Kyokugen on real floppies ?!

Supporter (6)

14-09-2010, 19:57

hello msx fans

well... i tried installing the game ( it's as you know 2 different .dsk ) on normal floppies of 720kb). but i can't ! diskmanager says the files are incorrect. and even in windows or msdos pc modes, the size is just bigger than real 720kb formatted floppy .

i tried seeking informations, sure it's playable in emulators, but that's not the real feeling... and it seems it's playable IF we have harddrive/smc mmc support card (dont have any..)

but did anyone succeeded installing it on 2 real floppies ? is there some really weird formatting option ?!, (i have a "normal" msx2 sony fb700)

my thanks for any hint !

By Manuel

Ascended (19468)

14-09-2010, 21:46

I guess you're copying the file to it, instead of writing it as a disk image to the disk?

By NYYRIKKI

Enlighted (6067)

14-09-2010, 21:56

If you are using Windows, try to use DCOPY program...

If the game's RAW data is really bigger than 720KB (737280 bytes) then I've made a program that formats 738KB floppys on MSX tR... Those disks don't work on all MSX-models... it depends of disk drive's physical features... How ever MSX-DOS and different MSX Disk ROM's seem to understand them correctly. (Mail me if you need it, and I'll search it from my archives)

How ever I find this later option EXTREMELY unlikely.

By caincan

Supporter (6)

14-09-2010, 22:54

thanks for your returns and hints. i searched the forum, and two names seemed like hope. will try tomorrow Dcopy & Rawrite. the good software would be something that doesnt check the size ! and copy the max it can