Homebrew DosBOX Wii

[Hadrian]

Awesome I can play Push Over on my Wii.

 

[Deleted-171178]

Ok, here's a new list of games:

1942: The Pacific Air War (1994 - Micropose)
- Working, but slow, sound is a complete mess

3-D Helicopter Simulator (1987 - Sierra)
- Working as far as i can tell

Dragons Lair (1989 - Sullivan Bluth)
- Working as far as i can tell

Dune (1992 - Avalon Interactive)
- Working as far as i can tell

Golden Axe (1989 - Sega)
- Working as far as i can tell

Italy '90 (1989 - U.S. Gold)
- Working as far as i can tell

Loderunner - The Legend Returns (1994 - Sierra)
- Working, but you can't play, cause you can only run left (making holes left and right works)

The Lost Vikings (1992 - InterPlay)
- Black Screen (sound continues) (press home to return to HBC)

MegaMan (1990 - Capcom)
- Working as far as i can tell

MS-Pacman (1983 - Atari)
- Working as far as i can tell

Outrun (1988 - Sega)
- Working as far as i can tell

EPIC Pinball (1993 - Epic MegaGames)
- Black screens when you starts to play the choosen table

Pinball Dreams (1992 - 21st Century Entertainment)
- when starting the game, you always return to dos

Push Over (Ocean)
- Working as far as i can tell

Robocop (1988 - Ocean)
- Working, Runs to fast to play descent

Sim City (1989 - Broderbound / Maxis)
- Working BUT Mouse only works bottom half of the screen

Sokoban '97 (1997 - Thinking Rabbit)
- Black screen

The Games Summer Edition (1991 - Epyx)
- Working as far as i can tell

Test Drive 2 - The Duel (1990 - Accolade)
- Working as far as i can tell

Tetris Classic (1993 - Spectrum Holobyte Inc)
- Working as far as i can tell

Zaxxon (1984 - Sega)
- Working but runs to fast to play descent

Feel free to bed to the wiki.

 

[DjoeN]

Done

Gonna try to test every day a few games.
got over 3000+ old dos games around for my old 486 DX66, that's used by the kids to play dos games (not much wrong the can do with dos

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If anybody is willing to make a wii channel forwarder for this, i would be very happy

Thx

 

[BryceOne]

Downloaded both R40 and R42 on WiiBrew (both from Dykam). When I load them from Homebrew Channel, they both EXIT out immediately (Black screens with 3 lines -- I recall seeing "SDL_Quit Returning"). However another version I downloaded from here, "R38" worked fine. Is anyone else able to get R42 to work, if so, can a link be posted?

 

[skryckman]

Started to test Sierra Adventure games tonight. Here is what I have found so far, have quite a few more too do. The games that require a mouse to point and click seem to run a little slow on loading but other then that runs fine, might be able to tweak a config file to make them work faster.

All working

Black Cauldron
Conquest Of Camelot
Conquest Of The Longbow
The Castle Of Dr Brain
The Island Of Dr Brain
Eco Quest I - The Search For Cetus
Eco Quest II - Lost Secrets Of The Rainforest
Freddy Pharkas
Gabriel Knight
Goldrush
Codename ICEMAN

Will be checking more in the next couple of nights, including Police Quest Series, Kings Quest Series, Space Quest Series and Leisure Suit Larry Series plus more.

 

[BryceOne]

Started to test Sierra Adventure games tonight. Here is what I have found so far, have quite a few more too do. The games that require a mouse to point and click seem to run a little slow on loading but other then that runs fine, might be able to tweak a config file to make them work faster.

All working

Black Cauldron
Conquest Of Camelot
Conquest Of The Longbow
The Castle Of Dr Brain
The Island Of Dr Brain
Eco Quest I - The Search For Cetus
Eco Quest II - Lost Secrets Of The Rainforest
Freddy Pharkas
Gabriel Knight
Goldrush
Codename ICEMAN

Will be checking more in the next couple of nights, including Police Quest Series, Kings Quest Series, Space Quest Series and Leisure Suit Larry Series plus more.

Why not use SCUMM for most of those Sierra games? I do know some of those play perfectly on the Wii.

 

[skryckman]

Started to test Sierra Adventure games tonight. Here is what I have found so far, have quite a few more too do. The games that require a mouse to point and click seem to run a little slow on loading but other then that runs fine, might be able to tweak a config file to make them work faster.

All working

Black Cauldron
Conquest Of Camelot
Conquest Of The Longbow
The Castle Of Dr Brain
The Island Of Dr Brain
Eco Quest I - The Search For Cetus
Eco Quest II - Lost Secrets Of The Rainforest
Freddy Pharkas
Gabriel Knight
Goldrush
Codename ICEMAN

Will be checking more in the next couple of nights, including Police Quest Series, Kings Quest Series, Space Quest Series and Leisure Suit Larry Series plus more.

Why not use SCUMM for most of those Sierra games? I do know some of those play perfectly on the Wii.

Haven't really looked into SCUMM that much, I will have to take a look at it. But this is a topic on DOSBox and just helping for the compatibility listings for it.

 

[skryckman]

Most of the other games that I tried worked with the exception of one.

Working

Kings Quest 1
Kings Quest 2
Kings Quest 3
Kings Quest 4
Kings Quest 5
Kings Quest 6
Laura Bow 1 - The Colonels Bequest
Laura Bow 2 - The Dagger Of Amon Ra
Leisure Suit Larry 1
Leisure Suit Larry 2
Leisure Suit Larry 3
Leisure Suit Larry 5
Leisure Suit Larry 6
Manhunter New York
Manhunter San Fransisco
Police Quest 1
Police Quest 2
Police Quest 3
Quest For Glory 1
Quest For Glory 2
Quest For Glory 3
Quest For Glory 4
Space Quest 1
Space Quest 2
Space Quest 3
Space Quest 4
Space Quest 5
Adventures Of Willy Beamish

Not working

Police Quest 4 - Frozen at black screen with sound (might need config tweak)


None of these games were tested extensively, but all load and goesz into a playable game with movement.

 

[Dteyn]

Hahah, Leisure Suit Larry on the Wii.... that's like a gaming oxymoron.

Anyone who hasn't should really play the LSL series... especially LSL1 and LSL3.. great games.

 

[BryceOne]

Ok, here's a new list of games:
Tested on DOSBox r40

Loderunner - The Legend Returns (1994 - Sierra)
- Working, but you can't play, cause you can only run left (making holes left and right works)

Check your settings.. Sounds like you have the mouse enabled. This happened to me on the DosBox on the PC. One other thing, what settings are you using to get it to run that far on the Wii? I only get a blank screen. I can hear the blue guy walk across the screen and say "sierra", but nothing appears on-screen.

 

[DJPlace]

ugh you need a keyboard for this?!? ...

 

[Mrmatch]

ugh you need a keyboard for this?!? ...

erm yes? its dosbox.... DOS? you know with the commands you type in...

 

[skryckman]

Updated wiki with new games...

 

[Deleted-171178]

Thanks to everyone adding to the wiki.

 

[DjoeN]

Ok, here's a new list of games:
Tested on DOSBox r40

Loderunner - The Legend Returns (1994 - Sierra)
- Working, but you can't play, cause you can only run left (making holes left and right works)

Check your settings.. Sounds like you have the mouse enabled. This happened to me on the DosBox on the PC. One other thing, what settings are you using to get it to run that far on the Wii? I only get a blank screen. I can hear the blue guy walk across the screen and say "sierra", but nothing appears on-screen.


I used settings found here a few pages back:
(I do try to change some stuff when a game does not work, but mostly this is used.)

Spoiler

QUOTE(Da_GPer @ May 10 2009, 10:53 AM)

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I got Commander Keen 1-6 working perfectly, with just a little bit of stutter every once a while and a tad bit slow load time and best of all, no freezing! Heres my DOSBox.conf. I copied my PC one and did some editing to it.


[sdl]
# fullscreen -- Start dosbox directly in fullscreen.
# fulldouble -- Use double buffering in fullscreen.
# fullfixed -- Don't resize the screen when in fullscreen.
# fullresolution -- What resolution to use for fullscreen, use together with fullfixed.
# output -- What to use for output: surface,overlay,opengl,openglnb,ddraw.
# hwscale -- Extra scaling of window if the output device supports hardware scaling.
# autolock -- Mouse will automatically lock, if you click on the screen.
# sensitiviy -- Mouse sensitivity.
# waitonerror -- Wait before closing the console if dosbox has an error.
# priority -- Priority levels for dosbox: lower,normal,higher,highest.
# Second entry behind the comma is for when dosbox is not focused/minimized.
# mapperfile -- File used to load/save the key/event mappings from.

fullscreen=false
fulldouble=false
fullfixed=true
fullresolution=640x480
output=surface
hwscale=1.59
autolock=true
sensitivity=100
waitonerror=true
priority=higher,normal
mapperfile=mapper.txt

[dosbox]
# language -- Select another language file.
# memsize -- Amount of memory dosbox has in megabytes.
# machine -- The type of machine tries to emulate:hercules,cga,tandy,vga.
# captures -- Directory where things like wave,midi,screenshot get captured.

language=
machine=svga_s3
captures=capture
memsize=31

[render]
# frameskip -- How many frames dosbox skips before drawing one.
# aspect -- Do aspect correction.
# scaler -- Scaler used to enlarge/enhance low resolution modes.
# Supported are none,normal2x,advmame2x,advmame3x,advinterp2x,interp2x,tv2x.

frameskip=0
aspect=false
scaler=normal2x
[cpu]
# core -- CPU Core used in emulation: simple,normal,full,dynamic.
# cycles -- Amount of instructions dosbox tries to emulate each millisecond.
# Setting this higher than your machine can handle is bad!
# cycleup -- Amount of cycles to increase/decrease with keycombo.
# cycledown Setting it lower than 100 will be a percentage.

core=normal
cycles=2000
cycleup=500
cycledown=20

[mixer]
# nosound -- Enable silent mode, sound is still emulated though.
# rate -- Mixer sample rate, setting any devices higher than this will
# probably lower their sound quality.
# blocksize -- Mixer block size, larger blocks might help sound stuttering
# but sound will also be more lagged.
# prebuffer -- How many milliseconds of data to keep on top of the blocksize.

nosound=false
rate=22050
blocksize=2048
prebuffer=10

[midi]
# mpu401 -- Enable MPU-401 Emulation.
# intelligent -- Operate in Intelligent mode.
# device -- Device that will receive the MIDI data from MPU-401.
# This can be default,alsa,oss,win32,coreaudio,none.
# config -- Special configuration options for the device.

#mpu401=true
intelligent=true
device=default
config=

[sblaster]
# type -- Type of sblaster to emulate:none,sb1,sb2,sbpro1,sbpro2,sb16.
# base,irq,dma,hdma -- The IO/IRQ/DMA/High DMA address of the soundblaster.
# mixer -- Allow the soundblaster mixer to modify the dosbox mixer.
# oplmode -- Type of OPL emulation: auto,cms,opl2,dualopl2,opl3.
# On auto the mode is determined by sblaster type.
# oplrate -- Sample rate of OPL music emulation.

type=sb16
base=220
irq=7
dma=1
hdma=5
mixer=true
oplmode=auto
oplrate=22050

[gus]
# gus -- Enable the Gravis Ultrasound emulation.
# base,irq1,irq2,dma1,dma2 -- The IO/IRQ/DMA addresses of the
# Gravis Ultrasound. (Same IRQ's and DMA's are OK.)
# rate -- Sample rate of Ultrasound emulation.
# ultradir -- Path to Ultrasound directory. In this directory
# there should be a MIDI directory that contains
# the patch files for GUS playback. Patch sets used
# with Timidity should work fine.

gus=true
rate=22050
base=240
irq1=5
irq2=5
dma1=3
dma2=3
ultradir=C:\ULTRASND

[speaker]
# pcspeaker -- Enable PC-Speaker emulation.
# pcrate -- Sample rate of the PC-Speaker sound generation.
# tandyrate -- Sample rate of the Tandy 3-Voice generation.
# Tandysound emulation is present if machine is set to tandy.
# disney -- Enable Disney Sound Source emulation.

pcspeaker=true
pcrate=22050
#tandy=true
tandyrate=22050
disney=true

[bios]
# Nothing to setup yet!


[dos]
# xms -- Enable XMS support.
# ems -- Enable EMS support.

xms=true
ems=true

[modem]
# modem -- Enable virtual modem emulation.
# comport -- COM Port modem is connected to.
# listenport -- TCP Port the modem listens on for incoming connections.

modem=false
comport=2
listenport=23

[directserial]
# directserial -- Enable serial passthrough support.
# comport -- COM Port inside DOSBox.
# realport -- COM Port on the Host.
# defaultbps -- Default BPS.
# parity -- Parity of the packets. This can be N, E or O.
# bytesize -- Size of each packet. This can be 5 or 8.
# stopbit -- The number of stopbits. This can be 1 or 2.

directserial=false
comport=1
realport=COM1
defaultbps=1200
parity=N
bytesize=8
stopbit=1

[ipx]
# ipx -- Enable ipx over UDP/IP emulation.

ipx=false

[autoexec]
# Lines in this section will be run at startup.

This evening i'll have another 20 games ready to add.

 

[Levente]

The unofficial builts on wiibrew doesn't work for me, r40 and r42 just return to the homebrew channel.

 

[emmanu888]

hum i try jazz jackrabbit and for me it works just try again

 

[DjoeN]

did you play a level ?

Cause, it crashes everytime when i selected the level and it starts loading.


Also on a sidenote:
There are often many rips/game releases, that are different.
It would be nice to say the version of the the game you try.
(example: Jazz jack rabbit / jazz jack rabbit v1.1 / Jazz Jack rabbit collection)

 

[rabapab23]

The unofficial builts on wiibrew doesn't work for me, r40 and r42 just return to the homebrew channel.

Same here.. had to use an older one.

 

[emmanu888]

yes i did play 3 level and it does not froze the game is jazz jackrabbit cd version if it froze try frame skip 2 ctrl-f8 2 time hope i helped you