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First post, by Andyism

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Pardon my lack of information regarding my computer as it might not be necessary. But please allow me to explain my case;

Nanpa2 is my all time favourite game which I had no trouble replaying until recently as I realized XP doesn't work with previous DOS games. So I download both VDMSOUND & DOSBOX. And both gave me equally detrimental problems in enjoying the game.

VDMSOUND: Text is legible but sound is not present regardless of the different settings nor applying settings that works with other games.
(Music is one of the strong point of the game so playing without reliefs many funs from the game.)

DOSBOX: Sound is almost perfect but text is not legible making the highly text based game unplayable despite various video settings.

I have decided to invest my time on getting VDMSOUND to produce sounds and have hence gone through 2 years of post in this thread that might be of reference but to no avail. Therefore I seek help of those that might have successfully overcomed this problem with VDMSOUND. I would be equally glad if an alternative working program can be referred.

I sincerely hope that there is a solution which someone could advise me on and I appeal to all whom could help, to contact me at (andyism@bluebottle.com).

Thank you.

Reply 1 of 13, by Snover

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Did you read the VDMSound README?
When you play a game using VDMSound, you need to right-click on it and choose "Run with VDMSound" for VDMSound to activate.

Yes, it’s my fault.

Reply 2 of 13, by Andyism

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Yes. I have no problem running VDMSOUND with other games. This problem is only eminent to NANPA2. Which unfortunately is my favourite games of all games. 😅

Reply 3 of 13, by eL_PuSHeR

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You said in your post you were having troubles displaying text under DOSBox. Did you try changing output (render) modes? How did you configure it?

PS - Before anyone jumps in and flame me, yes, I DO KNOW THIS IS A VDMSOUND THREAD. 😎

Reply 4 of 13, by Guest

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eL_PuSHeR: Hi. I've tried all the different rendering modes in DOSBOX. But the problem still persist. When in DOSBOX, certain chinese characters will be missing from the whole sentence. So to a certain extend, DOSBOX works very well producing sound and text for NANPA2. Except that when certain chinese characters are missing, you can hardly understand nor play the game. I believe it's an issue which cant be solved so easily. Perhaps a compatibility issue so I've plainly given up on DOSBOX.

So the situation is still as it is.. VDMSOUND, perfect text reproduction. But NO sound. I welcome all those who could be of assistance to post~ Thanks

Reply 5 of 13, by Andyism

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This is the screenshot of the game ran from DosBox. Notice the missing characters.

edit by Snover: Don't upload bitmap files, for the love of god!

Reply 6 of 13, by Guest

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It's an amazing no. of difference in replies between PANDORA and NANPA. If there's no reply its fair to say it is most probably not possible to emulate the game in XP successfully??

Reply 8 of 13, by Guest

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I have the same problem with NANPA2 chinese version .the chinese characters is displaied in game screen not in dosbox console.It troubled me so long times .I will repost some picture about it.

Reply 9 of 13, by mirekluza

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DOSBOX developers are from the Europe and the North America, so they have no experience with Chinese (they cannot read Chinese anyway)...
Maybe somebody from China (or Taiwan) could look into this and submit a patch. I have heard that recently the number of people in China reached 1.3 bilions so I think it should not be so difficult to find someone. 😀

Mirek

Reply 10 of 13, by Guest

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this is the pic about that.

fine ,i will find some other way to deal with the problem.thanks for reply.

Reply 11 of 13, by Qbix

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well those images from dosbox don't indicate a real fontpage being loaded.
they probably uploaded their own font somehow.

the next version of dosbox might have fontpages support though so if that is really the problem....

Water flows down the stream
How to ask questions the smart way!

Reply 12 of 13, by Guest

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Anybody had any success getting the game to run with sound with VDMSOUND? Like any settings that might work or something?? God knows when DOSBOX V0.64 will be out..

Reply 13 of 13, by wangbao

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i got the same problem ,so i found this forum, but...

你解决了没有???多多交流,我的QQ 87411799
我的也是用 DOSBOX玩有音乐,文字不全,用VDMSound有文字无音乐,搞笑......