Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
I have to out too.
I hear it later.Good luck !
I'm still seeing black screen, I presume I just run the .cue yep?
Should I update my MAME core?
Hope you're having a good day.
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I had to work, thankfully no rain.
It's good to update mame.
The binary is equal or higher than 0237.But I think it's something else.
Do other games run ?
Does lr-mess work ? (or is it the same story ?)Check your runcommand.log.
Btw:
Autoframeskipping doesn't work that good over here.
With F9 you have to press until it's on frameskip 10 to get almost fullspeed. -
@folly Let me have a play and report back. I'll have a look at the log.
Other games do work on MAME for FM Towns. lr-mess is the same story.
Edit: is this the island postie job? Glad you didn't get rained on.
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@adambegood said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Let me have a play and report back. I'll have a look at the log.
Yes you should check that.
Other games do work on MAME for FM Towns. lr-mess is the same story.
Strange !
If this works than it looks like the files of Mad Stalker are wrong somehow.
I tested the version I recommended, unzipped and running the .cue should work.Edit: is this the island postie job? Glad you didn't get rained on.
Not today, but I still do that, often, twice a week.
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@folly It was the version of MAME. Updated from Source and the game works fine! Thanks so much for all the help.
I was very surprised when it loaded up!
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Nice,
Now we have to play, after all the effort involving ;-)
Let me know how it goes.With mame we can (we can pause first with P) :
- save states with : shift-left + F7
- load states with : shift-right + F7
Can you defeat this one, in stage 1 ? :
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@folly I didn't have time to properly play but I'll let you know when I get a chance to play - probably tomorrow. It seems quite hard from a quick play!
Thanks for the save state help also!
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@Folly - on a totally distinct issue, a bit off-topic I'll admit; I've got a Sinden Light Gun now and thought about getting it to work with Saturn tonight (I've got NES, SNES and Dreamcast working so far).
However, I need to try it on a libretro core and for some weird reason my Saturn games are all launching straight to Yabasanshiro regardless of how I have them set up in emulators.cfg. Some games are set to other cores, but it doesn't make a difference - I get no runcommand menu and Yabasanshiro just boots straight up.
Any idea where I look to resolve this? I don't remember changing anything here...
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@adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.
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@zering said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood That's because standalone yabasanshiro doesn't use runcommand. You would have changed that in your es_systems.cfg when setting up yabasanshiro.
Thanks, @zering. I guess I just hadn't noticed. Can I have yabasanshiro installed and still choose other emulators? Or do I have to take a line out of config every time to do that?
I didn't expect a response from you on this one!
Edit: Take that line out and put a normal runcommand line in and that seems all good now.
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@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
Nice,
Now we have to play, after all the effort involving ;-)
Let me know how it goes.With mame we can (we can pause first with P) :
- save states with : shift-left + F7
- load states with : shift-right + F7
Can you defeat this one, in stage 1 ? :
Concur, brilliant detective work! I can only get it to boot using the lr-mess-fmtowns config, the other fmtowns and mame runcommand selections do not work. But, changing the Joystick port 2 to <nothing> removed the in game freezing and it plays great. I'll just manually change it back to <mouse> when done playing. No luck in my first attempt to defeat the stage 1 Boss.
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@Folly
On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.Does somebody already managed that?
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@dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly
On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.Does somebody already managed that?
I'd be surprised if Folly hasn't cracked that, I think it might have been discussed at some point.
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@dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly
On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.Does somebody already managed that?
I will have a look, it should be possible.
Edit :
Tested 4d tennis adding the user floppy in the GUI but the floppy file isn't accepted.
runcommand.log gives this error :
Fatal error: Device 3.5" high density floppy drive load failed: Unable to identify the image formatI will look at it later again.
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It looks like we both use NEOKOBE files for fmtowns.
I think that the user floppy files have an image structure that cannot be read by mame somehow.
I think we need to convert the floppy files or try to find ones that work with mame.I was able to create an empty .hdm floppy image which is accepted but it seems it's not enough for "4D Tennis".
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@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@dteam said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly
On FM Towns Marty, some games like Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge or 4D tennis require a CD ROM and a floppy disk.Does somebody already managed that?
I will have a look, it should be possible.
Edit :
Tested 4d tennis adding the user floppy in the GUI but the floppy file isn't accepted.
runcommand.log gives this error :
Fatal error: Device 3.5" high density floppy drive load failed: Unable to identify the image formatI will look at it later again.
With FMTowns using lr-Mess, 4D Tennis will boot and be fully playable if you add a blank formatted disk in .hdm format with the GUI at the user disk prompt. The specific user disk file I had for 4D Tennis was .bin format and was not recognized.
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Is it a 1.2Mb floppy .hdm image or a 1.44Mb ?
I tried the same, as what you did, with mame with a 1.2Mb .hdm but that didn't seem to work.
So perhaps I missing something here.I have to try it again.
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@folly said in Old Computer Appreciation Thread:
Is it a 1.2Mb floppy .hdm image or a 1.44Mb ?
I tried the same, as what you did, with mame with a 1.2Mb .hdm but that didn't seem to work.
So perhaps I missing something here.I have to try it again.
I'm not sure how to check the file size in the FMTowns OS, but the "ROM" file size is 1,261,568 bytes, so I would guess it is a 1.2Mb. It is MS-DOS formatted if that is a clue: I used Repacked Neo Kobe [OS] Blank disk/
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It's an 1.2Mb floppy image.
I used the same now for mame.
But basically I had the same problem as the last time.Inserting the floppy image and select : read and write.
After some time it will say : check user disk !I decided to select : read from image and save to another image.
Then it asks what kind of image format, I selected : fmtowns unformatted and changed the name so it will create a new floppy.After that it was accepted and I could go playing.
But the game seems stuck after selecting some play options.Did you manage to play ?
Btw.
Using thegame specificload option has it's advantage.
When selecting the floppy image next time it will show up the correct directory for selecting the image.
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