Sure give me a lil bit to try and locate it, using find 
Ah! Now that I have experienced myself! The non-SVN dosbox core has a weird case sensitivity issue. The Doom installer, in my experience, creates files, such as DOOM.WAD, in upper-case, whereas doom.exe is looking for doom.wad. This isn’t a problem in DOS because DOS is not case-sensitive. Vanilla DOSbox isn’t, either, but the libretro core seems to be, for some reason. Renaming upper case files to be lower case solves the issue. I thought this was fixed in the SVN core, though.
Good to know! Sadly doesn’t seem to be the case, I’ll try that out and let ya know as for the retroarch cfg…
Thanks for the help so far!
That was it! Doom finally launched… however like every other game it’s so slowwwwwwww it’s literally unplayable, which makes no sense!!
I grabbed the doom that comes with the Lakka content downloader, and it plays doom using the PrBoom core which plays perfectly fine… this version of DOSbox still seems buggy or something.
I’ve had really bad luck with Lakka and DOSbox hahah
runing “ver” in dosbox shows it’s SVN-libretro-lfn based (reported) DOSbox 7.10
Funny I clicked the link again I shared above, and it was yours! lol
In that thread you mentioned…
Can you elaborate a lil on this? Where do you get the latest cores? What exactly do you have to do to delete the old ones?
I’d imgane I could rename the old ones instead with .bak extensions and replace with the newer ones?
Interesting after reading this thread… DooM and it's variants
I learnt some things, and amazing I was able to do the same thing, take the same WADs I was using in my DOSbox attempts, put it in a folder with the prboom.wad file, and run it using prboom without issue on Lakka. Guess DOOM was never a good trial game to use anyway… mhmm makes me wonder now… what is? But you mentioned you played Doom 1 + 2 on DOSbox without issue?
I can’t compare your config to mine right now, as I’m on the wrong PC. I’ll be able to have a look in a bit. However, at a glance, your config looks very different from how I remember mine. That and the bug your experience lead me to believe that your core version may be significantly out of date. Now, I’ve only used Lakka on a Raspberry Pi but, assuming it’s similar, I should be able to walk you through the process of updating your cores. Do you have internet access on your Lakka setup?
I sure do! I also had nothing but failure with DOSbox on RadpPi, as you can see my previous post DOSbox on ARM builds 
The CPU Cycles Multiplier, in particular, is the difference between Doom barely managing to launch and playing through the whole of Doom II with no issues at all.
Indeed our configs are very different, (checking just the dos box settings).
Yeah if you could help me a bit on finding the latest cores an dhow to replace them, I’m sure cfg changes shouldn’t be hard? unless it’s in a locked area of the FS, which I don’t believe it is
Okay, try this in Retroarch:
- Go to Settings, User Interface and switch “Show Advanced Settings” to “On”.
- Go to Settings, User Interface, Views and switch “Show Online Updater” to “On”.
- Go to Settings, User Interface, Views and switch “Show Core Updater” to “On”.
- Go to Main Menu, Online Updater and select “Update Core Info Files”.
- Wait Until download is completed…
- Go to Main Menu, Online Updater, Core Updater, scroll down to “DOS (DOSbox-SVN)” and select it.
- Wait…
That should work. Let me know!
Dang… everything is there except the “Show Core Updater”…
I already had advanced views on, and online updater enabled too, so went to lok for the core updater option under views… and nope not there…
Lakka Build 2.2
Build Date June 23, 2018 GIT build: 2a2e732
lakka devel 20180624
Sounds like that function is disabled in Lakka. You’ll have to update the core manually, which really shouldn’t be hard.
Uhhh… mmhmmm
and uhhhh mhmmm not exactly sure how that quote helps, it confuses me more than anything…
PSX games work fine for me and I have the BIOS files under /storage/system, not /storage/cores, so that just adds to the confusion.
I’m sure replacing core files or adding news ones is easy peasy… I just need to know where I can get the pre-compiled (.so) copies of the latest n greatest cores… without having to compile them myself.
If you follow the link, there’s a short thread where some guy is asking how to update his cores.
“Lakka is distributed as a bundle for support reasons. If you want to add additional/newer cores that aren’t in the bundle, you can download them from buildbot.libretro.com 448 and put them into the ‘cores’ directory in your user partition.”
I know how to do this and can help you with it, if you like.
Yeap… got lost already, figured that be straight forward… nope
First I get to the fodler structure… and I’m assuming stable… then expand again assuming the latest (highest) number, then I get names of OS and consoles? Not sure what to do from here…
Ahhh Assets… Cores…
Uhhhh nope, this just shows everything that the Lakka UI updater shows me…
Please give me a list of compiled cores to pick from and play with lol
http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/x86_64/2019-01-04_cores/
Got to here, but no DOSbox?! cmon already… this is starting to really annoy me
http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/x86/latest/dosbox_libretro.so.zip
Is this ^ the latest an donly one available? I could only find it under x86
I added the core mentioned above, but any attempt to use it in Lakka says failed to load core
I give up, again… gave up on the Pi now giving up on the x86…
Lakka + me + DOSbox = Epic failure
I literally can’t get it to work on anything, this sucks, correction I can get DOSbox to work on every other OS expect Lakka
Woah… I decided for one last try, take your CFG settings and add it to my retro cfg file settings since it was missing…
I also edited the CPU numbers that were “0” to “1”
tried Quake which was slow like all the other games and its actually playable!
Gonna try a couple more… let’s see here, this is promising…
Yes! Doom plays smoooth! I think that was it man! Thank you soo much for helping out. Just when I was about to give up… now I might be inclinded to try on my RaspPi again…
Latest SVN core can be downloaded from here -> http://buildbot.libretro.com/nightly/linux/x86_64/latest/
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