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First post, by Kerplatz

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I have been struggling to get this to work for me. I know what I am doing so this is perplexing to say the least.

From what I can tell, everything works when I use the real CD in a drive. That proves that I am mounting the drive correctly.

However, when I mount the image (a .cue/.bin) using imgmount, Alcohol 120%, or Daemon Tools, I get the same result. That is the DOS CD player and the game cannot find the audio tracks. Here is how I know. The game reports that it cannot find the audio tracks for any of the mounting schemes. For a different test I downloaded CDPLAYER10.ZIP and it reports for all schemes that it cannot find the tracks either, but is does see that there are 16 tracks, which is correct. The DOS CD player played the actual CD audio just fine.

My conclusion is one of 3 things, the imgmount/mount is not detecting mixed mode discs correctly, there is a problem MSCDEX.EXE, or there is some configuration I am not implementing for the image.

imgmount D "W:\CD-DVD Images\Games\DOS\xxxx.cue" -t iso is how I mount the images.

I use Alcohol 120% to make the image (works in Windows Media Player) because someone said this is the problem, but I have used Alcohol for many moons and have had no problems with it.

So any thoughts? Have I done it wrong? I sure would like to just keep my CDs in a storage box where they belong.

Reply 1 of 2, by jmarsh

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Can you post the contents of the .cue file?

Reply 2 of 2, by Kerplatz

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Verifying the .cue file was one of the things I checked. It looked good. So the story unfolds a little more. Since I made this post, I was able to get a few other mixed mode CDs to work. It looks like one of two things has happened, the CD is bad, or the image is corrupt. I will create the image again and see if I can get this to work. This just happened to be the first CD I was verifying, so it figures it would give me the most grief. I now think I have been doing this correctly all along. I will say that this Blog/Wiki has been a big help in fixing most of the problems I have had with DosBox configuration. Thanks.