Mahou Daisakusen Start Button?

[Reechard]

I can boot the game, I can load the options menu with the D pad, I can change options and select things with the A and B buttons on the controller, but it will NOT start a game. Does this game require a specifically wired start button?  I'm using a Megadrive adapter and a 3 button Megadrive pad. Most of the controllers I see for the wiring standard don't even include a start button.

The best wiring diagram I've seen for an FM TOWNS controller has it wired UP+DOWN for Select and LEFT+RIGHT for Start.

I just wanna shoot dragon robot monsters with different dragon robot monsters you guys.

[SuperDeadite]

Keyboard
F1 = Start
F2 = Insert Credit

If using FM Towns pad
Select = Start
Run = Pause

[Reechard]

There we go!! Now it lets me character select before the screen goes wonky and it locks up, but that's progress!

[SuperDeadite]

How are you running it?  If using NFG HDD image, it's one of the games that must be booted from the prompt directly.  Running from the file manager will crash.

[Reechard]

That would explain it then, I was launching from file manager, I'm using your baller_v2 image, I like the extra games dir 😁

Edit: yep everything is running great now, thanks for the help!!

[jumpman1229]

Can someone explain how to boot this from prompt?

[JulBS0]

Hi,

While it depends where the game is on your disk, the process rather simple.
For the HDD v4 image, just run the following commands when you're on the command prompt:

• cd Games2
• cd MahouDaisakusen
• !Start

The game should start right away.