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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / Euro Dragon's & Ace on Daphne
« on: November 09, 2007, 05:28:40 PM »
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 ! :D
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 !!! :D:):D

Marco"MacDLSA"

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / EuroDL
« on: August 17, 2007, 07:08:34 PM »
Hi, mightypirate

I'm Marco ( ITA !!! ) ...

I did that conversion months ago ... then I contacted "someone" on the Daphne chatroom to talk about it ! After some months we got the "correct" drivers for both Dragon' s Lair ( Atari rev. D1 , D2 and Sidam ) and Space Ace EURO !!!!!!
They have still some kind of  "sync" problem , probably due to the blue PAL screen , but they are FULLY PLAYABLE !!!!!! LIKE in THE "real" ARCADE GAME !!!

So... the process used to make those conversion is not so difficult ( ... if I was able to do that , then almost everyone could !!! hehe ) , but you MUST have the "single-file" mpeg for both games ! ONLY with a laser-disc rip ( NOT the "multiple-files" taken from the DVDs with the DVD2Daph ! ) !!!
Then you should have some video encoding programs like TmpgENC , VirtualDub ... )

Well , I have to ask you to eMail me , then we could speak "quickly" in italian , and I' d tell you HOW you could do that !

B.f.n.

Marco

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / SA EURO on Daphne
« on: June 15, 2007, 10:35:21 PM »
Hi there

For those who still don' t know ... I have to inform that the "newest" upgrade of the Daphne.exe allows to play Space Ace EURO !!!!!!!! ( Mpeg)
The mighty Mark Br. made this REAL !!!!!!!
Also DL "EURO" (ATARI) and "Italian"(Sidam) are completely playable !!!!!!
And if you still don't have a good "PAL" Mpeg you can "simply" convert the NTSC captures with some ... "good" video converting/editing tools !!!!!!
( if I was able to do those conversions , then ALL of you could !!!!!  hehe ! )

Good playing with the FABULOUS "Euro" DL & SA !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Marco

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / lost TW scene
« on: January 07, 2007, 11:52:20 AM »
Yeah , Igorstellar is in the right !
I got an italian magazine , dated 1985 ( VideoGiochi n°18 , Gruppo Editoriale Jackson ) , where an article says :
" DL II ... Dirk & Daphne are now married and they got a couple of kids , but one bad day an evil sorcerer kidnapped Daphne an take her to a time warp ... "
... you know the story ... me and my OLD friends waited so long for TW ...
But we could see it only many years later ... I knew that' s due for the " LaserGames CRACK " and I read somewhere that the original movie reel
( it was not transfered on a digital data support or another preservating device !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ) was sold and almost lost ............ fortunately ( for us & all LaserFans ) this last assertion wasn' t true ! ... but some parts of the of the reel was corrupted ( ... we shall call them " REEL-ROT " !!!!!! :( ) So that' s why Leland - Sullivan Bluth decided to release the game without some corrupted animation !
I read somewhere that the animation would FILL an entire 30" LD ... and we all know that TW animation lenght is about 25" ... so we know we' ve lost 5" of game ( SIGH !!! :(:(:(:( )
I don' t know if it' s the truth or not ... but the TW we all know is beautiful ... even it is ... " lacking " !!!!!!!!

Bye ,  LaserFans !

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / Presentation - MacDLSA
« on: January 01, 2007, 07:41:05 PM »
Hi , IgorStellar !

Thanks for the welcome !

Yeah , Teo told me there' s many italian LaserFans ... including one of the best collectors , like you are !

Great ! R5 GT TURBO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
... about 6 yers ago , before my marriage , I had a " stage 4 " FIAT UNO Turbo i.e. ( ... stage 4 = GROUP N = turbo 1.6bar NO OVERBOOST , Eibach , Bilstein , cammes = 165cv !  ...  I only miss the roll-bar , then I would have a rally car ! ) ...

Now 595ss is one of my hobbies ...
LaserGames is another one ...
... and my 1-month-daughter ( my little princess !!! ) is THE BEST !!!!!!!!!

Bye !

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / Presentation - MacDLSA
« on: December 30, 2006, 10:51:29 PM »
Hi , Bruno

Thanks for putting my " collage " picture on The Site !

I' ll be very proud in demostrating you the " reversed play " ...
Well , the next time I' ll go to Teo' s Lair I could make a clip with Mini-DV ,
convert it into a " lightweight " file and send it to you !

... I' m going to take a training on my Daphne EURO DL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
( ... alredy done so many times ... and I got it !!! )

Bye

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Dragon's Lair / Space Ace / Presentation - MacDLSA
« on: December 29, 2006, 10:51:52 PM »
Hi , guys

I' m an italian LaserGames FAN !!! ( ... sorry for my BAD English ...
I learned it so many years ago ... AT SCHOOL !!! )
I am " new " on the net because in the land  I live the ADSL seems to be like ... AIDS :lol: , so 5 months ago I bought an UMTS phone to ... make that real ... and not slowly like with an HORRIBLE 56k modem ...
I Immediately made a " worldwide " search to know everything about my
" hobbies " , including OLD Video Games ...
I met the JEDI MASTER Matteo Marioni ( Teo ) who lives in a little country at about 30km from me ... :D
( WOWWWWWW !!!! ... the BEST in Italy for LaserGames is SO NEAR !!!  )
So , one GOOD DAY I went to Teo' s Lair and ... :shock: " The fantastic adventure where I become a valiant knight " was waiting for me !!!!!!
What a surprise for Teo ( AND FOR ME , TOO !!!!!!! ) to see that I could still complete the game with no deaths , except the two times at the Dragon scene made for acquiring  maximum points ( 242599 ) !!!!!!!
Then I tried to play in a ... CRAZY WAY ... and ...
I remember Teo said he have never seen someone that can complete ATARI  DL  standing 180° reversed ... Except ME :shock:
... this was a sort of competition that me and some OLD friends used to do in ( RE - SIGH !!!!!!!!!!!! ) 1984 ...
We recorded an audiotape directly from the cab' s loudpeakers
( IN STEREO !!! ) while one of us was playing ...
And we made it for Space Ace , too !
Then we listened and listened again many times this tape
( I still have it ... somewhere ... ) to learn WHEN we can make the moves ,
only listening the soundtrack ... after a quick looking to the screen only to see Dirk' s sword side ( or something else for SA ) !!!
( !!!!!!! CRAZY BOYS !!!!!!! ) ... ( Crazy Kong ... hehe ) :roll:

Unfortunately I missed the EURO Meeting :( ( ... nice pictures , thanks Bruno !!! ) because of ...
My little Princess !!! ... my newborn daughter ! :D:D:D:D

( ... no I could not call her Daphne .......... !!! hehe ) ! 8)

By to all of you !

Mac

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