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Starting a thread about getting arcade dumps working on SteamOS on Steamdeck. Please note, this is not about installing Windows, only running games through Wine/Lutris etc.

So far I've had minimal success, first I used Lutris to install Teknoparrot using this script 

https://lutris.net/games/teknoparrot/

Once installed, I tested with Star Wars Battle Pod. Game works fine. Super happy!

That's where It ends! Tested Afterburner, Machstorm and Chase HQ, they all fail at some point.

Has anyone had success with other games? How about using Ganeloader or Jconfig?

Please post results in here.

Hey all, does anyone have a link for Gears of War (the first one) please?

@sebel19 hey buddy, here's my bat for HOTD4, should work if edited for HOTD3, the key here is identifying the EXEs for the loop (I've marked the example below in BOLD) until these EXEs end the bat will loop, preventing CoinOps running in background.

@echo off
start "DemulShooter" "%~dp0%GAMEPATH%\DemulShooter\DemulShooter.exe" -target=lindbergh -rom=hotd4
set "GAMENAME=HOTD4.bat"
set "GAMEPATH=emulators\TeknoParrot\"
set HOME="%~dp0"
set "GAMEROOT=%~dp0%GAMEPATH%"
cd %GAMEROOT%
start "" "%GAMEROOT%%GAMENAME%"

SETLOCAL EnableExtensions
set EXE=FREEGLUT.exe
set EXE=DemulShooter.exe
:LOOPSTART
FOR /F %%x IN ('tasklist /NH /FI "IMAGENAME eq %EXE%"') DO IF %%x == %EXE% goto FOUND
goto FIN
:FOUND
TIMEOUT /T 1
goto LOOPSTART
:FIN
tskill DemulShooter 8.8.3.0
tskill FREEGLUT
exit

On 12/10/2020 at 4:36 PM, chrisino said:

Finally got this running on Windows 7 64 bit. 

 

Installed codecs included in the download.

 

Downloaded fix_JLA_physxdll_w8_w10.rar (even though I'm running Windows 7)

 

Extracted into the game directory and ran the game exe.

 

Now works fine in full screen.

 

Jobs has good one. 

 

 

Nice one! Works now.

EDIT - spoke too soon. Game works, but no sound. I have the intro music on the attact mode, but once I press start, no sounds in game.

EDIT2 - fixed sound now by replacing the OpenAL32.dll

Guide to setting this up on Windows 10

Run the game in TP in windowed mode

Use Borderless Gaming to force it fullscreen

download both the OpenAL32.dll and the JLA physx dlls and drop them in the game folder

Shame the game is pretty rubbish

OpenAL32.dll

18 hours ago, joefish said:

 

You are wrong because I'm using TP .533 and it's ok, no crash.

 

 

I tried the dump you linked and got no crash, completed without problems. 

You have other problems, it's not the dump.

Wow yeah it works now! Not sure what happened before. Thanks.

What I did was:

1. Download fresh copy of the game

2. Linked in TP

3. Played game - it crashed finishing stage 3

4. Downloaded fresh version of TP on another drive

5. Launched game, works fine

6. Copied across all the Teknoparrot files (except user profile.xmls as didn't want to repoint all my game paths again) to my original install location

7. Played it again, Voila! Success.

Thanks for your help @joefish I would have given up if you hadn't confirmed it was working for you.

Thanks will try another pc

12 minutes ago, joefish said:

 

In my previous msg I wrote "last TP version".

By the way, what Is the Motherload of dumps?

https://archive.org/download/motherload-of-dumps/

Where did you get your Chase HQ files from? Trying to work out why mine crashes when completing the Nascar level (level 3)

2 hours ago, llll55 said:

thanks, no more error with your exe, but the wheel and gas calibration always fails for me, so i cant start the game.

When doing the steering calibration, it fails if you don't touch it - when it says don't touch the wheel just hold left and right accordingly and it will succeed.

1 hour ago, joefish said:

 

Completed right now with last TP version. Everything works good.

Great thanks for confirming, downloading a new verison now to test it 

EDIT - Just took a fresh download, from the Motherload of dumps. Again it crashes after lv3. Are you using TP or JConfigr?

1 hour ago, joefish said:

 

It crashes because it's not the right exe I guess. Game works fine here and I completed it lots of time without a single crash.

Have you tried recently? I think it's broken since TP update. Not sure how long ago it broke, but it never lets you get passed stage 3 now.

1 hour ago, llll55 said:

thanks, no more error with your exe, but the wheel and gas calibration always fails for me, so i cant start the game.

Just use the no calibration fix from virusman site

The virus man version works in TP fine for me (apart from always crashes after stage 3)

game.exe

Tried with a fresh download, no extra patches applied (i.e. kept JPN voice, no DGVoodoo), ran through the steering and pedal configs fine, game works, but still crashes after beat stage 3.

Anyone else having the game dump back to desktop after beating level 3 (where you take down the Nascar racer)?

On 01/11/2020 at 9:46 PM, leatherface said:

Think there is a problem with Nancy Voice. On YouTube a guy has extracted and boost her voice with audacity. Contacted this guy but not sure he will share his work : 

 

Thanks for this link.

I reached out to him off the back of your comment, he said he had done post-editing to get the sound like that sadly.

But don't lose hope! There is a solution. Just tested and it works

In the comments, one guy posted:

"you really didn't need to waste time re-recording the audio for Nancy's voice - just open the test menu by pressing 'T' on your keyboard (Service is the 'S' key) and lower the background music to say 7 from 20 and increase the sound effects to 20. That way you'll be able to hear Nancy over the music easily!"

It's not perfect as it makes all sound effects louder, so the helicopter drowns her out a bit, but much better than before...

Is there any fix for Nancy's voice being so quiet Vs the music and sound effects?

Redownloaded, applied fullscreen fix, applied domefix Teknoparrot also had an update, seems to work now. 

Anyone else having issues booting the game again? Was working fine a couple of weeks ago. Now when I launch it, the RS Loader screen comes up in the top left corner and the SWArc never starts. Downloaded a fresh copy and this works, but as soon as I apply dome fix, it stops working again.

Works good, any progress on the screen warping at the edges?