Old Computer Appreciation Thread
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood Oh well done! Did you try After Burner II to see if the issue was the same?
I didn't, I haven't got that one yet. Let me know!
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@AdamBeGood No luck with either.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood No luck with either.
Weird, I just tried AfterBurner II and it worked for me. You've changed the setting in Options?
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@AdamBeGood ...I forgot to turn my mouse on.
Retrying now. ^^
Edit : Yup, Neural Gear works now. Is it not very good or is it just Me?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood ...I forgot to turn my mouse on.
Retrying now. ^^
Edit : Yup, Neural Gear works now. Is it not very good or is it just Me?
I am not sure, it didn't seem amazing but maybe it was a matter of getting used to the controls. I'll give it more time!
Also, when @Folly said -
MSX2:
Salamander : The super nemesisIs that an official release or a patched version of MSX Salamander... I have only found the latter so far.
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@AdamBeGood There is an official MSX1 release of Salamander, I think Folly called it super Nemesis because it borrows a lot of gameplay elements from that series.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@AdamBeGood There is an official MSX1 release of Salamander, I think Folly called it super Nemesis because it borrows a lot of gameplay elements from that series.
I thought he might have put it under MSX2 because of this: https://www.msx.org/news/software/en/konamis-salamander-pimped-up
I've downloaded the patch now and it works fine. I haven't played the original enough to tell too much difference though.
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Well, I'm mobile. Cannot react as i would like.
Always tought that Salamander was an MSX2 game. Indeed that "super nemesis" was just an expression of mine. Nice to know there is a patch. Will try that when I can.
I will edit the "summarized disk add for the pc-88" when I am behind my pi4.
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly The PC88 has this really strange game called Wibarm that is worth a look. Otherwise, Dragon Slayer 1 and 2 are fun!
On the PC98 I can't recommend Rude Breaker enough. Flame Zapper Kotsujin and Rusty are also very good.I'm going to sort out PC98 tomorrow. You've convinced me.
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@AdamBeGood Good luck! The NEC PCs are among the trickiest to set up on RetroPie in my opinion. I still haven't figured out what's wrong with my PC98. I expect I'll have to un-install and re-install it and start fresh...
Just be aware that although there are great games on the PC98 it's mostly known for games of an erotic nature ^^ -
Back on the PI4.
This is a better doc for lr-quasi88 :
https://docs.libretro.com/library/quasi88/Perhaps we can borrow some info.
Tried with an .m3u file (it works)
(.m3u has to be lower-case, otherwise it will ask, how many files, and go into "basic")
I will take Wibarm as an example :
Make a text file (in this case: Wibarm.m3u) with the following content :Wibarm.d88 Wibarm (User disk).d88If you run this .m3u it will run, ok, directly.
This is the manual way (2 disk example) :
Start, for example, first disk to run the emulator.
(If configured, you can also use the joystick)- Press "F1"
- Press "z"(back)
- Select, with "x"(forward), "Subsystems"
- Select, with "x", "Load 2-Disk Game"
- Select, with "x", the first disk file
- Select, with "x", "Subsystems"
- Select, with "x", "Load 2-Disk Game"
- Select, with "x", the second disk file
- Select, with "x", "Subsystems"
- Select, with "x", "Start 2-Disk Game"
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@Folly Just out of curiosity, is there any software that can automatically generate .m3u files?
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@AdamBeGood said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly I got the games you mentioned, I was catching some rice balls in Konami Collection this morning!
You have to be fast !!! How many levels ?
When I first got this game. I could go five or six levels I think.
How further you go, it becomes dark, later it will lighten up again. -
@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Just out of curiosity, is there any software that can automatically generate .m3u files?
You can just use a text editor.
Don't know if there are automated m3u generators.
Perhaps I can make something.
Well, it all depends on how the files are organized.
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@Folly The reason I'm asking is I don't see myself doing it manually for +5000 games ^^
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly The reason I'm asking is I don't see myself doing it manually for +5000 games ^^
Ofcourse, I get it.
Well, I will try some things.Perhaps someone already did something like that.
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@Folly I'll look into it of course, but I thought I'd start by asking you!
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly I'll look into it of course, but I thought I'd start by asking you!
That's ok.
I was thinking about a bash solution with the command "ls".
If the files of 1 Game are in 1 directory you can check all the directory's and write the output to a file and use the directory's name and add an .m3u extension to that file.The files have to be in good order though, then it will work.
Do you get it ?
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@Folly Not at all ^^
I'm terrible with terminal commands and whatnot. Could you show me an example?
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@Zering said in Old Japanese Computer Appreciation Thread:
@Folly Not at all ^^
I'm terrible with terminal commands and whatnot. Could you show me an example?
This is very basic.
You see if I go to that directory and run the command, it will output the files we need in the .m3u file.
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/pc88/Wibarm (Arsys) $ ls -w1 Wibarm.d88 'Wibarm (User disk).d88'(-w1 => show everything in 1 column)
This will already create an .m3u that can be used :
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/pc88/Wibarm (Arsys) $ ls *.d88 -w1 > Wibarm.m3u*.d88 wil list only diskfiles, otherwise the newly created .m3u is also added in the file.
This will only list directory's :
pi@raspberrypi:~/RetroPie/roms/pc88 $ ls -d */ 'Wibarm (Arsys)/'If we put that in an array, we can list every directory one by one
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