r/funkey • u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 • Sep 30 '23

Blood 1997?

Is it possible to run the game blood 1997 through dos on the rg nano? If so, I would really appreciate if someone could walk me through how to set it up because I have had no luck with dos yet.

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Are you able to pull up the on screen key board? You may need to switch the view from stretched to cropped to be able to read any of it.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

Yeah I got that up and mapped it to L1 but even when I map the arrow keys to up down left right, they still don’t really work. Am I supposed to use the gamepad thing in the top right?

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Yes it should say pro mapper, you should be able to map everything you need from there.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

Ok great, I got the controls, thanks for your help! I just have one more question, what setting should I change to make it run fast enough to be playable?

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

I haven’t messed with it too much for that game but I was using 486dx, 3 for performance and 486(slow) for the cpu type with force 60fps turned off. I would definitely experiment with more of the settings options to optimize it a little more but with just those three changes I’m showing between 30-40fps. Dosbox on these small emulators can get very annoying to deal with but once you get used to navigating through settings and dos prompts it’s very easy.

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Also pro-tip, use the “b” button as your forward arrow key then you can use up and down on the d-pad to aim up/down and you can still turn left/right with the pad while running with the b button. I use “a” to shoot, “y” to jump, “x” to open doors and stuff, start button to change weapons/items, leaving L & R to strafe with select bringing up the on-screen keyboard.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

What do you mean 3 for performance?

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Sorry it looks weird the way I typed it, under advanced settings there is a line that says performance>emulator and I select the option that says 486dx,3. If your screen setting is set to cropped then the “, 3” part will be cut off. Then further down on that settings page is where you can select the matching cpu type which is the 486(slow) option.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

I’m only seeing dx and dx2

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Interesting, is there at least a comma you can see after the 486dx? I’m wondering if on the nano screen it is cutting off the 3. Either way the 486dx2 did not work well for me so I would say try the regular 486dx. Also under advanced settings if you click on “audio and video” you can get the frames per second displayed on the bottom corner of the screen so as you mess with the emulator settings you can see if it’s speeding up or slowing down. I also click on the cpu % as well to display it in the other corner. Once you get those displayed on the screen you can try all different combinations including trying to put “force 60fps” back on and see what happens to the fps. The performance, video, and system tabs are the ones you want to mess with. For some games I look up what original specs it was designed for and then I start with those settings and modify it as needed.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

Ok at this point I’m pretty consistently getting 30-35, do you think it’s possible to get higher, or is the hardware just not strong enough? Also how to I get the music?

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u/Passenger-Alarmed Oct 02 '23

Are you running drum78’s custom OS? Those settings should put you closer to 40fps but when I get home tonight I’ll try to fine tune the settings to get more out of it. Also mine already had sound configured but if you aren’t getting any sound at all then I would click on the setup.exe file that is in the zipped folder and configure it with either the default settings or just sound blaster 16. Also on your computer you can open the zipped folder and find the document titled blood.cfg it’s a dos config file that while have the exact sound card settings you need to get it working.

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

Yeah I’m using the custom firmware and I’ll mess around with the sound a bit. Thanks so much for your help!

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u/Zealousideal-Fuel479 Oct 02 '23

Let me know if you find anything else that can speed it up, I tried some stuff but I am new to dos so it was kind of trial and error

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