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@DanHero Unfortunately it is difficult to be of help with the little information you provide.

But I can confirm the correct functioning of Mahou Daisakusen on my system:

X68000 XVI 10MHz and 16MHz mode, 10MB RAM + MIDI ( Etarikashikoshi ) on HENKAN BANCHO PRO.

As I imagine you know, with the directional cross you enter the settings, you start with the F1 key and with F2 you insert the credits, the XF1 and XF2 keys are fire and bomb.

Try in the settings/music, alternating FM Sound and MIDI, to see if it freezes with both modes.

Well, here's a game by MicroCabin that's all about MicroCabin.

Just to update the thread, Edu Arana's Etarikashikoshi 8MB RAM + MIDI is now working perfectly on 16 MHz machines after a firmware upgrade.

All new cards sold have the upgraded firmware already, obviously, and the first ones, if you intend to run them on a faster machine, you'll have to send it back to Edu so it can be updated.

Hi Hiker, do you still have the 4MB card available?

Cheers

Here's a video of the problem too, in case that helps:
https://imgur.com/a/OSysS6m

Quote from: HIggy on April 25, 2024, 05:01:28 PMThere is this device for modern Windows PCs:
https://www.retropassion.co.uk/product/greaseweazle/?v=79cba1185463

Main stumbling block usually is getting hold of a 5.25" drive.

I don't think this device will write .xdf files directly so they will need converting.

According to this site they would do xdf just fine
Writing floppies with a USB Greaseweazle/Fluxengine interface

Greaseweazle or Fluxengine hardware can be used to format and write images to a floppy in one step. Besides XDF, there is also limited support for D88 and DIM floppy image support. Regardless of your hardware choice, you will need the Fluxengine software.
Writing 5.25" floppies

fluxengine write ibm1232 -i flop.xdf

https://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=x68000:writing_floppies

Anybody got one of these laying around? I need that extra MB !
Many thanks in advance!

Ran fine on my machine but I did have heck of a time finding the button combo to start the game lol.

I have a problem that is driving me crazy. Up until yesterday my x68000 Super was working properly, letting me play games via floppy and scsi without any problems. this morning I turn it on and when loading the master disk (the internal battery is dead), pressing the keys generates strings of characters as soon as I try to type my usual "switch". Character strings such as QWERTY by pressing the q, or asdfg by pressing the S. Then the keys with illumination such as romanji sometimes remain illuminated, generating additional character strings. This doesn't make sense, the very last thing I tried last night before switching off was to try loading Die Bahnwelt via SCSI by holding down f1 to make it start, whereupon the computer asked me to abort the printing procedure (?).

What I tried:

1) launching the games via floppy: they work regularly, and the lighted keys remain off. However, the keyboard control is wrong, it seems that some keys are pressed simultaneously.
2) launching Cotton: the 'show' of the keyboard lighting up starts without a problem.
3) Shut down the computer, unplug the power, unplug the keyboard, unplug the scsi cable, plug everything back in, but to no avail.
4) Open the keyboard, clean off dust and dirt. Reconnecting only the keyboard without the keys, however, the LEDs still remained lit.

I can't figure out whether the problem stems from the keyboard deciding to abandon me or from the computer. Any ideas?

So my friend gave me his childhood PCE GT to fix.  Lots of sentimental value.  and man is it busted.  At some point the 5v rail I believe shorted and it fried the controller board IC.  ordered a new controller board, but I don't know what else it took with it.

I get a yellow and reddish screen, split in 2, with noise lines in the middle (attached).

- Fully recapped
- Fully cleaned in Ultrasonic and manually with 99.9% IPA
- No audio (I can hear speaker hum, and volume works.  I'm confident audio amp output stage is OK.
- +5V rail is good (4.85v)
- +2.5v rail is good (for audio)
- 24mhz clock is good on both ASICs (followed guide from TG-16 service manual)
- H sync and V sync outputting correctly
- Backlight circuitry all tested good, 30V and 24v OK.  All oscope probes of transformer check out too.  Screen seems to be fine.

What I did in addition to above:
- swapped in full Hudson ASIC chipset from working CoreGrafx (white)
- probe (diode) tested every on the Hucard slot.  Compared with working unit, and values seem to be as expected / close (bus pins within range of each other, no obvious shorts).
- swapped in one of the VRAMs from the CoreGrafx as well

I'm at such a loss with this one...the board looks *so* clean.  anyone know of other stuff to look at?  I've poured so much time into this one it hurts.

I'd be so indebted to a helpful benefactor.  Willing to kiss feet / send free things.
<3

Thanks in advance!