Support SRAM saves for games required it.

[wwark]

Hi,

You have this game "Hydlide II - Shine of Darkness (1986)(T&E Soft)(Japan)(MSX1)(ASCII8).rom" that you need to create a character before to start the game. The creation is OK but after create the character, the game start said "Nothing" because I think It tried to read the SRAM. So maybe this game is easy to check the SRAM save implementation.

Thanks for your time on this great core !!

[Vampier]

Those are very specific mappers that are used for those games - I'm not sure if simply adding an SRAM functionality would do the trick. Also the filename mentions ASCII8 which is incorrect ;)

https://romdb.vampier.net/edit.php?id=462

[wwark]

I see so new slots to implement for this case. Do you know if the rom contains this information or we will need to choose the slot(mapper) for this game ? Thanks !

[GuerreroNinja]

I see so new slots to implement for this case. Do you know if the rom contains this information or we will need to choose the slot(mapper) for this game ? Thanks !

There is a database that describe the mapper used for every MSX game out there based on rom hash. Perhaps it can be used here, I don't know if the Mister framework allows that or can be doable?

[wwark]

List of SRAM mappers for MSX1:

• KoeiSRAM32 (Genghis Khan, Nobunaga no Yabou - Zenkokuhan)
• ASCII16SRAM2 (Hydlide 2)
• ASCII8SRAM8 (Xanadu, Deep Dungeon 2(alt))
• ASCII8SRAM2 (Deep Dungeon 1, Deep Dungeon 2)

Maybe some games are missing on list let me know

[Vampier]

I see so new slots to implement for this case. Do you know if the rom contains this information or we will need to choose the slot(mapper) for this game ? Thanks !

There is a database that describe the mapper used for every MSX game out there based on rom hash. Perhaps it can be used here, I don't know if the Mister framework allows that or can be doable?

I am the owner of romdb.vampier.net I reached out on Twitter about this as well - but I am not sure if the framework allows this indeed.

[tdlabac]

There is a database that describe the mapper used for every MSX game out there based on rom hash. Perhaps it can be used here, I don't know if the Mister framework allows that or can be doable?

This would mean adding support to the Mister OS and framework

[wwark]

With the last update with support of some mappers using SRAM I can start the game Hidlyle II after the character creation. Thank you :+1: