marioguy789

@mrpenguinb Unfortunately, changing the refresh rate didn't seem to do anything either. Would the issue, by any chance, be related the MS files I'm using, because I've been using the x86 version from dgVoodoo, because Mega Man Legends is a 32bit program, correct? If this isn't the case, then I'm pretty much out of ideas.

For example, this is with all settings as they were with everything where it's supposed to be (pardon me trying to screenshot media player, but it's the fastest way for me to do this):As you can see, the lighting is still broken and everything is still very aliased.

@mrpenguinb In @cloudhaacker's video, he lists in the description that "Once your loaded into the game, push F7 to set the renderer to DirctX Wrapper." When I do this, the game tries to window and crashes. Even with me placing all of the required files into the root directory and having the correct settings, the game doesn't look like it is shown in the video. I don't know why, it just doesn't.

@mrpenguinb Aaaaaahhh... Thanks, I just corrected that mistake, sorry. The bad news is that now I'm encountering another problem where after I've placed that into Mega Man's root directory, F7 simply tries to window and then crashes the game to desktop.

@cloudhaacker Okay, so I'm pretty much back to where I was previously, resolution is correct, everything seems to be okay except the actual graphical fidelity and I can't figure out why, I followed everything to a T (see images). The last part confuses me though, pressing F7 when I load the game doesn't seem to do anything. I'm really drawing a blank here, there's got to be something I'm missing, I just don't see it.

@cloudhaacker Yeah, I thought that might be you, based on the "haacker" in the name, but anyway, thanks a bunch for this video and your elaboration in the comments, I'll be sure to reinstall the game again and give the graphics another go, still a shame about the audio drifting, but at least this is something to start. I'll let you know if I have any success later.

@cloudhaacker Thanks very much for your contribution to this discussion, I will look forward to the video when it is finished uploading. As I said before, I think that the problem with desynced audio is something to do with Windows 10 itself, as the problem does not occur when I am running the game through my virtual machine. I can't explain it, but hopefully we'll come up with a solution eventually.

Okay, just so everyone's clear, the graphics I'm trying achieve look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79IV3LtbYZA&t=56s Thus far, I've been unable to get anywhere close to this. I think the issue of desynced audio in cutscenes is just something we're going to have to deal with @mrpenguinb, because it seems to be a byproduct of Windows 10 itself. I just tested the game running in my Windows XP virtual machine, and the audio stays in sync throughout the entirety of cutscenes, so there' some sort of disconnect there. I also noticed that even in my Windows XP machine, there was still a lot of aliasing and a few graphical oddities, and that's on a fresh install with no modifications from dgVoodoo made to the settings. These oddities carry over from this machine into Windows 10, even with all of the enhancements added onto the game, so I can't fathom what the problem is here. I mean, I've fixed Spider-Man (2001), Rayman 2, Rayman 3, Rogue Squadron, Shadows of the Empire and NFSMW (2005) to all be playable to near perfect degrees WITH enhancements, just not this game. Again, all in game audio is fine, cutscenes drift, and the graphics continue to mystify me. This is all I've managed to gather from my extensive research from PCGW and other various sources.

Hey @mrpenguinb, Sorry for not getting back to you sooner, to answer your question, the audio will stop looping over itself, but it still drifts out of sync in cutscenes, I've tested several framerates and no matter what I've set it to, for some reason it keeps moving about the same pace, so no dice there. I think what actually solved the problem was selecting the "all of them" option under the "Adapter(s) to use" section in the general settings, instead of just my Nvidia card, which is weird because that's the only card in my system, but whatever. I may do another fresh install again just to see if I can fix anything that I may have messed up previously. Is there a way to delete or otherwise remove dgVoodoo configurations from my system completely, so that they don't interfere with a subsequent installation?

@mrpenguinb I actually have tried using dgVoodoo to enhance the game, which has worked relatively well, however, I can't seem to get the game to look nearly as crisp and anti-aliased as the videos that are found online. I have no idea what I'm doing wrong if a graphics enhancer is making a game look worse than it's supposed to, but the game went from looking like it did in the first screenshot to even more aliased than that, and I can't explain it. I fixed the audio loop issue by adjusting the frame rate cap in the Nvidia control panel, which seems to have worked correctly.

No problem. I hope you get your game up and running correctly!

Hello, @vingt-2 If you look on the PC Gaming Wiki article for this game, the CD is required for the game to run, but if you use a hex editor like HxD on the spidey.exe, you can change the value of Offset 0x00116460 from 0x1A to 0x33. Essentially, load HxD, direct it to spidey.exe, then locate 00116460 in the left-hand panel (you'll have to keep scrolling until you find it unless you know how to use the program effectively, which I don't). Once you find that offset, change the first byte, which should be 1A, to 33. This should allow you to play the game without having an image mounted, either physically or virtually. I hope this makes sense.

UPDATE: A new issue has presented itself since I posted just over a week ago. While the game was running very smoothly previously, the game is now running at about half the speed it should be. I'm not sure why this is, as I have not changed any settings that could have caused this, it just is now. I have noticed that on the official PC Gaming Wiki page that this issue is unresolved, which is odd because I wasn't having this problem when I posted the first time. I also think this speed difference is affecting the scripted sounds, as during the opening of the game the same soundbite keeps looping over and over again. If anyone has any information on this, please feel free to reply to this thread.

Hello, @Nessy, Thanks for letting me know about these issues, I actually didn't know Task Manager had that feature, but thanks to you, I was able to identify that it was part of an NVIDIA application causing the hang, so after I terminated it, the program was able to move on and install. I have since applied the relevant patches for the text and music, but now I'm trying to figure out the resolution. I know that Legends probably doesn't go above a certain resolution threshold, but when I use DxWnd to window the application, the program runs in such a way that it doesn't fill the whole window (see attached image). I'm not sure if I should rather be using DgVoodoo to run this game in a window, or if there's something I'm missing about DxWnd in this instance. My native resolution is 1920x1080, which is what this window is matched to, I'm just not sure if I can fill the rest of the space or not, as this just looks awkward. I'll go further into detail on my settings if anyone needs them. Thanks again, @Nessy

KEEP READING THE REPLIES, WHILE THE INSTALLATION ISSUE HAS BEEN RESOLVED, OTHER ISSUES CONTINUE TO PERSIST. Hello, all. As the title says, I'm trying to install Mega Man Legends onto Windows 10, which I've seen can be done, but for some reason I can't seem to get past START.EXE. First of all, I have actually tried to install from a real disc and from a copy, neither produced different results. I can run the game from both the disc and the copy by directly selecting MEGAMAN.EXE, and even use DxWnd to modify the windowed mode, but I can't actually install the game onto my hard drive so I can make essential changes, like the Unfinished Business patch. All that happens when I put the disc in and select START.EXE is the dialog box comes up, I click "Install," it hangs for a second, then it tries to launch the SETUP.EXE file, which just fails and does nothing. Well, I would say that, except for the fact that I can see a process called "32-bit setup launcher" running in Task Manager, I just can't do anything with it. I've tried to bypass START.EXE by selecting SETUP.EXE specifically, but that doesn't produce any different results, even with changes to the compatibility settings. I did try and install the game to a virtual Windows XP machine, and it worked just fine, the downside being that I can't do much of anything from inside XP that I'd be able to do from 10, like use controllers correctly without jumping through hoops, or use DxWnd to get the best resolution. This problem really has me stumped, even more than Spider-Man did, so that's why I've come around for input. Thanks again, guys.

Hello everyone, this is my first post on this forum. This issue regards the PC port of the 2001 Spider-Man game, wherein no matter what I do, the game crashes upon load, or rather, I open the exe and it just closes immediately. Being somewhat familiar with wrappers and such, I've been around this block before, and have even gotten this game to run on the same system I'm on now, but for some reason, it no longer seems to want to start. Here's what I've done: I've "acquired" the game and have run the standard installation wizard after mounting, and followed all instructions on the PC Gaming Wiki page for this game. Previously, I had very few issues that I wasn't able to solve, but now the game just refuses to launch. I've tried using both DxWnd and DGVoodoo2 in conjunction with each other, as I've done before, but no matter what I do the game opens and immediately closes. Before my numerous attempts, I had to reinstall Windows twice, so I'm not sure if that factors into the equation or not, as some settings may have gotten scrambled or destroyed or what have you. I would also like to note that even though I'm running the installer, it always says "reinstall" even though I've already uninstalled the program via the control panel. I'm not sure if this is due to me having "acquired" several different copies, but this should not matter, as each time I've started the process of managing this game from the beginning, I've always uninstalled every previous version. I've tried running the no CD fix which is supposed to allow the game to run sans the DRM, but I'm not sure if this is also causing problems. Needless to say, I'm very confused as to what I'm doing wrong, as I was previously able to run this game with few issues, but now I can't even get the game to launch despite increasingly desperate amounts of research. I have decided to come to the community hoping that someone has a solution for this. Thanks guys. -MarioGuy789 ADDENDUM: I have solved this problem by reinstalling the game and manually editing the Hex value myself instead of using "patches" which did not work. I am also using DGVoodoo2 alone instead of DxWnd, as running these two together seems to cause substantial slowdown, will update when applicable.