Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood I've got the same sums. Can you give us more detail about the Issue? File types, screenshot, anything like that?
Where is lr-np2kai looking for your bios?
Edit : I may have misspoken, I'll double check my sums in a sec.
Cool, let me know. So far as I know it is looking in RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai. It has certainly created an np2kai.cfg file in there.
I get the CPU - High and then Memory lines on a screen, and then a black screen with Japanese text in the centre, which translate on my Google app as "Please insert the System Disk".
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@AdamBeGood Here are my checksums :
bios.rom - e246140dec5124c5e404869a84caefce
font.rom - 2af6179d7de4893ea0b705c00e9a98d6
itf.rom - e9fc3890963b12cf15d0a2eea5815b72
sound.rom - caf90f22197aed6f14c471c21e64658d
2608_bd.wav - 90310248964425690f47c7d09b0ae61b
2608_hh.wav - 4932d26fc9eaa60dca90248cdd4ff8b0
2608_rim.wav - 8510f4de81aad417f7853606d899760f
2608_sd.wav - f0e65db251cbda5af7def30fbb9c24dc
2608_tom.wav - 2c15be5d50c94721288d9700de736b86
2608_top.wav - 5b5bf9736631d3ef01180ed66dafe270So our files don't match but given that my checksums don't match the documentation and that I've still been able to run a bunch of games, I doubt that this is the issue.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
Wow, so much to catch up on!
I find that PC98 roms are mostly .fdd actually.I see, I have to do my homework better.
I was too fast with my answer. Will have to look at all the files. Pfff... many.Seems there are many different bios versions.
Here are my checksums :
90310248964425690f47c7d09b0ae61b 2608_bd.wav
4932d26fc9eaa60dca90248cdd4ff8b0 2608_hh.wav
8510f4de81aad417f7853606d899760f 2608_rim.wav
f0e65db251cbda5af7def30fbb9c24dc 2608_sd.wav
2c15be5d50c94721288d9700de736b86 2608_tom.wav
5b5bf9736631d3ef01180ed66dafe270 2608_top.wav
0c052b1f1bfd0ece11286d2ff45d296f bios.rom
693fd1da3239d4bbeafc77d211718fc5 font.rom
72ea51443070f0e9212bfc9b793ee28e itf.rom
f5543b8a68e8ac297447102215d9eee4 np2kai.cfg
42c271f8b720e796a484cc1165ff4914 sound.rom -
@Folly Is it working for you?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Here are my checksums :
bios.rom - e246140dec5124c5e404869a84caefce
font.rom - 2af6179d7de4893ea0b705c00e9a98d6
itf.rom - e9fc3890963b12cf15d0a2eea5815b72
sound.rom - caf90f22197aed6f14c471c21e64658d
2608_bd.wav - 90310248964425690f47c7d09b0ae61b
2608_hh.wav - 4932d26fc9eaa60dca90248cdd4ff8b0
2608_rim.wav - 8510f4de81aad417f7853606d899760f
2608_sd.wav - f0e65db251cbda5af7def30fbb9c24dc
2608_tom.wav - 2c15be5d50c94721288d9700de736b86
2608_top.wav - 5b5bf9736631d3ef01180ed66dafe270So our files don't match but given that my checksums don't match the documentation and that I've still been able to run a bunch of games, I doubt that this is the issue.
Could you go into your RetroArch menu and check under Directory/System Bios to see where the emulator is actually looking?It just has /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS listed... Should I be amending that to /home/pi/RetroPie/BIOS/np2kai or is that correct?
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@AdamBeGood You need to amend that to np2kai, yes.
I looked into the issue of japanese text/translated not appearing in lr-np2kai, and it seems it is a known issue. The font.rom in BIOS/np2kai should enable the text to appear, but for some reason that function in the libretro port of the emulator is broken.
Text does appear in np2pi but the screen is all squeezed in the upper-left corner of the screen, and I can't get it to unsqueeze in emulator, so I'm looking at editing the config file or some such directly. Problem is I can't find it. @Folly Any ideas? -
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood You need to amend that to np2kai, yes.
I looked into the issue of japanese text/translated not appearing in lr-np2kai, and it seems it is a known issue. The font.rom in BIOS/np2kai should enable the text to appear, but for some reason that function in the libretro port of the emulator is broken.
Text does appear in np2pi but the screen is all squeezed in the upper-left corner of the screen, and I can't get it to unsqueeze in emulator, so I'm looking at editing the config file or some such directly. Problem is I can't find it. @Folly Any ideas?I've put in some other BIOS files now, and I am getting a "How Many Files? 0-15" message, and then whatever I enter, I am dumped into a PC-88 Basic command prompt. Sigh... I will try some other files.
Interesting on the translation side of things, I did see some games I'd like to translate already - Rusty, E.V.O.
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@AdamBeGood did you ascertain that your previous bios did not work by amending the directory in the retroarch menu?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood did you ascertain that your previous bios did not work by amending the directory in the retroarch menu?
Yep, I tried that. The result didn't change - service disk message. I am really racking my brains to try and work out what I am doing wrong. I've tried a lot of files now. Maybe I'll have a break and go back to it later.
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@AdamBeGood What file type are you using and what game are you trying to play?
I'm thinking now if Rude Breaker runs maybe it's not even BIOS-related. -
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood What file type are you using and what game are you trying to play?
I'm thinking now if Rude Breaker runs maybe it's not even BIOS-related.Well, I'm still busy with other things. Just referring to the few games I have tested. (13cm ......)
I do not have Rude Breaker jet. -
Here is my first attempt for creating m3u files automaticcaly.
Go to the /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc88 directory :cd /home/pi/RetroPie/roms/pc88If your files are in a subdirectory for each game, it will find the games and make a .m3u file in that directory.
This is the 1 line command :
create_m3u=$(ls -d */ | sed 's/\///g'); echo "$create_m3u" | while read line; do echo "making $line.m3u"; cd "$line"; ls *.d88 -w1 > "$line.m3u"; cd ..; doneedit (explanation):
- it gets the direcory's names
- replaces the "/" in the output
- puts the directory name into a string
- echo's it and reads every line
- goes to every individual directory
- reads the disk files in that directory
- uses the name of the directory to make an .m3u
- puts the info in the m3u file
- returns to it's original directory
- until it has done every directory
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@Folly You're a legend. I'll try that today!
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly You're a legend. I'll try that today!
My advise, try it first in a separate test directory with just a few games in it. See what happens.
If you want an explenation on how it works then I can add that ofcourse.
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@Folly Do the games need to be in separate directories?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Do the games need to be in separate directories?
Yes they do need to be in seperate direcory's.
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@Folly Naturally once the .m3u are generated i can freely put all my files in my pc88 directory?
Will the same method work for x68000 games? -
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Naturally once the .m3u are generated i can freely put all my files in my pc88 directory?
Will the same method work for x68000 games?Yes, but *.d88 has to be changed in *.dim, for example.
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@Folly I'll do a test today then. Thank you for figuring that out!!
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