Okay DosBox .CUE support is fine. It's IsoBuster that's screwy.
I've attached two .CUE files.

One created by ISOBuster v2.00 that does not work with DosBox
A custom one that works just fine with DosBox.

Found it.

IsoBuster has track 1 as MODE2 and not MODE1. WTF.

Changed it to MODE1 and the .cue generated by ISOBuster v2.00 works fine.

Guess I'll be emailing the IsoBuster author.

IsoBuster has done weird things on me in the past. That's why I am using UltraISO too. Not that it's bugfree though either. 😁

eL_PuSHeR wrote:

IsoBuster has done weird things on me in the past. That's why I am using UltraISO too. Not that it's bugfree though either. 😁

I use UltraISO too - great little program. I use it for all my games now - instead of having to dig out the CDs, I just make images and store them in one big folder. Combined with the DOSBOX Game Launcher this makes things incredibly easy and cool. Plus, images are way faster to read from too.

No need for my cracked EXE files for that game anymore, eh? Ahhh well... I'm too lazy too change seeing as how I've still got the same same installation directory. I also use a cue/bin image of the mech2 CD that was generated using Alcohol 120 sometime ago. I mount that in Daemon tools and then I use the mount x x:\ -t cdrom -ioctl command to get the CD Audio in-game.

IMGMOUNT is better though. What you can do is, create a .bat file and inside it, you give the command to load the BIN image. It means you never have to do anything extra to get the game running. Daemon Tool is a bit of a bother.

oh man, i tryed the whole day to get my mw2 working. no chance... 🙁
my version is a limited edition with both mw2 and ghost bears legacy (all in german language).
i created the image of mw2 (bin, cue) with isobuster (v1.5) first. i had no problem with track 1 in this version (was already mode1).
then mounted it with:

1imgmount f d:\images\mech2.cue -t img

after the installation under dosbox (v0.70 with standart config), i got the lovely "Error: MechWarrior 2 CD-Rom not found." error message again...
then i've created a new image (.ccd) with clonecd and mounted it the same way, but with the same results after installation.

the cracked .exe from darkgamorck is not combatible with my version (foreign language, v1.0) and the 1.1 patch is only for english versions of MW2.

now i try some other ISO tools, i hope this helps....

Why are you using F:? It should be D:
Why are you using -t img? It should be -t iso.

A CloneCD Image mounted in DosBox is the same as mounting a .ISO in DosBox. You will not be able to use the CD audio.

The only way to use CD audio when mounting an image in DosBox using IMGMOUNT is by using the .CUE file to tell DosBox where to find the audio tracks.

yeah i know. using cdaudio comes second. i first want mw2 to detect its cd (or image).
i try to change the drive letter do D...

EDIT:

Why are you using -t img? It should be -t iso.

sry was a typo but i had it correct in the config.

🤣 it works!^^
damn i didnt thought its a problem for that game to locate the CD on another drive.
thx dosfreak 😉

People should try to remember what type of games they are trying to run: DOS games from an era where C was always your only hard-drive, and D was always your CD-ROM.

Keeping DOSBox configured this way will make most installers and games work straight out of the box.

It is all about KISS.

hehe i know what you mean. the weird thing is, that i played mw2 mostly with VDMS (using SAPUCDEX) before dosbox 0.70.
under winxp, my real CD drive letter is G: and it was no problem for the game to find its CD...