HACHIBITTO - An MSX2 Fantasy Console

wavemotion · Thursday at 1:26 PM

No reason this needs to exist other than I tried to shovel a sort of makeshift MSX2 support into ColecoDS and found myself 50 hours later having really torn apart the codebase to rebuild it for MSX2 support with the VDP9938 Video Display Processor.

What a pain in the ass... a total waste of time and so now this is going to be a thing

True-Sync 60Hz support.
Total control over key mapping
Save State, High Score Support, Favorites, Screen slide/shift and more...
It's still roughly alpha-quality but many things work.

By the by.... it's pronounced Hah-Chi-Bee-Toe with four distinct syllables.

esv_83 · Thursday at 6:25 PM

Thank you for this new emulator; it will expand the number of games that can be played on the NDS.

radicalten · 2026-09-05T15:16:43+0100

The Zanac EX Dream is real! Thank you

wavemotion · 2026-09-05T22:12:56+0100

Version 0.1 is uploaded. No idea if it works on a DS-Lite. Heck, not even sure if it works on a DSi

But go play some Firebird and Lily's Saga. You can report bugs if you want, but at this early stage, I probably won't care.

https://github.com/wavemotion-dave/Hachibitto

No BIOS needed - it's baked in for now. Use the Game Options menu (selectable in-game or before you launch) you can shift the Y offset for games that use more than 192 scanlines and X/Y will shift the screen temporarily. I'll add much better options for this but not today.

radicalten · 2026-09-05T22:55:41+0100

I tried Zanac EX and Space Manbow on DSi and everything seems great! The visuals and audio were crisp. If you were looking for feedback the only things I noted were at loud volume sounds seem to *pop* a bit. I might also suggest support for .mx2 in addition to the .rom files support. Thank you

HACHIBITTO - An MSX2 Fantasy Console

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