Did you make a CD image of the game, or are you playing from a real CD-ROM drive?
I would recommend making a CD image and to mount it with DOSBOXs IMGMOUNT.
If this doesn't work, please post a save game of the file, and I'll try it on my copy of the game.

I'm sorry. I'm familiar with making CD images. But for some reason, I can't get DOSBox to load the one I made from the CD. IT always returns a MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid. Even though it is there plain as day. Be it in the mounted directory or outside it.

But that should answer your one question as to whether I play direct from the CD or not. I do. And I can't find any documentation or discussion of proper creation of images and getting them to load properly in DOSBox.

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Please elaborate on how you made the image and how you tried to load it from within dosbox (include exactly what you type in dosbox and the locations of the CD image and its file name as well)

I'm having the exact same problem in DOSBox 0.70. I wonder if rolling back to 0.60/1/2 would help, since some people claimed they got it working fine in it years ago. (Although, the game technically loads fine, it just hangs at this Jarlath sequence).

I wonder why making an image would help.. Still, I'll give it a go.

- Spike

Try IMGMOUNT for mounting, I discovered it does a better job than Daemon tools with Audio tracks syncing...

If it still hangs, please post a save game so I'll try it on my version.

I'm sorry. I'm familiar with making CD images. But for some reason, I can't get DOSBox to load the one I made from the CD. IT always returns a MSCDEX: Failure: Path not valid. Even though it is there plain as day. Be it in the mounted directory or outside it.

I'm having that exact same problem. I used cdrdao/toc2cue to create my Bin/Cue files, and daemontools does not have a problem mounting them, so I can only assume they are valid.

I've not yet found out why, and there doesn't seem to be much info about this.. Was an answer found?