Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Zering

@folly Are you having the same issue I'm having with Japanese text in PC98 games by the way?

Folly

@zering
Did you try out my .m3u creator line ?

Zering

@folly Not yet, I got caught up in fixing my PC88 problems, then my PC98 issues, then the MZ series and so on.
I'll try it as soon as I replace my PC88 rom set.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Are you having the same issue I'm having with Japanese text in PC98 games by the way?

No, don't think so. (I see Japanese text, but it looks good)
But, did not try that many files yet.
This night my Pi was unpacking, you see.

Tested => Gradius'95 => Very nice.

Zering

@folly Yes Gradius 95 is cool. It seems like the PC98 has a lot of great doujin games.

Could you check on your end if Popful Mail.hdm or .hdi has any text? You won't have to go further than the first menu.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Yes Gradius 95 is cool. It seems like the PC98 has a lot of great doujin games.

Could you check on your end if Popful Mail.hdm or .hdi has any text? You won't have to go further than the first menu.

Seems that I have a lot of luck :), don't know actually why.
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Zering

@folly Damn! Well that's good. While it's frustrating that I can't get text to appear it's good to know I should be able to get those games running properly eventually. Thank you for checking for me.

It seems the PC98 emulator uses two japanese fonts : a FONT.ROM and a font.bmp (or text.bmp).
I'm missing the bmp.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Damn! Well that's good. While it's frustrating that I can't get text to appear it's good to know I should be able to get those games running properly eventually. Thank you for checking for me.

It seems the PC98 emulator uses two japanese fonts : a FONT.ROM and a font.bmp (or text.bmp).
I'm missing the bmp.

What should be the location of that bmp ?

Zering

@folly I know you can't give me links. Don't worry, I will most definitely find the thing eventually. I'm more interested in the PC98 than any other system currently.

Got FM7 working! The controls are broken but I'll look into it later.
PC-6001 is another story ^^

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I know you can't give me links. Don't worry, I will most definitely find the thing eventually. I'm more interested in the PC98 than any other system currently.

Got FM7 working! The controls are broken but I'll look into it later.
PC-6001 is another story ^^

Never tested FM7, but I recon you are using lr-mess.
press "tap" and configure in "this machine".

Zering

@folly That's right.
I've tried that, but I think the controls are broken beyond that. Not all keyboard inputs are working.

Anyway I think I may have found the font.bmp!

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly That's right.
I've tried that, but I think the controls are broken beyond that. Not all keyboard inputs are working.

Anyway I think I may have found the font.bmp!

No font.bmp in my BIOS directory though.

Zering

@folly Weird. What BIOS are you using? Are you using lr-np2kai or np2pi?

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Weird. What BIOS are you using? Are you using lr-np2kai or np2pi?

/home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai
with 14 subdirectory's with different NEC romsets in it.

These are the "root" ones :
md5sum .
90310248964425690f47c7d09b0ae61b 2608_bd.wav
4932d26fc9eaa60dca90248cdd4ff8b0 2608_hh.wav
8510f4de81aad417f7853606d899760f 2608_rim.wav
f0e65db251cbda5af7def30fbb9c24dc 2608_sd.wav
2c15be5d50c94721288d9700de736b86 2608_tom.wav
5b5bf9736631d3ef01180ed66dafe270 2608_top.wav
0c052b1f1bfd0ece11286d2ff45d296f bios.rom
693fd1da3239d4bbeafc77d211718fc5 font.rom
72ea51443070f0e9212bfc9b793ee28e itf.rom
57d4951e275b2abc641cefc1bc123d48 np2kai.cfg
42c271f8b720e796a484cc1165ff4914 sound.rom

Zering

@folly I can confirm that the font.bmp has nothing to do with it. My text boxes are still blank.

Thanks for sharing your checksums. It's time to go BIOS hunting again. Woo-hoo ^^

AdamBeGood

@zering On The Scheme, I Google translated the text and it mentioned speed. Changed my CPU from 8 to 4 MHz fixed it. :)

Zering

@adambegood Oh that would make sense, my quasi88 is set to 8 for Final Crisis.
I'll try that later!

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering On The Scheme, I Google translated the text and it mentioned speed. Changed my CPU from 8 to 4 MHz fixed it. :)

There seem to be better roms.
Mine is fully English and works in 4 and 8 Mhz.

Catch up with you all later on.

Zering

@folly Well I'm now at my wit's end with this font issue. My BIOS files match yours exactly and I still can't get any text in games that use the japanese font.

Could it be a permissions issue? My BIOS are set to 0755 and I can't seem to be able to change that.

AdamBeGood

@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering On The Scheme, I Google translated the text and it mentioned speed. Changed my CPU from 8 to 4 MHz fixed it. :)

There seem to be better roms.
Mine is fully English and works in 4 and 8 Mhz.

Catch up with you all later on.

Could you give the name of your ROM when you are able please? Maybe it is less graphically glitchy than mine also.

@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Well I'm now at my wit's end with this font issue. My BIOS files match yours exactly and I still can't get any text in games that use the japanese font.

Could it be a permissions issue? My BIOS are set to 0755 and I can't seem to be able to change that.

To be fair, mine are 0777 but I doubt that is the issue. You never know though! I SCP in from my PC and change permissions that way, but there is probably a better way.