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      Zering @AdamBeGood
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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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        AdamBeGood @Zering
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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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          AdamBeGood @Folly
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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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            Zering @AdamBeGood
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            @adambegood You can go five steps without losing all your health.

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              Folly @AdamBeGood
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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 :
              2020-11-17-161549_800x600_scrot-resized.png2020-11-17-161619_800x600_scrot-resized.png

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                Zering @Folly
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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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                  Folly @Zering
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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.

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                    AdamBeGood @Folly
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                    @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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                      Folly @AdamBeGood
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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.
                      2020-11-17-163350_800x600_scrot-resized.png

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                        Zering @Folly
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                        @folly Oh excellent. Is that a pre-patched .dim set?

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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:

                          @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.
                          2020-11-17-163350_800x600_scrot-resized.png

                          Oh come on! That took you about five minutes! Did it work on your disks? Gaaaah

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                            AdamBeGood @Zering
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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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                              Zering @AdamBeGood
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                              @adambegood Then I'm equally curious. How does one patch .dim files?

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                                Folly @Zering
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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.

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                                  Zering @Folly
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                                  @folly There is a translation available though.
                                  That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.

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                                    Folly @Zering
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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.

                                    Then we have search for that one.

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                                      AdamBeGood @Zering
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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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                                        Zering @AdamBeGood
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                                        @adambegood If it's on romhackinh there must be some sort of instructions or readme. Any idea where it went wrong for you?

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                                          Folly
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                                          @Zering @AdamBeGood

                                          I have it working with that translated HD image.
                                          I can add the solution, to this thread, later on.

                                          Do you both want the solution ?

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                                            Zering @Folly
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                                            @folly I'd definitely be interested.

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