HACHIBITTO - An MSX2 Fantasy Console

[plasturion]

I didn't even know that was possible! I'll add it to the list of stuff I probably should have known 6 years ago

Well official version by mtheall that support DSi wi-fi connection is only 2 years old, previously there was some forks but I didn't use it too or couldn't make it work. ftdp v3.2.1 works like charm with any ftp client like TC, transfering data never breaks on my side, very comfy and safe i guess. : )

 

[wavemotion]

I finally got the standard Japanese Disk controller working. This means no more CDX-2 'Brazillian' driver (which honestly served me well but was not fully compatible with some late-era games). This should get all the later big RPGs like XAK II, Fray and more running! Those late-era games often bypassed the standard BIOS and called directly into the disk controller to speed up handling and the CDX-2 controller has a different interace. Technically games on the MSX should NOT bypass the standard BIOS interface for just these kinds of compatibility issues... but reality is that 99% of the Japan game-makers market was not Brazil.

That's huge... though it once again came at a huge cost of debug effort and sanity lost.

I haven't seen any regressions on disk games with the new driver so hopefully we're good here.

Version 0.9c has been checked into my github site.

I can't figure out Lubek and MSX-MUSIC. But at least that plays with the standard PSG music.

 

[Cris1997XX]

I finally got the standard Japanese Disk controller working. This means no more CDX-2 'Brazillian' driver (which honestly served me well but was not fully compatible with some late-era games). This should get all the later big RPGs like XAK II, Fray and more running! Those late-era games often bypassed the standard BIOS and called directly into the disk controller to speed up handling and the CDX-2 controller has a different interace. Technically games on the MSX should NOT bypass the standard BIOS interface for just these kinds of compatibility issues... but reality is that 99% of the Japan game-makers market was not Brazil.

That's huge... though it once again came at a huge cost of debug effort and sanity lost.

I haven't seen any regressions on disk games with the new driver so hopefully we're good here.

Version 0.9c has been checked into my github site.

I can't figure out Lubek and MSX-MUSIC. But at least that plays with the standard PSG music.

Can you add support for 2xPSG? There's hacks for a bunch of games that make them sound much better, they'd benefit from the DS' stereo sound too

 

[wavemotion]

 

[esv_83]

Another game that now works is *The Lost World* (1998) (UMAX)—it looks amazing on my DSi XL.