MagicEngine

[dj sarah]

i have read through the msg board and have tried everything i can think of to get magic engine to acknowledge my cd-rom. still says no cd! gens sega cd works fine. i have windows xp and have tried most versions. the game i am trying is dracula x. would daemon tools be able to load the .cue if it worked properly? becaue i get an error msg when i do this. dracula x is the only game i've tried. can daemon tools normally be used to play games? any help will be greatly appreciated!

thank you =]
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[VIDEO INIT]
check video modes...
* 640x480 (60Hz)
* 640x480 (70Hz)
* 640x480 (72Hz)
* 640x480 (75Hz)
* 640x480 (85Hz)
- 320x200 (70Hz)
- 320x240 (70Hz)
- 352x480 (70Hz)
- 400x300 (70Hz)
- 512x384 (70Hz)
- 640x400 (70Hz)
user video modes...
- 640x480 [4]
- 640x480 [4]
- 640x480 [4]
- 640x480 [4]

[JOYSTICK INIT]
getting number of joystick device... 16 device(s) found
scanning joystick device(s)...
- joystick 1 ()... not plugged
- joystick 2 ()... not plugged
- joystick 3 ()... not plugged
- joystick 4 ()... not plugged
- joystick 5 ()... not plugged
- joystick 6 ()... not plugged
- joystick 7 ()... not plugged
- joystick 8 ()... not plugged
- joystick 9 ()... not plugged
- joystick 10 ()... not plugged
- joystick 11 ()... not plugged
- joystick 12 ()... not plugged
- joystick 13 ()... not plugged
- joystick 14 ()... not plugged
- joystick 15 ()... not plugged
- joystick 16 ()... not plugged
total: 0 joystick(s) plugged

[SOUND INIT]
init sound timer... OK
init direct sound interface... OK
set cooperative level... OK
create primary buffer... OK
setup primary buffer: freq=44100 channels=2 bits=16... OK
alloc sound buffer... OK
play sound buffer... OK
check sound buffer... OK
scanning sound card... found 1 sound card(s)
checking sound card mixer ("Intel(r) Integrated Audio" v5.10)...
+SPEAKERS: vol = 7 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-WAVEOUT [ 0] vol = 49 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-SYNTHESIZER [ 1] vol = 100 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-ANALOG [ 2] vol = 49 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-ANALOG [ 3] vol = 25 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-COMPACTDISC [ 4] vol = 49 [00000000/0000FFFF] (selected as CD input line)
-LINE [ 5] vol = 23 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-MICROPHONE [ 6] vol = 25 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-TELEPHONE [ 7] vol = 25 [00000000/0000FFFF]
-WAVEOUT [ 8] vol = 95 [00000000/0000FFFF]
+WAVEIN:
+UNDEFINED:
master audio volume... 7 (7)
fx audio volume... 95 (95)
cd audio volume... 49 (49)

[BACKUP RAM]
loading backup RAM database index file : "C:\turb\backup.idx"... not found

[CD-ROM INIT]
scanning NT scsi drivers...
- D: (PHILIPS/CDD4851 CD-R/RW/C3.7)... OK
- E: (Image/Simulation/1.0g)... OK
found 2 CD-ROM drive(s)
opening ASPI DLL... OK
scanning ASPI devices... found 1 CD-ROM drive(s)
CD-ROM timeout set to 0
create dummy rom... OK
searching game backup RAM in database [10000001|00000000]... not found
clear and initialize a new backup RAM

[CD]

[BOOT CD]
test unit... not ready (6000ms)
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?
reading TOC...
- no tracks, blank CD!?

[Kaminari]

Hi,

Is your copy of Dracula X an original or a burnt one? If the latter, your log file indicates that the burning may have gone wrong. Can you listen to the audio tracks in a regular CD player?

Also make sure that your INI file looks like this:

;
; CD-ROM drive letter
; --
; (Windows 2000/XP only)
;
; D:
; E:
; ...
;

drive_letter=D:

As for Daemon Tools, yes it seems to work for many people. I'll let the specialists of virtual drives tell you more about it

Has anyone noticed that most of the CD problems reported on the board seem to be related to Windows XP? Go figure...

[dj sarah]

its a burned cd. i tried playing it in a regualar cd player, and it plays the audio. still no luck however, even after putting the drive as D, and disableing daemon tools.

thank you

[AlexisMachine]

Try updating your ASPI drivers, if you haven't already. I believe this ridiculously long URL:

http://www.adaptec.com/worldwide/support/driverdetail.html?sess=no&cat=/Product/ASPI-4.70&filekey=aspi_v471.exe

will get you what you need.