Sadly even after all the trickery of fooling the game to run without the image mounted, it did not play music. I did not expect DOSBox was capable of that. Having just stumbled upon my first mixed mode CD game image only yesterday I was pretty surprised DOSBox actually played audio tracks from the image mounted by Virtual CloneDrive. Feel free to share, offer program alternatives and other hints. And no, I can't tell you where as it's probably against phorum rules. I suggest you to get a cracked game EXE from elsewhere. I'm afraid the CD-ROM uses some other type of copy protection. Together with the CUE file created by TurboRip they can save the day.ī) TurboRip finished creating an image, but now DOSBox tells me to insert the CD to play the game. I suggest you to give up on this one.ĮDIT: In some of these cases, I've observed you can still use AnyToISO and fre:ac to separately rip the data and audio portions of the CD. I'm afraid you've come across a CD-ROM that uses a copy protection such as unreadable sectors / files. It should behave just as any other CD-ROM image, for a portion of its size.Ī) TurboRip didn't finish ripping the CD-ROM. Now you can use the CUE file to mount this image under DOSBox. Change every instance of WAVE (in capitals) to MP3 (also in capitals) When prompted for an exit format, choose OGG.ĭ) Now edit the CUE file with a text editor like Notepad. When you're done, you'll end up with a new folder with contents similar to these:Ĭ) Now you send the WAV files to FormatFactory. The ripping process will start inmediately. You'll be prompted for the number of your CD-ROM drive (usually it's the first one) and a base filename. UPDATED LINKĬ) A software to convert WAVE files into OGG. You also have an incomplete list of DOS games using CD Audio here.ī) A software that rips separately data and audio tracks. That is, one or more data tracks plus CD Audio.
You'll know you have one of those when you insert it and Windows tells you it's a mixed format CD. Obviously, games which store their music in CD Audio format. The more data, the less compression.Ī rule of thumb is to expect more space saving from older games. How much space you'll save depends on how much space in the CD-ROM is data and how much is audio. An ISO+OGG image will take much less, because the audio data will be compressed. A regular CD image (ISO, BIN/CUE, etc.) can take up to 700 Mb of valuable disk space. Tha main advantage of doing the conversion is disk space. In order to get started, however, I needed some newbie advice which I couldn't get from VOGONS, so I imagined a small FAQ was in order.ġ) Why would I want to create ISO+OGG images from my games?
These days I've been busy creating ISO+OGG images of some of my games.
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