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      Zering @Folly
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      @folly Are you certain you don't have a font.tmp or font.bmp in your BIOS folder somewhere? @AdamBeGood mentioned earlier that the japanese text did not display without it on his end.

      I am 99% certain we have the same bios set (you said 14 directories, which matches what I have).

      I'll get a log with BIOS in np2kai.

      Edit : This log says it can't find my BIOS even though my BIOS are definitely in there. Pretty sure that's the issue now.

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        Folly @Zering
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        @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

        @folly Are you certain you don't have a font.tmp or font.bmp in your BIOS folder somewhere? @AdamBeGood mentioned earlier that the japanese text did not display without it on his end.

        I am 99% certain we have the same bios set (you said 14 directories, which matches what I have).

        I'll get a log with BIOS in np2kai.

        100% certain.
        Perhaps font.bmp is generated by the emulator.
        edit :
        While running checked my files.
        No font.bmp in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/

        Have checked my log again.
        These files are loaded (no "couldn't find" in the line beneath):

        Open file (RO) /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/font.rom.
        .
        .
        .
        Open file (RO) /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/sound.rom.
        Open file (RO) /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/bios.rom.
        Open file (RO) /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/pci.rom.

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          Zering @Folly
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          @folly Yep, then that must be the issue.
          But I have no idea what could be causing it ^^

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            Folly @Zering
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            @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

            @folly Yep, then that must be the issue.
            But I have no idea what could be causing it ^^

            How is your log with these 4 files in place ?
            Do you have "couldn't finds" afterwards ?

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              Zering @Folly
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              @folly I'm not sure what you mean?
              The last log I posted has all the BIOS I've got.

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                Folly @Zering
                last edited by Folly

                @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                @folly I'm not sure what you mean?
                The last log I posted has all the BIOS I've got.

                That has "couldn't finds".
                You were posting a log without bios roms, if I'm right.
                Or did I miss something ?

                edit:
                Oh, I did miss it.
                Both have "couldn't finds" indeed.

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                  Zering @Folly
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                  @folly That's my point. It says couldn't find even though the BIOS are definitely in there.

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                    Folly @Zering
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                    @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                    @folly That's my point. It says couldn't find even though the BIOS are definitely in there.

                    Well, now we know that's the problem then.

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                      Zering @Folly
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                      @folly alt text

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                      Any ideas on how to fix this? I'm at a complete loss. This is definitely beyond my skill ^^

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                        Folly @Zering
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                        @zering

                        my files are :
                        -rw-r--r-- (644)

                        the bmp is searched in (don't have that user ir directory):
                        /home/arcadia/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/font.bmp
                        Defenitly not used.

                        Here is your problem :
                        searches in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai/
                        That's why the roms aren't found.

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                          Zering @Folly
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                          @folly I don't understand. Why is the emulator looking for the BIOS files in a directory that does not exist???
                          How do I force it to look in the right directory?

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                            Folly @Zering
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                            @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                            @folly I don't understand. Why is the emulator looking for the BIOS files in a directory that does not exist???
                            How do I force it to look in the right directory?

                            We have to look into that later.

                            Try creating that directory and move the files over there and see what happens.

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                              Zering @Folly
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                              @folly Tried that just now. It's giving me the exact same log! It can't find the files that are in np2kai/np2kai even though they are most definitely there.

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                                AdamBeGood @Folly
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                                @folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                @zering

                                my files are :
                                -rw-r--r-- (644)

                                the bmp is searched in (don't have that user ir directory):
                                /home/arcadia/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/font.bmp
                                Defenitly not used.

                                Here is your problem :
                                searches in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai/
                                That's why the roms aren't found.

                                Is it because you are pointing it at /np2kai rather than the BIOS directory? And it knows to look for a np2kai directory where it is pointed?

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                                  Zering @AdamBeGood
                                  last edited by Zering

                                  Well... I've got text in Popful Mail.

                                  No idea what happened. I'll get a verbose log.

                                  Edit : No text with .hdm files. Popful Mail.hdi seems to display correctly. It didn't before.

                                  Edit : Never mind, .hdm is fine too. I don't understand what just happened.

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                                    Folly @Zering
                                    last edited by Folly

                                    @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                    @folly Tried that just now. It's giving me the exact same log! It can't find the files that are in np2kai/np2kai even though they are most definitely there.

                                    Great, That was the problem.

                                    Don't actually know now what we can change to get it the way it should.

                                    edit :
                                    I use the .hdi too. Perfect, so .hdm also works now !

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                                      Zering @Folly
                                      last edited by Zering

                                      @folly Well it's working now. I'm not sure what happened. I've tested both Popful Mail and the patched ROM for Farland Story and the text displays correctly, when just this morning I was getting blank boxes.

                                      It seems those two things caused the change :

                                      1. I moved my BIOS to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai
                                      2. I pointed lr-np2kai to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai

                                      So by pointing the emulator to an empty directory it somehow found my BIOS.

                                      Don't get me wrong I'm excited as all hell but isn't this just bizarre??

                                      Edit : I'm actually a little bit annoyed. Why couldn't the solution have been something logical????

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                                        Folly @Zering
                                        last edited by Folly

                                        @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                        @folly Well it's working now. I'm not sure what happened. I've tested both Popful Mail and the patched ROM for Farland Story and the text displays correctly, when just this morning I was getting blank boxes.

                                        It seems those two things caused the change :

                                        1. I moved my BIOS to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai
                                        2. I pointed lr-np2kai to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai

                                        So by pointing the emulator to an empty directory it somehow found my BIOS.

                                        Don't get me wrong I'm excited as all hell but isn't this just bizarre??

                                        Now I get it, I think
                                        (something like @AdamBeGood said too)
                                        You have to point lr-np2kai to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS then, if you want it the way it should be. I think

                                        Then it will search in home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/

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                                          Zering @Folly
                                          last edited by Zering

                                          @folly Well I'm not touching anything else now ^^

                                          Thank you for all your help, and you too @AdamBeGood!

                                          Edit : Is that why the emulator wasn't generating a np2kai.cfg? Because it couldn't find the directory it was supposed to generate it in?

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                                            Folly @Zering
                                            last edited by Folly

                                            @zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

                                            @folly Well I'm not touching anything else now ^^

                                            Thank you for all your help, and you too @AdamBeGood!

                                            Edit : Is that why the emulator wasn't generating a np2kai.cfg? Because it couldn't find the directory it was supposed to generate it in?

                                            Perfectly logical !!!

                                            Well, again, we learned quite a lot, this evening. :)

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