Dragon's Lair Daphne build

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I've got an itch to build a Dragon's Lair with Daphne on a Raspberry Pi. I spec'd out the parts and am getting a quote on a cabinet build. Does anyone have any tips with this build, pitfalls?
 
I've got an itch to build a Dragon's Lair with Daphne on a Raspberry Pi. I spec'd out the parts and am getting a quote on a cabinet build. Does anyone have any tips with this build, pitfalls?

My daughter wants one as well.... so I am right behind you. I am trying to find someone to print the art for me since I want to make it an 80% scale mini... but no luck yet. It is a situation where only the good stuff is available at the moment. I 'm looking to do a Dragon's Lair or a Space Ace dedicated. I have multi Dexter as an option as well.

I have the build plans posted at http://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/dragons-lair.html if it helps, but I haven't cut a cabinet yet to verify.

Good luck. Keep us posted on how it goes.

Thanks
Brian
 
Getting an original scoreboard to work with a PI will be the biggest problem.
 
That's what I bought last year. I cannot get the software to work. If you have any access to updated info or the image he references to, please share or point me in the right direction.

I got Daphne working with retroPI, but I can't figure out how to get the scoreboard to respond.

Thanks :)
 
I thought I was the only one with this issue, mspaeth has a good product but his assumption is everyone is Linux saavy and will engineer their way through it. Hopefully this will help folks who bought these boards and have been collecting dust as they gave up on getting it to work.

Here is the my tutorial on getting mspaeth's usb scoreboard to work with your rasp pi.

This tutorial requires you to have a little Linux knowledge and ability to navigate in the ES file manager, if your more advanced you can use the SSH command terminal through F4. Keep in mind this is the for dummies version so linux guru's if there are any command shortcuts that can be used please let me know and i will update the tutorial.

Ensure you have Dragon's Lair setup and running via retro pie before you even attempt this tutorial.

Setup Daphne on PI3

Once you have booted Dragons Lair through ES and the files have parsed and you are able to play, then continue. Otherwise stop and troubleshoot as the rest of this won't matter. I packaged up the relevant files to save everyone the trouble, and recompiled the libvldp2.so as for some reason PI3 didn't like it.

Here are the files you will need for the tutorial.

Daphne Files

The first issue was missing libglew, and libftdi files. Unzip the attach .rar and place the libraries.tar.gz in your RPI3 /usr/lib folder.
The easiest way for me since I am Linux dumb was to place my files in the //Retropie/daphne/config folder and then copy the files to the relevant directories via file manager.

Once libraries.tar.gz is in the /usr/lib folder type this command
tar zxvf libraries.tar.gz

If successful the files should unzip into your libraries folder. You can delete the tar.gz file

Now take your libvldp2.so file and place this in the ./lib folder, this is the root library folder, you will know you are in the correct folder if you see /lib under the word "Left" in the file manager

Arrow down to the libvldp2.so and type
chmod a+rwx libvldp2.so

Hit any key then type
chown root:root libvldp2.so

If done correctly you will see a * next to the file

Navigate to /opt/retropie/emulators/daphne

Place the daphne.bin and the dlusb file in this folder, you will copy over the current daphne.bin. Back this file up if you want to restore as I have not tested this .bin on other games yet.
Also, if you do an update via ES it will restore the original daphne.bin and your scoreboard will no longer work until you replace it again with the custom .bin file

While in the same folder type
chown root:root daphne.bin dlusb

Then type
chmod a+rwx daphne.bin dlusb

Both files should be green now with * next to them

While still in this folder type
./dlusb lair (or it could be dle21 if thats the rom your using)

You should see some numbers show up and the scoreboard will have a - for lair or L-p21 for dle21
Important - If you unplug your Pi, you have to run ./dlusb lair or dle21 again prior to the command below in order for the scoreboard to initialize again. I don't know why but it doesn't remember the scoreboard state. However after you do it once, as long as you have the Pi on and load up DL it will work. This issue can be remedied with scripts, etc. to load ./dlusb first at power-up.

Now for the moment of truth, while in same folder type
./daphne.bin lair vldp -framefile /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/daphne/lair.daphne/lair.txt –usbsb
Note - can be lair or dle21, and the below is assuming you followed the file structure in the setup tutorial above.

Now if you followed directions the scoreboard will clear and 5 secs later you will see a 2 15p2 00,
The game will do its normal start up and you're good to go.
 
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subscribed. i'm curious about the scoreboard stuff but not wanting to be engineering tech savvy to figure out.

i still need to re-read the byoac info to figure out how to get DL to boot directly in retropie, my past attempts failed but i see there is a new post...
 
subscribed. i'm curious about the scoreboard stuff but not wanting to be engineering tech savvy to figure out.

i still need to re-read the byoac info to figure out how to get DL to boot directly in retropie, my past attempts failed but i see there is a new post...

Yeah I have an image to where it cleanly and silently boots directly into lair, initializes the scoreboard and plays perfectly.

I even modified the GPIO pins on the PI so you can use those as the controls no additional encoder needed.
 
My daughter wants one as well.... so I am right behind you. I am trying to find someone to print the art for me since I want to make it an 80% scale mini... but no luck yet. It is a situation where only the good stuff is available at the moment. I 'm looking to do a Dragon's Lair or a Space Ace dedicated. I have multi Dexter as an option as well.

I have the build plans posted at http://www.classicarcadecabinets.com/dragons-lair.html if it helps, but I haven't cut a cabinet yet to verify.

Good luck. Keep us posted on how it goes.

Thanks
Brian

I found these buried in a Daphne thread, rare and hard to source. These are the hand drawn plans to spec for the shell. Might couple those with the arcade classics plans.
 

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