MSX emulator - BlueMSX

Post by **Boaby Kenobi** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 10:05 am

I downloaded an emulator recently - BlueMSX it's called. I'm having trouble getting it to run so can anyone help me out? Do you need to load both the cartridge and floppy roms? I downloaded Metal Gear + MG - Solid Snake but can't seem to get them working. I tried extracting one of the zip files and it gave me one additional file.
Please help.

Post by **Ivo** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:21 pm

If the game is cartridge based, you load the cartridge. If it is floppy based, then you load the disk. You should be able to figure it out based on the extension. I never tried running .zipped stuff. Unzip it first. Also I think there are 2 different floppy drives, I'll check later for you if I have time.

Ivo.

Post by **Boaby Kenobi** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:31 pm

OK mate, thanks. I'll try and find out what format Metal Gear was. I know that the MSX version of Snatcher was both cartridge and floppy disk, so I imagine you can do some kind of dual boot with the emulator.
Cheers.

Post by **Ivo** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:34 pm

I'm pretty sure if it is a dual thing you will have at least two files inside the zip. Then you go to the menu and "insert" both of them, possibly you need to disable some option that says something like "automatically eject" or something. Unless you specifically make the emulator eject an image, I think it keeps it (so, for example, if you go to the menu and do a reset, you won't need to go to the menu to insert something again). So this should allow you to put both a disk and a cart, reset, and run with both "inserted".

If you only have one file in the .zip, either it's not a "dual" game, or I'm guessing the .zip is incomplete

Ivo.

Post by **fumanchu** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 3:56 pm

ive got bluemsx for the xbox1 and its an excellent emu if i can make a suggestion then try a game called aleste2,a great shmup. :wink:

by the way if anyone is looking for the xbox version its called bluemsxbox.

Post by **Boaby Kenobi** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 5:41 pm

I'm still having trouble getting a game to run on this emulator :oops:

When I try to run a game - Metal Gear - it doesnt seem to load up properly, it displays the MSX splash screen repeatedly.
Any ideas?
Cheers.

Post by **Ivo** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 4:07 am

Boaby Kenobi wrote:I'm still having trouble getting a game to run on this emulator
When I try to run a game - Metal Gear - it doesnt seem to load up properly, it displays the MSX splash screen repeatedly.
Any ideas?
Cheers.

You probably got a bad file. Try to get it from somewhere else and try again (compare the size of the files and so on).

Ivo.

Post by **fumanchu** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:31 am

Boaby Kenobi wrote:I'm still having trouble getting a game to run on this emulator
When I try to run a game - Metal Gear - it doesnt seem to load up properly, it displays the MSX splash screen repeatedly.
Any ideas?
Cheers.

i had the same problem with the xbox version of this emu with both games,what you have to do is in the configuration screen set it to msx2+ and also if you got the screen repeating itself over and over then you do have the correct rom as i had the same.
good to see another scottish member here.

Post by **Boaby Kenobi** » Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:20 pm

That's it working now. Cheers mate.