Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@Zering
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@folly No I'm playing a non modded .rom. Saves don't work which is annoying but it works well enough. I'll probably patch it before long. I only wanted to try it quickly and ended up spending an hour on it.
@AdamBeGood I don't know about exclusives really, there seems to be some really good shooters. I'll let you know what I find out.
Alltynex doesn't work on mess. Mess won't boot the hdd version, or chds. Isos and bin/cues start but then get stuck in an infinite loop on the initial basic screen. Shame.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly No I'm playing a non modded .rom. Saves don't work which is annoying but it works well enough. I'll probably patch it before long. I only wanted to try it quickly and ended up spending an hour on it.
@AdamBeGood I don't know about exclusives really, there seems to be some really good shooters. I'll let you know what I find out.
Alltynex doesn't work on mess. Mess won't boot the hdd version, or chds. Isos and bin/cues start but then get stuck in an infinite loop on the initial basic screen. Shame.
It's got Monkey Island 2, which is my favourite game ever. I don't think it is any different from the PC version though.
Real shame on Alltynex - that is one of the big exclusives for sure.
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@adambegood There are other great games, thankfully. For starters I'm never touching Genocide on the X68000 ever again. The FM Towns version is a lot better.
If you do make the leap bear in mind performance can be sketchy, it appears to be pretty intensive on the pi, but I think most games should work well.
Edit : I've never played any monkey island games. What's the best system to experience them on? The Amiga?
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood There are other great games, thankfully. For starters I'm never touching Genocide on the X68000 ever again. The FM Towns version is a lot better.
If you do make the leap bear in mind performance can be sketchy, it appears to be pretty intensive on the pi, but I think most games should work well.
Edit : I've never played any monkey island games. What's the best system to experience them on? The Amiga?
PC I think... I don't think the Amiga version of MI2 was any better. PCs had Soundblaster cards by then so sound was just as good.
I'll wait for your findings on Towns, it'll take a tiny bit to convince me to get busy. What is better about the Genocide version?
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@folly That is great work, good investigation tips there! Must have been satisfying.
I've got a .HDS of Die Bhanwelt on X68000, a bootable HD. I wonder if that can be tinkered with in the same way.
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@adambegood You can go five steps without losing all your health.
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly That is great work, good investigation tips there! Must have been satisfying.
I've got a .HDS of Die Bhanwelt on X68000, a bootable HD. I wonder if that can be tinkered with in the same way.
I don't have the .HDS, so I can't try.
I have .dim and made a .m3u.
Game looks nice :
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@folly I played that one. It's a good candidate for translation on the fly as it's pretty fun and seems light on story.
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@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.
@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS. -
@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.
@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.
Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.
@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.
Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.
Translation looks good.
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@folly Oh excellent. Is that a pre-patched .dim set?
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@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 Ok. Will play that a little bit more.
@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.
Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.
Translation looks good.
Oh come on! That took you about five minutes! Did it work on your disks? Gaaaah
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Oh excellent. Is that a pre-patched .dim set?
Surely not... I would have found it, I'd like to think.
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@adambegood Then I'm equally curious. How does one patch .dim files?
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I played that one. It's a good candidate for translation on the fly as it's pretty fun and seems light on story.
No patched version. You said it yourself.
It's a good candidate for translation on the fly. -
@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch. -
@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.Then we have search for that one.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.Totally tricked me! I see it now.
I did try with the disk patch, from nfggames and romhacking. Neither worked for me. The bootable .hds wasn't too hard to find either, but also yielded no joy.
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