Descent 2- "CD must be present to run!!" \ VOGONS

Descent 2- "CD must be present to run!!"

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First post, by Darth Geek

Posted on 2009-08-08, 02:05

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OK, I've searched all around VOGONS and other Dosbox forums, but I can't find how to get Descent 2 running.

First of all, I'm using Kubuntu 9.04 with DOSBox 0.72.

I have a Descent 2 folder that I copied from an XP installation in ~/Games/Descent2. In DOSBox, I automatically mount ~/Games/ as the C drive, and mounted /media.cdrom0 (the drive with the descent 2 cd) as D, using "MOUNT D /media/cdrom0 -t cdrom". However, descent 2 does not recognize this as a cdrom drive.

Also, I saw in several places on this and other forums to install from the cd within DOSbox. That doesn't work either: it says install.exe must be run from the cd drive (which... it is.)

I've tried running Descent 2 using WINE but it tries to load the program, then quits with no error message.

Reply 1 of 8, by ripa

Posted on 2009-08-08, 09:27

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Maybe it expects a proper label. Find out the label of the cd and add -label yourlabel to the mount line.

edit: you might need to use the -usecd switch. readme.txt:

3. To mount system CD-ROM drive at mountpoint /media/cdrom as CD-ROM drive D
in DOSBox:
mount d /media/cdrom -t cdrom -usecd 0

Reply 2 of 8, by Darth Geek

Posted on 2009-08-08, 14:00

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Well, I found out how to run d2 without the CD at all- there's a nocd patch:

http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/patchd2/

My problem now is, it tries to load all the movie files (*.mvl) from the cd since I didn't install them with the game. Unfortunately, it can't load them for the same reason I didn't install them: "other-h.mvl" is corrupted beyond repair. My D2 CD has more scratches on it than all my other CDs put together.

Anyone experienced with D2, how do I stop it looking for the movie files on startup? (or at least other-h.mvl, since I have other-l.mvl which contains low-resolution movies)

Reply 3 of 8, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2009-08-08, 16:16

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In DESCENT.CFG there is an item MovieHires=1. Change this to MovieHires=0.

Reply 4 of 8, by Darth Geek

Posted on 2009-08-08, 20:21

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Yes! Pure maniacal robot-killing OWNAGE!

It works 😁

Reply 5 of 8, by MONITOR613

Posted on 2009-10-14, 01:30

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rather than start another Descent 2 thread i thought i'd piggyback on this one. my problem is i don't know shit about code and all this is Greek to me . i got the dos box up and running but i get a 'doesn't support fullframe' or something as such. i downloaded the patch that was linked by Darth Geek, but i don't know what to do with it!!

Reply 6 of 8, by DosFreak

Posted on 2009-10-14, 02:02

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Well your post is greek to us. What do you expect us to do with what you posted? Have a pity party?

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Reply 7 of 8, by MONITOR613

Posted on 2009-10-14, 02:58

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you see! i can't even explain what i need! THIS SUCKS!!!
*btw* your avatar is fucking awesome. is there a high res version somewhere?

Reply 8 of 8, by SKARDAVNELNATE

Posted on 2009-10-15, 02:02

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It's the Altered States goat. A movie from 1980.

What is the full error message and how did you setup your game?

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