Raine Documentation

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M680x0 Arcade Emulation

v0.28 FAQ: MS-DOS

Contents

What is this?
Screen Problems
Memory Problems
Loading Problems
Other Problems

Email
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What is this?

This is a list of questions and answers 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.

The FAQ is now maintained by Mario Silva.

Screen Problems

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 modes, like mode-x.

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 Mode-x modes
available, try to use raine -v 3 for mode-x support. This is very useful with
people using laptop computers.

Q: When I run Darius, Darius Extra, Darius 2 (2 or 3 Screens Version),
Ninja Warriors or Warrior Blade, I can't see all the game graphics!!!

A: The arcade game uses 2/3 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 half-height scanlines, which will fill the screen nicely.
Or try the new modes like 800x300. Warrior Blade & Darius 2 (2 Screens Version) work
best at 640x480.

Memory Problems

Q: When I try to run WrestleFest, Kaiser Knuckle or some other games in
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:
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In 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

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
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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

Case 2: You don't have the roms
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Did you download a large file containing the WrestleFest roms? If you did,
you should unzip them to the 'WrestleF' 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: You have the roms, but the filename is wrong
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You have the file and you tried running it in the ziproms directory,
but for some reason it has a different filename than the one needed in
Raine. Just rename it to the proper name.
Ex: ren Wrestle.zip WrestleF.zip (now the filename is right and Raine
should be running it without any problems),

Case 4: You have the roms, but it isn't the one supported by Raine
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You got a file with the correct name, but Raine refuses to load it and
displays the message: "Unable to open WF_15.rom".
Unzip the file a check if it has a WF_15.rom file, if doesn't have it
then you could have downloaded a different rom than the one required by
Raine.

Case 5: You have the correct roms, but the zip is corrupted
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You have the correct roms, but Raine refuses to load it and displays
the message: "Unable to open WF_15.rom".
Try unzipping the file or checking it for errors, probably it's corrupted
and that's why Raine can't load the file.

Case 6: You have the correct roms, but some are missing
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You have a perfect file, but when loading you still get the message
"Unable to open xxxxxxx.xxx", that can happen when you are trying to load
some games that use other rom files like Darius Extra, P47 American or Whoopee
that load the graphics files from other roms like Darius, P47 Japanese and Pipi & Bibi's.
That could happen also with Tetris Taito Sega that loads Rastan Saga 2 sound roms, also
Rodland Japanese version also needs roms from the English version.

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

Q: How do I take advantage of Ziprom support? Ziprom loading won't work for me!
Ziprom loading interferes with Zipmagic!! Arghh!!!

A: You can keep all your roms zipped, just put them in the following directory:

C:\games\raine\ziproms

This option saves you a lot of disk space.

Zipmagic
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You should disable Zipmagic to use Ziprom 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!