Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]

Zering

@Folly I'll confess that although I've had a full .lha rom set for years I've never really played an Amiga.
Western computers don't exert the same sort of fascination I have for Japanese computers.
Speaking of if you're looking for a great shmup... try Rude Breaker on PC98 ;)

Folly

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

Western computers don't exert the same sort of fascination I have for Japanese computers.

Well I must admit, altough the Amiga has perfect gfx and sound for those days. The games were not like the MSX. Indeed the japanese games are more fun !

Zering

@Folly I think it goes beyond fun. I will often play through a big chunk of Gradius 1 on the Sharp X1, despite the fact that it's arguably worse than the MSX rendition, and that I have at least a dozen versions of the game that are ten times superior. Don't get me wrong, it's Gradius, it's always going to be fun, but while playing on such an obscure and strange machine it's got a different vibe, it's hard to explain!

Folly

Will try that X1 too. Thanks for your suggestion.

Zering

@AdamBeGood @Folly Just found this awesome game for the X68000 :

It's very hard to find, and you'll need to use a piece of software called Virtual Floppy Image Converter to convert your file into .dim, but it's great fun. It's as fast as Chourensha but it plays like Rude Breaker horizontally.

Folly

I don't mind but we are drifting away from the topic.

About our topic. Actually it might be the case that the "sdsnatcher" module needs a specific rom. I saw the name "swm.rom". I think i was called that way. SWM could be short for SoftWareModule.
Will try this out when I have the time.

Zering

@Folly Maybe we should have an 'Old Japanese Computer Games Appreciation Thread' ^^

That makes sense about bluemsx, so you think what hasn't been integrated are the rooms themselves? That would make sense considering the legality of it.

Folly

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Folly Maybe we should have an 'Old Japanese Computer Games Appreciation Thread' ^^

That makes sense about bluemsx, so you think what hasn't been integrated are the rooms themselves? That would make sense considering the legality of it.

Good Idea to make a new topic !

Will try these roms if it will help.

Folly

@Zering

My R+R worked OOB.
It's an XDF file.

Don't know wat that is.

Zering

@Folly Oh. I converted it because the documentation clearly stated lr-px68k only read .dim and .m3u well.
Good to know it works.
I'll write up a thread tonight!

Folly

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Folly Oh. I converted it because the documentation clearly stated lr-px68k only read .dim and .m3u well.
Good to know it works.
I'll write up a thread tonight!

I run my files directly from the Desktop with my own script. So I am not bounded by extensions. If you run it from emulationstation .xdf is not there in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg . So you have to add that.

<path>/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/x68000</path>
<extension>.dim .hdf .hdm .2hd .d88 .m3u .DIM .HDF .HDM .2HD .D88 .M3U</extension>

Zering

@Folly Adding it will make it appear in ES sure, but how could I check to see that the emulator is capable of using those files?

Folly

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Folly Adding it will make it appear in ES sure, but how could I check to see that the emulator is capable of using those files?

Well it should run then, i think. :-)

My file contains also a .hdf .hdm. Tried the .hdf, but it seems like it will also load a floppy. not sure how this works.

Folly

@Zering

Again, no succes with bluemsx and SCC

AdamBeGood

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Folly Adding it will make it appear in ES sure, but how could I check to see that the emulator is capable of using those files?

X68000 definitely works in ES with XDF, I thought it might it not but it was fine on mine.

Zering

@Folly said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Zering

Again, no succes with bluemsx and SCC

How exactly did you attempt to use the roms?
I assume lr-bluemsx would be looking for those roms in a very particular place.

Folly

@Zering said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Folly said in Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]:

@Zering

Again, no succes with bluemsx and SCC

How exactly did you attempt to use the roms?
I assume lr-bluemsx would be looking for those roms in a very particular place.

Placed them in the BIOS directory together with the others.

Zering

@Folly I'm assuming that's where bluemsx on your PC looks for those roms?

Folly

@Zering
The file I presumed it would be the one, is just an arabic msx type :

$ grep -r "SWP.rom"
MSX2 - Al Alamiah AX-350/config.ini:0 2 2 4 42 "Machines/MSX2 - Al Alamiah AX-350/AX350SWP.rom" ""
MSX2 - Al Alamiah AX-370/config.ini:0 2 2 4 20 "Machines/MSX2 - Al Alamiah AX-370/AX370SWP.rom" ""
MSX2 - Arabic/config.ini:0 2 2 4 42 "Machines/Shared Roms/SWP.rom" ""

It was a nice try/idea. But I don't think it's the solution.

Zering

@Folly Should we maybe see about bringing the issue to the attention of the core developers?