hey there.
i have managed to get fmsxce running metal gear on my dell axim x5. the only problem is that i cant save my game. most commonly it says "verify error". when and if the error doesnt appear, there does not appear to be anything saved with i reload the file.
can somebody please help me?

The verify errors are something you should worry about. Probably the emulation is not perfect yet.

However, with Metal Gear 1 of 2 you do not save everything.

In Metal Gear 1 you can save when you want, if you reload you will be warped back to the last time you visited the elevator. Metal Gear 2 saves the last move to a new environment (new building, floor, jungle etc.).

the emulation should be good... i know mg2 can save properly. i think the problem with mg1 is that is saves to a cassette and i dont kno how to make a cas file properly. the gamemaster2 supposedly allows mg1 to save to disk, but i have no idea how to use it either... any help would be greatly appreciated.

I've been using pocketMSX (another pocketPC emulator) cause I'm not able to start any ROM or DSK with fMSXce... but the sound lacks. Any of you knows a english manual or URL for fMSXce?

niles:
it doesnt exist... i looked ALL over the net... heres what i can tell u tho. from reading the debug.log, u can see what its trying to load. so u need the fmsxce program files, and msx2p.rom and msx2pext.rom in the main directory. also include a keybind.cfg file. from the KEYBIND directory in the fmsxce archive, take the file corresponding to ur pda and rename it to keybind.cfg. i think thats it. i will check my pda's fmsxce dir later to see if what i said was 100% correct. if u get that working and need help with the key configs, let me kno.
for pocketmsx, were u able to save to cassette? if u were, can u get me a copy of a .cas file that works and tell me how u did it?

still have problems saving to cassette... sum1 plz help me there

nope... I guess save option in pocketMSX is not yet implemented. It's a great emu for pocketPC but it seems the development was stopped

thanks a lot for the tips with fmsxce, I'll try it and I continue searching some info about it

ok heres the files the important files in my fmsxce directory.
fMSX_CE.exe
gsgetfile.dll
gx.dll
keyboard.bmp
KEYBIND.cfg

important roms:
disk.rom
fmpac.rom
msx2p.rom
msx2pext.rom

other roms and files are either optional or created when the emulator is run. its a good idea to format a new dsk file. metal gear 2 saves and loads perfectly on the emulator to dsk so i assume there is a way to save metal gear 1 to cas... btw the flash rom version of metal gear doesnt save either.... the save is gone once u leave reset the rom.

heres some help with the keybind. the there are 4 rows of hex codes separated by commas. the end of each row (by default fro the archive) has a comment of the MSX key it represents. the first row will be the key from the pocket pc buttons/keyboard. to change the keys, use the keycheck option in the emu and put the kex code into the first row of the hex codes according to the msx key u want mapped. make sure the final keybind file is named "keybind.cfg" and not keybind_ppc.cfg.

i believe that should be it for running fmsxce. hope this helps everyone out who wants to use this ^^

/me still wants .cas file and saving info. i cant even figure it out on fmsx dos. if it works with the dos version, itll work with the ppc version. so sum1 PLZ help ><

Hi again... i've been testing your indications, but i'm not was able to start a .ROM or .DSK I did all your steps but the screen remains blue and don't start any game, and don't came into BASIC or MSX-DOS.

I was looking on the debug.log and I saw there missed MSXDOS2.ROM too to begin emulation. I putted it on the fmsxce directory but it doesn't work... looking on the debug again, i'm not able to detect the problem... only appears this message of failure :

Loading DEFAULT.FNT font...FAILED

...and...

Loading state from .sta...FAILED
RUNNING ROM CODE...
EXITED at PC = 77ADh.
Trash MSX ... OK.
Video closed.
Sound Device Trash ... OK.
Option saved.
fMSX_CE Exit

My pocketPC is a iPAQ (ARM) at 200MHz... can you help me a bit more please? (meanwhile i still using pocketMSX, a great emu too )

hmm... i will look into that...i dont think iv ever had that problem, even when the msxdos2.rom wasnt there... have u tried both the hpc and ppc versions of the fmsxce.exe? i dont really kno the difference between hpc and ppc tho...

oops.. no, I'm only test PPC version, I'll try it and lets look... thanks a lot for u help