The movies won't work in 0.63 either. Neither for me or another guy who made a Fade to Black thread in here some months ago.

Had no problems with sound, though. Not that I remember anyway. Maybe I should give it a new go sometime.

It may be that the movies are dependent on some sort of advanced MSCDEX or CD-ROM hardware features that are not currently emulated by DOSBox or the NTVDM *shrug*

After years of searching I found someone on ebay that sold it (ebay Belgium) after I could play the ripped version well. I only then found out that the CD version didn't play any movies either because DOSBOX didn't support it or something. Very dissapointing.

Movie support is still one of the weak points of DOSBOX - a lot of movies with bad performance, that make DOSBOX crash or simply, as is the case here, don't play.

well for my part is that I simply lack cdrom games.

You could try applying Moe's 16-bit patch. I know tomb rider uses a 16-bit video mode to play movies. They don't work on plain cvs, but do work with the patch...

It's worth a try, although I think F2B is strictly an 8-bit (256 color) application.

gulikoza wrote:

You could try applying Moe's 16-bit patch. I know tomb rider uses a 16-bit video mode to play movies. They don't work on plain cvs, but do work with the patch...

Good suggestion 😀 I just tried it, but unfortunally, it didn't do anything for me 🙁

Oh, and I have the same sound problem. left/right is switched. It would be nice if DOSBox had a "swap channels" option in the conf file 😀

Update: the latest CVS still doesn't let me play the movies, although I don't have to mess around with settings anymore. Just installing and running it works well - but without movies, you miss out on the entire story 😖

Update - tested on recent CVS:
- SB16/SBPro sounds are still backwards in INSTALL
- GUS sounds are still mono in INSTALL
- Intro movie now plays! It says that the CD-ROM (mounted real CD-ROM via 'mount d r:\ -t cdrom -ioctl -usecd 0') is single-speed and refuses to play sound in the movies. However, I remember that you can put -2 on the command line (i.e. 'F2B -2') to override this detection - which works in DOSBox!
- Still slow in 640x400 VESA, although it could be due to my SDL causing lost surfaces in ddraw mode (I need to hack it to use hw surfaces again - they've done some major updates in the SDL 1.2 CVS and had to revert the hack)

Exciting! I am humbled by this new development which has resulted from much dedication and hard work by talented people.

Yeah, Qbix told me he fixed it some time ago, but I had to wait for the new CVS before I could try it. Great! 😜

nah harekiet fixed that part:)

Oh yeah, you fixed the BRA cursor right 😜 Oh, and the game runs fine now - a little bit of noise in the movies (sound) but excellent otherwise. It even runs well in SVGA full screen at 75000 cycles (30fps average).

Okay, in the latests builds and 0.66 beta, movies no longer work again 😢

Tried this last night with 0.73 but was in a hurry. SB sound is still reversed in the installer test. I also got the single-speed CDROM warning the first time, but not the second. I got the movies but I think I messed up the sound by accidentally hitting the Play button on the front of my laptop, which caused Windows Media Player to try to play audio tracks from the CD or something while the intro cutscene was running.

I don't remember - is there a reverse stereo option in dosbox.conf? I know that ripsaw8080 was working on a patch or something for 0.72: Invert Left/Right Audio Channels Stereo Sound?

Update: Made a BIN/CUE CD image and it runs just fine in 0.73. It even gets a very good framerate in 640x400 from what I could tell.