The CD audio works fine for me, and I use the same method of mounting the images as you do. I believe they are recorded as long audio tracks with multiple conversations, and the game then seeks to a particular point depending on what's being said. So by the sounds of it your cue sheet is being created with a 3 second offset for some reason.

I have a different problem though which you might be able to check for me. I mount the images the same way you do, using the multiple image mount command and using ctrl+F4 to switch between them. However, if the wrong CD is inserted (just mount CD 2 and talk to someone in the first town) a prompt is shown to switch CDs, but it just gets stuck there for a while then quits out. I'm not sure if this is because the internal image reader doesn't send a prompt to the game telling it a new CD has been inserted, or if it's something else to do with the game itself.

I'll have a look at my .cue files when I get home from work and post the proper offsets (if they're there!) to see if that helps you.

Yeah, maybe I can just try your cue file.. As for the issue you are having, yeah, I have that problem too.. but it seems you'd have to do some weird swapping at the wrong time for that to happen.. I found it hard to test doing that with the physical CD version (which just proceeds to play the wrong audio clip instead of asking for CD 1).

It might just be something with DOSBox and the way it handles image changing.

EDIT: After retesting, if you load up the game with your characters on Darkside (disk 2) with the default disk 1 in, and force the game to load with disk 1 image, the crash will not occur, and you just get the wrong audio clip (just like with the CD).

Here are the first 4 tracks of my Disk 1 .cue file, as reference.

I did try changing the PREGAP to 00:00:00 and it had no effect whatsoever. I am using the original 1994 release CDs.

FILE "NEW_WORLD_1_WORLD_OF_XEEN.BIN" BINARY
TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
INDEX 01 00:00:00
TRACK 02 AUDIO
PREGAP 00:02:00
INDEX 01 05:46:13
TRACK 03 AUDIO
INDEX 00 08:17:52
INDEX 01 08:21:52
TRACK 04 AUDIO
INDEX 00 08:37:53
INDEX 01 08:41:53

Ok, try these cue's and see if they work for you:

CD1:

1FILE "NEW_WORLD_1_WORLD_OF_XEEN.BIN" BINARY
2  TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
3    INDEX 01 00:00:00
4  TRACK 02 AUDIO
5    INDEX 01 05:46:14
6  TRACK 03 AUDIO
7    INDEX 01 08:19:53
8  TRACK 04 AUDIO
9    INDEX 01 08:39:54
10  TRACK 05 AUDIO
11    INDEX 01 09:23:73
12  TRACK 06 AUDIO
13    INDEX 01 09:49:59
14  TRACK 07 AUDIO
15    INDEX 01 10:34:19
16  TRACK 08 AUDIO
17    INDEX 01 12:48:65
18  TRACK 09 AUDIO
19    INDEX 01 13:04:20
20  TRACK 10 AUDIO
21    INDEX 01 13:16:41
22  TRACK 11 AUDIO
23    INDEX 01 14:49:32
24  TRACK 12 AUDIO
25    INDEX 01 15:48:14
26  TRACK 13 AUDIO
27    INDEX 01 16:06:65
28  TRACK 14 AUDIO
29    INDEX 01 17:05:04
30  TRACK 15 AUDIO
31    INDEX 01 17:47:09
32  TRACK 16 AUDIO
33    INDEX 01 17:53:34
34  TRACK 17 AUDIO
35    INDEX 01 21:07:65
36  TRACK 18 AUDIO
37    INDEX 01 22:42:57
38  TRACK 19 AUDIO
39    INDEX 01 23:16:66
40  TRACK 20 AUDIO
41    INDEX 01 27:08:44
42  TRACK 21 AUDIO
43    INDEX 01 27:16:31
44  TRACK 22 AUDIO
45    INDEX 01 28:35:52
46  TRACK 23 AUDIO
47    INDEX 01 30:23:47
48  TRACK 24 AUDIO
49    INDEX 01 31:09:05
50  TRACK 25 AUDIO
51    INDEX 01 33:33:29
52  TRACK 26 AUDIO
53    INDEX 01 34:53:53
54  TRACK 27 AUDIO
55    INDEX 01 39:05:52
56  TRACK 28 AUDIO
57    INDEX 01 40:04:25
58  TRACK 29 AUDIO
59    INDEX 01 40:51:12
60  TRACK 30 AUDIO

61    INDEX 01 41:32:43
62  TRACK 31 AUDIO
63    INDEX 01 47:34:37

CD2:

1FILE "NEW_WORLD_2_WORLD_OF_XEEN.BIN" BINARY
2  TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
3    INDEX 01 00:00:00
4  TRACK 02 AUDIO
5    INDEX 01 05:50:13
6  TRACK 03 AUDIO
7    INDEX 01 08:38:38
8  TRACK 04 AUDIO
9    INDEX 01 09:44:30
10  TRACK 05 AUDIO
11    INDEX 01 11:02:61
12  TRACK 06 AUDIO
13    INDEX 01 12:57:32
14  TRACK 07 AUDIO
15    INDEX 01 15:56:74
16  TRACK 08 AUDIO
17    INDEX 01 17:20:46
18  TRACK 09 AUDIO
19    INDEX 01 20:01:32
20  TRACK 10 AUDIO
21    INDEX 01 22:22:51
22  TRACK 11 AUDIO
23    INDEX 01 25:25:62
24  TRACK 12 AUDIO
25    INDEX 01 26:52:23
26  TRACK 13 AUDIO
27    INDEX 01 28:22:37
28  TRACK 14 AUDIO
29    INDEX 01 30:30:35
30  TRACK 15 AUDIO
31    INDEX 01 33:23:69
32  TRACK 16 AUDIO
33    INDEX 01 33:53:73
34  TRACK 17 AUDIO
35    INDEX 01 35:32:43
36  TRACK 18 AUDIO
37    INDEX 01 37:47:60
38  TRACK 19 AUDIO
39    INDEX 01 41:00:58
40  TRACK 20 AUDIO
41    INDEX 01 44:25:57
42  TRACK 21 AUDIO
43    INDEX 01 45:01:46
44  TRACK 22 AUDIO
45    INDEX 01 47:26:69
46  TRACK 23 AUDIO
47    INDEX 01 48:21:23
48  TRACK 24 AUDIO
49    INDEX 01 52:48:07
50  TRACK 25 AUDIO
51    INDEX 01 55:49:49
52  TRACK 26 AUDIO
53    INDEX 01 59:12:58
54  TRACK 27 AUDIO
55    INDEX 01 63:01:41
56  TRACK 28 AUDIO
57    INDEX 01 63:31:72
58  TRACK 29 AUDIO
59    INDEX 01 65:07:14
60  TRACK 30 AUDIO

61    INDEX 01 65:23:57

Disk 1 image seems to be PERFECT now!

Unfortunately the one for Disk 2 seems to make the problem for Darkside worse! It's pretty much now just playing the track after the one its supposed to play.. arrgh, we must have different versions of the game.. Maybe it'll be possible for me to fix it by hand...

What ripper did you use for yours? The ones I have tried seem to produce the same cue files with Index 00 and Index 01s instead of just the 01.

EDIT: I noticed that the values you have for Disk 1 are pretty much basically the exact middle of the times of Index 00 and 01 for Disk 1.. while your Disk 2 times are actually 2 seconds higher than Index 1.. so I'm going to try to modify by hand to the middle value and see if that fixes it.

SUCCESS!! Thanks so much! Even though the 2nd one was off, your CUE files provided me with all the information to get it all working.. woot!!

Get yourself a case of your favorite beer/soda/liquor/fine chocolate.. You deserve it! 😀

Cheers! TYVM!! 😁 😁 😁 😁

Now I just have to figure out a way to reduce the MIDI volume so that I can actually hear the voices over the rather loud "background" music. :p

perhaps you could post the correct cue files. I've seen others having problem with this specific game.

The first CUE file he posted is 100% on the money..

2nd CUE that worked for me:

1FILE "NEW_WORLD_2_WORLD_OF_XEEN.BIN" BINARY
2  TRACK 01 MODE1/2352
3    INDEX 01 00:00:00
4  TRACK 02 AUDIO
5    INDEX 01 05:46:13
6  TRACK 03 AUDIO
7    INDEX 01 08:34:38
8  TRACK 04 AUDIO
9    INDEX 01 09:40:30
10  TRACK 05 AUDIO
11    INDEX 01 10:58:61
12  TRACK 06 AUDIO
13    INDEX 01 12:53:32
14  TRACK 07 AUDIO
15    INDEX 01 15:52:74
16  TRACK 08 AUDIO
17    INDEX 01 17:16:46
18  TRACK 09 AUDIO
19    INDEX 01 19:57:32
20  TRACK 10 AUDIO
21    INDEX 01 22:18:51
22  TRACK 11 AUDIO
23    INDEX 01 25:21:62
24  TRACK 12 AUDIO
25    INDEX 01 26:48:23
26  TRACK 13 AUDIO
27    INDEX 01 28:18:37
28  TRACK 14 AUDIO
29    INDEX 01 30:26:35
30  TRACK 15 AUDIO
31    INDEX 01 33:19:69
32  TRACK 16 AUDIO
33    INDEX 01 33:49:73
34  TRACK 17 AUDIO
35    INDEX 01 35:28:43
36  TRACK 18 AUDIO
37    INDEX 01 37:43:60
38  TRACK 19 AUDIO
39    INDEX 01 40:56:58
40  TRACK 20 AUDIO
41    INDEX 01 44:21:57
42  TRACK 21 AUDIO
43    INDEX 01 44:57:46
44  TRACK 22 AUDIO
45    INDEX 01 47:22:69
46  TRACK 23 AUDIO
47    INDEX 01 48:17:23
48  TRACK 24 AUDIO
49    INDEX 01 52:44:07
50  TRACK 25 AUDIO
51    INDEX 01 55:45:49
52  TRACK 26 AUDIO
53    INDEX 01 59:08:58
54  TRACK 27 AUDIO
55    INDEX 01 62:57:41
56  TRACK 28 AUDIO
57    INDEX 01 63:27:72
58  TRACK 29 AUDIO
59    INDEX 01 65:03:14
60  TRACK 30 AUDIO

61    INDEX 01 65:19:57

I am gathering that his 2nd CUE file might be for the Ultimate RPG Archive or Ultimate Might and Magic Archive version, which means people using those versions might have to use it.. The one that I got working (above) for me is for the original 1994 CD release of the game.

Glad you got it working! 😀

Just tried re-ripping CD 2 using ImgBurn, and it gives the same values as yours, minus 2 seconds. But it creates a POSTGAP of 00:02:00 after the data track 😕

Either way, I guess one of the two cue's will work depending on which version of the game you have.