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      AdamBeGood @Folly
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      @Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

      @AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

      @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

      @AdamBeGood Would my checksums help?

      I was checking against your sums yesterday - from higher up in the thread. I can't find them, I am not sure what I'm doing wrong. I haven't tried today. Irritatingly, I have to produce a spreadsheet for work so I can't trawl through BIOS right now.

      Beware, there are different checksum :
      sha1sum
      md5sum
      crc32
      etc

      This is what I was asking last night! I said I was using sha1sum. Are you going to tell me that isn't what I should be using? Arggggg.

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        Folly @AdamBeGood
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        @AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

        @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

        @AdamBeGood I completely forgot I'd already put them up.
        Well I'm sure we'll figure out the problem eventually. To be honest I'm starting to think I spend more time tinkering on my pi than actually playing it ^^

        I was looking through the RetroPie/RetroArch BIOS packs, and tried all of those I think. I really don't get it.

        @Folly Hope duty goes well. Here is a verbose log: https://pastebin.com/kJz5Grum

        Looks like all your filenames are bad !

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          Zering @AdamBeGood
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          @AdamBeGood Yeah it's a md5sum you need to be looking for.

          Now I'm wondering if I gave you the right sums...

          Sorry ^^

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            AdamBeGood @Zering
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            @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

            @AdamBeGood Yeah it's a md5sum you need to be looking for.

            Now I'm wondering if I gave you the right sums...

            Sorry ^^

            It's my fault for not pursuing this! At this point, my .roms are the same as yours that you listed yesterday apart from font.rom. Yamaha files are different.

            @Folly How do you mean filenames are bad?

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              Folly @Folly
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              @Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

              @AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

              @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

              @AdamBeGood I completely forgot I'd already put them up.
              Well I'm sure we'll figure out the problem eventually. To be honest I'm starting to think I spend more time tinkering on my pi than actually playing it ^^

              I was looking through the RetroPie/RetroArch BIOS packs, and tried all of those I think. I really don't get it.

              @Folly Hope duty goes well. Here is a verbose log: https://pastebin.com/kJz5Grum

              Looks like all your filenames are bad !

              Forget what I said about the filenames.

              Edit : I have the same sort of log though.

              Can't help you now.

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                Zering @AdamBeGood
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                @AdamBeGood Your font.rom is different? Are you getting any japanese text in, say, Popful Mail?

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                  AdamBeGood @Zering
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                  @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                  @AdamBeGood Your font.rom is different? Are you getting any japanese text in, say, Popful Mail?

                  It might be just as likely to be the font.bmp, but yep I do get text in text boxes in that game. That is one thing my PC98 can do.

                  Edit: Yep, it's the font.bmp file. I just deleted all my BIOS, loaded the game. No text. Just copied over font.bmp, there is text. There is a text.bmp file in one of the RetroPie BIOS zips I think.

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                    Zering @AdamBeGood
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                    @AdamBeGood Some games have text, you might have been lucky.
                    All the games that depend on the FONT.ROM to output text have been broken on my end.
                    When you're free any chance you could check a couple for me?
                    I've looked into the font.bmp, it looks like it's an anex86 bios.

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                      AdamBeGood @Zering
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                      @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                      @AdamBeGood Some games have text, you might have been lucky.
                      All the games that depend on the FONT.ROM to output text have been broken on my end.
                      When you're free any chance you could check a couple for me?
                      I've looked into the font.bmp, it looks like it's an anex86 bios.

                      But it has to be that FONT.BMP on this game! When it wasn't there, there was no text. When I put it in to the folder there was text. There was never a FONT.ROM to make the difference.

                      Have you tried putting it into the BIOS folder just to see?

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                        Zering
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                        I'm looking into it now.
                        Can you share the md5sum of that file please?

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                          AdamBeGood @Zering
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                          @Zering

                          0c8624e9ced7cca8769e5c7b0dd4279b

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                            Zering @AdamBeGood
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                            @AdamBeGood My file is not a match.
                            However, I'm just wondering - are you running the game from floppies or from a hard disk?

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                              AdamBeGood @Zering
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                              @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                              @AdamBeGood My file is not a match.
                              However, I'm just wondering - are you running the game from floppies or from a hard disk?

                              What kind of question is that! :p :p

                              My whole problem is the hard disk thing. Floppies!

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                                Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                @AdamBeGood I suspect that's why your Popful Mail has text and mine doesn't.

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                                  AdamBeGood @Zering
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                                  @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                  @AdamBeGood I suspect that's why your Popful Mail has text and mine doesn't.

                                  Maybe.

                                  Just for the record, I downloaded some BIOS pack for PC98 at the start of all this, and that font.bmp was in an Epson PC-486HX section within it, if that helps you. I don't mind sending it on to you if you want it.

                                  Edit: I have the same BIOS files as @Folly now! Well, not the sound ones, but I can't imagine it is falling over on that. I think I might raise a new post. I am sure you guys are bored of this now.

                                  Raised as https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28395/lr-np2kai-will-not-load-hdi-files

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                                    Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                    @AdamBeGood if you can figure out a way to send the file to me without breaking the rules then that'd be great yes! ^^

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                                      AdamBeGood @Zering
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                                      @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                      @AdamBeGood if you can figure out a way to send the file to me without breaking the rules then that'd be great yes! ^^

                                      Hmm I probably can't.. I don't even know where it is from now, beyond the details I gave you - so it will be tricky to give you nudges to where it was.

                                      I mean it is just an image, does it even count? Hmmm

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                                        Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                        @AdamBeGood Don't worry about it. I'm going to try some floppies first, see if I have better luck.

                                        In the meantime I'm looking at gameplay from a Sharp MZ-2500 and I'm salivating with envy.

                                        I need this thing on the Pi.

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                                          AdamBeGood @Zering
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                                          @Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                          @AdamBeGood Don't worry about it. I'm going to try some floppies first, see if I have better luck.

                                          In the meantime I'm looking at gameplay from a Sharp MZ-2500 and I'm salivating with envy.

                                          I need this thing on the Pi.

                                          Turns out I really like games with Borders, who knew?

                                          I probably will look at PC88 once I'm through my PC98 hell.

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                                            Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                            @AdamBeGood I'm going to get to work on the MZ series. They appear to be supported in mess.

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