[GARY M 9]

Well, I came across my uncle's old B/W Cover DINO Sonic CD PC disc, flawless without scratches. I installed it and got some DLLs that were needed, but one DLL that comes with the game seems to be breaking on Windows XP. DINOWAVE.DLL seems to be an old audio DLL by intel, maybe it just needs patched?

Anyway, the error that Sonic CD spits out when booting is this:

"Sonic CD caused a General Protection Fault in module DINOWAVE.DLL at 0001:10BC

Choose close. SONICCD will close."

Any ideas? If you need the .DLL I'll be happy to post it.

[Overlord]

To be honest, bearing the amount of issues that Sonic CD PC has with modern Windows (especially the Dino version), you may well be better off just downloading a Mega CD ISO of Sonic CD and just emulating it in Fusion than faffing about with the PC version. I'd still keep it though, especially if it's in decent condition.

[Kail]

The only reason I prefer the PC version is the FMVs are of much higher quality, but other than that yeah just rom it up, I got a rom of it working within minutes at work on my netbook.

[Techokami]

DINOWAVE.DLL seems to be an old audio DLL by intel, maybe it just needs patched?

DINO was a multimedia library created by Intel and SEGA, and used primarily for this game. It provides features similar to the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, but on Windows.

It died very early due to Microsoft releasing DirectX, which was far more powerful and versatile than DINO. In fact, Sonic CD for PC was remade using DirectX, and is the most common version of the game available.

[ICEknight]

DINO was a multimedia library created by Intel and SEGA, and used primarily for this game. It provides features similar to the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, but on Windows.

This sounds interesting. So it works more or less like an official emulator, from back when the system was still around?

[Skeledroid]

DINO was a multimedia library created by Intel and SEGA, and used primarily for this game. It provides features similar to the SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive, but on Windows.

This sounds interesting. So it works more or less like an official emulator, from back when the system was still around?

no, it's a way to play video files, audio, etc. in the windows environment. something you'd add to your source code to actually output video and stuff.

[ICEknight]

Oh. Suddenly, it sounds far less interesting.

[Skeledroid]

Oh. Suddenly, it sounds far less interesting.

if someone reverse-engineered it and wrote a new replacement DLL that works in the NT environment, it could work fine. this is what the WINE community does.