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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 8:18 am
Welp. Here's the updated version.
It sounds like you're playing on a Taiwanese loader, but that's how it is.
Plus, it manages to run some games horribly, so I rather suggest go for the one that I already posted up there.

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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:17 pm
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Various conversion with Backgammon, Banana, Courageous Perseus, Heli Tank, Jump, Ninja Kun, Poppaq the Fish, Pyramid Warp, Thunder Bolt.

 
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Jast conversion with Erika, Star Trap, Tensidachino Gogo. For these games you need to understand Japanese and having a keyboard.

 
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Update for Guardic, sound is now working.

 
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 1:46 pm
Hello ,
CBIOS (08/02/2021) with sound work great
Eggerland Working now

Some games doesn't work (rambo , rollerball , dunkshot , payload , sweet acorn , hole in one pro , bouder dash , hustler , manic miner , river raid , speedking , who dares wins ,...)

Is there a solution to make this games works ?
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 3:01 pm
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Various conversion with Backgammon, Banana, Courageous Perseus, Heli Tank, Jump, Ninja Kun, Poppaq the Fish, Pyramid Warp, Thunder Bolt.

I'm questioning on how do you get the keyboard emulation to work.
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 5:01 pm
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Hello ,
CBIOS (08/02/2021) with sound work great
Eggerland Working now

Some games doesn't work (rambo , rollerball , dunkshot , payload , sweet acorn , hole in one pro , bouder dash , hustler , manic miner , river raid , speedking , who dares wins ,...)

Is there a solution to make this games works ?

I'm checking all of these right now, also, River Raid is manual for SG-1000 and SMS. No controls work, if you find a way to make it work on keyboard, then that's good progress.
River Raid.zip (11.01 KB)

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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 6:31 pm
OK for RIVER RAID
1) With 2nd joystick you select difficulty (with A or B button)
2) With 1st joystick you start the game (with A or B button)

All the old activision games can be do manually for SG-1000 and SMS ?

Possible to do HERO and BEAMRIDER ?
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:09 pm
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OK for RIVER RAID
1) With 2nd joystick you select difficulty (with A or B button)
2) With 1st joystick you start the game (with A or B button)

All the old activision games can be do manually for SG-1000 and SMS ?

Possible to do HERO and BEAMRIDER ?

H.E.R.O. and Beamrider are also manual games. Beamrider for some sort just have VDP glitches.
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Homebrew day, with 7 conversions: Any Treasure Day, Bubbo World 1, Chambers of Thyrea, Draconic Throne, Experimental Chess, Pacific, Quartet.

And update for Mini Tower Adventure and Slime Center, they should work better on real hardware.

 
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:18 pm
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Homebrew day, with 7 conversions: Any Treasure Day, Bubbo World 1, Chambers of Thyrea, Draconic Throne, Experimental Chess, Pacific, Quartet.

And update for Mini Tower Adventure and Slime Center, they should work better on real hardware.

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The way you did it on Any Treasure Day. XD
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2021 1:22 pm
Here's a conversion of David 2 on my latest emulator using the crash noise.
David 2.zip (13.11 KB)

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New conversion: Final Mahjong, Janka, Magical Kid Wiz, Pitfall 2.

Sound is glitchy for Pitfall 2 and on Emulicious you die for no reason on screen 3.

Update of Becky, Japanese is now fixed. Update of Space Trouble, sound is now a bit better.

 
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:09 pm
Hello ,
with this CBIOS (08/02/2021) , i believe 60-70% of MSX1 ROMS games work
it's really better than the asiatic bios (30-40% working games)

When you found the solution for the games like RAMBO i believe we reach 80%

After it will remain exotic roms (it is often conversions from floppy disks) and MEGAROMS

Do you believe CBIOS can launch MEGAROMS on SMS ?
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 3:28 pm
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Hello ,
with this CBIOS (08/02/2021) , i believe 60-70% of MSX1 ROMS games work
it's really better than the asiatic bios (30-40% working games)

When you found the solution for the games like RAMBO i believe we reach 80%

After it will remain exotic roms (it is often conversions from floppy disks) and MEGAROMS

Do you believe CBIOS can launch MEGAROMS on SMS ?

Rambo basically doesn't work on SMS. MEGAROMs on the other hand just glitch, but they work.
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Post Posted: Mon Feb 15, 2021 5:21 pm
I just realized that the MASTER SYSTEM has only 8Ko of RAM
Some MSX games require more than 8Ko of RAM

That's why a game like RAMBO don't work , it need 16Ko of RAM

Can you put a example of MEGAROM with CBIOS ?
(I did not manage to make it work)
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Post Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2021 1:14 pm
Conversion of American Truck, border of the road is glitchy on Emulicious, sound too. Controls are: 1 to go left, 2 to start and accelerate, right to go right.

 
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Conversion of Championship Lode Runner and Car Jamboree.

Press left two times on controller 2 to start a game with Championship Lode Runner.
Press right on controller 2 to start a game with Car Jamboree.

 
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Post Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:13 pm
Great work with CBios! Sorry I haven't been on here for a very long time.

http://map.grauw.nl/articles/keymatrix.php



I see that the keyboard is currently crudely mapped to the 2 player pad. Left presses all keys in bit 0, Right in bit 1, Button 1 in bit 2, Button 2 in bit 3, and Reset Button in bit 4. Some of them spill over into the first couple of rows in bits 5-7. This works fine for many games which only require a certain button to start the game (often 1-4 or space bar), unfortunately it doesn't work well for anything more complicated.

For example, Hydlide uses buttons F1-F5 to adjust the speed of the game. With the current keyboard map it's only possible to select F4 and F5, both of which are overly fast IMO. It's also impossible to use the password system, or pause (STOP) as it shares bit 4 with W (write save to disk).

The numerical pad was optional, many MSX1 computers lack it, no games should require it, so we can ignore rows 9 & 10. Row 11 was only used in the MSX Turbo R, so we can ignore that too.

If mapped to these key combinations it should be possible to access all keys (admittedly often awkwardly). Reset button for row 6 and no button for bit 0 should be reserved to enable use of the shift key to access secondary buttons, but the others could be changed depending on preference.



Incidentally, it would be cool if CBIOS could be modified to save games to Master Everdrive save ram instead of MSX disk, but that's probably a lot of work.

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Post Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 4:45 pm
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Great work with CBios! Sorry I haven't been on here for a very long time.

http://map.grauw.nl/articles/keymatrix.php



I see that the keyboard is currently crudely mapped to the 2 player pad. Left presses all keys in bit 0, Right in bit 1, Button 1 in bit 2, Button 2 in bit 3, and Reset Button in bit 4. Some of them spill over into the first couple of rows in bits 5-7. This works fine for many games which only require a certain button to start the game (often 1-4 or space bar), unfortunately it doesn't work well for anything more complicated.

For example, Hydlide uses buttons F1-F5 to adjust the speed of the game. With the current keyboard map it's only possible to select F4 and F5, both of which are overly fast IMO. It's also impossible to use the password system, or pause (STOP) as it shares bit 4 with W (write save to disk).

The numerical pad was optional, many MSX1 computers lack it, no games should require it, so we can ignore rows 9 & 10. Row 11 was only used in the MSX Turbo R, so we can ignore that too.

If mapped to these key combinations it should be possible to access all keys (admittedly often awkwardly). Reset button for row 6 and no button for bit 0 should be reserved to enable use of the shift key to access secondary buttons, but the others could be changed depending on preference.



Incidentally, it would be cool if CBIOS could be modified to save games to Master Everdrive save ram instead of MSX disk, but that's probably a lot of work.

BKK? About time we see you! Thanks.
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Post Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2021 8:37 pm
Any chance to add support for the SK-1100 keyboard to the C-BIOS? That way MSX games could be played with a keyboard on the SMS.
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Any chance to add support for the SK-1100 keyboard to the C-BIOS? That way MSX games could be played with a keyboard on the SMS.

Hmmm...
That would be a good idea. I think Revo figured that out already on his own. MEKA might already have that settled.
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How do I actually Start Guardic?
Post Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2021 1:12 am
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Update for Guardic, sound is now working.


How do I actually Start Guardic?
The Master System lacks a Keyboard and none of the buttons seem to emulate pressing the Space Bar.
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Update for Guardic, sound is now working.


How do I actually Start Guardic?
The Master System lacks a Keyboard and none of the buttons seem to emulate pressing the Space Bar.

You can use the joystick to start it. Just press 1 or 2.
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On Mednafen 1.26.1, Guardic stops at the C-BIOS Screen.
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Update for Guardic, sound is now working.


How do I actually Start Guardic?
The Master System lacks a Keyboard and none of the buttons seem to emulate pressing the Space Bar.

You can use the joystick to start it. Just press 1 or 2.

On Mednafen 1.26.1, Guardic stops at the C-BIOS Screen.
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Zombie Calavera Prologue is a game for Spectrum by The Mojon Twins, it got ported today to MSX and Coleco: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/317370-zombie-calavera-prologue/

 
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Zombie Calavera Prologue is a game for Spectrum by The Mojon Twins, it got ported today to MSX and Coleco: https://atariage.com/forums/topic/317370-zombie-calavera-prologue/

Wow, the ZX Spectrum is good just like the MSX and ColecoVision. Can't wait to try it out.
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Another homebrew with Duckstroma https://narwhal.itch.io/duckstroma

To delete garbage screen I had to replace D3 A0 by 00 C9, may be useful for other games.

To start a game press 2 on controller 2, then use controller 1 in-game (1 and directions).

 
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 20, 2021 11:15 am
I had forgotten how the IO ports worked. I tried remapping the keys in C-bios, but it only seems to affect what's displayed rather than the actual keys that the game sees as pressed. So I don't think it's possible to remap the keyboard keys in the bios beyond changing the ports. With the pad + reset we're stuck with just using key matrix bits 0-4 (maybe with some minor "ghosting" into bits 5-7. It might be possible to use bits 5 and 7 with a sports pad as it uses the TH lines, but I don't have one to test. A hardware mod might work by redirecting the TH lines to the spare second pad buttons, along with bit 6 through the CONT pin on the card slot, although that would need an extra button/MD pad.

Realistically it would require rom hacking on a game by game basis.

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Any chance to add support for the SK-1100 keyboard to the C-BIOS? That way MSX games could be played with a keyboard on the SMS.


The Mark III (keyboard doesn't work on SMS) has different hardware for the keyboard. The keyboard uses both IO ports (MSX keyboard only uses one), and shares them with the joypads. Unlike on SMS the joypad ports don't match, and there isn't a row 8 which contains the directional controls on MSX keyboard. So it's going to be difficult to control most games without rom hacking. Some games which allow use of other keys for control might work.

Not many people have a Mark III + keyboard, so it's difficult to test to see how if it works on actual hardware.
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Post Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2021 7:01 pm
I'm not able to play Antarctic Adventure on Kega Fusion, I press the key '1' on the keyboard to play on the joystick but I can't get any response on the controller, how to solve this?
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I'm not able to play Antarctic Adventure on Kega Fusion, I press the key '1' on the keyboard to play on the joystick but I can't get any response on the controller, how to solve this?

That's because it needs keyboard emulation.
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I'm not able to play Antarctic Adventure on Kega Fusion, I press the key '1' on the keyboard to play on the joystick but I can't get any response on the controller, how to solve this?


Like said in my post: "you need to use right on controller 2 to start."
 
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New Cobinee homebrew with Cross C and Hokuto.

 
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Would it be a good idea to do PSG to FM? I got the codes now. All I need is the instruments.
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Update of: Ace Gun, Actman, Angelo, Balance, Battle Cross, Boomerang, Car Fighter, Castle Excellent, Dumbbell, Gozira 3D, High Way Star, Ice World, Indian no Bouken, Kung-Fu Master, LR, Lunar Ball, Moai no Hibou; Mobile Suit Gundam, Mr Do Vs Unicorns, O, O'Mac Farmer, Pac-Man, Robofrog, Ski Command, Soukoban, Toss Coin, U.F.0., Witches, Z.

These games are now working on real hardware.
 
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Do any of you know how to do FM code? I'm trying to find an instrument.
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Thanks to Calindro that gave me a patch for C-BIOS who removes the code that reenables the BIOS. Now Bruce Lee is working on real hardware!

 
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And update of J.E.T.P.A.C, now running in real hardware.

 
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Post Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2021 4:15 am
How are you guys testing on real hardware? I have the programmer from Mortoff Games and been playing a lot of Sg-1000 converts but I can't get any msx2sms games working with it.
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I personally use the Chinese everdrive that you can found on Aliexpress for 30$.


Followed update of: Athletic Ball, Checkers in Tantan Tanuki, Color Midway, Plappy Limited, Hole in One, Quartet, Racing.

Theses games are now working on real hardware.
 
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New conversion with: British Bob, Challenge Durby, Color Tochika - Pillbox, Duck Hunt, The Heist, Inertia, Jaasta, Night Driver, Super Synth.

 
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Ah ok thanks a lot!
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Update of Kageno Densetsu, now working on real hardware.

 
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New homebrew conversion with Snail Maze, and update of Duck Hunt and Mini Tower Adventure (no more glitch in-game).

 
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Here's another Karoshi game.
Classic Pong.
Classic Pong.zip (9.67 KB)

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You didn't used Calindro update, followed the game working on real hardware.
 
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You didn't used Calindro update, followed the game working on real hardware.

Okay, I'll use this instead.
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And I'll see about PSG to FM.
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Update of Quartet, thanks to Calindro, no more glitch.
 
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Thanks to Calindro, update of: A.E, Aquapolis SOS, Bank Panic, Bee & Flower, Con-dori, Courageous Perseus, Devil's Heaven, Gunjin Shogi Mars.

These games are now working on real hardware.
 
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