Daphne emulator guide

=Daphne=

Daphne-is a Free laserdisc game emulator that allows one to play real laserdisc arcade games such as Dragon's Lair and Space Ace on one's PC.

It is the First Ever Multiple Arcade Laserdisc Emulator! It's a program that lets one play the original versions of many laserdisc arcade games on one's PC.

The Daphne emulator consists of two programs, DaphneLoader and Daphne. Daphne is the actual emulator and DaphneLoader is the front end.

Now, I haven't upgraded my version of Daphne in over 5 years, because the old one had no lockouts. Recent versions don't like the games distributed by Digital Leisure. That said,the new version might be easier to set up or might have different error messages than my old version.

=Daphne Loader =

DaphneLoader is the program that we recommend that you run in order to play games on Daphne.

Requirements
To play Daphne, you will need:

At least a Pentium III 500 MHz machine or equivalent (These days, most people have something much better.)

Windows, Mac OSX, or x86/Linux (this covers almost everyone)

ROM Image files and one of the following: Video, Audio, and Frame Files

This is for unencrypted laser disk games only.

= Supported laser disk games=

Astron Belt



Badlands



Bega's Battle



Cliff Hanger

Cobra Command



Dragon's Lair



Dragon's Lair 2



Esh's Aurunmilla



Galaxy Ranger/Star Blazer



Goal to Go



GP World



Intersteller



M.A.C.H. 3



Road Blaster



Space Ace



Star Blazer/Galaxy Ranger



Super Don Quix-ote



Thayer's Quest



Us vs Them



=Daphne emulator guide =

Note:This guide is for unencrypted laser disk games only !

Daphne for Dummies No Longer Works !

For the purpose of this guide I will assume that you already:

a. Downloaded the Daphne emulator.

b. Made a Daphne directory.

c. Made a Daphne loader shortcut on your desktop.

1) In the Daphne directory folder empty those small laser disk roms.



2) In the framefile folder put all your framefiles.



3) I choose to play Galaxy Ranger.



4) So empty Galaxy Ranger contents(Mpeg video file,Ogg audio file)in the framefile folder. (All of the 19 laserdisc games need to go in the framefile folder).



5)

a. Run Daphne loader, emulator will update itself if necessary. (Update at your own risk)

b. One left click on Galaxy Ranger,then press configure.



6) Here you can change the game version.



7) Here you can change the difficulty level.



8) Click configure laser disk.



9) Click here to configure.



10) Click. No, I will install any missing video/audeo files manually.



11) If this appear,just ignore and press cancel. They are trying to confuse,scare and control you.



12) Now click browse and locate framefile for Galaxy Ranger.



13) Now click framefile folder, then click open.



14) Select Galaxy Ranger text document(framefile). Click open.



15) Click apply, then click OK.



16) Screen size-Will leave as is, default is best.This option may not work with all games.



17) Full screen-Change at your own risk.This option may not work with all games.



18) If you are using w10, than you need to be change YUV Hardware overlay to openGL for Daphne to work.

Click configue-->Video-->Hardware Accelaration-->openGL-->Apply-->OK

Need to do this to every game.



19) Ignoring the aspect ratio may cause the video to look streched when using non-standard window sizes.



20) This will load all video into memory before starting the game. May improve performance when using CD or DVD. This may require alot of memory.



21) Emulated sound is more authentic, but uses more resources. May work better on slower machines.

Note: Preferance will be ignored unless a game has both samples and emulated sound available.



22) Set this to as small as you can without the sound being choppy.



23)

a. Default settings is best. Settings is for keyboard and joystick.

b. If you want to change a key, highlight key you want to configure then.

c. Press change.

d. Then press letter you want to assign it.

e. Then press apply, then ok.



24) I will disable report stats. If you ask me this emulator reports back to much. Press Disable,apply, then ok.



25) If scenes are too early adding some delay may help.



26) If scenes are too quickly adding some delay may help.



27) By default, Daphne performs CRC32 checking on all rom images. If you don't have a internent connection or if you don't wish to participate (disable this). I personally will disable this.



28) By default,Daphne will display warnings about games that don't work properly.



29) Enabling this will cause the command-line to be displayed before Daphne runs.This is usefull for those who want to run Daphne manually without creating there own command-line from scratch.



30) Press Galaxy Ranger,then press start.



31) If you start a laser disk game for the 1st time ,the emulator, will parse the video files.This will only happen once per title.Press any key to continue.



32) Emulator is parsing the video files. When finish, the game introduction will begin.



33)

a. Deposit coin key 5 keyboard number.

b. Start game key 1 keyboard number.

c. The game Galaxy Ranger, left,right,up down (keyboard arrows).Spacebar=shoots.

d. See input in configuracion box.



34) Game screenshot



35) Game screenshot



36) Game screenshot



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=Default Input=

Most of the DAPHNE games use Key Environmental common set of controls. For the most up to date information on the current controls, run DaphneLoader, select a game, click Configure, and click on the 'Input' tab.

The default DAPHNE keyboard controls are:

Space Ace
Note that Space Ace uses the /, *, and - keys on the numeric keypad to select the skill level. When you insert coins and then press 1 or 2 to start a 1 or 2 player games, it will beep for a few seconds at which time you can select your skill level. If you don't press anything, it will default to easy level.

Cliff Hanger
Note that Cliff Hanger shares the 1 and 2 player buttons with the 'feet' button.

=Changing Keyboard Input=

DaphneLoader
DaphneLoader is the easiest way to change which keys do what in Daphne.

dapinput.ini
If you want to change Daphne's keyboard input without using DaphneLoader (which is not recommended), then you will need to either edit or create a file called dapinput.ini inside Daphne's home directory.

The format of each line the file is as follows:

key name = keysym1 keysym2 buttonID

The "keysyms" refer to keyboard codes that are defined by the SDL library. The buttonID refers to buttons on a joystick where 0 means no button and 1 is the first button (at least, as far as I can remember haha). A full list of "keysyms" can be found in the KeyList section.

An example of a dapinput.ini file is:

[KEYBOARD] KEY_UP = 273 114 0 KEY_DOWN = 274 102 0 KEY_LEFT = 276 100 0 KEY_RIGHT = 275 103 0 KEY_BUTTON1 = 306 97 0 KEY_BUTTON2 = 308 115 0 KEY_BUTTON3 = 32 113 0 KEY_START1 = 49 0 0 KEY_START2 = 50 0 0 KEY_COIN1 = 53 0 0 KEY_COIN2 = 54 0 0 KEY_SKILL1 = 304 119 0 KEY_SKILL2 = 122 105 0 KEY_SKILL3 = 120 107 0 KEY_SERVICE = 57 0 0 KEY_TEST = 283 0 0 KEY_RESET = 284 0 0 KEY_SCREENSHOT = 293 0 0 KEY_QUIT = 27 0 0 END

=Thayer's Quest Input=

Thayer's Quest is different from other arcade games in that it used a keyboard instead of a usual joystick and buttons.

The keys are as follows:

The rest of the keyboard is the same as it is on a Thayer's Quest keyboard, which is shown below:



=Joystick=

Daphne has basic support for a joystick.

Daphne will automatically use the first installed joystick that it can detect. The direction of the joystick is fixed and cannot be changed (ie you cannot flip the up and down direction).

You can change what the joystick buttons do. Use DaphneLoader to do this.

=Command-line=

Running Daphne from the command-line is for advanced usage. For regular Daphne usage, we recommend that you run Daphne using DaphneLoader. You may find it much easier to edit a working command line than trying to create one from scratch. DaphneLoader can display the command line it will use before launching a game. To enable this functionality, select a game, click Configure, go to the Advanced tab, and enable "Display command line".

Command Line Format
The command line format is:

daphne

The game type and laserdisc player type are required, while the options are not.

Game Options
=Notes=


 * Daphne for dummies. No longer works.
 * This guide is for unencrypted laser disk games only.

=See also=


 * Daphne Commandline Loader


 * DRAGON'S LAIR PROJECT

=Reference =


 * Daphne commandline
 * Daphne forum
 * Daphne homepage
 * Daphne mainpage