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[0.72] CD audio (redbook)

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First post, by CombatGold1

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I've been searching around the forums, but couldn't find any information about getting redbook audio (CD tracks) working.

I am trying to play Descent 2, Descent 2: Vertigo, and Tomb Raider 1. All of which use redbook music.

I am using NRG (Nero) images mounted on to a virtual DVD-ROM (Daemon tools), which support multiple tracks. The disk images work fine in media players, I get the relavant album info and such.

The problem is in DosBOX. I am using v 0.72, with this CD mount command:

mount F F:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -usecd 0

No redbook audio works in game, I have to use MIDI instead. Have I done something wrong, or is redbook audio currently not supported?

Thanks,

Adam Reece.

Reply 1 of 8, by wd

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Are you sure -usecd 0 is correct?

Reply 2 of 8, by franpa

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use a label, im 90% sure descent 2 requires a cd label.

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Reply 3 of 8, by doomer

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I had the same problem with Descent 2. It is solved easily by using the imgmount command in dosbox 0.72. First, convert your descent 2 image file to bin/cue format and type

imgmount d c:\games\descent2\d2.cue -t iso

to mount the game, where c:\games\descent2\d2.cue should be your actual image file location. After that you will get cd audio proper. Also you can use the free variant of the program isobuster (http://www.isobuster.com/) to make a cue/bin image of your Descent 2 cd.

Reply 4 of 8, by stormsh

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hi, I don´t get the sound working. It´s installed and running, but no sound. I did the autodetection but when the game starts I get the message that ULTRASND.INI is not found and that "the specified driver is not loaded". At startup "set blaster=a220 I7 D1 H5 T6", "set ultrasnd=240,3,3,5,5", "set ultradir=C:\ULTRASND" are loaded, but before I mount C and D (cdrom) so I put these command behind the mounting in the autoexec.bat. But the drivers are not loaded.
What did I do wrong, or what did I didn´t do?

Thx 4 F1.

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Reply 5 of 8, by MiniMax

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Unless you REALLY want that Ultrasound thingy, change the gus=true to gus=false in your dosbox.conf file. Then the auto-detection will not see it and that INI error should go away.

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Reply 6 of 8, by stormsh

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Well, thank you very much. The error is gone and I got the sound working.
Now the next little problem. I can´t set the resolution higher than 320x200 in the game and in the setup only the video resolution is set. Is there a way to manually set it higher? Maybe the resolution settings in the dosbox conf?

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Reply 7 of 8, by 2005InfinitiG35

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did you ever get the sound FX working on Descent2? They work for Descent1 and other games but not D2, if you did how?

Reply 8 of 8, by CombatGold1

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Yes the work fine for me, but CD audio only works if I use DOSbox's CD image mount tool.

Thanks,

Adam Reece.

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