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setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application

Postby hoffman59 » Sat Dec 05, 2015 5:47 am

Hi. So I downloaded L-Zone and Yellow Brick Road. They came with CUE and ECM files, and a batch file that extracted the ECM as a BIN. I mounted the BIN/CUE with DaemonTools, converted it to an ISO with UltraISO (has worked fine for me so far) and then mounted the ISO in a Windows 98 virtual machine. When I open the drive folder and try to run the SETUP application, I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application".

This happens with both games. Does anyone know what might be causing this?
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Re: setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application

Postby Meddle » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:40 am

Those are really old games. Both of those games were made for Windows 3.1. You should try it in that OS instead.
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Re: setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application

Postby myloch » Sat Dec 05, 2015 7:45 am

Win 3.1 setup files are 16bit right? Not being able to run that in win98 is weird!
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Re: setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application

Postby Meddle » Sat Dec 05, 2015 4:27 pm

Yes, they are but its worth a shot. I'll try them both later today with Win3.1 and see if they work there.
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Re: setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application

Postby user43687 » Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:43 am

hoffman59 wrote:Hi. So I downloaded L-Zone and Yellow Brick Road. They came with CUE and ECM files, and a batch file that extracted the ECM as a BIN. I mounted the BIN/CUE with DaemonTools, converted it to an ISO with UltraISO (has worked fine for me so far) and then mounted the ISO in a Windows 98 virtual machine. When I open the drive folder and try to run the SETUP application, I get the message "setup.exe is not a valid WIN32 application".

This happens with both games. Does anyone know what might be causing this?

I've had this once, a conversion of the iso failed, all data was useless even text files were grabled up.

So here's a easy check, doe other files work properly? If not, I'm afraid the conversion of the image went wrong.

Just my 2 cents.
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