Heroic Games Launcher•16mo ago

How do You Launch DOS GOG Games?

All of the GOG DOS games do the same thing: Opens up DOSBox and then closes. I think it's because it's trying to open the Windows version of DOSBox that comes with the game. Anyway of making the game grab the Linux version of DOSBox instead?

107 Replies

CommandMC•16mo ago

Yup, it's documented on our Wiki

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Sweet, thanks! I think something is missing on that wiki page.

rare-sapphire•16mo ago

What makes you say that?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Doesn't tell me what to change in the launch arguments for DOSBox, only scummvm.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Well it's the same process for dosbox Launch your system dosbox with the args from the launch option

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

You're taking to someone who's been using Linux for less than a month.

CommandMC•16mo ago

It's a little late where I'm at, I can get you some more detailed instructions tomorrow

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

ok, thank you

wise-white•16mo ago

Also, depending on the game, it may be less hassle to use ScummVM.

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Able to make it work in Steam (without CD-ROM audio because of the lack of MSCDEX), but the same command doesn't work in HGL.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Arg, sorry, forgot about this: First of all, make sure DOSBox is installed (dosbox package on most major distros) Look at the primary play task in the goggame-<numbers>.info file in the game directory. I'll be using "Bio Menace" as an example here This is the relevant play task:

{
    "arguments": "-conf \"..\\dosbox_biomenace.conf\" -conf \"..\\dosbox_biomenace_single.conf\" -noconsole -c \"exit\"",
[...]
    "isPrimary": true,
[...]
    "path": "DOSBOX\\dosbox.exe",
[...]
    "workingDir": "DOSBOX"
},

{
    "arguments": "-conf \"..\\dosbox_biomenace.conf\" -conf \"..\\dosbox_biomenace_single.conf\" -noconsole -c \"exit\"",
[...]
    "isPrimary": true,
[...]
    "path": "DOSBOX\\dosbox.exe",
[...]
    "workingDir": "DOSBOX"
},

From this, you can tell that - The game is indeed launched with DOSBox - DOSBox should be launched in the working directory <path to game install>/DOSBOX - These start parameters should be passed to it: -conf "../dosbox_biomenace.conf" -conf "../dosbox_biomenace_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit" So, to launch this game with your system DOSBox, you'd 1. cd into <path to game install>/DOSBOX 2. Run dosbox -conf "../dosbox_biomenace.conf" -conf "../dosbox_biomenace_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Will the flatpak verison of DOSBox work?

CommandMC•16mo ago

Sure, you'd just have to modify the final command a bit (replacing the initial dosboxwith flatpak launch com.dosbox.DOSBox)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Taking Rayman Forever as my example, would it be this? "name": "Rayman Forever", "path": "flatpak launch com.dosbox.DOSBox", "type": "FileTask", "workingDir": "DOSBOX"

CommandMC•16mo ago

Don't change anything in the .info file; that won't work at all You're supposed to just look at what's there and then build a launch command yourself from that

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

oh, well that part on the Wiki was not clear Rayman Forever has an additional configuration in it's info file: "name": "Graphic Mode Setup", "path": "DOSBOX\GOGDOSConfig.exe", "type": "FileTask", "workingDir": "DOSBOX"

CommandMC•16mo ago

Yup that's normal, you don't have to worry about that one (it's not the primary task)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

ok, here goes nothing Didn't work, what I've done wrong?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Screenshot

CommandMC•16mo ago

You don't do anything inside Heroic, you just run that command you've built (in a terminal window) (I guess you could add a sideloaded game for this, assuming you're not using the Heroic Flatpak, but one thing at a time)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Oh, I guess there was a misunderstanding. My whole purpose for asking here was to launch it via HGL.

CommandMC•16mo ago

I see. If you're using the Flatpak version of Heroic, this is sadly a limitation of Flatpak (Flatpak sandboxes applications, meaning Flatpak Heroic can't launch your system's DOSBox, or any other application on your system for that matter) If you aren't using the Flatpak, this is perfectly doable, it's just easier to experiment with a "simple" shell command first (all Heroic does in the end is running that command, so making sure it's correct would be my first step)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

I'm sure I could get the non-flat pack version to install if I have to. So you want me to run this from a terminal? flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox /run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat "-conf "..\dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "..\dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

CommandMC•16mo ago

You might have to replace the \ in paths with /, but other than that yes

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

If I run the entire command, it's not doing anything. If I remove the arguments, it just launches DOSBox.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Could you send in the .info file you're looking at?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

OK, I modified the command by adding quotes to the game path and it now launches: flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" That being said, can't get the arguments to work.

CommandMC•16mo ago

You seem to have an extra " at the start of the arguments ("-conf -> -conf)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Indeed there was. It's working now, mind you, I'll get no music since this version of DOSBox (flatpak) doesn't seem to come with MSCDEX:

CommandMC•16mo ago

It doesn't look like you're in the right working directory there

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

What do you mean?

CommandMC•16mo ago

Quoting my original instructions:

So, to launch this game with your system DOSBox, you'd 1. cd into <path to game install>/DOSBOX

This is important, since the config file paths in the arguments are relative, so DOSBox can't load them if you're not in the correct directory

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

So it should start like this: cd into /run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox

CommandMC•16mo ago

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run ... (replacing the ... with the rest of the command of course)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

No, still get the MSCDEX error.

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

At the end of the day, if it's running my DOSBox flatpak and it doesn't have MSCDEX, it's not gonna play music:

CommandMC•16mo ago

Oh, I see now; should've been more clear, replace instances of just one \ with nothing at all (they were originally there to escape the " that followed them, but this isn't needed outside of the .info file), replace instances of two \ (\\) with a / The second part of the command should be

flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox /run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat "-conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

I can also only recommend to use code blocks when sending in commands like this. If you scroll up a bit, you can see that the command you sent in does not match with what you ran now (since Discord also uses \ to escape characters, so it used a similar strategy of simply removing \ and replacing \\ with \) To create a code block in a message, add 3 backticks ( ` ) on a new line in your message, followed by your message content, followed by another 3 backticks: ``` your content here ``` creates

your content here

your content here

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

The arguments didn't work. I tried fixing it, but it CD Audio still didn't work:

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf /"..//dosboxRayman.conf" -conf /"..//dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf /"..//dosboxRayman.conf" -conf /"..//dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole

CommandMC•16mo ago

-conf /"..//dosboxRayman.conf" -conf /"..//dosboxRayman_single.conf"

This is what I just referencing; I assume you got to that from something like this in the .info file:

-conf \"..\\dosboxRayman.conf\" -conf \"..\\dosboxRayman_single.conf\"

Now applying what I mentioned - Replace any \\ sequences with / - Remove any "single" \ should leave you with this:

-conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf"

So the full command should be:

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

It opens and closes DOSBox. I removed "exit" at the end and it stayed open, but still the same message, so no music.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Is there anything interesting in the output (what's printed to the Terminal after you run the command)?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c
DOSBox version 0.74-3
Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/nickg/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74-3.conf
MIXER:Got different values from SDL: freq 44100, blocksize 512
ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
MIDI:Opened device:none
DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto. If the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options.

cd "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/DOSBOX" && flatpak run com.dosbox.DOSBox "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat" -conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c
DOSBox version 0.74-3
Copyright 2002-2019 DOSBox Team, published under GNU GPL.
---
CONFIG:Loading primary settings from config file /home/nickg/.dosbox/dosbox-0.74-3.conf
MIXER:Got different values from SDL: freq 44100, blocksize 512
ALSA:Can't subscribe to MIDI port (65:0) nor (17:0)
MIDI:Opened device:none
DOSBox switched to max cycles, because of the setting: cycles=auto. If the game runs too fast try a fixed cycles amount in DOSBox's options.

CommandMC•16mo ago

This is the game you're trying to run, correct?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

That's the game I own alright. When I ran it in Windows via the GOG Galaxy launcher, the music was playing.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Right, gimme a moment

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

😅 You didn't have to buy it, I could "lent" the setup file.

CommandMC•16mo ago

Heroic's GOG downloads aren't just the offline setups actually, so this wouldn't have worked (other than that, the legality of that is a little questionable) Seems like the config files DOSBox is looking for just... aren't there?

CommandMC•16mo ago

This is what the Bio Menace folder I've tested with looks like. I've highlighted the .conf files in red

CommandMC•16mo ago

Rayman Forever on the other hand just doesn't have any?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

look in the RayFan folder

CommandMC•16mo ago

No I'm looking for the files referenced in the arguments We run the command in DOSBOX, so ../dosboxRayman.conf evaluates to just <game install>/dosboxRayman.conf, but that just doesn't exist?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

I need to go make supper now, but after that, I'll boot back in Windows, install it from GOG Galaxy and see how it's structured. I'll keep you posted. Thank you very much for your help.

CommandMC•16mo ago

@Linguin (late night ping woo) Checking the Depots for this game on https://www.gogdb.org/product/1207658919/build/52095557858882770, it seems GOGDL doesn't download the 2nd-to-last one (which contains the .conf files, albeit in a suspicious app sub-directory)?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Hey there, I know you're probably sleeping, so when you wake up, I have a few things for you to look at: 1- Here's the zipped folder of Rayman Forever that was installed via GOG Galaxy on my Windows partition (file will automatically be deleted after 6 days): https://filebin.net/prhdb4ly0olbz3zq/Rayman_Forever.zip 2- Here's a gameplay recording showing the differences when booting and you can hear the music playing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kAOcvetWVw 3- The Windows shortcut has arguments in it:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Rayman Forever\DOSBOX\DOSBox.exe" -conf "..\dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "..\dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

"C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG Galaxy\Games\Rayman Forever\DOSBOX\DOSBox.exe" -conf "..\dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "..\dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit"

firm-tan•16mo ago

it does, it's in support directory requires setup to complete and as it is now it's broken on windows CONFIG_DIR/heroic/gogdlConfig/heroic_gogdl/support

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Hi there, you may want to look at the reply I made to CommandMC.

CommandMC•16mo ago

@Linguin I'm not quite sure what "setup" means here, but the files are indeed there (support folder is named gog-support though) @Waifu4Life So as per @Linguin's instructions, copy the contents of ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig/heroic_gogdl/gog-support/1207658919/app into your game directory. Assuming that's still at /run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever, a command for this would be:

cp ~/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/gogdlConfig/heroic_gogdl/gog-support/1207658919/app/* "/run/media/nickg/sda1/GOG/Rayman Forever"

After copying those files into the game directory, seems like we have some more problems: - Paths in the .conf files use \ as a path separator - As you mentioned, installing MSCDEX doesn't work To solve the first issue, simply edit dosboxRayman_single.conf (the one in the game directory) and replace all \ with / 2nd one is a little more tricky. Still in dosboxRayman_single.conf, the 7th line should have a command like this: imgmount d "../game.ins" -t iso -fs iso. Now I've googled a bit here, and imgmount should mount the disk image you give it, which may be on your real hard drive, into DOXBos. In this case the image is ../game.ins (which should be fine). However, it seems that DOSBox for Linux's imgmount command doesn't understand relative paths for some reason (the command always gives me a "Failed to mount" error) We can work around this though, by simply mounting the game directory as a whole with MOUNT first (which mounts a folder on your hard drive), and then telling IMGMOUNT to go from there. Replace the imgmount line with this:

MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "E:\GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso

MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "E:\GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso

firm-tan•16mo ago

setup is the process of calling script interpreter on game install, on Windows it's broken currently. I've merged a patch for it already though

CommandMC•16mo ago

Oh was that the getWinePath one?

firm-tan•16mo ago

yep

CommandMC•16mo ago

Well we're on Linux here

firm-tan•16mo ago

that should be moved automatically on the first game launch then

CommandMC•16mo ago

🤷 Didn't happen for me, and evidently didn't happen for OP either

firm-tan•16mo ago

:Ohno: got the Heroic log of the first launch? I'd test myself but I don't own that game in particular and I'd rather wait for next sale

CommandMC•16mo ago

I think I do; brb though, lunch first So turns out I didn't launch the game in Heroic But after re-installing and doing that now, the files still don't appear In the logs I see this:

(14:29:39) DEBUG:   [Backend]:          Running Wine command: /home/commandmc/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/redist/gog/__redist/ISI/scriptinterpreter.exe /VERYSILENT /DIR=Z:\home\commandmc\Games\Heroic\Rayman Forever /Language=English /LANG=English /ProductId=1207658919 /galaxyclient /buildId=52095557858882770 /versionName=1.21 /supportDir=Z:\home\commandmc\.var\app\com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl\config\heroic\gogdlConfig\heroic_gogdl\gog-support\1207658919 /nodesktopshorctut /nodesktopshortcut

(14:29:39) DEBUG:   [Backend]:          Running Wine command: /home/commandmc/.var/app/com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl/config/heroic/tools/redist/gog/__redist/ISI/scriptinterpreter.exe /VERYSILENT /DIR=Z:\home\commandmc\Games\Heroic\Rayman Forever /Language=English /LANG=English /ProductId=1207658919 /galaxyclient /buildId=52095557858882770 /versionName=1.21 /supportDir=Z:\home\commandmc\.var\app\com.heroicgameslauncher.hgl\config\heroic\gogdlConfig\heroic_gogdl\gog-support\1207658919 /nodesktopshorctut /nodesktopshortcut

CommandMC•16mo ago

This also looks interesting (in the game install dir)

goglog.ini

firm-tan•16mo ago

yeah that's the log of what was changed in registry etc...

CommandMC•16mo ago

Sooo, any idea why the interpreter didn't copy the support dir?

firm-tan•16mo ago

it didn't?

CommandMC•16mo ago

Nope, files are still missing from the game dir

firm-tan•16mo ago

hmm

CommandMC•16mo ago

They're in the config folder, and it looks like that's passed correctly to SI, but SI then just... doesn't Does the thing handle spaces in paths correctly?

firm-tan•16mo ago

yeah

CommandMC•16mo ago

We're working with a "Rayman Forever" folder after all

firm-tan•16mo ago

did it create .ico file?

CommandMC•16mo ago

Yup

firm-tan•16mo ago

then it worked

CommandMC•16mo ago

No .conf files though

firm-tan•16mo ago

maybe the support dir is not passed in correctly although I doubt I double checked that behavior with Galaxy what's the .script file

CommandMC•16mo ago

goggame-1207658919.s...

firm-tan•16mo ago

well first instruction is to copy it also made cloud saves directory

CommandMC•16mo ago

Can I somehow run this interpreter with debug logging or something?

firm-tan•16mo ago

yeah, let's go to dm it's a bit off topic I think

CommandMC•16mo ago

Threads inside threads wen

CommandMC•16mo ago

Alright, update time @Waifu4Life Scratch everything I've said above, we've got the original issue (why the game doesn't launch in Heroic) resolved now: 1. Download the attached gogdl binary, move it to ~/Games/Heroic/ and make it executable (chmod +x ~/Games/Heroic/gogdl) 2. In Heroic, head to "Settings" (sidebar) -> "Advanced", click the 📁 icon to the right of the alternative GOGDL binary box and select the gogdl binary you just moved. Should look somewhat like the attached screenshot afterwards (of course with your username) 3. Head to the game's page in Heroic, click the 3-dot menu in the top-right, and hit "Verify and Repair" 4. Delete this folder: ~/Games/Heroic/Prefixes/Rayman Forever 5. Launch the game; should now work fine

gogdl

CommandMC•16mo ago

For transparency, the binary is from this workflow run. Feel free to download it instead of the one I attached; I just figured that not everyone has a GitHub account

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Cool, I'll try it tonight (currently working right now using my Windows partition).

rare-sapphire•16mo ago

I had issues playing Settlers 2 (which also uses DOSBox). But following your instructions fixed it. Thanks 🙂

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Hi there. So 9 DOS on my GOG collection, 6 launched, 3 didn't. Tomb Raider 1, Jill of the Jungle and Jazz JackRabbit 1 did not launch. Wolfenstein 3D, Wolfenstein: Spear of Destiny, Rayman Forever and the Alone in the Dark Trilogy did launch properly, but the gameplay was janky, reminded of playing SNES emulation back on my Pentium 100MHz with frameskip. Is HGL using the DOSBox that came with the game or the native Linux DOSBox?

rare-sapphire•16mo ago

Always using whatever GOG packages.

fair-rose•16mo ago

dont use the linux versions , i never made those work , and the game is soo low powered , that you are good with the windows ones

CommandMC•16mo ago

Heroic is using the DOSBox shipped with the game. You can still follow https://discord.com/channels/812703221789097985/1208593003183210496/1209114981782523934 to launch the game with your system DOSBox As for the other games, could you send in the .info and .script files in the install directories of one of those games?

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Hey there, sorry for the late reply, crazy week. I decided to take another route. I manually installed DOSBox Staging. I then created an executable SH file with the following:

/usr/bin/dosbox -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman_single.conf" "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat"

/usr/bin/dosbox -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman_single.conf" "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat"

Finally, I added the SH file in Steam. When I launch it, it's clear that it runs the first configuration file because I go full screen Vs just launching the BAT file via DOSBox Staging itself. That being said, the 2nd conf file (dosboxRayman_single.conf) doesn't seem to load at all. I tried making the modifications you suggested:

replace all \ with /

replace all \ with /

and

Replace the imgmount line with this: 
MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "E:\GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso

Replace the imgmount line with this: 
MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "E:\GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso

I still get the infamous message about MSCDEX.

rare-sapphire•16mo ago

imgmount interprets paths as host paths i.e. it's looking for ./E:/GAME.INS in the Linux filesystem. Use simply GAME.INS and it should work. By the way, you know the dosboxRayman_single file is being loaded because that's what's running the game, and it's the game which is giving you the misleading MSCDEX message. That message simple suggests that the CD is not mounted properly (DOSBox will load its own MSCDEX implementation automatically when you (successfully) mount a CD).

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

You mean like this:

MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso
cls

MOUNT E ".."
E:
imgmount d "GAME.INS" -t iso -fs iso
cls

rare-sapphire•16mo ago

Right.

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Didn't change anything I get feeling that it's not loading that config file in my argument:

/usr/bin/dosbox -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman_single.conf" "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat"

/usr/bin/dosbox -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/dosboxRayman_single.conf" "/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat"

CommandMC•16mo ago

Why do you have

"/run/media/nickg/sdb1/GOG/Rayman Forever/RayFan/RAYFAN.bat"

in that command? The arguments in the info file don't include it, and you won't be launching the right executable with that Anyways, the script also assumes that your current working directory is <game install dir>/DOSBOX, so that's likely your issue Assuming you're in that working directory, the command dosbox -conf "../dosboxRayman.conf" -conf "../dosboxRayman_single.conf" -noconsole -c "exit" should launch the game (with no further modifications necessary if you're on DOSBox Staging)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Oh, I only assumed that I needed to launch the actual game in the command. When I remove the BAT file out of the command, I get to the selection menu, but it then quits.

1) Rayman       
2) Rayman Designer
3) Rayman by his Fans
 ----------------------------
4) exit program             
----------------------------

1) Rayman       
2) Rayman Designer
3) Rayman by his Fans
 ----------------------------
4) exit program             
----------------------------

CommandMC•16mo ago

Right, that's what happens when the game can't find MSCDEX - You are using DOSBox Staging, correct? What does dosbox --versionsay? - Assuming you are using Staging, undo any modifications you've made to the .conf files (verifying your game files should do the trick)

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

nickg@Media-PC:~$ dosbox --version
dosbox-staging, version 0.80.1

Copyright (C) 2020-2022  The DOSBox Staging Team
License: GNU GPL-2.0-or-later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>

This is free software, and you are welcome to change and redistribute it under
certain conditions; please read the COPYING file thoroughly before doing so.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

nickg@Media-PC:~$ dosbox --version
dosbox-staging, version 0.80.1

Copyright (C) 2020-2022  The DOSBox Staging Team
License: GNU GPL-2.0-or-later <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html>

This is free software, and you are welcome to change and redistribute it under
certain conditions; please read the COPYING file thoroughly before doing so.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Where are the Staging config files located? Well, at the very least I found a sort of way of playing it in DOSBox by mounting the image, installing the game and playing it that way. It's the OG Rayman, not Rayman Forever, but at least it has music.

CommandMC•16mo ago

The config files are where they always were, in the game install dir This is incorrect (I mean, I wouldn't have recommended to use those commands if they wouldn't have worked for me)

imagefile Location of the image files to mount in DOSBox. The location can be on a mounted drive inside DOSBox, or on your real disk.

- https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

Oh OK, I thought you meant the config file located in /home/nickg/.config/dosbox (which I found out later) I undid the modifications of the config file by restoring it from the zip I created. Now without the BAT file, I get this: https://i.postimg.cc/5jdcB5kM/Screenshot-20240224-163702.png

quickest-silverOP•16mo ago

OK, managed to make everything work, I'll make a short guide later on.

quickest-silverOP•15mo ago

@CommandMC Hi there, I made a small GitHub for DOS Games usage in HGL: https://github.com/Waifu4Life/DOS-Games-with-Heroic-Games-Launcher

GitHub

GitHub - Waifu4Life/DOS-Games-with-Heroic-Games-Launcher: To proper...

To properly launch DOS games from GOG.com and other places with Heroic Games Launcher - Waifu4Life/DOS-Games-with-Heroic-Games-Launcher

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How do You Launch DOS GOG Games?

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