Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Folly · 11 Oct 2020, 14:08

@Zering @AdamBeGood
I was already tinkering back then. Actually ruined my computer once with a bought selfmade eprom cartridge with "logo" on it. It had no enclosure. It was a lot more tricky. OOPS "the famous black screen". I had to mis my computer for 2 weeks.

ChouRenSha looks very nice. Will try that one :)

Also have to try the Snatcher's they sound great !

Also made a nice discovery. I was curious if I made separate screenshots of a game with the same image, if the md5sum's would be always the same. Then you could make a database and add info to that particular image. For example "help" info or "cleaned translations". Did a test with 3 screenshots and all md5sums were exactly the same :) WOW. That makes me wonder, how much we could do with this knowledge.

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 13:49

Well it seems my 2 TB drive has had some sort of failure, so now I need to back all my roms and bios up to a new one. I may be out of action for a couple of days. @AdamBeGood could the issue have something to do with the way you're outputting sound?

@Folly What could we do with that knowledge? Obviously you must have some ideas.

Folly · 10 Nov 2020, 13:58

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Well it seems my 2 TB drive has had some sort of failure, so now I need to back all my roms and bios up to a new one. I may be out of action for a couple of days. @AdamBeGood could the issue have something to do with the way you're outputting sound?

A disk failure, that's bad to hear. good luck with backing up.

@Folly What could we do with that knowledge? Obviously you must have some ideas.

Not exactly, but you could play "sound help files, as an overlay", for example.

AdamBeGood · 10 Nov 2020, 14:40

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Well it seems my 2 TB drive has had some sort of failure, so now I need to back all my roms and bios up to a new one. I may be out of action for a couple of days.

Oh God, sorry to hear that.... Hope you get back up and running soon.

@AdamBeGood could the issue have something to do with the way you're outputting sound?

Hmm maybe but it works for everything else..

Folly · 10 Nov 2020, 14:48

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Hmm maybe but it works for everything else..

My sound with this game is also not optimal. It ischisss often.
You can switch silence=on in the game. but thats not really a solution.

I use the analog audio output.
I think you are using the hdmi digital.

So makes no difference.

Can't tell whats the problem here.

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 14:50

@folly Isn't there an option to ocerclock the CPU in px68k? Are you guys using that perhaps?
I literally have no sound issues on this game. It's the better sounding game on the system!

Folly · 10 Nov 2020, 14:57

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Isn't there an option to ocerclock the CPU in px68k? Are you guys using that perhaps?
I literally have no sound issues on this game. It's the better sounding game on the system!

I did not change anything. I saw it was on 10mHz.

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 14:58

@folly What happens if you change that value?

Folly · 11 Oct 2020, 15:07

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly What happens if you change that value?

On 25mHz it seems better !
Perhaps a higher value is much better then.

Folly · 11 Oct 2020, 15:08

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly What happens if you change that value?

Can't distinguish that much difference. Perhaps I have to connect better speakers.

edit : on 100mHz OC pretty fast with loading !!!

AdamBeGood · 11 Oct 2020, 15:16

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly What happens if you change that value?

Can't distinguish that much difference. Perhaps I have to connect better speakers.

edit : on 100mHz OC pretty fast with loading !!!

Is your Music all good, @Folly ?

Edit: Ahh I see you said up above, I will raise a topic.

https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/28456/sound-issue-with-lr-px68x-x68000-emulator

Folly · 11 Oct 2020, 15:16

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly What happens if you change that value?

Can't distinguish that much difference. Perhaps I have to connect better speakers.

edit : on 100mHz OC pretty fast with loading !!!

Is your Music all good, @Folly ?

Edit: Ahh I see you said up above, I will raise a topic.

Tried my home cinema set via bluetooth. was much better.

AdamBeGood · 10 Nov 2020, 15:16

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly What happens if you change that value?

Can't distinguish that much difference. Perhaps I have to connect better speakers.

edit : on 100mHz OC pretty fast with loading !!!

Is your Music all good, @Folly ?

Edit: Ahh I see you said up above, I will raise a topic.

Tried my home cinema set via bluetooth. was much better.

Hmmm, okay.... that is interesting. @Zering - how do you output sound?

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 15:27

@adambegood HDMI. My TV is connected to a subwoofer.

Zering · 11 Oct 2020, 17:17

Setting up some roms on my SD card while backing up my drive. You guys aren't going to believe this. My PC98 font problem is back. And the old fix doesn't work. T_T

Found the issue. Lr-np2kai was now looking for BIOS in bios/np2kai/np2kai/np2kai. It's comical. I found that the path for the font file recognised by the emulator was in the np2kai.cfg. By placing all the bios in np2kai/np2kai/np2kai and font.bmp at the path indicated by np2kai.cfg i was able to display text again.

I hate this thing ^^

AdamBeGood · 10 Nov 2020, 17:18

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Setting up some roms on my SD card while backing up my drive. You guys aren't going to believe this. My PC98 font problem is back. And the old fix doesn't work. T_T

Found the issue. Lr-np2kai was now looking for BIOS in bios/np2kai/np2kai/np2kai. It's comical. I found that the path for the font file recognised by the emulator was in the np2kai.cfg. By placing all the bios in np2kai/np2kai/np2kai and font.bmp at the path indicated by np2kai.cfg i was able to display text again.

I hate this thing ^^

It's sorted now though! What a nightmare.

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 17:19

@adambegood Yes! Let's sort out your X68K issues now.

AdamBeGood · 10 Nov 2020, 17:22

@zering I am hoping that someone might be aware of this issue - Folly's sound being sorted by switching to Bluetooth is very interesting. I am interested to find the cause of this one!

Folly · 11 Oct 2020, 18:06

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

Setting up some roms on my SD card while backing up my drive. You guys aren't going to believe this. My PC98 font problem is back. And the old fix doesn't work. T_T

Found the issue. Lr-np2kai was now looking for BIOS in bios/np2kai/np2kai/np2kai. It's comical. I found that the path for the font file recognised by the emulator was in the np2kai.cfg. By placing all the bios in np2kai/np2kai/np2kai and font.bmp at the path indicated by np2kai.cfg i was able to display text again.

I hate this thing ^^

Indeed very strange. Did you ever consider to remove the np2kai completely in your retropie-setup ? And then reinstall. ?
Perhaps that can fix your problem.

Zering · 10 Nov 2020, 18:07

@folly I've done that several times. I think it's all linked to the cfg file somehow.