What DxWnd config are you using anyways?

Default settings. I'm just trying to get it working before I start trying out tweaks.

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