Raine FAQ v0.11 (c) 1998 [J3d!] / Mario Silva ============================================= ________ \______ \ | | / / ___ _ _____ ____ --| |-/ /-/ _ \-| || __ \--/ __ \-- | | \ \/ / \ \| || | \ \/ / / / | | \ \/ \ \ || | \ \ \ ŻŻ --| |---\ \ŻŻŻ\\/ || |--/ /\ ŻŻŻ\-- ŻŻŻ \/ŻŻŻŻ ŻŻ ŻŻŻ \/ ŻŻŻŻŻ What is this? ------------- This is a list of questions and anwswers for 90% of the problems people have with Raine. It is up to date for v0.11 of raine. This was done so it could be used to help answer the huge number of emails I started getting recently about Raine. Please spread this to anyone you know who might find it helpful in running Raine, that way I will get less mail and hopefully message boards will soon be free of Raine related questions. 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 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 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. 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):     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 32480. 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, 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.davesclassics.com/misc/cwsdpmi.zip or http://zophar.net/Files/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. 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: 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 (20 out of 60 CPS). Q: The sound does not work!!! A: There is NO SOUND emulation in the majority of the games, but there is now some sound support in some of the games (ex: Double Dragon 3, Zero Zone, Wrestlefest). Q: My joystick will not work!!! A: Joystick support is now implemented, however not all joysticks could be tested with this release. Q: I can't see the characters game in Puzzle Bobble 2! A: Yes you can. Just press F10 to get the right GFX layer. Q: When I start Rainbow Islands, Bonze's Adventure or Master of Weapons I can't play them!!! A: This is because they all have a protected Z80 chip in the original arcade board called a c-chip used in many Taito F2 games, this can be solved if anybody has a bootleg version of the games or more info about the chip itself. Bonze's Adventure can now be played until the end of the first level, but still isn't fully playable. ******* 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!! Contact ------- Official page: http://raine.retrogames.com (New releases appear here first). Related pages: Retrogames ---------- http://www.retrogames.com (roms+emulator are available at this site!) Emuviews -------- http://www.emuviews.com (roms+emulator are available at this site!) Dave's Videogame Classics ------------------------- http://www.davesclassics.com/ (roms+emulator are available at this site!). Arcade Rom Heaven ----------------- http://www.guruchoc.communitech.net (roms+emulator are available at this site!). 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