Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]

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?

Folly

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

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

That would be a good idea.

Folly

Sharp X1 is working.
But compilation .2d disks hang in "disk menu", any ideas ?

Zering

@Folly I'm not sure what you mean. Could you send a screenshot?

Folly

@Zering

[Compilation] Game 01-25 (Disk 14)-201101-215019.png

Zering

@Folly I think I had that once because the lr core looked for the bios in the wrong place.
If it's not then I honestly don't know!

Folly

@Zering
Others work fine. Perhaps they just don't work then.

Zering

.2d files was it? I'll see if I have any.

Edit : Just loaded 177.2d
It's running. Maybe one of your bios is wrong?

Folly

@Zering
Will have look at it tomorrow.
Indeed i saw 2 different turbo files.
Thanks.

Folly

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

@Zering
Will have look at it tomorrow.
Indeed i saw 2 different turbo files. (Sharp x1 discussion)

Well , doesn't work. will try something else later on.

@Zering in [Cannot run SD Snatcher, MSX2 [SOLVED]]
Should we maybe see about bringing the issue to the attention of the core developers? (SD Snatcher discussion)

Seems these issues are already submitted :
specific:
https://github.com/libretro/blueMSX-libretro/issues/92
general:
https://github.com/libretro/blueMSX-libretro/issues

Zering

@Folly Is that core still maintained?

Folly

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

@Folly Is that core still maintained?

@Zering
Indeed it seems a long time ago.

But a few moths ago the libretro cores were wiped from github.
So they restored old backups.
Everything is behind now.

Last commit was from 2 april 2020. So it's still maintained.

AdamBeGood

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

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

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.

I know this is off topic now, but fun exclusive (I think) X68000 games that I've found so far are:

Die Bahnwelt - Top Down Dungeon Shooter, with RPG bits
Knight Arms - Space Harrier-alike and side-scrolling shooter
Metal Sight - Space Harrier-alike, it was in fashion then :p
Zugya - Top Down Wrap-around Shooter

I can't get Neural Gear to react to any controls, which is irritating. I think that might be an exclusive also. If you fancy trying to get it to work, please do.

Zering

@AdamBeGood we've got a thread now in general discussion! I'll try those and report there :D

AdamBeGood

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

@AdamBeGood we've got a thread now in general discussion! I'll try those and report there :D

That's fine, I'll pop them there!

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28345/old-japanese-computer-appreciation-thread/3

Folly

While experimenting with Apple2gs i found a way to use lr-mess directly and with a sort of .cmd file booting with 2 floppy's

Nice thing about this is that all run commands in all emulators.cfg are essentially the same.
The system information is stored in the .cmd file.
If a system supports multiple floppy's or in combination with cartridge.
you can make your own .cmd file for a game.

Then I did a test with SD-snatcher booting a cart and a flop1 in msx hbf700p (only supports one floppy).
Cartridge containing "sdsnatch" (Sound cartridge for SD Snatcher)
Floppy 1 containing the first disk of SD Snatcher.

Booted this up and I got SCC+ sound in lr-mess !!!

So basically this is what I have done.

/opt/retropie/configs/msx/emulators.cfg :

default = "lr-mess-msx-cmd"
lr-mess-msx-cmd = "/opt/retropie/emulators/retroarch/bin/retroarch -L /opt/retropie/libretrocores/lr-mess/mess_libretro.so --config /opt/retropie/configs/msx/retroarch.cfg %ROM%"

/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/Super Deform Snatcher (1990)(Konami)_cmd.cmd :

hbf700p -rp /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS -cfg_directory /opt/retropie/configs/apple2gs "-cart1" "sdsnatch" "-flop1" "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/msx/Super Deform Snatcher (1990)(Konami)(Disk 1 of 3).dsk"

added extension .cmd in /etc/emulationstation/es_systems.cfg for the specific system.

Zering

@folly That's great work! Does the more recent translation work with lr-mess?

Folly

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

@folly That's great work! Does the more recent translation work with lr-mess?

That I don't know.
I actually played it a bit and saved it so I can go from there.
I have to investigate a bit more.

I have to have msx2_flop.xml in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/mame/hash.
If not there, downloadable from github with wget :

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libretro/mame/master/hash/msx2_flop.xml

Otherwise SD Snatcher will not boot.
There are multipe clones of SD Snatcher in there and I think iths possible to add your own.
Although I don't know how to make a CRC sum.
But perhaps thats not nessecary.
Oh yea, I remember I added one myself a month ago for a test.
I only added the sha1sum's so that will work !!!

My own added SD Snatcher (English translation) looks like this :

<software name="sdsnatche" cloneof="sdsnatch">
		<description>SD Snatcher (Jpn, Alt Disk 1)</description>
		<year>1990</year>
		<publisher>Konami</publisher>
		<part name="flop1" interface="floppy_3_5">
			<dataarea name="flop" size="737280">
				<rom name="Super Deform Snatcher (1990)(Konami)(Disk 1 of 3).dsk" size="737280" sha1="8134d72f38380c5ff4d01a693096cb2a52fdfbf7"/>
			</dataarea>
		</part>
		<part name="flop2" interface="floppy_3_5">
			<dataarea name="flop" size="737280">
				<rom name="Super Deform Snatcher (1990)(Konami)(Disk 2 of 3).dsk" size="737280" sha1="231153e21cb8d36c3e4a8f2c01b74d6442e8db63"/>
			</dataarea>
		</part>
		<part name="flop3" interface="floppy_3_5">
			<dataarea name="flop" size="737280">
				<rom name="Super Deform Snatcher (1990)(Konami)(Disk 3 of 3).dsk" size="737280" sha1="3383a02b01d04f88ff707b878c9b75c76dbd873b"/>
			</dataarea>
		</part>
		<!-- This is the sound cartridge that came with the game SD Snatcher. This sound cartridge
		     can _not_ be used with the MSX Game Collections from Konami. -->
		<part name="cart" interface="msx_cart">
			<feature name="slot" value="sound_sdsnatch" />
			<dataarea name="ram" size="65536">
			</dataarea>
		</part>
	</software>