DOSbox help required

[The Grumbleskull]

Using dosbox pure, when I try to load the game I want to play the directory dosbox checks is of course the root, but the game's installation and files are one folder deeper, in a folder of it's own name.
How do I tell dosbox to navigate to that folder instead of the cd's root directory?
The game in question is Shannara. The root of the CD has nothing but readme info, and the main SHANNARA folder inside it where the install/exes and all the data is.

[Fried Brains]

choose 'go to command line'

[The Grumbleskull]

Originally posted by rgk:

Do you see the folders when you loaded the game through Dosbox? If yes, you can use command lines to open your folder.
CD SHANNARA

https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Commands

Doesn't work, and when I type dir it doesn't give me a file list. So I'm not sure where dosbox pure even starts when I load the game or image.
Failure to cd, with example of disc structure in explorer[puu.sh]

[Fried Brains]

choose 'go to command line'

Type d: and press enter

then cd shannara or dir

DosBox Pure starts you at c:\, this is your virtual hard drive you can install too and the .iso content you loaded is at d:\ your virtual disk drive.

[The Grumbleskull]

Originally posted by Fried Brains:

choose 'go to command line'

Type d: and press enter

then cd shannara or dir

DosBox Pure starts you at c:\, this is your virtual hard drive you can install too and the .iso content you loaded is at d:\ your virtual disk drive.

I get this response when I try.[puu.sh]

[Blumimic]

Have you gave this a read? https://docs.libretro.com/library/dosbox_pure/

[JukePlz]

You are using the MOUNT command wrong. Here's what you must do:

mount D V:\SHANNARA
D:

You should now be in the root directory of your virtual CD, and calling DIR should show you the list of files. I don't know how this program installs, but you can probably just execute

INSTALL

and it will do it's thing.

[Fried Brains]

For some reason your disk image did not mount. you should not have to mount the disk as DOSBoxPure will mount the disk when you 'load content'. From RetroArch main menu click on 'load content' and select your .cue or .iso, then select DosBoxPure.

[The Grumbleskull]

Originally posted by JukePlz:

You are using the MOUNT command wrong. Here's what you must do:

mount D V:\SHANNARA
D:

You should now be in the root directory of your virtual CD, and calling DIR should show you the list of files. I don't know how this program installs, but you can probably just execute

INSTALL

and it will do it's thing.

I'll try this out when I can

Originally posted by Fried Brains:

For some reason your disk image did not mount. you should not have to mount the disk as DOSBoxPure will mount the disk when you 'load content'. From RetroArch main menu click on 'load content' and select your .cue or .iso, then select DosBoxPure.

Works on other games, it's just this one. Most likely because all the .exe files are an extra level deep. I've tried loading from my tray with the real disc and loading from the image retroarch ripped using the cue. Results are the same.

Ex: I tried loading the first disc of Harvester from the steam copy (which just uses dosbox) and pure loaded it fine.

[The Grumbleskull]

Originally posted by JukePlz:

You are using the MOUNT command wrong. Here's what you must do:

mount D V:\SHANNARA
D:

You should now be in the root directory of your virtual CD, and calling DIR should show you the list of files. I don't know how this program installs, but you can probably just execute

INSTALL

and it will do it's thing.

This allows the game to work, but as a one shot deal. I have to go through the entire process to play again, and a save test proved that it didn't maintain saves either.

Originally posted by Fried Brains:

For some reason your disk image did not mount. you should not have to mount the disk as DOSBoxPure will mount the disk when you 'load content'. From RetroArch main menu click on 'load content' and select your .cue or .iso, then select DosBoxPure.

Not sure why you gave this explanation, I'm already loading from cue. I said as much, and I've also tried reading from tray. Dosbox pure just refuses to read them because the root directory doesn't contain any useful exes.

[Fried Brains]

Because it says your 'dive d: does not exist', your disk image should've mounted to d: automatically when you launched DosBoxPure.

[The Grumbleskull]

Originally posted by Fried Brains:

Because it says your 'dive d: does not exist', your disk image should've mounted to d: automatically when you launched DosBoxPure.

Well I don't know what to say. I haven't tinkered with the core settings, and as mentioned when I tried to load the image file for Harvester it worked just fine.
One would then guess, it's the image file that retroarch ripped. But it looks fine in windows when mounted, and on top of that the same issue occurs when trying to run it from tray from the disc or from a virtual drive. So it isn't my bin/cue combo, I have to assume it's something with the game.

[The Grumbleskull]

Never found a solution or explanation for this by the way.

[The Grumbleskull]

I'm just going to point out that I couldn't get an answer for this on the libretro discord either. I'd really like to play my game. I have the disc and I sort of bought a drive specifically for dosbox and old games. Sort of hoping I can get this to work.

[Fried Brains]

Load core
Load disk
go to command line
type "mount d e:\" (e is the letter of the drive your disk is in)

fyi: Use the scroll lock key to toggle game focus mode to type without controller bindings.

[rgk]

If you can’t find any way to make this work, try changing your approach and use the DOSBox core instead of DOSBox Pure.