Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@folly The Marty was the consolized version of the Towns computer. It was compatible with most games but not all. There was also a Car Marty designed for use in... cars.
You can grab individual roms out of the Neo Kobe collection, I've done it before. I'll try that tonight then. Really excited to get this working!
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly The Marty was the consolized version of the Towns computer. It was compatible with most games but not all. There was also a Car Marty designed for use in... cars.
You can grab individual roms out of the Neo Kobe collection, I've done it before. I'll try that tonight then. Really excited to get this working!
Thanks for explaining.
Then perhaps we have to add more BIOSes in the directory for those specific games working on different types of "FM .......".
We have to look in the logs when those specific ones are not working.
Lr-mess is already in verbose !
No need to add that from the retropie boot screen. -
@folly The thing is I'm not certain there were any exclusives for Marty! It was designed to be completely compatible. If we can get the basic Towns model to work I'm pretty sure it should cover all games.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly The thing is I'm not certain there were any exclusives for Marty! It was designed to be completely compatible. If we can get the basic Towns model to work I'm pretty sure it should cover all games.
That would be great ;-)
Later we can try those FM7 etc. HaHa.
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@folly I've got FM7 and FM77 working. Or at least I did before I lost the bios along with my old drive. FM77 is iffy. I've picked up quite a few games that ran horribly, ie. Luxsor.
They're about as easy to set up as the Sharp MZ700 or 2500. I recommend you use floppies and not tapes for FM7 as tapes take up to eight minutes to start. -
@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I've got FM7 and FM77 working. Or at least I did before I lost the bios along with my old drive. FM77 is iffy. I've picked up quite a few games that ran horribly, ie. Luxsor.
They're about as easy to set up as the Sharp MZ700 or 2500. I recommend you use floppies and not tapes for FM7 as tapes take up to eight minutes to start.I will try that some time.
I fixed the issue with lr-bluemsx and MSXturboR.
I advise you to look back to that post. -
@folly I did.
Can you save the game with that configuration? Bluemsx seems to struggle with that on my end. -
@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly I did.
Can you save the game with that configuration? Bluemsx seems to struggle with that on my end.Oh Yea, I remenber that didn't work with lr-bluemsx.
Well, this morning I installed the "source" one !
Now, just tested the "save" function for you.
WOW. That works.This is MAGIC.
Perfect !!!
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Damn! Well done! Now I'm jealous.
So the tutorial I followed was completely wrong?
Are you using MAME .chds?Edit : Never mind, just saw cue/bin. That's even better as the tutorial was for the Marty, which excluded some Towns exclusives like Alltynex. Does the Neo Kobe collection work?
I downloaded Raid Wind (PC-98) when I read this post, as apparently it is by the same guy as Alltynex. It seems okay, I haven't played it much.
When I was doing some reading, someone recommended Metal Force on PC-98 - do you guys have that? It seems to crash on the "CHIME" logo for me?
@Folly - thanks for looking into the BlueMSX TurboR issue, I'll have a look at that this evening.
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@adambegood I've got no PC98 games at the moment. I'll be set in a couple if days. If you remind me then I can check.
@Folly I'm assuming you're playing a .dsk file?
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly I'm assuming you're playing a .dsk file?
I'm using the rom version. (I'm sure the rom version can be patched)
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@folly Well if you can save using the rom version then there's no point using the dsk one. That was literally the only advantage.
Thanks for all the info! Very useful as always.
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Metal Force on PC-98 - do you guys have that? It seems to crash on the "CHIME" logo for me?
Same issue with both hdi or hdm.
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@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Well if you can save using the rom version then there's no point using the dsk one. That was literally the only advantage.
Thanks for all the info! Very useful as always.
I do the saving with the libretro-core (F2=save F4=load).
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@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Metal Force on PC-98 - do you guys have that? It seems to crash on the "CHIME" logo for me?
Same issue with both hdi or hdm.
So you get the crash also? Hmm.. that is weird.
I guess the game is just not compatible. Let's not worry about that then.
I'm looking at the TurboR issue now. Could you just help me out with the BIOS files - the below are the ones I need aren't they?
FSA1GT.ROM - KANJI.ROM - MOONSOUND.ROM - XBASIC2.ROM
I am struggling to find the first one - I found a config.ini for it though. I will keep on looking though but just wanted to make sure, and these go in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/Machines/Shared Roms/ rather than the TurboR folder?
I want to sort this now as I've set Metal Gear 2 to Turbo R on BlueMSX and it black screens, which is vexing.
Edit: But then why don't I run it with the Panasonic machines on OpenMSX? What is the advantage of getting Turbo R on BlueMSX working?
Further Edit: Selecting those Panasonic machines doesn't seem to work, I get a BIOS not found error. But even with four enemies on the screen and the generic machine that we used for SD Snatcher, it seems to be running fine. Unless I am just not familiar enough with the game.
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@folly So you're using save states? You're not using the save system inside the game? That's what I'm asking about.
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Metal Force on PC-98 - do you guys have that? It seems to crash on the "CHIME" logo for me?
Same issue with both hdi or hdm.
So you get the crash also? Hmm.. that is weird.
I guess the game is just not compatible. Let's not worry about that then.
I'm looking at the TurboR issue now. Could you just help me out with the BIOS files - the below are the ones I need aren't they?
FSA1GT.ROM - KANJI.ROM - MOONSOUND.ROM - XBASIC2.ROM
I am struggling to find the first one - I found a config.ini for it though. I will keep on looking though but just wanted to make sure, and these go in /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/Machines/Shared Roms/ rather than the TurboR folder?
I want to sort this now as I've set Metal Gear 2 to Turbo R on BlueMSX and it black screens, which is vexing.
Edit: But then why don't I run it with the Panasonic machines on OpenMSX? What is the advantage of getting Turbo R on BlueMSX working?
With using libretro-cores your setup is globally always the same. Also the hotkeys work the same. So I think thats an advantage.
Of course you can use openMSX this works also good.
If you have bluemsx running on your windows computer.
Check that computer for bios files for lr-bluemsx.The only thing you have to do is rename 2 files in the "Shared Roms" :
(advise, keep all 4 files)
KANJI.rom -> KANJI.ROM
MSXKANJI.rom -> MSXKANJI.ROM
(Check you config.ini)it seems to be running fine. Unless I am just not familiar enough with the game.
I was thinking the same way. And I didn't go that far in the game. But i think it's worthwhile.
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@folly Perfect! You are correct, I've amended those and Metal Gear 2 works in Blue MSX now. Thank you so much!
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@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Perfect! You are correct, I've amended those and Metal Gear 2 works in Blue MSX now. Thank you so much!
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Are you on "Auto" or did you select "MSXTurboR" ? -
@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@folly Perfect! You are correct, I've amended those and Metal Gear 2 works in Blue MSX now. Thank you so much!
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Are you on "Auto" or did you select "MSXTurboR" ?I selected it, and saved it as an MS2 config. I was getting Black Screen, not anymore!
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