Memotech MTX512 in AdvMESS?

SpudsMcToole

Does it work? It supposedly does, and it doesn't give a "system not supported" error, but this page:

http://www.progettoemma.net/mess/system.php?machine=mtx512

says MESS supports both cassette (.WAV) and snapshot (.MTX) formats, yet when you try to run either you get booted out with these RUNCOMMAND.LOGs:

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin/advmess mtx512 -log -cfg /opt/retropie/configs/mtx512/advmess.rc -snapshot "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mtx512/Jet Set Willy (1985) (Software Projects) Quick Load.mtx"
 ERROR: Device [snapshot] is not supported by this system
devices_init failed

Parameters: 
Executing: /opt/retropie/emulators/advmame/bin/advmess mtx512 -log -cfg /opt/retropie/configs/mtx512/advmess.rc -cassette "/home/pi/RetroPie/roms/mtx512/Jet Set Willy (1985) (Software Projects) Quick Load.mtx"
 ERROR: Device [cassette] is not supported by this system
devices_init failed

Nobody seems to have mentioned the poor MTX in the entire history of the forum...

dmmarti

If you run the following command:

./advmess -listxml

It'll output a file that lists every system it supports as well as additional information about each system.

Looking at the mtx512 system, I don't see where it lists any supported media types?

For example, looking at the msx system, you'll see these:

            <device type="floppydisk">
                    <instance name="floppydisk1" briefname="flop1"/>
                    <instance name="floppydisk2" briefname="flop2"/>
                    <extension name="dsk"/>
            </device>
            <device type="cartridge">
                    <instance name="cartridge1" briefname="cart1"/>
                    <instance name="cartridge2" briefname="cart2"/>
                    <extension name="mx1"/>
                    <extension name="rom"/>
            </device>
            <device type="cassette">
                    <instance name="cassette" briefname="cass"/>
                    <extension name="wav"/>
                    <extension name="tap"/>
            </device>

But....the mtx512 system doesn't show device type other than a printer.

So I'm thinking that this version of Admess doesn't support mtx.

SpudsMcToole

@dmmarti Bah. Thanks for the info.