CD32 games that work properly

[Ian]

OK, this is just an idea of mine to save some of you some time downloading something that doesn't work with the new WinUAE or has problems.

I plan to add games as I test them, and other's could do the same:)

I'm going through my collection in alphabetical order and the first is Akira and I'm sorry to say it works

I won't bother with pictures, you'll just have to take my word for it:)

[stainy]

SillyPutty, Brutal Football and DOTC2 work so far :)

well for me anyway

[RetroMan]

Well I would like to test too, but WinUAE crashes everytime I try to set up a CD³² :( It just freezes, without showing anything than a black screen !

[Ian]

Try turning off immediate blit's (If you have it enabled) I sometimes get a VC runtime error with that enabled. I'll post my config if you want:)

Sod it I'll post it anyway, remember to change your rom locations though:)

let me know if it yields positive results;)

[Ian]

Stainy (And anyone else who adds to the list), I hope you don't mind, but when I have time I'm going to delete your post's and make the list an easy to read alphabetical list:)

Credit will be given though, to the testee;)

Alien Breed 3D Doesn't Work

[stainy]

good idea Ian:D

[Ian]

Alien Breed SE

Works as well as the floppy version:)

But has a problem with the computer's where you buy gun's and stuff. This might actually be in the floppy version, but I don't remember it so here goes:

When you walk into the computer you automatically log in, this cause's a few problems when you exit (Log off) the computers as you just log straigt back in again:rolleyes

You can get out of it though, hold down while logging out and after a couple of times of being logged back on, you'll eventually be far enough away to not log in again.

Qwak

Work's

I haven't played this game much but as far as I can see it works without any problems.

It's on the same CD/iso as Alien Breed SE anyway, so no extra downloading for this game:)

[Ian]

Alien Breed Tower Assualt

Doesn't work

Very strange this one, sometimes it work's to the intro sometimes it doesn't, don't know why, but here are my thought's on whats happening:

Seems to depend on CPU speed, if you set it to A500 speed it boot's past the CD32 spinny logo thing and sometimes start's the intro some times it generates a runtime error?

Maybe this is because of my system, someone else should test this if they have it:)

If you select fastest possible CPU speed, it reset's (with a flash of red, probably a guru error??) after the CD32 logo begins to spin off the screen.

Alien Breed 2

Doesn't work

Same problems as above. Can't get anything to work with this one:sad

[Ian]

Works

Infact this version is better than the floppy version, guess those extra buttons really come into play and make this more enjoyable to play than the floppy version.

If you like this game, this is the best version:)

[Ian]

Works

Works well, no problem's other than no music plays, but this may be because the version I have has seperate MP3 files for the music track's.

There are a couple of demo's on this disk too, a Super Stardust rolling demo, which works fine with sound and Superfrog, which does work, but the frog always seems to be jumping even when your not touching the joypad/stick, maybe a bug for Toni to look at, there is no sound in the demo either.

[Ian]

Works

Same problem as Arcade Pool though, no music and again this could be because Daemon tools doesn't mount mp3 files with iso's properly, when I have time I'll burn it to a cd and check if I'm right:)

But for know, back to more testing:)

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Similar problems to the Alien Breed Tower Assualt disk, reset's after the CD32 logo screen and appears to just hang in A500 speed mode.

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Game load's fine, but when it begins to load a level it reset's back to the (Now familiar;)) CD32 logo screen

[Ian]

Works

But for the life of me, I can't play a bloody match in it, probably just because I don't know what button's to press to set the thing in motion:rolleyes

Stainy say's he's got it working so ask him what to press because I can't get past the control select screen (Where you select between novice etc etc)

[Ian]

Works

No sound though, game plays fine:)

Edit: Scratch that sound DOES work, I have found out why it wasn't working and will pass on this information when Toni has looked into it:)

[Ian]

Works

Again no sound (Begining to think it's an old problem WinUAE used to have when it crashed, I will test these game again later), but the game plays fine.

I'm begining to notice problems with the mapped controls, sometimes they work on my joypad and sometimes they work on the keyboard and sometimes neither work at all.

Toni, am I right in thinking that it should work on both the joypad and numeric pad??

Edit: Sound also work's in this game now:rolleyes (Now that I know what's wrong;))

[Ian]

Works

There goes my theory about the sound bug, it's working again, and so is Cannon Fodder, seem's as though Toni ironed out the problems with this game.:great

[Ian]

Works

Sound and game both fine, although I needed to set the sound buffer to 5 or 6 to avoid choppy sound:)

[Ian]

doesn't Work

Game appears to be loading, but after a short while it starts to flash colours over the screen, much like when programs had been compressed with powerpacker/turbo imploder.

Sorry I can't be much more help than that:)

[Ian]

Works

Game plays fine, infact better than the floppy version again:) Again it's those extra buttons meaning that up doesn't jump, which with my joypad is a god send.

Sound doesn't work though.

[Ian]

Works

Again no sound, but the actual game works fine:)

[Ian]

Works

Perfect sound and gameplay, who could ask for more:)

Extra buttons help as well (Again;))

[Ian]

Diggers

Works

Same sound problems as Oscar (Yes I wrote that one first;)), first time I played the game fine, second (when I just tested it) I got a run time error after selecting the mouse as the controller. After testing it again it worked fine, guess it an intermitent problem.

Oscar

Works

Strange problems here (Strange to me anyway;)) CD music plays fine, but no in game SFX work or music that isn't on the CD, game works as well as I remember from my real CD32 anyway:)

Dizzy - The Big Six

I forgot I had this and I ain't messing up my alphabetical order for no-one;)

Works

No sound, probably because of the MP3 files not being loaded properly by daemon tools again.

Game works fine:)

[Ian]

Doesn't Work

And I wasn't expecting it to, it's a beta version for pete's sake;)

Intro works though, shame this game was never finished:sad

[Ian]

Works

Sound and game all there:)

Some dodgy GFX on the title screen, but nothing more than that:D

[Ian]

Doesn't Work

Game crashes when loading first level, doesn't appear to be any sound either, but as the game doesn't actually work I can't say for sure.

[Ian]

Works

Sound and game working in perfect harmony:)

Strange problem with the CD32 buttons, only the number pad appears to work in this game:confised

[Ian]

Doesn't Work

Load's to the bit where you pick your solider (Or whatever it is) click on the first name and this appears in another window, obviously only Toni will know what it means;)

D0: 00000000 D1: 0000ff00 D2: 0000f000 D3: 000000ff
D4: 00001f0b D5: 0000ff1e D6: 00000005 D7: 00000000
A0: 00137cfa A1: 0013c2c4 A2: 001addd2 A3: 001abe92
A4: 0013c2bc A5: 00165102 A6: 001687d0 A7: 0015cf46
USP=001e7fa4 ISP=0015cf46 MSP=00000000 VBR=00000000
T=00 S=1 M=0 X=0 N=0 Z=1 V=0 C=0 IMASK=0
FP0: 0 FP1: 0 FP2: 0 FP3: 0
FP4: 0 FP5: 0 FP6: 0 FP7: 0
N=0 Z=0 I=0 NAN=0
00136d66: 67f8 4e75 2039 0013 73d6 BEQ.B #$fffffff8 == 00136d60 (TRUE)
next PC: 00136d68
>

[Ian]

Works

Works fine, enjoy this one folks:)

[Ian]

Works

No sound again, but the game is as buggy as I remember the real thing being all those years ago;)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, but the game runs fine otherwise:)

Note to self, must learn to play some of these games;)

[Ian]

Works

Although I wish it didn't;)

No sound.

[Ian]

Works

Sound and game both doing well.

[Ian]

Doesn't Work

Game loads and run's fine, it just doesn't move off the first screen, you can walk off the edge and walk back again, but the screen never moves:sad

No sound either.

[Ian]

Works

Same flickering screen problem as the adf version, but it's fully working, Enter the Dragon samples 'n all:great

[Ian]

Works

You can really see the problems with CDXL anims with this, hopefully Toni can get round this soon:)

Sound works fine in this game, if you can find it, consider downloading it:)

Here's a hint, Retroman supplied the URL where you can get it:)

[Ian]

May work who knows

Game loads, but I can't get any button (Joypad or keypad) to work when over the language selection bit:sad

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Crashes (the Amiga not the emulator) when loading menu screen (I think)

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Or atleast takes ages to load, my bet is it doesn't work;)

[Ian]

Works

No sound again, this may be system related, can someone else, who doesn't have a soundblaster confirm it doesn't work for them please:)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, game works though:)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, but the game work's OK.

[Ian]

Works

No sound, but again the game works fine:)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, but the game certainly work's:)

[Djay]

anyone know of anywhere for CD32 ISO

* note to mods *

please delete this post if too risky!

Ian says: Do a search, Retroman kindly provided some links a while ago, I think there in the Web site review section, but I'm can't quite remember.

[Ian]

Works

Perfect, sound and all, just a HD fixed version put onto CD though.

[Ian]

Works

But yes you've guessed it, no sound:p

[Ian]

Overkill

Works

With sound, still has the same problems as the adf version though regarding the screen, v.dodgy at the sides.

LunarC

Works

Fully working in every way, quite enjoyable too, worth the download IMO

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Ah well, it's a good job other wise this list would've never been finished;)

[Ian]

Works

No sound though, rest of the game is fully functional:)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, but this is quite a good pinball game none the less, it's no Pinball Fantasies, but still quite enjoyable:)

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Crashes the emulator when loading the first level:sad

[Ian]

Project X

Works

No sound though, use Project 32 for this game for now;)

F17

Doesn't Work

Doesn't load, again use Project 32 until Toni fixes it;)

[Ian]

Works

Good intro, good music (Which isn't working:sad) crap game, go figure.

No sound yet.

[Ian]

Works

Jut another HD fixed version put on to CD, sound and the game both work properly.

[Ian]

My Iso of this game doesn't work. Doesn't even get past the lovely spinning CD screen:rolleyes

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Crashes the Emu, which isn't good;)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, everything else OK apart from some of the women are minger's:rolleyes

[Ian]

Works

Same problem as the demo version on the Arcade Pool disk, Froggy just keeps on a jumpin'.

No sound.

[Ian]

Works

With sound, if this is your bag (ie Football management) download this now;)

[Ian]

Works

With sound again, getting tired now of all this testing, short descriptions from now on;)

[Ian]

Doesn't work

The intro (Which is hella cool:cool) works without sound though, but after the intro nothing happens.

[Ian]

Works

As far as I can tell anyway, I don't know what to do so I haven't actually played it;)

Sound is working in this game.

[Ian]

Works

Gotta love Thomas's music;)

Sound works fine int he game:great

[Ian]

Doesn't work

Doesn't load, crashes the emu (or seriously slows it down)

[Ian]

Works

No sound, game plays alright.

[Ian]

Works

No sound, and I don't know how to play this game so don't ask me if it works properly;)

[Ian]

Works

Sound works fine in this game.

[Ian]

That's my entire collection of iso's, I hope this list is of some use to some of you, I hope it helps Toni a great deal, perfect emulation is something we're all looking for:)

@ Toni, if you want my finding's in more detail on certain games don't hestitate to ask:)

I can draw the conclusion that this is the best CD32 emu around, and will get better as soon as these sound issues are ironed out.

I haven't got a clue what might be causing these sound problem's, but hopefully with this list someone will be able to find out:)

Around 60 games tested, over 90% of the are playable, not bad for a first release eh;)

Great work Toni:)

BTW I have decided not to change all this now, if you test a game I shall add it into the correct place by editing my previous post's, it'd take far to long to do another list;)

Please add your tested games, I have no more so it's over to you guys:D

[Twistin'Ghost]

I notice you referred to the mp3's - how are you using mp3's anyhow? I thought CD audio was CDDA format. Shouldn't those be in CDDA format in order to work proper?

Do any of the [no sound] flagged games you tested use real CDDA tracks?

[Toni Wilen]

Ian, your sound problems are very odd. CD32 has no special audio hardware that could cause your sound problems. Do you also have identical sound problems with normal OCS/AGA games?

Missing CDA tracks can't cause missing sound effects and non CDA music.

[andreas]

I notice you referred to the mp3's - how are you using mp3's anyhow?
Well, I have to ask this too.
I didn't get around with mp3s either so far...I assume that I MUST burn the ISO + MP3 files to CD to get sound from MP3 files at all, aren't I right?
CD32 ROM + CD32 extended ROM + DaemonTools + ISO + WinUAE with "Hard drive" set as CD0: works fantastic now, but without MP3 sound, though...

[Toni Wilen]

WinUAE with "Hard drive" set as CD0:

This is not needed for CD32 emulation (and it may even cause some problems)

Also don't enable "Add PC drives"

didn't get around with mp3s either so far...I assume that I MUST burn the ISO + MP3 files to CD to get sound from MP3 files at all, aren't I right?

You need to either burn iso+mp3's to cdr/cdrw (for example with fireburner) or find software that can convert iso+mp3's to bin/cue image format. I haven't found any, unfortunately..

[RetroMan]

@Ian

I just tested your config file and I just get a Bluescreen :(

[Toni Wilen]

I just tested your config file and I just get a Bluescreen

Do you have Windows 95/98/ME? If yes, you probably need to download ASPI driver update from Adaptec, see readme.txt that comes with WinUAE for URL.

[andreas]

This is not needed for CD32 emulation (and it may even cause some problems)

Also don't enable "Add PC drives"
Bloody hell!! :eek :shocked
This is witchcraft :p
You have just got me flabbergasted with mouth open. :eek
I don't know how this works, but this thing recognizes my virtual CD drive even without having to add it in Harddrive settings! Holy God...Cool as hell, really.
Did you have to include special support for DaemonTools to get this to work or how did you realize it apart from that? I can hardly believe this works without special code that has been meticulously adapted in order to match with each of those CD-ROM emulators around...

[CaptainVeg]

Any idea if Liberation CD32 works?

[Toni Wilen]

I don't know how this works, but this thing recognizes my virtual CD drive even without having to add it in Harddrive settings! Holy God...

There is NOTHING in common between harddrive emulation and CD32 CDROM emulation.

In CD32 mode WinUAE just scans all CDROM drives and autoselects first non-empty drive. There is no need for special code, Daemon Tools' virtual drive looks like real SCSI CDROM from software point of view.

[RetroMan]

Originally posted by Toni Wilen


Do you have Windows 95/98/ME? If yes, you probably need to download ASPI driver update from Adaptec, see readme.txt that comes with WinUAE for URL.
Yep, I have ME and I allready got the ASPI Driver update installed :(

[andreas]

In CD32 mode WinUAE just scans all CDROM drives and autoselects first non-empty drive.
Ohhh...if I'm not completely wrong, this can cause problems.
Think about this setup a user might have (NOT mine, though):

CD-ROM: Letter G:
CD inserted

CD recorder: Letter H:
No CD inserted

Virtual CD-ROM: Letter I:

According to your logic, this would make WinUAE look for the CD recorder with letter H: because it's the first non-empty drive.
What WinUAE needs to look for here is the drive with the letter I, though.

[TikTok]

I guess there needs to be a choice then because there could equally well be a real CD32 disk in the drive G ;).

[rlake]

Toni: Having trouble with the SCSI CD auto-detection. I have 3 drives, only seems to work with cd0 mapped to z: (my chosen drive). Any chance of a "preferred drive" option in the future?

Back to on-topic, here are a few games have tested (original CDs) * but don't take the failure as fact until I get the above problem fixed.

Update March 1st: Games retested! Note that suggestion to use 1 floppy was enabled (and may be required) for sound.

- Battle Chess Works. With sound. Screams make chess fun. :)
- Kang Fu Doesn't Works. Requires floppies disabled, get out of memory error.
- Legends Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Liberation Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Litil Divil Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Marvin's Marvellous Adventure Doesn't Work. Controller problem on menu. With sound + CD audio.
- PGA European Tour Works. With sound.
- Pinball Fantasies Works. With sound.
- Roadkill Works. With sound.
- Sensible Soccer (European Champions) Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Shadow Fighter Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Simon the Sorceror Works. With sound.
- Speedball 2 Works. With sound + CD audio. What a great game. Requires floppies disabled.
- Super Stardust Works. Had to use 2Mb fast RAM. With sound + CD audio.
- Total Carnage Works. With sound.
- Trolls Works. With sound + CD audio.
- Zool Works. With sound + CD audio.

[andreas]

Toni: Having trouble with the SCSI CD auto-detection. I have 3 drives, only seems to work with cd0 mapped to z: (my chosen drive). Any chance of a "preferred drive" option in the future?
Speak of the devil, and he shall come. :)
Well I was quite sure that my fictitious scenario actually wasn't that far-fetched at all...:rolleyes

[rlake]

Originally posted by andreas
Well I was quite sure that my fictitious scenario actually wasn't that far-fetched at all...:rolleyes

Well, perhaps I should elaborate a bit, my hardware configuration may be a little unusual!

I have 3 IDE hard drives, relics of past computers. ;-) Anyway, to cut a long story short I have them partitioned a lot, taking up letters C - M with each assigned for work, windows etc. (100 gig total)

What turns out to be a wise decision considering my hard drives, I have 3 SCSI CD devices (CD, DVD, CD-R) on a SCSI bus, letters X - Z. :rolleyes

Now, ideally I could tell WinUAE to try my preferred CD drive, but I have to tell it explicitely. I don't know, maybe the time to search is proportional to the number of drives so would take a while to work to Z! Anyway, I don't notice any activity unless I map cd0 to Z:, and as Toni says this more than likely breaks a few games. :sad

[Toni Wilen]

- Liberation Doesn't Work. Hangs on title screen

Turn JIT off. Liberation (and some other games too) don't like too fast CPU..

Now, ideally I could tell WinUAE to try my preferred CD drive, but I have to tell it explicitely. I don't know, maybe the time to search is proportional to the number of drives so would take a while to work to Z! Anyway, I don't notice any activity unless I map cd0

Yes, GUI option for drive selection will be implemented in future releases. But unfortunately it is not possible to know drive letter <> scsi id mapping with ASPI (this is only possible in Windows 2K/XP because they support "better" direct scsi api called SPTI) This means I have to write two drive selection styles, another that asks scsi ids and device names (like in CDRWin) and another that asks for drive letters.

I have 3 IDE hard drives, relics of past computers. ;-) Anyway, to cut a long story short I have them partitioned a lot, taking up letters C - M with each assigned for work, windows etc. (100 gig total)

11 partitions in 100G, I think this is really too much... I have 160G of HD space (2x80G) and I only have 4 partitions (4x40G)

BTW: Always remember to report your operation system if you have CD32/uaescsi.device problems! (95/98/ME uses ASPI and 2K/XP uses SPTI, ASPI and SPTI are different SCSI programming APIs. SPTI is MS supported, but only works in 2K/XP)

[Riempie]

Hmmm...

I mounted my virtual cd-drive (deamon tools) and mapped it to Z:
But WinUAE doesn't recognize the CD (ISO). The nice CD32 animation shows up, but the CD doesn't run. I can't map the drive to F, E etc because I've got many network dirs mapped to those (automatically setted up by our system admin at work).

[Toni Wilen]

I mounted my virtual cd-drive (deamon tools) and mapped it to Z: But WinUAE doesn't recognize the CD (ISO). The nice CD32 animation shows up, but the CD doesn't run. I can't map the drive to F, E etc because I've got many network dirs mapped to those (automatically setted up by our system admin at work).

Enable logging (or start WinUAE with "-console" parameter) and look for CDROM messages.

[Ian]

Has been solved, if you ignore the what the readme says about floppy emulation and enable the floppies, all ingame sounds should be heard:)

If a game doesn't work with floppies enabled disable them, this could help the game to load, but you probably won't get sound though.

I have tested and tested this and it IS what's wrong with it;)

[Riempie]

A piece out of the log file:

Windows NT/2K/XP: Using IOCTL CDROM interface
device '\\.\E:' opened succesfully (unit number=0)
IOCTL_CDROM_STOP_AUDIO: The device is not ready.

failed to open cd-rom handle (\\.\)
CreateFile: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
CreateFile: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.

device '\\.\E:' opened succesfully (unit number=0)
IOCTL_CDROM_STOP_AUDIO: The device is not ready.

IOCTL_CDROM_RESUME_AUDIO: The device is not ready.

IOCTL_CDROM_STOP_AUDIO: The device is not ready.

IOCTL_CDROM_PAUSE_AUDIO: The device is not ready.





My real CD-rom drive is E: but my virtual is Z. How can I make sure WinUAE recognizes this virtual CD drive?

[Riempie]

Hmmm....

It works now, I tried it with Alfred Chicken, sound works too.

I remapped my network drive F:
I gave it the letter G:
And now I gave my virtual drive the volume F:

Sadly though every time I turn on my pc at work, this network drive will be F again.

Oh well, I can live with that for a while....

Great work Toni!

[rlake]

I now have the configuration set with no hard drive mapping, uaescsi.device enabled, no JIT (since I'm using 68EC020), and no floppies. I'm running XP. Rather surprisingly, I've had some success booting without a hard drive mapping. CD audio seems to be absent, period :(. Here's part of the log...

Windows NT/2K/XP: Using SPTI CDROM interface
Don't care mouse mode set
PAL mode, 50Hz
Need to init_row_map
Byte put to custom register.
B-Trap f201 at f80cac (02450CCC)
Filesystem: mapped memory @$e90000.
Card 1 (ZorroII) done.
scsi error: 0, lasterror=6

Anyway, a few more games (re) tested...

Update March 1st: Ignore the following, these still need retesting unlike those above!

- Banshee Works. Same result as Ian, don't believe CD audio works.
- Guardian Doesn't Work. Doesn't boot, but the log shows as much as Banshee that does work.
- James Pond 2 Works. With sound. Very slow @26 FPS on my P3 733.
- Jet Strike Doesn't Work. Get's to play / manual menu and then hangs.
- Liberation Doesn't Work. Seriously, I'm pressing every button and can't get past the screen with the man being carried by droids. JIT is disabled.
- Syndicate Doesn't Work. Same result as Ian.

I'll edit my previous post as and when I have a chance to test them again.

[Riempie]

I've got it all fixed now, have the virtual CD-rom drive permanently set to F:

Now I can test about 60 iso's!

[§ane]

Originally posted by Ian
Has been solved, if you ignore the what the readme says about floppy emulation and enable the floppies, all ingame sounds should be heard:)That is a very odd bug there Ian, I can now verify Simon the Sorcerer CD32 is working flawlessly with music & voices!

[Toni Wilen]

uaescsi.device enabled

This isn't needed, either... CD audio support is more compatible if you don't enable uaescsi.device and use Windows 2000 or XP. (I think I'll have to write better CD32 instructions soon...)

Liberation problems: Do you have full CD or image with CD audio tracks? Because Liberation also needs CDA tracks!

Easy CD audio testing: insert audio cd and boot CD32. CD32 build-in CDA player appears. Everything should work except fast forward/rewind (not yet supported)

Riempie: Argh, IOCTL-mode (=more compatible with CDA) CDROM drive detection code is buggy :(

Difference between IOCTL and SPTI: with SPTI WinUAE sends SCSI commands directly to drive, with IOCTL WinUAE sends simple commands to device driver (for example: "Play Audio from x to y", "Pause Audio" etc..) If you enable uaescsi.device, SCSI commands must be supported which means WinUAE can't use IOCTL and falls back to SPTI.

Missing sound: more debugging needed...

[rlake]

Originally posted by Toni Wilen
This isn't needed, either... CD audio support is more compatible if you don't enable uaescsi.device and use Windows 2000 or XP. (I think I'll have to write better CD32 instructions soon...)
I'm really trying to follow a standard configuration but it really isn't working at all well for me! The only reason I'm straying from the suggested configuration is because of the following observations:

- Without uaescsi.device I get nowhere. From log:

Windows NT/2K/XP: Using IOCTL CDROM interface
failed to open cd-rom handle (\\.\)
CreateFile: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Don't care mouse mode set
PAL mode, 50Hz
Need to init_row_map
Byte put to custom register.
B-Trap f201 at f80cac (02470CCC)
Filesystem: mapped memory @$e90000.
Card 1 (ZorroII) done.
warning: Program does not wait for blitter
Failed attempt to mount device

- Without a hard drive mapping I get no CD32 boot logo, although games tend to boot and work. This seems very strange behaviour, possibly a failure to recognise a CD device at boot in the ROM (but wouldn't explain why it'd work with uaescsi.device). Hence I can't test CD audio, but I do try! Note that I'm not going to test CD audio with the hard drive mapping (when I get the boot logo) since this is straying somewhat from a solution.

Originally posted by Toni Wilen
Liberation problems: Do you have full CD or image with CD audio tracks? Because Liberation also needs CDA tracks!
- It's the full, totally original, 1993 pressed CD. As you say, it requires CD audio and therefore I think it's obvious there's a strong link between this game not working, general CD audio problems, and the IO mechanism used. Since the uaescsi.device "works" (as you say, raw SCSI commands), I can only assume that the IOCTL support is the issue here, causing all of my problems (*well, it's unrelated to normal audio issues).

Sorry for having such an annoying config! Hope this helps though. If you need any more information, let me know.

[Ian]

I have gotten to the bottom of this one too for those interested:)

Use the config file on the first page, but delete the NV ram bit so it's blank and also set your cpu speed to match A500 speed.

Once you have done that the game(s) will work:D

More fixes soon ...... probably;)

[MrDig]

I can confirm Sane's post about Simon the Sorceror... No sound with floppies disabled and I do have sound with floppies enabled... Weird...

I also tried Kick Chaos CD32.. It works with Audio Tracks! and I tried Benefactor CD32; also works perfectly with Audio Tracks!

I haven't used Deamen Tools, just inserted the cd-rom in my drive... When I put the CD's (Kid Chaos & Benefactor) in my Plextor CD Burner (F:) I don't hear Audio Tracks and when I put the same cd's using the same config in Creative PC-DVD Player (E:) I do hear Audio Tracks...

Just letting you know...

[stainy]

Hey MrDig :)

maybe it`s because you got an audio cable hooked up to your dvd drive and not your Plextor cd writer :)

[rlake]

Originally posted by stainy
Hey MrDig :)

maybe it`s because you got an audio cable hooked up to your dvd drive and not your Plextor cd writer :)

You know, I actually removed my cable the other day when sorting out sound card "issues" and never put it back. However, I only use it because my Plextor CD reader doesn't seem to like digital audio under XP. However, Plextor CD recorders appear to work well as do Pioneer DVD drives but make sure that little box is ticked!

[MrDig]

Originally posted by stainy
Hey MrDig :)

maybe it`s because you got an audio cable hooked up to your dvd drive and not your Plextor cd writer :)

Hey Stainy!

I actually didn't even think about that.. I will check it out.. :)

Tried some other games:
Fly Harder - works great
Furry of the Furries - works great
Roadkill - works (some sound problems, but due to my slow cpu 500mhz me think...)
Super Stardust - works great but when I've finished one level the game refuses to continue no matter which button I press! Does some else encountered this problem?
This error also occured with Benefactor... After finishing the first level the game 'hangs'...
Death Mask - works great..
Flink - works

[Riempie]

Hmm... Tried Fury of the Furries too, works great, except after I've finished level 1 and want to start level 2, the emulated CD32 (WinUAE) resets itself. Seems like more games seem to crash/reset/whatever after the first level. Strange...

Maybe this has something to do with the NVRAM? Because I know Fury of the Furries automatically saves resume points. I've checked the NVRAM editor and no save stuff of Fury, but I know it should be there.

I know an NVRAM file can be set in the config tab of WinUAE, but what should I select? Can I make such a file myself? How does this work?

[Ian]

It creates it's own, just click on the side of the NVRam bit on the rom section of your config, type in any filename you want to use and click on save:)

Bob's your uncle, you now have yourself a NVRam file;)

[RetroMan]

Just wanted to let you know : IT WORKS NOW ! but I haven´t changed anything :confused I just started it as usual to get my Bluescreen (as usual) but it worked :shocked :D

[rlake]

Toni: Just to let you know that a suggestion made elsewhere regarding the CD drive letter "gap issue" has resolved my problems, at least with the Liberation CD I tested. Update: After retesting a whole load more, I have been very successful!

MrDig: Your sound problems for Roadkill sound like your CPU speed (I can only squeeze 48 fps out of most games on my P3 733). As for Super Stardust, you should change to the next level using the left / right buttons and then it should work!

(Group): Please note the changes made to my compatibility notes above. There are still some that still need testing (and I have a stack more new ones too!)

[Toni Wilen]

Problem with missing audio if all floppy drives were disabled is finally solved. It was caused by a bug in custom chipset reset code. (there is custom chipset register that contains misc floppy and audio bits, Kickstart's floppy driver resets it only if there are one or more enabled floppy drives)

SuperFrog button problem is also fixed.

[nokia3310e]

I just wanted to say that Labyrinth of Time is fully playable in WinUAE (using Ian's config). I completed it the other day (and expected a better ending to it). Sound was ok, but sometimes crackly, saving to NVRAM worked fine. Ran it from an .iso mounted in Daemon's Tools 3.00. Used the mouse to play the game (can anyone tell me the key mappings for the CD32 joypad, I guess most of them are on the number pad?)

[rlake]

- Joypad (keys: /=RWD *=PLAY -=FFW 7=Green 9=Yellow 1=Red 3=Blue, hardcoded, no configuration yet)
Also mapped to PC joystick/joypad buttons 1-7

[nokia3310e]

@rlake: Thanks for the info :)

[andreas]

Hi Ian,

found a working ISO of Chuck Rock CD32, and I just upped in the zone! Sound works like a dream! :bounce
It's slow as hell, though. And when Chuck moves to the right, the screen jumps. Reminds me of the behaviour WinUAE 0.8.8 R8 showed if you ran Chaos Engine on it. Immediate blits on/off and Fast Copper on/off do NOT change the situation in this case.
The ISO is 56 MB in size, but if you zip it it's merely 1.3 MB! :D
One of the few CD32 games I can upload in the zone, methinks. :)
Enjoy!

[ade]

Hi. Im running a machine using nvidia gforce4 128 mb grahpics card and an amd 1.6GH processor.
Ive managed to emulate the cd32 on winuae. Most of my games work fine. The game i have problems with is Pirates Gold. The sound and graphics are very scracthy and when i play the game the animation is faster then the real thing. To me it seems the emulator is working too fast and the game cant keep up with it. So how do i slow down the emulator so i can get rid of the scratchy stuff.
Believe me ive tried everything i can think of. Please Help:bowdown :nuts :banghead :crying :guru :help