Open 13spacemen opened 11 months ago
I think the issue I'm having is related to this one. If not, please move to another thread.
I am currently trying to figure out how to play Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World via Apple IIe emulation in MAME 0.263. The game is running beautifully, except for the issue I'm having with saving the game.
Normally players are supposed to make a copy of Original Disk B and save their progress to this copy. I can't get this to work in MAME with anything except the MAME floppy image format. .mfi seems to be working, but then I can't use that image with any other emulators and attempts to convert the .mfi to .woz or .nib other formats keeps failing. I can, however, successfully save progress to the master WOZ image of Disk B if it is set to read/write, but then this saved to .woz file doesn't seem to work in AppleWin; it only works with MAME. .nib files made in AppleWin successfully read in MAME, but they can't be written to; MAME will only load them as read-only.
So the problem is that I can't find any compatible floppy image format to save progress in this game that is also portable to other emulators.
I found [this post] (https://github.com/AppleWin/AppleWin/issues/664#issuecomment-511213275) on the AppleWin github which seems to me to likely be the same issue I'm having with Might and Magic II. It concerns the game Ultima III: Exodus, but the issue closely matches what I have been experiencing with MM2. I suspect that MM2 has similarly bizarre sector layout (likely part of the copy protection system) which is why it's proving so difficult to get it to successfully copy.
I only have a layman's understanding of the AppleII hardware, so I'm afraid I can't help to troubleshoot this in a serious way, but I'm happy to try and provide further information or testing.
Edit: Corrected link
MAME version
0.259
System information
Windows 10, x64, EN-US, intel i5 10th Gen iGPU
INI configuration details
Emulated system/software
Apple IIe running Zork III release 17 interpreter K
Incorrect behaviour
Expected behaviour
Zork III should say "Ok." and should be able to restore from disk created in MAME
Steps to reproduce
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Additional details
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