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MSX 1/2: suffixes and Incompatibilities #53

Closed Gordon1972 closed 3 years ago

Gordon1972 commented 3 years ago

ArkOS 1.4 (latest online update) -> MSX1/2 Issues:

Suffixes that are propagated on the "ArkOS Emulators and Ports information" page (.msx1, .msx2) are not working and are non-standard. The standard would be .mx1/.mx2, but in ArkOS these suffixes don't work. So far only the .rom suffix works. Maybe fMSX cannot interpret 4-lettter suffixes?

Many MSX2 games don't work at all or getting blank screens/weird resolution changes with the RetroArch (64-bit) core.

christianhaitian commented 3 years ago

Thank you for reporting this. I will correct the extension issue with the next update. For MSX 2, can you try the suggestion in the link below and let me know if that works?

https://retropie.org.uk/docs/MSX/#setting-default-screen-on-msx2-and-turbor-machines

Gordon1972 commented 3 years ago

I think the suggestion to type something in is not practical on the user side, but i looked at Retrobat and Recalbox and found that they use blueMSX as the default MSX/MSX2 Emulator, whereas ArkOS uses fMSX. Maybe changing the core could make a difference? Tried different MSX2-games (50Hz/60Hz) on both systems and all work out of the box.

christianhaitian commented 3 years ago

Bluemsx is available in ArkOS and is the default emulator for Coleco. If you're familiar with Retroarch, can you load the games through retroarch using the bluemsx core and confirm that it truly resolves the issue? Then I can incorporate it as the default core for msx in the next future update.

Gordon1972 commented 3 years ago

I can confirm that the games i tested with blueMSX do work, you can set blueMSX as the new standard core for MSX1/MSX2. The Retropad mapping for the controls do work, but there are a few undefined keys such as "Space" that also should be mapped IMHO.

christianhaitian commented 3 years ago

Thank you for helping to test blueMSX. Today's updates includes adding blueMSX as an additional and the default MSX1/2 emulator.