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                         M680x0 Arcade Emulation

                      (c)1998 Antiriad & Raine Team

                           v0.16a FAQ: MS-DOS

What is this?
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This is a list of questions and anwswers for 90% of the problems people have
with Raine. It is up to date with the latest release of Raine. This was done
so it could be used to help answer the huge number of emails we started getting
recently about Raine. Please spread this to anyone you know who might find it
helpful in running Raine, that way we will get less mail and hopefully message
boards will soon be free of Raine related questions.
This FAQ is now maintained mainly by Mario Silva.

SCREEN PROBLEMS
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Q: When I try to run raine it says: "Unable to open 320x240x8bpp VESA2L
   screen. Get Display Doctor 6.0 from www.scitechsoft.com to fix this."

A: Go to www.scitechsoft.com and download and install display doctor. Make
   sure you install display doctor correctly and make sure it has correctly
   identified your gfx card and monitor. Now try running raine again. If it
   still won't work, use the other video mode.


Q: When I try to run raine it says: "Unable to open 640x480x8bpp VESA2L
   screen. Get Display Doctor 6.0 from www.scitechsoft.com to fix this."

A: Same as above. There are non-vesa modes in this release and Raine will
   attempt to autodetect an available mode. There are also Vga and Modex modes
   available, try to use raine -v 3 for modex support. This is very usefull with
   people using laptop computers.


Q: When I run Ninja Warriors, Darius, Darius 2 or Warrior Blade, I can't see all
   the game graphics!!!

A: The arcade game uses three monitors, so it's really hard to get all of it in
   the emulation, but if you run it on a 800x600 resolution you will see most of it.
   Also, try 800x600 with hlaf-height scanlines, which will fill the screen nicely.

MEMORY PROBLEMS
---------------

Q: When I try to run WrestleFest using raine, I get the message: "Unable
   to allocate $940000 bytes of memory."

A: You do not have enough memory to run WrestleFest in Windows95 dosbox,
   either run it in real dos mode (restart the computer in MS-DOS mode)
   or follow this guide to hopefully fix the problem (if not, buy more
   memory):

    <this text was mailed to me by Keith Picco!>

  1) From Windows 95, click your start icon and go into Settings then
       go into Taskbar.
 2) From Taskbar select the StartMenu Programs and from there click
       Advanced.
 3) Open the programs folder and click the MS-DOS Prompt icon with
       the right-sided button on your mouse. Select properties.
 4) Click the memory tab, go down to MS-DOS protected mode - DPMI
       memory. TYPE in 65535. Click apply then exit.

    ** Before following the 4 steps above, make sure you close all
    ** MS-DOS prompts that are currently open.

Another alternative is to buy some ram, every excuse is good to upgrade your computer. :-)

Important:
---------

In this release of Raine you will find that you have the same memory problem with Space Gun
& Bubble Memories and in the future possibly with other games, so to solve this you only have
to set the DPMI value to 65535.

Q: When I try to run raine, I get the message telling me to get cwsdpmi...

A: This is only needed for playing in pure dos mode. Get the file here:

   http://www.rainemu.com/cwsdpmi.zip
   http://ftp.davesclassics.com/misc/cwsdpmi.zip   
   
  
LOADING PROBLEMS
----------------

Q: When I click on raine, it just shows a list of the games, when I try
   to press anything, Windows says "This MS-DOS program has terminated..."
   How do I make it work?

A: Raine is not a Windows program, you must go to MS-DOS yourself to run
   the games. eg. to run WrestleFest, you must open an MS-DOS prompt, then
   type something like:

   C:\> cd games
   C:\games> cd raine
   C:\games\raine> raine -g Wrestlef -v 0  


Q: When I try to use raine to play WrestleFest, I get the error: "Unable to
   open WF_15.rom".

A: You have either got the roms in the wrong directory, or you don't have
   the roms, or you are not running raine from within it's directory...

   Case 1: Roms in wrong directory
   -------------------------------
   The roms need to go in a subdirectory called 'WrestleF'. This means
   your directory structure should be like this:

   C:\games\raine\ (raine.exe needs to be in here)
   C:\games\raine\raine.exe

   C:\games\raine\wrestlef\ (all the wrestlefest roms need to be in here)
   C:\games\raine\wrestlef\wf_15.rom

   You can also use all your roms zipped, just put them in the following directory:
   
   C:\games\raine\ziproms

   This saves a lot of disk space, you *must* have pkunzip somewhere in your dos path
   (eg. in c:\windows\command). You can put pkunzip in the same dir as raine if you want,
   that should be fine too.

Warning: If you use Zipmagic please disable it if you wish to use the zipped roms support.

Or you can try this to use Zipmagic (courtesy of Steve Merritt):

1) Place all of the ROM's into their normal directories, NOT the ones in the
'Ziproms' directory as you would for using non-zipped roms.

2) Now zip the entire Raine directory

e.g. On my machine Raine was located at E:\Arcade Games\Raine\Raine.exe.
Now it is found at E:\Arcade Games\Raine.zip\Raine.exe

Now create a shortcut to Raine.exe inside the zip file, and run as normal.

One thing to note: In the zipmagic properties, click on 'Applications' in
the sidebar, and check that there is not a tick in the box at the bottom
that says 'MS-DOS prompt sees Zip files as files'. Also, of course, this
solution is no good if you drop out of win 9x into a DOS session, but then,
if you load it that way the normal technique will work!


   Case 2: You don't have the roms
   -------------------------------
   Did you download a large file containing the WrestleFest roms? If you did,
   you should unzip them to the 'WresleF' subdirectory. See Case 1 for info
   on where this directory should be... You can find the roms in several different
   places (see links bellow).

   Case 3: Not running raine from the raine directory
   --------------------------------------------------
   You MUST go to the raine directory before running raine. Here is an example:

   C:\games> raine\raine.exe (this will not work)

   C:\games> cd raine
   C:\games\raine> raine.exe (this will work)

Q: I get the error: "Unsupported game"...

A: You are typing the wrong command. eg. for WrestleFest, you should be typing:

   C:\games\raine> raine -g Wrestlef -v 0


OTHER PROBLEMS
--------------

Q: I see the pictures on the website, I like the games can you send me the roms?

A: Do not email us about this, there are other places with all the Raine supported roms online.
   We will ignore all your emails about this subject.


Q: Raine runs to fast or too slow!!!

A: You can now choose between automatic or manual frameskip, if you want to do this
   manually then make sure you press PG_DOWN or PG_UP during the game to adjust the speed.

A: Some of the more complicated games, like Taito F3 system require faster computers so you
   need at least a Cyrix +166 MHZ with 32 MB Ram with the Frameskip set in Automatic to get
   a playable speed.
   
   You will notice that with this last release the speed is much better and some of the F3 games
   bugs have been fixed like the Elevator Action Returns "green sprite" problem. :)


Q: The sound does not work!!! Some games have sound problems...

A: There is now sound emulation in the majority of the games, but there are games that don't
   have sound like the Taito F3 games (this is due to lack of information and emulation about
   the Ensonic Otis chip used in this game system).
   We hope to add much better sound support to other games in Raine that aren't Taito F3, but
   for now you have to wait until we perfect the emulation.


Q: My joystick will not work!!!

A: Joystick support is now implemented, however not all joysticks are yet supported.


Q: I have a problem getting Bubble Memories to run. The ROM set I have loads OK, just when
   I go to play, it gives the following error: Push Test Switch, Backup Data Failed.

A: This due to a Eprom problem, it happens sometimes in some of the F3 games. To solve this just
   press the U key and then choose Exit from the menu. Next time the game starts you will be
   able to play it.


Q: In Twin Qix the background after the first level turns green, is this normal?

Press F8 to disable it. This is due to transparencies in F3 games (not yet implemented).


Q: When I start Rainbow Islands Extra the game seems strange!

A: This is because it had a protected Z80 chip in the original arcade board called a
   c-chip used in many Taito games, this can be solved if anybody has a bootleg version of
   the game or more info about the chip itself. Bonze's Adventure can now be played until the
   last level, but we didn't find yet the last level information to make it fully playable.

Q: Why did you steal the new mame font?!

A: Haha, we had it first... :)

******* If your problem is not answered above, mail us about it, but if
******* it is answered and you can't get it working still, tough! I don't
******* have any other solutions, so you'll have to work it out on your own!!

EMAIL
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Antiriad (Richard Bush) <rbush@geocities.com>
Mrio Silva (Scifi) <mrsilva@mail.telepac.pt>

HTML
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   RAINE OFFICIAL SITE: http://www.rainemu.com
                        new releases appear here first

ARCADE ROMS FROM JAPAN: http://start.at/j-rom
                        roms are available here

     ARCADE ROM HEAVEN: http://www.guruchoc.speedhost.com
                        roms are available here

           BUB AND BOB: http://www.bubandbob.com
                        Bubble Bobble and Taito Fan site

       DAVE'S CLASSICS: http://www.davesclassics.com
                        roms are available here

   EMULATORS UNLIMITED: http://www.emuunlim.com
                        roms are available here

              EMUVIEWS: http://www.emuviews.com
                        roms are available here

            RETROGAMES: http://www.retrogames.com
                        roms are available here

               ROMLIST: http://www.romlist.com
                        roms are available here

           TAITO JAPAN: http://www.taito.co.jp
                        Taito arcade history section, with
                        posters/screenshots

