Help with OpenMSX Please.

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Help with OpenMSX Please.

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I have a problem with OpenMSX. I'm using Catapult to lauch OpenMSX and have the correct Bios drivers and SCC plug-ins and so on. I've had MSX Snatcher working for a while - I'm well into act 2. However, recently the PC I've been running it on gives me error messages when I use catapult - and OpenMSX will not launch. A error message displays that it cannot find the OpenMSX version, and I need 0.4.0 or higher - well, I'm using 0.5.... strange.

Basically, I want to find and extract my save file from the various folders and files in Programfiles/openMSX and reinstall openMSX.- Can anyone tell me where abouts in the doc, doc.dll,share,cbios,machines,keymaps,resources and so on I'll find my SAVE file - in saved in slot 0, if that makes any difference. Thanks guys!
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Post by Reborn from the Ashes »

I use NLMSX, so I'm not too sure how helpful this will be but my save file was in the ROMS subfolder, did you have to use diskmanager to create the save file? If you did, try looking for the SDUSER.dsk file.

Sorry I couldn't be more helpful. :(
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Hey,

I used the actual game save - not an external program... come to think of it - I saved in game slot 0 - which required me to 'insert' disk 0 to save....once saved I had to
re-insert whichever disk I was playing on at the time... So I suppose its a possibility that it atually saved in/over that rom file - as in the roms folder there are only the disk roms to play the game... thanks
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As a matter of fact, it indeed must have saved in the disk image file.. so I wouldn't worry. But fro safety, take those image files and use them in any other emu to find out.
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Thanks exactly what I planned to do. :grin: Thanks!

Also, Snatcher - I was wondering if you knew the Japanese location of the snatcher settings - Kintano (gibsons house) Sannomiya (Joy Division), as these are actual places in Kobe. I know the area where Ivans apt. has a name (rather than something like distric B-5), Alta-Mira...not sure about that one... any ideas?

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Unfortunately I've never been to Kobe. Only Tokyo and Oosaka.. so for now I can't help you much. But I'll try and search later to figure out something with what is on the net, if possible.
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Ok, I was moreso asking if you Knew the locations IN THE GAME - like Altamira, Joy division in Sannomiya, and Gibsons house in the Kintano - actually refered to in the Japanese version of the game.

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Yey! - For future reference, if anyone is interested:

The MSX Emulated (with OpenMSX) Snatcher save games by writing into the rom disk which you are asked to insert when saving... just make sure that the .dsk rom you use is not 'read only'...
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