X68000 - Mess Tutorial

[hostile75]

Hi and thanks for your tuto.

My x68000 games are working with MESS but I have a problem with controls.

I st controls through MESS but I have only up and down working and almost no button.

I tried the in game pad option (3 or 6 bouton megadrive) but its not better.

I have the qanba Q4raf and the 360 pad, none are working.

What controllers do you use for x68000 emulation theough MESS ?

You dont have any controller issues ?

Thanks a lot

[DOS76]

I usually have to manually set up the buttons for MESS they don't work until specified hit tab on the keyboard and play around with the options after the game is opened.

[hostile75]

Thanks but I only can open tab with the mouse and the menu button on the left, not working with keyboard.

Can I ask which version of MESS/ MESSUI you are using ?

And I tried to change setting while game is opened but its not working.

 

[DOS76]

I don't use MESS at all I just use MAME it takes all the same commands that MESS does much easier as long as those system bios files are in your MAME ROMs full set they should just work.

[hostile75]

Ok Thanks for your help and advices

I got it working with mame 0.180 and my joystick is working well too

 

 

 

[DOS76]

Cool I'm glad.

[hostile75]

The big thing is working, so I'm going in details now.

Do you have a trick to leave game and go back to Launchbox as this command dont seems to work.

I mapped UI end on Mame, but not succesfull and also the "exit" button under Launchbox is also not working.

Thanks

[Lordmonkus]

Setting up your exit key combo in Mess should work fine, it does for me.

[hostile75]

Thanks but Im on Mame for this.

With Mess I could not make my controllers working properly

[Lordmonkus]

The same thing applies, set it up in the "Tab" menu.

[hostile75]

thanks, working now

[Lordmonkus]

Good to hear.

[hostile75]

Hi Lordmonkus,

I dont want to be off topic but did you manage to make work the fantastic NEC PC-98 games through Mame / Mess with similar method ?

I've tried but not succesfull.

Thanks 

[Lordmonkus]

I never tried.

[ciskohansen]

How can I load hdf/xdf files with mess?  There are very good games in this format and with Mess don´t work.

I have read about converting to chd, how?

[Lordmonkus]

Not sure if Mess supports those specific file types or not but if it doesn't you will either have to find a way to convert or use an emulator that does support them.

[ciskohansen]

 

[Lordmonkus]

That game is available as a .dim file format as well. There is nothing in that video indicating what file type is being used but judging by the Drv0 and Drv1 lights it looks like 2 floppy disk images.

[hostile75]

Hi,

Since few days, Retroarch has a new core, Px68k, that can run pretty good X68000 games.

Could you please help me regarding the command line for the multi disk games with Retroarch and this new core ?

Thanks a lot

[Lordmonkus]

I'll take a look at it later and see what it's like.

Edit:
Ok, now that I have had a little time to look into this and I cannot get multi disk games to load. I read over the github page here https://github.com/libretro/px68k-libretro and nothing I see there that would indicate how to make them work is working for me. I tried making .cmd files pointing to disk images like the following says to do.

retroarch -L px68k_libretro.so ./content.cmd (cmdfile is a text file contening cmd like "px68k /somewhere/software/x68000/content1.dim /somewhere/software/x68000/content2.dim")

Hopefully with some time this will become easier or work if it isn't really working already. Maybe I was doing something wrong but I tried everything I could think of with no luck beyond a black screen with some Japanese text and nothing beyond that.