Hi LaserFans !
All you aroud here could NOW have Euro Dragon's Lair and Space Ace playing on the Daphne emulator !
The newest Daphne Loader upgrade ( v1.0beta-2.1.57 ) allows the auto-download of your favs !
All you have to do is:
1> Select EUROPEAN ( DL & SA ) or ITALIAN ( Sidam romset , DL ) in the "Configuration-Game/Laserdisc" option
2> Select "Yes,do it automatically" ( download "official" Mpegs from the Internet
) on the "Virtual Laser Disc Player Option" window
3> ( LOGICAL !!!
) Keep at hand your ORIGINAL Digital Leisure DVD and insert it in your PC's DVD player, when requested, to make Daphne decrypt downloaded files !
> Dragon's Lair is a WONDERFUL PAL conversion , made ( er... by ME ! Heh !
) from a NTSC disc .
This conversion was necessary because we ( me, Teo and other D-L-P/Daphne members ) could not find any un-rotted original Philips PAL disc .
( ARGH !
... IF THERE'S ANYONE THAT HAVE A GOOD DL Philips DISC , please CONTACT ME ! )
> Space Ace is a good Philips PAL disc capture ( Teo's SA cab LaserDisc ) .
Both games still have some issues , although they can be played almost PERFECTLY !
1> The "standby" phase is not well-emulated : you can hear a kind of "rumble" noise instead of the first several seconds of the audio track , like the "real" game does .
2> Stranges vertical blue lines appear during the Virtual Laser Disc "skip-search" phase .
3> Some times blue screen appears for an instant , instead of remaining a few more seconds , so it could be difficult to see score & remaining lives .
4> Users must set audio "besides VLDP" level on 50% MAXIMUM to toggle a "saturation-distortion" noise .
... all those issues are going to be fixed soon ...
A HUGE thank to Matt_Ownby, chief of the Daphne project , and to Mark Broadhead , producer of the Daphne driver for EuroDL&SA .
Well, Fans , I think that' s all , for now .
Enjoy playing Euro Dragon's Lair and Space Ace !!!
:)
Marco"MacDLSA"
