Old Computer Appreciation Thread

[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?

[Folly]

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

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

This image is already translated in english.

[AdamBeGood]

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@Zering @AdamBeGood

Well, I have think of my reputation. ^^

I use this file :
md5sum aa58b4d5ec37caba33da19587292a5a1 BWHDD.hdf

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

• just boot with the .hdf (you boot into human68k (dos))
• there are more partitions (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 it should start automatically, if image is saved

I could almost read Japanese. HaHa

EDIT:
The changes are saved on the image.
To boot automatically we still have to add an autoexec.bat on a:

Amazing work! I'll have to have a look at this tomorrow as my family want me to spend time with them now. I'll fire up the laptop and download this human68k and have a look.

It's just black screen for me on the Pi currently.

[Folly]

@adambegood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
download this human68k and have a look.

It should come with HUMAN302.XDF.

[Folly]

Better solution :

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

lr-px68k can also work with a .cmd file.
Create one containing :

px68k HUMAN302.XDF BWHDD.hdf

If you want to seperate the files from the .cmd file.
Use this :
(Now the images are in the directory "hdinst_en")(the .cmd file is in the same directory as "hdinst_en")

px68k hdinst_en/HUMAN302.XDF hdinst_en/BWHDD.hdf

Now we don't need to alter the image anymore.
It works OOB. :-) (including "game saves")

Just type what you want to run.

If you want to run the game automatically, edit the autoexec.bat :

• do this command => ed autoexec.bat
• add this to the file => bwgame
• save the file => press "escape" , press "e"
• reboot the emulator

Game menu:
Keep holding down
the Joypad A and B buttons
more than 0.5 seconds.

How about some kudos ?

[Zering]

@folly That is all pretty awesome. How on earth do you figure this stuff out???

[Folly]

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly That is all pretty awesome. How on earth do you figure this stuff out???

Well seemed that if I run another disk image, my first solution would not work anymore. So you actually had to boot twice if the huma68k wasn't remembered by the emulator. Also I had to change those files. So I figured there must be a better way. So I was thinking perhaps this emulator will also work with .cmd files. And it did! Turns out this is also explained in the libretro docs, for this emulator. So there you have it.

EDIT : I always know from my experience and my guts where i have look, isn't it amazing ;-)

[Zering]

@folly This thread is turning into a proper mine of information on obscure Japanese machines! ^^

Are you planning on setting up any more systems on your end?

[Folly]

@zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:

@folly This thread is turning into a proper mine of information on obscure Japanese machines! ^^

In theory, this is what we should do (but I don't know if I am up to it):

• make a fork of Retropie-setup
• read all our thread stuff from the beginning
• add support for the things we discovered
• do a pull request for the updated scripts
• edit the retropie docs

Are you planning on setting up any more systems on your end?

Ofcourse it never stops. :)