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.PIF problem

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First post, by Nintendork

Posted on 2004-05-18, 20:45

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Hey, whenever I try opening a certain program with VDMSound, I get thie message:

C:\DOCUME~1\Owner\LOCALS~1\Temp\~xxxxxxx.PIF
Invalid program file name, please check your pif file. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.

Pif file? What the HELL is a pif file? Anyway, the reason there are a lot of xs is because it's always some random letter/number combination when I open it. I've tried many things, but I just can't get it to work! 😵 Can someone please help me?

Reply 1 of 8, by Nintendork

Posted on 2004-05-18, 20:47

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Sorry for the double-post, but in the part with all the xs, replace the first four with "VLP6".

Reply 2 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-05-19, 03:27

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This used to happen with an earlier version of Launchpad. What version of VDMS and Lunchpad are you using? If you haven't installed the latest version, install the 2.1.0 PUBLIC BETA: VDMSound 2.1.0 PUBLIC BETA

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Reply 3 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-05-20, 00:11

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I knew this was going to be the first assumption. YES, I DO HAVE THE NEWEST VERSION!!!

Reply 4 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-05-20, 06:19

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Try simplifying the path to your game, like C:\GAME.

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Reply 5 of 8, by Nintendork

Posted on 2004-05-20, 20:02

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Well, the program is actually MIDI2BAM (if you mean game.exe as in Hamster Republic) and I'd like to be able to test them instead of adding a music and going all the way into my game just to see if it works/got the right file. Would simplifying it be the only way? 😢

Reply 6 of 8, by collector

Posted on 2004-05-21, 05:00

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I meant the folder, not the executable. I used GAME as a generic folder name. Try moving it to C:\MIDI2BAM and run the Launchpad wizard again.

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Reply 7 of 8, by Guest

Posted on 2004-06-17, 23:30

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I have exactly the same problem. I'm using 2.1.0 and moved games to c:\gamename, still the program calls for some unknown .pif file.
The exact patch to file in question is c:\documents and settings\administrator\local settings\temp\
filename itself varies everytime and generally looks like ~vlp####.pif, where #### is some numbers and letters.
I have XP professional SP1.
Previous versions of VDMSound (i.e. w/o launchpad) worked fine.

Reply 8 of 8, by vladr

Posted on 2004-06-20, 23:26

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If you're running WInXP then it (Windows) fucked up during installation of VDMSound. Not in a persistent way thankfully, reboot will normally bring everything back to... normal. 😜

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