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Hi guys,
i was searching if someone already fixed the japanese version of YS (to work on genesis/megadrive for example) ?

As many of you already know it's using a "trick" for its status bar (bit 0 in VDP reg 2 which change the name table adr in VRAM), and the game is only working correctly in a SMS 1.
The euro/us version doesn't do this trick and work properly in SMS1, 2 and MD.

I've found the reg 2 writes ( 0xF8(jap) instead of 0xF9(euro/us) ), but do not really understand/find the changes in VRAM adr...

I think you need to reimplement a bunch of code to “fix” it, but that could be copied from the export version. What’s the use to do this? I guess to play in Japanese on a Mega Drive or later Master System?

Exactly !

I've got a little information on that here:

http://techno-junk.org/txt/msvdp.txt

When you set bit 0 in register #2 the VDP fetches the name table data from rows 0-7 when displaying rows 16-23, so the screen looks like this:

Screen rows 0-7 : Read name table rows 0-7
Screen rows 8-F : Read name table rows 8-F
Screen rows 10-17 : Read name table rows 0-7

I haven't looked at the game but I assume the idea is that they define a second name table for the status area and write the status information into rows 0-7 of it (not 10-17), and then write F9 to force those first 8 rows to be shown for the last 8 rows of the display.

I guess this is convenient because they only need to store enough VRAM data for a 32x8 name table instead of the full 32x24 table. For example maybe it has something like this:

2000-21FF : 32x8 name table for status area rows 0-7
3800-3BFF : 32x24 name table for regular game screen

I just made those addresses up though, as I'm not sure what the game really sets them to.

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ichigobankai Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 540 Location: Angers, France	Fix YS (japanese version) Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:32 am
	Hi guys, i was searching if someone already fixed the japanese version of YS (to work on genesis/megadrive for example) ? As many of you already know it's using a "trick" for its status bar (bit 0 in VDP reg 2 which change the name table adr in VRAM), and the game is only working correctly in a SMS 1. The euro/us version doesn't do this trick and work properly in SMS1, 2 and MD. I've found the reg 2 writes ( 0xF8(jap) instead of 0xF9(euro/us) ), but do not really understand/find the changes in VRAM adr...

Maxim Site Admin Joined: 19 Oct 1999 Posts: 14732 Location: London	Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:39 am
	I think you need to reimplement a bunch of code to “fix” it, but that could be copied from the export version. What’s the use to do this? I guess to play in Japanese on a Mega Drive or later Master System?

ichigobankai Joined: 04 Jul 2010 Posts: 540 Location: Angers, France	Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 9:42 am
	Exactly !

Charles MacDonald Joined: 28 Sep 1999 Posts: 1197	Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 3:03 am
Charles MacDonald Joined: 28 Sep 1999 Posts: 1197	I've got a little information on that here: http://techno-junk.org/txt/msvdp.txt When you set bit 0 in register #2 the VDP fetches the name table data from rows 0-7 when displaying rows 16-23, so the screen looks like this: Screen rows 0-7 : Read name table rows 0-7 Screen rows 8-F : Read name table rows 8-F Screen rows 10-17 : Read name table rows 0-7 I haven't looked at the game but I assume the idea is that they define a second name table for the status area and write the status information into rows 0-7 of it (not 10-17), and then write F9 to force those first 8 rows to be shown for the last 8 rows of the display. I guess this is convenient because they only need to store enough VRAM data for a 32x8 name table instead of the full 32x24 table. For example maybe it has something like this: 2000-21FF : 32x8 name table for status area rows 0-7 3800-3BFF : 32x24 name table for regular game screen I just made those addresses up though, as I'm not sure what the game really sets them to.

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