RocknRollTim wrote:I know this is a really old post but I recently managed to get Tomb Raider Unfinished Business by using the commands below in DosBox.
Not to try and top your post, but a while back I decided to see if I could get Tomb Raider & Unfinished Business working in DOSBox. I not only wanted to get both games fully working, but also to be able to play the Glide versions.
I had a little trouble at first, but I eventually got both working in the Daum SVN version of DOSBox using a Glide wrapper.
I created a sub-directoy called Core and mounted that as C:, then I installed both games. I added the Power VR patched executables and added the files for a Glide Wrapper to the directory. After this the games worked in both software and Glide mode. I wasn't finished though...
I ripped just the data tracks from each disc to BIN/CUE files, then I ripped the audio tracks from the Tomb Raider disc to MP3 files and added them to the CUE file. The official DOSBox only allows you to use OGG files for audio, but the Daum SVN version allows MP3, which greatly reduces the file size. I then mounted the BIN/CUE files as the CD-ROMs so that I wouldn't need the actual disks in the drive.
I created a batch file that lets you switch between four different Glide wrappers, NGlide, OpenGlide, dgvoodoo 1.5 and dgvoodoo 2.3. This is because they all have quirks. NGlide seems to have a lot of visible seams. OpenGlide seemed to work great until I got to one area and I was able to see the statues through the walls of the alcoves that they were in. dgvoodoo 2.3 seemed to work the best when I tried it on a friend's system, but since it requires DirectX10, I can't use it. So I settled on using dgvoodoo 1.5. Occasionally, you can see pickup items on top of pillars and using the Look key sometimes has white outlines around things, but nothing that really affects the game. It then calls DOSBox to run the games, but before doing so, it installs a small program that disables the Windows key. It does this because if you press the Windows key while in fullscreen Glide mode, it will switch back to a window and then you can't switch back without closing it and running it again.
I then created a menu in the DOSBox CONF file for the game which lets you select the software or Glide versions of each game and also to run the setup program.
Since I also put a copy of DOSBox in the directory with it, this gives me a completely self-contained, portable installation of both Tomb Raider and Unfinished Business where you can select between four different wrappers when starting it, and then choose to run the software or Glide versions of either game. All total, it's about 300MB.
I was playing through the game again in Glide mode, but stopped during the first Atlantis level. I haven't felt like going back to it yet. Other than some minor graphical glitches related to the various Glide wrappers, the game works flawlessly.
I want to modify it though. I downloaded the advanced TR installer, which includes a CD image with the Playstation audio tracks and a patched executable to use them. At some point, I want to rip those tracks and modify my DOSBox menu to optionally allow you to play the game with the extra audio tracks. My goal is to create the best version of Tomb Raider/Unfinished Business possible without using Glidos. I'm sort of the DIY type and I like being able to customize it exactly the way that I want. Then I can simply compress the entire directory with Rar and archive it. If I ever want to play it again, I can just unpack the file and it's ready to go.
Back when I originally did this, I was going to type up a detailed guide for how to recreate my installation from an original disc, but I got halfway through the first page when I realized that absolutely nobody would ever follow those instructions as long as an all-in-one installer exists. So I gave up and just point people to the advanced TR installer.