Old Computer Appreciation Thread

Zering

@adambegood You can go five steps without losing all your health.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly That is great work, good investigation tips there! Must have been satisfying.

I've got a .HDS of Die Bhanwelt on X68000, a bootable HD. I wonder if that can be tinkered with in the same way.

I don't have the .HDS, so I can't try.
I have .dim and made a .m3u.
Game looks nice :

Zering

@folly I played that one. It's a good candidate for translation on the fly as it's pretty fun and seems light on story.

Folly

@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.

@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.

AdamBeGood

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.

@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.

Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.

Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.

Folly

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@zering Ok. Will play that a little bit more.

@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.

Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.

Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.

Translation looks good.

Zering

@folly Oh excellent. Is that a pre-patched .dim set?

AdamBeGood

@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 Ok. Will play that a little bit more.

@AdamBeGood If you want to tinker then you have to use
Human 68k, it's like DOS.

Cool, I found a translation patch but it doesn't work on my disks, or any others I can find.

Then I found a .HDS, already patched. But no joy with that.. yet.

Translation looks good.

Oh come on! That took you about five minutes! Did it work on your disks? Gaaaah

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly Oh excellent. Is that a pre-patched .dim set?

Surely not... I would have found it, I'd like to think.

Zering

@adambegood Then I'm equally curious. How does one patch .dim files?

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I played that one. It's a good candidate for translation on the fly as it's pretty fun and seems light on story.

No patched version. You said it yourself.
It's a good candidate for translation on the fly.

Zering

@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.

Folly

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.

Then we have search for that one.

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly There is a translation available though.
That screen had me fooled. I thought it was a patch.

Totally tricked me! I see it now.

I did try with the disk patch, from nfggames and romhacking. Neither worked for me. The bootable .hds wasn't too hard to find either, but also yielded no joy.

Zering

@adambegood If it's on romhackinh there must be some sort of instructions or readme. Any idea where it went wrong for you?

Folly

@Zering @AdamBeGood

I have it working with that translated HD image.
I can add the solution, to this thread, later on.

Do you both want the solution ?

Zering

@folly I'd definitely be interested.

AdamBeGood

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly I'd definitely be interested.

Seconded! I'd love to know.

Folly

@Zering @AdamBeGood

EDIT:
Altough this solution works, I found a much better way !
Keep reading in the next post ;-)

Well, I have think of my reputation. ^^

I use these files (md5sum) :
aa58b4d5ec37caba33da19587292a5a1 BWHDD.hdf
a53067ef706c7adb06143e141f3da47a HUMAN302.XDF

Here it is (hope it works for both of you):

only boot HUMAN302.XDF (exit the emulator, next time it will start with human68k)
now boot with the .hdf (you boot also into human68k (dos))
there are more drives (A: , B: , C:)
goto the C: partition (press C=>C ,=>: and enter)(keyboard issue)
then do this command => ed BW.BAT
Change A: into C:
save the file => press "escape" , press "e" (if all goes well, you come back to the prompt)
then do this command => BW
next time type => C: "enter" => bw "enter"

I could almost read Japanese. HaHa

Zering

@folly Great, thanks! You know everything! But how do you actually patch the image?