Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@Folly That's excellent news!
Why include the demo disc in the music however? -
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly That's excellent news!
Why include the demo disc in the music however?It seems that it want's files from the Demo disk. Then you have to swap, again and again.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood have you tried switching 'Use last HDD mount ' to ON? I'm looking over the rest of your settings.
Edit : It's the only real difference i can see, and I can't seem to reproduce your issue by turning it off.
Further edit : What happens if you try to mount the hdi files manually with your mouse and keyboard?
I'm just at the barbers getting a pre-lockdown trim so I'll have a look afterwards. I presume you can run .hdi from NeoKobe without problems? That is the majority of my testing.
@Folly Good news on the PC98.m3u, and most files are in an order that would work with your system. Puyo is weird.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly That's excellent news!
Makes me wonder if CD and HD images can also be added together with FD images. All together in 1 file.
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@AdamBeGood Neo Kobe does not have any .hdi files, only .fdd.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Neo Kobe does not have any .hdi files, only .fdd.
Where did I get those from then? Sorry to get confused. It has got .hdms also, doesn't it? I think that is where Puyo was from, and I thought my Night Slave .hdi also, but I am maybe wrong.
Edit: Yep, Night Slave is HDI. Can you try that one, @Folly ?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Neo Kobe does not have any .hdi files, only .fdd.
Then it's a different Neo .... . I have also some hdi's
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@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.
I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
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@Folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.
I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.
Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?
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@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 Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.
I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.
Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?
Yume no Sei.hdi (13cm) works.
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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 said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Maybe I'm the one who's confused. It doesn't help that I can't currently see my 2000+ fdds in ES.
I think it's just too many.
Had that problem with C64.
You can make for example directory's :
A
B
etc..Place all the A games in the dir A. Etc.
Think this will work.I just download the ones I want, but I like your dedication to having the collection. I need to work on my c64 library, I started that when I first got my Pi and found ROMs a bit hit and miss. I need to revisit it.
Have you had .hdis working on PC98, @Folly ?
Yume no Sei.hdi (13cm) works.
Interesting, I'll try it.
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@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?
Queue at barbers was brutal, looking now!
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@AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Did you have any luck with the suggestions I've made?
Queue at barbers was brutal, looking now!
Okay, results are the same if I mount using the emulator interface. With .hdi, I get the How Many Files? question. On some disk files I'm okay, but on Night Slave (Disk A) I get "no system files".
I still think it might be BIOS. @Folly can run Yume no Sei, and I am using the same ROM as him. I can't see that there would be much difference between our systems aside from BIOS.
I tried the HDD Mount option also. Shame that there are the rules around BIOS sharing, although I do understand why. Would be good to rule it out though.
Edit: and thank you both for your help on this so far.
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@AdamBeGood Yeah I think you're right, it has to be Bios related.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Yeah I think you're right, it has to be Bios related.
Have you checked one of those retropie bios packs that's always lying around? You may get lucky.Didn't know there was such a thing... I'll get my magnifying glass out.
Edit: I've found these packs of which you speak, but still no matching checksum with you guys. If I see "How Many Files?" one more time, something is getting thrown! :p
I want to play PC98!
Tomorrow is another day (I'll probably start trying again in a moment).
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@Folly Any chance you could see if you can get Thexder, Fire Hawk and Final Crisis to run on the PC88? I can't get them to start.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Any chance you could see if you can get Thexder, Fire Hawk and Final Crisis to run on the PC88? I can't get them to start.
Only Final Crisis works. (3 disks, m3u file) (V2 Mode)(8Mhz)
Some of these games seem to require "V1H Mode", selected that, but still doesn't work.
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@Folly I got final crisis to work in the end. There's two big problems. The health bar doesn't show up and some bullets aren't visible.
It seems like PC88 emulation might be more miss than hit.
I think I'll look into setting it up on my PC.
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