LaserDisc

Arcade - First LaserDisc game release : 1983

DAPHNE Arcade Laserdisc Emulator

Information

Emulators	hypseus daphne singe2
Games Location	📁 roms \ 📂 daphne
File extensions	.daphne .7z .rar .squashfs

System Features

Retroachievements	Netplay	Controller autoconfig
NO	NO	hypseus: YES daphne: NO singe2: YES

BIOS

No BIOS required to play DAPHNE or SINGE games.

Controls

Gamepad controls

Action	Gamepad Button
Directional movement	D-PAD or Left analog stick
COIN 1	SELECT
START 1	START
Button 1	A (SOUTH)
Button 2	B (EAST)
Button 3	R1 (RIGHT SHOULDER)
Skill 1	Y (WEST)
Skill 2	X (NORTH)
Skill 3	L1 (LEFT SHOULDER)
SERVICE	L3 (LEFT STICK)
TEST	R3 (RIGHT STICK)

Keyboard controls:

Action	Keyboard Hypseus	Keyboard Daphne
Directional movement	ARROW Keys	ARROW Keys or 8,4,2,6
COIN 1	5	5 or c
COIN 2	6	6
START 1	1	1
START 2	2	2
Button 1	LEFT CONTROL	LEFT CTRL or SPACE
Button 2	LEFT ALT	LEFT ALT
Button 3	SPACE	LEFT SHIFT
Skill 1	LEFT SHIFT	/
Skill 2	Z	*
Skill 3	X	-
SERVICE	9	9
TEST	F2	F2
RESET	0	F3
Screenshot	F12	F12
Quit	ESC	ESC or q
Pause	P	P
Console	BACKLASH
Title	T	t

Specific system information

Adding Daphne Games

Daphne games consist of 2 parts

• a folder containing the videos, *.dat and *.txt files of the games

• a .zip file in the roms folder

To add Daphne games, your games folders must be placed in "\roms\daphne" folder by adding .daphne at the end.

For example, your game folder "lair" (Dragon's Lair) must be renamed to lair.daphne

roms\
└─ daphne\
   ├─ roms\
   │  └─ lair.zip
   └─ lair.daphne\
      └─ lair.dat
      └─ lair.m2v
      └─ lair.ogg
      └─ lair.txt

Once the game added, it is listed twice in Retrobat, as both the zip and the .daphne folder are detected.

lair appears twice

You can use use the VIEW OPTIONS to hide the .zip extension for the system by pressing SELECT

Navigate to VIEW CUSTOMIZATION and FILE EXTENSIONS

Untick .zip extension

Adding SINGE Games (with Hypseus)

SINGE games include the famous AMERICAN LASER GAMES and a few other titles.

The process is similar as for Daphne games but there is no zip file to place in the roms folder. In addition, 2 files need to be present in your <game>.daphne folder:

• <game>.singe

• <game>.txt

The structure of the game folder should look like this:

Simple games folders structure (Hypseus)

To make things easier, you can use the assets available on the Hypseus Github.

GitHub - DirtBagXon/hypseus_singe_data: Hypseus Singe, singe game LUAGitHub

At first, download the content of the repository above,

and extract the zip on a temporary folder.

For the exemple, we will use the game Astroboy, in 00-singe2 sub-folder :

Inside the game folder, you will find a text file that contain the information about which file is missing, and where it have to be place. In this exemple, you have to place the file astroboy.m2v in the folder Video.

After adding the required files (could be .m2v file, or .ogg and .m2v files), you must rename your folder by adding .daphne at the end of the folder name (in our exemple : Astroboy.daphne) and move this folder to the /roms/daphne/ folder

Use custom command lines (Hypseus)

It is possible to use a custom command file to force command line to hypseus emulator, to do so, create a text file in the rom folder and add all command lines required within the file:

Finally: rename the file with the .commands extension, the name of the file must match exactly the name of the game folder (without the .singe or .daphne extension).

Adding SINGE2 games (singe2 emulator)

Singe2 emulator does not support games in the same format as hypseus format.

Only games listed on the emulator webpage can be used:

Singe

You can download these games, add the video/sound files required, and rename the folder with a .singe extension to use these games with the SINGE2 emulator:

It is very important to KEEP the game folder name as downloaded from the website !