Sharp X68000: the Japan-only God Computer, now on the MiSTer FPGA!

[@slappymcphee]

This is so exciting! I recently picked up an X68000 myself. It needs plenty of TLC hence getting it for a better price, but the physical design itself is gorgeous. I truly hope that core development continues in earnest as it is a super fun platform to fiddle with.

[@retrobitstv]

Awesome, I'd love to have the real hardware someday. Guess I better start watching yahoo auctions .jp more closely :) Same here. Things have come a long way but lots left to be done. Hopefully some day!

[@ldisc66]

And this is why I love the Mister project so much. It lets us normies experience systems we've never even seen before and at an affordable price. Also bonus: it doesn't take up much room. Thanks for your videos, they're great and quite informative!

[@ArcadeCabNBud]

mind you, far cheaper to emulate on a pc etc

[@ldisc66]

​@@ArcadeCabNBud This is true. But I can't use some of my vintage devices with my PC. Floppy drives, controllers, etc. If you just want to play games on your desk, the Mister is overkill, like a lot.

[@rgm4646]

The MiSTer project IS pretty awesome. I spent way too much money on it but man its worth it IMO. Im on this thing more than my PS5.

[@ScotsmanGamer]

LMFAO these games and systems have been emulated for years on various platforms.... You been under a rcok for the last twenty years

[@ScotsmanGamer]

@@rgm4646 so "awesome" can do cores for full pc systems and consoles yet can't do a multi platform arcade ones why is that???? oh it's for the core dev's to milk it for money per system! ;)

[@LusRetroSource]

This is a great in depth look at the x68000 core and the computer itself!

[@TMS5100]

@19:56 homestar runner reference!

[@ceticobr]

Thank you for showing more than just games! Every other channel's old computer videos will only show games. I like see what people did with those old machines beside gaming. Liked and subscribed.

[@WhatAboutZoidberg]

Let's fiting love! Nice write-up. Glad to see how far this has come now, since buying into it now, is insane as you showed. Some fantastic Midi tunes as well!

[@robmcleod2876]

I'm glad someone else spotted the let's fighting love reference

[@johnnada6855]

This machine was the biggest beast of the 80s before the Neogeo AES came out

[@SunkenCanoeArcade]

Really great video dude. Thanks for putting in the time and effort to show off something a lot of people (many "hardcore" gamers included) would never really see otherwise. Excellent content and editing.

[@retrobitstv]

Thanks for the feedback and glad you enjoyed it!

[@benbreeck3363]

Something to ponder: The Sharp X68000 and the Atari ST share remarkably similar port architectures, which in turn are both based on the port architecture of the IBM PC/AT. Imagine if Jack Tramiel had had a little bit more imagination, and contacted Sharp and Hudson to license the chipset for a release of a hypothetical Atari ST refresh ca. 1988. It would have been the perfect thing to give Amiga and Mac runs for their money...

[@Spolupyo]

Nope, its the X68K VDP chipset what Atari should have licensed, which is made by Ricoh and planned/engineered by Hudson, the same guys behind the PC Engine.

[@m0rvidusm0rvidus18]

So you think it's a good idea to give the Japanese this technology, then pay them royalties to use the system they copied off you to make a new system for yourself. And people wonder why Nintendo and Sega took over the American console market.

[@lsdowdle]

Thanks for putting in all of the effort to make this reasonably comprehensive video. It is obvious that you were interested in it and learned a lot... so thanks for sharing the info. I haven't tried the X68000 core yet but with this video as a guide, I don't feel so intimated anymore.

[@retrobitstv]

Glad it was helpful and good luck trying it out yourself!

[@teddym2808]

Incredible, thank you so much. My interest in Mister FPGA is at an all time high with this and Saturn cores. For everything else besides those two machines, I was genuinely already thrilled with emulation on a g-sync panel with a powerful PC. But now, I'll definitely be getting a dedicated screen and Mister setup. I just hope the do the FM Towns as well!

[@Allyouknow5820]

Excellent video covering a less-known system of that era ! Even if I'm more of an Neo-Geo (or arcade) guy myself with my MiSTer it's great to have this as somewhat of a map to the X68000 land ! And all those shmups are definitely doing it for me 😁

[@orangepillow]

I have owned X6800 PRO. It was desktop/horizontal case type. Twin tower case was called "Manhattan shpae". I have tried to make a shooting game but I couldn't finish it. It's my nostalgia.

[@drgero2]

Thanks for all the knowledge it’s super helpful

[@retrobitstv]

Glad it was useful!

[@daverhodus]

10:28 Thanks. This was giving me trouble.

[@nicolasvaillant2583]

For someone that says not to be into the shooter genre, you sure presented some solid gameplay !

[@retrobitstv]

Haha, thanks :) The first level is always easy - after that I fall apart pretty fast. Cho Ren Sha 68k in particular goes from mild to extreme by level 2 :P

[@eukat3ch]

Awesome video bud, i allways enjoy the new content. Keep it coming!

[@ropersonline]

14:47: LOL, I see what you did there. :)

[@fdk7014]

I've never heard of MiSTer FPGA before but I'm looking into it now and it looks super cool! This is also my first time on your channel btw. I would love to try this one day, there is a whole bunch of interesting stuff there in the MiSTer repository.

[@retrobitstv]

It is a great project that's under constant development! If you're interested, check out my MiSTer FPGA playlist here that starts with what it is and how to build it and then goes into things like MIDI add-ons, etc.: kzbin.info/aero/PLAFTE1bkmSE112rD2Wr_6leUeR9CYgZLV

[@richards_256]

Excellent video. Thanks!

[@chuckrock9510]

Nice stuff man!!!😎

[@Spolupyo]

X68000 cps ports are anything but perfect, SF2, FF, Daimakaimura, Strider, all of them seem to have a lower color count, most noticeable in SF2 Guile's stage background sky where you can notice more dithering patterns and less color gradients, raster effects on the floors also seem to have less detail, as for FF, the missing flashing lights in some stages, Timer count with less colors, lower number of enemies onscreen at once, the train passing by on the subway background stage, sprite flickering in Strider when the screen gets crowded, same can be said about the 2-3 Neogeo ports, Fatal Fury, FF Special, and Viewpoint, most noticeable in FF Special, cut animation, lower screen resolution, missing details on the backgrounds, lower color count, etc.

[@DrDavesDiversions]

Super cool, Matt! You are a MISTer power user for sure. I got a "real" job in '91 - that kept me busy AF - so never saw any of these games.

[@DrDavesDiversions]

re: OS9, do you know it was made to run on the Super PET? Very cool.

[@retrobitstv]

Haha yea, I was way into gaming through the 80's and 90's so the big name arcade games I knew about, but there are so many regional titles on this system that it's fun just to load things up and see what the heck they are. In my research, I did see that there was a 6809-powered Super PET that ran OS9! I need to do a deeper look into it and see what it was actually used for and get it up and running in multiuser on my CoCo3. Add it to the project queue!

[@JustinEmlay]

Supporting addons like MIDI is pure awesomeness!

[@AndyDo]

You sound so much like Alan Melikdjanian. Great video! Thanks!

[@retrobitstv]

Hah you're the second person to say that. The first time I had to look up who that was. Then I watched all his videos :)

[@RacerX-]

Awesome. If I could just get my hands on a Mister that would be amazing.

[@retrobitstv]

Ugh, yea I hear you! Best of luck to everyone trying to find inventory!

[@bengmo64]

very helpful and interesting video, thanks

[@skins4thewin]

WOW!!! Cho Ren Sha 68K looks freaking AMAZING for being made by a single guy! Surely he had some help SOMEWHERE, cus that music is a freaking banger too! Did he do the music all by himself too?

[@retrobitstv]

Surprisingly, a lot has been written about the game. Coding was a single developer and music was a separate composer! According to what's out there, the music tracks were written in a matter of several days each.

[@skins4thewin]

@@retrobitstv Very impressive. I may need to check more into that game. I have always been fascinated by the Sharp X68000 & have been trying to find one for a reasonable price for years. Unfortunately it looks like the opportunity for that has passed as they are stupid expensive now. The markup by sellers exporting them is huge.

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

That music making package is very similar to CMI's Fairlight creation software.

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

I just did a playthrough of Detana Twinbee on x68K. Just amazing.

[@retrobitstv]

I played through level 3 last night, it is really a great one! I also tried to get past level 2 in Daimakaimura yesterday and had to give up after the 8th continue or so :P Still too hard!

[@PrimitiveBaroque]

@@retrobitstv Haha yes it's incredibly hard! I died countless times on Twinbee but the music is so good! I have to do a playthrough of Daima next

[@Hamdad]

Finally a good way to play Geograph Seal

[@PapiFed]

Watching this video was a true pleasure. You have a new subscriber! Has somebody figured out how to save progress in Castlevania?

[@retrobitstv]

Glad you enjoyed it and welcome! I tried both the HDF and floppy versions of the game and neither persisted my current level after saving either.

[@PapiFed]

@@retrobitstv Indeed it seems the game save is part of the rom and it is in read only. I still had hope I was doing something wrong until your video where you clarified what the sram save and load were for. I wrongly assumed they were for the games sram rather than the core. Hopefully we will get a way to save our progress as the core evolves 🙂

[@pyjama9556]

Great to have this core we really are very lucky! Sound & general issues aside (there’s lots of them!) this will hopefully all be slowly addressed in the future and we will then have the best way to enjoy this amazing computer without shelling out £2000+ pounds!

[@retrobitstv]

Yea, let's hope there are more updates! Last time I looked, Puu-san had turned his attention to the FM Towns core so we might have to wait a while, but hey, another core to play with someday!

[@pyjama9556]

@@retrobitstv ooooh fm towns!! Scavenger 4, Microcosm, Splatterhouse and many others…yummy!😎🙌

[@Grooveraider]

@@retrobitstv FM Towns core coming ?! Holy shit ! 💥 It sure feels good to be a Mister owner 👍

[@udaaz]

Very nice 👍

[@graschbaten]

Thx! It would be nice to have a tutorial, how to create a HDF File. Because to easly play the Rom translations with 1 click

[@retrobitstv]

There are utilities out there to create the HDF file but I found it was just as easy to take an existing game .HDF, boot to the Human68k floppy, and use the format tool to make an empty bootable image I could then install whatever I wanted into. In the description, there's a link to a page that walks through how to use format if, like me, you can't read the Kanji.

[@ScoopexUs]

Are there examples of novel game ideas on the X68000, or does it mostly just re-play what arcades evolved into (consoley shooters, beat'em-ups, and fighting games)? I personally like the earlier years of arcade, let's say pre-Flying Shark, because that was when everyone tried to figure out some game ideas and some different ones saw the light.

[@retrobitstv]

Unfortunately I was really only able to test things that didn't require me to read Japanese characters. There are a LOT of visual novel type games and a few RPGs that I couldn't really try out. And then there are a lot of shooters. There are a lot of titles I didn't explore either - if you're interested you can browse almost 500 of them here: www.mobygames.com/browse/games/sharp-x68000/

[@ninetendopesaitama2107]

I guess even a lot of japanese gamers didnt had a x68000. Amazing i can experience this device at my MiSTer. Unbelievable you pay 2.5k for a real x68000 nowadays.

[@Damaniel3]

To be fair, that's less in inflation adjusted dollars than the original owner had to pay for it (nearly $6k in today's dollars). Still, that high price means there aren't really a ton of them to go around, so I'm glad we have both software emulation and MiSTer as an option.

[@NesNyt]

I have an expert edition in my attic. Dad worked for sharp USA and always was in Japan on trips. He brought it home and we never could get it to work right, something about 50 60 power he said. I'm gonna put it on eBay people seem to like it

[@retrobitstv]

Ah bummer, too bad it didn't work. Failed power supplies are pretty much the Achilles heel of the thing these days. They are worth a good chunk of change on eBay.

[@NesNyt]

@retrobits no it powers on when I tested last week but I can't get it out of Japanese. If I load disks it loads just fine and plays I'm trying google translate but it's Kanji and its hard to work with. Need a video that shows exactly how to change language step by step so I can get it in English. Got a hitbit Sony msx but I'm keeping that for the original releases to my favorite nes titles

[@octonoozle]

This computer was state of the UART back in 1988.

[@retrobitstv]

IC what you did there :P

[@arcadeages3917]

Not sure if it has been mentioned, but the x68000 also puts out 24khz in some games.

[@wojiaobill]

well hello there, mister!

[@mrburns366]

I think i read somewhere that many arcade games were developed on the x68000 which explains why the ports were so close to the arcade game. *Edit* ...and you mentioned that in the video. lol

[@Izquierda]

Awesome resource. So does the analogue output actually match the original? Last time I checked on this core when puu-san was working on it it would only do 31khz analogue output.

[@retrobitstv]

Thanks! I want to say that it does - I have the OSD video mode overlay turned on and I definitely see 15, 33, and 34 KHz modes being used on the analog out when I have the scaler disabled.

[@WildkatPhoto]

One of the prettiest computers ever

[@chickennugget3362]

So I've got the core and the files I need in the games/X68000 folder I have also downloaded the Sharp_X68000_Collection file. What do I do now?

[@keithjordan8728]

I need help finding a mister compatible rom pack. Which one is being showcased in the video?

[@RetroRockGamer]

The capcom stuff seems to freeze when using an mt32-pi though 😮

[@kulahptik9127]

19th!

[@zyxyuv1650]

When will there be a successor to the DE10 Nano? It does not have enough logic elements to create a core for PlayStation 2, Dreamcast, GameCube, Nintendo DS.

[@SunSailor]

Anybody any idea, if a port to the Mega65 FPGA will be possible as well? Would love to see it on that machine as well :)

[@retrobitstv]

I'm absolutely sure it is technically possible. I'm not at all involved with the Mega65 so I don't know if there's currently the will to port it to the MiSTer or not. I suspect their primary focus is to get other cores running on the Mega65 hardware. Someone who's closer to the project probably has a better answer though!

[@_specialneeds]

Wasn't the 68k also in the Mac Quadra series.? Or is that a different Motorola chip?

[@retrobitstv]

The 68000 and its later variants were in many home computers including all classic Macs, Amigas, Atari STs, the Sega Genesis, Neo Geo, and a ton of arcade systems!

[@_specialneeds]

@@retrobitstv cool. Ya I just remember the 68040 being a pretty robust CPU.

[@fdk7014]

So does the FPGA implement the whole 68000 CPU? Not that it's a super complex CPU but it's still fairly significant. Add to that the graphics and sound hardware, on only 110k gates?

[@retrobitstv]

The 68000 FGPA implementation has been around for a long time, predating the MiSTer project. It's used in many computer, game console, and arcade cores, some of which have been specifically benchmarked and tuned against real hardware with expensive test rigs (e.g. CPS1/2). One thing I've observed about FPGA development in general is that it has started with the simplest and working towards the more complex, building off each prior step along the way. CPU, sound device, etc. reuse has been a big part of that. Now we're starting to see the limits of the DE-10 nano's hardware really being tested with the Playstation and Saturn cores, something that was thought to be impossible early on.

[@aarondavis2123]

18:50 protect my balls!!!!

[@wishusknight3009]

Even the amiga 1200 and the AGA chipset was hopelessly out performed by the x68000. The X is arguably more powerdull than the neogeo as well imo

[@riggel8804]

Will this core work with analog output to a standard def crt? I heard that it doesn't but this video makes it sound like it's doable with an ini file tweak.

[@FoxbatStargazer]

It is possible, you just need vga_scaler and a 240p video mode. Many have done the same with the DOS core (ao486)

[@riggel8804]

@@FoxbatStargazer do you mean a downsclaler? Right now I have a vga to component cable hooked up to the analog board on my MiSTer but I don't have an ossc or anything like that. I do have an old pc crt monitor I could use but I was hoping to hook it up to my 36 inch sd tv.

[@Faginrs500]

@@riggel8804 He means the ini file settings described in the description above - just define a 240p video mode

[@riggel8804]

@@Faginrs500 okay got it. Thanks. I messed around with those settings a couple days back to output 240p with scandoubling to my pc crt. Pretty sure I can figure out the sharp video settings as long as it's possible.

[@retrobitstv]

The scaler settings (copy/paste from description) should get you 240p to a standard def CRT from the core but no guarantees if the 31khz video modes will be very legible!

[@l3rvn0]

Anyone had any problems running Phalanx on the core? Here the graphics for everything except the ship appears all messed up

[@DJCrazyNights]

Hi in one of the menus it looks like their is a tv mode. I wonder if that will force it into 240p mode only so I can run the core on my Sony BVM.

[@retrobitstv]

You can force the core to 240P through mister.ini settings, but I didn't see any such settings in the MiSTer's core menu. The switch command has a setting for TV_CTRL, but my best guess is that determines the behavior of the display when the main unit is powered off. LCD_Mode changes the character set. Check out the video description for a sample forced 240p configuration.

[@infinitecanadian]

17:50 I thought you said 'congee', which is popular in lots of Oriental cultures.

[@antorsae2009]

Hi - Thanks for the video. Can you check if Nemesis 90 works with MT32PI?

[@retrobitstv]

I tried it out and unfortunately it locks up whenever external MIDI is enabled :( Otherwise the game plays great with internal sound.

[@antorsae2009]

@@retrobitstv Thanks! Same here. FWIW, internal sound is not right in the game either; also, you can activate better PCM sound when using "Turbo" mode however still doesn't sound quite right.

[@markfloyd7156]

Did you organize those d88 files yourself? I can't seem to find that specific pre-organized archive. Any ideas on what search terms I should be using to find that archived?

[@retrobitstv]

The d88 collection was sorted by genre/alphabetically already. Unfortunately, I downloaded that collection quite some time ago and don't remember from where and it's not in my browser history. It isn't as complete as some of the other collections from Internet Archive, but the sorting by genre is useful. Sorry that's not much help :(

[@markfloyd7156]

@@retrobitstv All good, thanks for the reply. I'll snoop around more and see what I can find. The sorted game packs have been such a savior on my mister.

[@fraggle200]

I got them from here kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4uzYXyXrLxnrbc&ab_channel=Pezz82

[@koiqueeen]

@@MatthewDaviesParker Could you find them? I'm dying to try that Sound Pro-68K sound editor.

[@hc5979]

i wonder if they can get the cyberstick work with snac

[@Tim_3100]

Pi-4 handles x6800 really well clocked to 2ghz

[@retrobitstv]

Cool! I haven't tried emulating it on my Pi 400, but I have on my PC and it works flawlessly there. The MiSTer core has a way to go before I would consider it feature-complete but I hope it gets there some day.

[@axilmar254]

Nice video. Even the mighty X68000 struggled with 3d games. It was quite a 2d powerhouse, but on 3d, it wasn't very good compared to the best 3d arcade games of the time. In retrospect, if it was on me, I would have designed a home computer around the 68000 CPU that could texture at least 1000 triangles per frame at 256 colors. We would then have perfect conversions of everything, including SEGA's arcade superscaler racers. But alas, we we got is crappy Amigas (crappy when compared to top arcades of the time), and good-but-not-perfect X68000s...

[@axilmar254]

@First Plays Both the Megadrive and the SNES were superior to the Amiga, but I wouldn't call the Amiga trash compared to them. The Amiga was 1982 tech, let's not forget that.

[@Spolupyo]

it wasn't that good in 2D either, maybe in 1987 when it was released, but the time they started porting games over from Konami, CPS, Neogeo arcade boards circa 1990 and onwards) is when you start to see the hardware shortcomings.

[@abelbmx]

Does Phalanx still run with sprite problems?

[@zanto1]

When the core starts, it takes a long time for it to boot up. Also, when I use the switch command, it takes a few seconds for the menu to show. In your video, it was almost instant. Is there a reason for that to happen to me?

[@retrobitstv]

Hrm, I can't think of any reason that'd be the case since the hardware and software are identical. Off the top of my head I would suggest trying a different sdcard and see if that improves things.

[@JustinEmlay]

Seems like the vast majority of games are stored in HDM format and not D88. Bit of a mess. Think I'll wait for better support or depending on how well they convert it might be worth it to try and mass convert the entire 16GB collection.

[@cloongc88]

Hi, Im getting a blank screen after booting up the core. I have downloaded the 3 files ( at 4.44) from the Github page and copied them into the x68000 games folder. Does anyone know what the problem might be? I have touched the Mister.ini file ( or messed around with any of the settings).

[@retrobitstv]

Huh, that is really odd. There are no special setup requirements except having the boot.rom and boot3.vfd files in the right place. I assume you've run the updater and got the latest RBF file? You can verify, it should be X68000_20220214.rbf on your sdcard.

[@cloongc88]

@@retrobitstv Yup, I have confirmed that I have that exact same file. I've watched a few tutorials and I cant find what Im missing. Im able to bring up the OSD during the blank screen, so I know the Mister hasnt crash.

[@StephanieHua]

Anyone know if special keys are supported? Such as the 登録 key

[@retrobitstv]

As far as I can tell, special keys are not remap-able at this time. Hopefully in a future release!

[@robf228]

I can't locate the tonton hdf files. Any help please?

[@retrobitstv]

I'd have a look at this video and maybe check out the SD Card 2 link in the description ;) kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4uzYXyXrLxnrbc

[@RetroGamer_George]

How do you stop it from auto booting .vhd files. Mine keeps auto booting the last .vhd file loaded..

[@retrobitstv]

I noticed that as well but I didn't look into how to disable that behavior by default. If you want, you can unmount the current .vhd by going into the selection dialogue and hitting the backspace key.

[@bymarcao]

Where do I get the memory files?

[@miki_ross]

Is it me or Alien Syndrome has BETTER look on the 68k than the arcade version?

[@sunderark]

Man the sound is really throwing me off for some of the games. Haha.

[@suchaluch5615]

I don't get the japanese... Why didn't they sell their excellent stuff overseas? In the goog old days, I thought that only sony sucked because they didn't bring their great Net Yaroze to europe. Now I'm learning that other great hardware was also only available in Japan. Why? I'd love to see an explanation on this... Maybe a topic for retrobits?

[@JustinEmlay]

It didn't sell well enough to support that move. The amount of work to create multiple languages and even support in other languages is a huge cost.

[@suchaluch5615]

@@JustinEmlay Thanks for your input! My guess would be, that you would have just needed to translate it to english... and it would have sold in enourmous numbers in europe and the US. Way better than the amiga.

[@Longlius]

It didn't make sense at the price point. For $2500 in Japan in 1987 it was a compelling option. However by 1988, IBM PC clones could have access to comparable sound via the AdLib, higher resolution graphics with more color via SVGA, and the 386DX was selling for less than $400. All this meant you could build a PC-compatible that could theoretically compete with the x68000 for around half the price. Games weren't immediately taking advantage of this stuff obviously, but by 1990 most PC games on a PC built in 1988 would look better than stuff on the x68000 outside of the x68000's native arcade-style games. PC gamers were generally far more interested in RPGs, sim games, and adventure games than arcade-style games though. The biggest elephant in the room however would have been application support. Even in Japan, the x68000 struggled to compete in its price category because it wasn't MS-DOS based. NEC's PC-98 series wasn't strictly IBM PC-compatible but it ran a modified version of MS-DOS and a lot of regular MS-DOS applications had been ported to it, giving it a massive leg up over the x68000 in Japan. In the US, there was really no hope - at $2500, people were going to expect a PC to be able to run serious shit like Lotus 1-2-3 or Borland tools. And in Europe, it was simply too expensive - the Amiga 500 cost only around $700 and could do most of the stuff the x68000 could at less than a third of the price. tl;dr the market for the x68000 was relatively small in Japan and basically nonexistent elsewhere.

[@suchaluch5615]

@@Longlius Well, I wouldn't agree.. Games: Resolution isn't the only thing... e.g. SVGA misses Sprites, so fast-paced arcade games aren't too easy on an 80386. Application support could have been an issue... But OS9 was a solution. It would have been interesting to see this product.

[@Longlius]

​@@suchaluch5615 OS-9 was never going to a solution for application support because people already owned or used MS-DOS software and OS-9 could not run that software.

[@mindscan420]

Wait what? I’ve played plenty .D88 files on it, they just didn’t scale right. I was too lazy to figure out how to play hdf or what those are

[@retrobitstv]

Many of the game titles have been ported to .HDF images which boot soooo much faster!

[@mindscan420]

@@retrobitstv oooh, ill have to look into that! has any scaling been fixed or anything yet?

[@MagisterHamid]

Phalanx got glitchy graphics and sound :-( i hope it gets fixed!

[@activelow9297]

I collect Japanese computer equipment, and often times keys and screen indicators will use kanji or katakana characters. I wish I knew how to read the Japanese chicken-scratching, it would make things so much easier!

[@retrobitstv]

I ended up using the Google Translate app a lot to take photos of the screen and selecting the characters I wanted to read :)

[@infinitecanadian]

Are there really hundreds of visual novels for the system?

[@retrobitstv]

There are over 130 visual novels for the system listed on Wikipedia but those are only the commercially published ones, not the independently released titles.

[@oledevo]

This is cool and all but average Joe doesn't want to mess with configurations. I found a package on archive that has each game as an autobooted harddrive image. Maybe that's one of the ones you've got, I don't know. I would also accept a user friendly games list thing.

[@dougjones2296]

That's the way to go, the games just load when they're picked and if there's problems just hit reset in core menu

[@igormonteiro9210]

roland cm-64 emulation works?

[@retrobitstv]

I haven't tried myself. Munt is capable of emulating a CM-64, but I do not thing that mt32-pi currently supports this configuration. I assume if you connected a real CM-64 to the MiSTer with a MiSTer MIDI, UM-One, or equivalent it would work just fine with the X68000 core.

[@igormonteiro9210]

@@retrobitstv thank you for the information. Phalanx best music version is the CM-64 one.

[@JamesJones-zt2yx]

Anyone running OS-9/68000 on a MiSTer FPGA running the Sharp X68000 core? (Oops. Guess I was a bit impatient.)

[@jasp2003]

Is this the computer they have in Steins Gate lab? (not the IBN)

[@jonniefast]

this core does NOT work over crt? or....?

[@franciscooteiza]

or .... what?

[@retrobitstv]

The system boots in 31Khz mode so if you're using a 240p display, you'll need to use the VGA scaler to force a 15Khz mode.

[@jonniefast]

ya i tried flipping back and forth from 31khz mode within the core settings i think its my adapter tbh some cores hate s-video 🥹

[@maniacaudiophile]

I suddenly see a strong resemblance between X68000's top vent and Xbox One...

[@mercster]

"Hadn't seen an update in 4 years"... well, not true. They hadn't built a release for you to easily download... the dates on other files/directories in the repository clearly show that they had continued working on the project. You would have to build it yourself with a compiler, of course.

[@andreyansimov5442]

For some reason, I dont like graphics of these games... image is so bright, and pixels are so visible... But machine itself is outstanding. And lot of respect to developers of Mister hardware and software

[@mehere3013]

I would buy one is if was cheaper , pi is a good all-round cheap solution

[@The_Conspiracy_Analyst]

There are free emulators out there that work great though

[@jonniefast]

nothing loads whatsoever

[@26c62626yamashita]

無理しないで　がんばってほしいです 。

[@infinitecanadian]

I hate the MIDI versions of songs in Akumajoh Dracula. They are all over the place and don't follow the originals.

[@CB3ROB-CyberBunker]

a 'twin tower design' is not unique. it's just a ripoff, smaller, sgi iris 4d. which also has 2 towers. just a tiiiny bit bigger than this :P

[@djcb4190]

too explicit, too harsh..

[@franciscooteiza]

🤣😝👎

[@Super_Bros.]

First

[@nneeerrrd]

grow up manchild

[@DAVIDGREGORYKERR]

If you could get the source code for MS-DOS 3.2 and compile it for the SHARP X68000 maybe you get it to work better, would there be a way to get the drivers to load high using the LH prefix before the driver name.sys or name.bin

[@rwprime1]

Your XADLAK that was twitchy / glitchy - the video said 93 Maybe try a rom called XADLAK 91.HDF

[@retrobitstv]

Thanks for the tip; I tried 91 but it still had the same issues on my MiSTer. I haven't tried it with analog out, only the HDMI scaler.