Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Zering

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

Folly

@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.

Zering

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

Folly

@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.

Zering

@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?

Folly

@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.

Zering

@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.

AdamBeGood

@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?

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.

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 !

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 :

I moved my BIOS to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai
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????

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 :

I moved my BIOS to home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai/np2kai

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/

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?

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. :)

Zering

@folly You gotta love RetroPie ; you probably won't play much but you'll somehow become IT literate in the process ^^

Folly

@zering

Indeed. But soon I will take some time to play a bit.

Zering

@folly So will I. I'm going to look through the MZ2500 library tomorrow, look into those controls for the FM7 and set up some more systems through MESS : FM77 and PC8001 look promising.

AdamBeGood

@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?

No problem, glad you got there! I am just trying to get MSX Snatcher to work, may need advice tomorrow.

Edit: Oh and the (Set 3) version of The Scheme doesn't do the graphical glitching of the standard version I had. Worth switching to.

Zering

@adambegood Yep, I meant to say earlier ; my old rom for The Scheme was broken, but the one in Neo Kobe works fine.
What's the issue with Snatcher?

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@adambegood Yep, I meant to say earlier ; my old rom for The Scheme was broken, but the one in Neo Kobe works fine.
What's the issue with Snatcher?

Don't worry, I think it'll be sorted when I get back to it in the morning! :)