SxSI-SCSI HDD Image v3.01

[spectreman]

Arcus Odyssey:
This is the only game I have to launch directly from !Start.bat, to avoid the huge graphical glitches in the introduction.

Nekketsu Soccer:
I am not clear on the purpose of this translated version, which has very little to do with translation.

[spectreman]

A quick question. Does anyone know the cause of the horrible noise in Cyber Core's game music? It works fine in an emulator but I get the noise in both my ACE and Compact.

Playing with Cyber Core I didn't notice any issues with music on XVI.

What version of the HDD image are you using?

[X-Col]

@spectreman

its on the new image. Here: https://youtu.be/ztbIKMEJ8Gc

This is a short video demonstrating the noise on Cyber Core, I don't get it when using emulation but do so on my real machines.

[opooly]

@spectreman

its on the new image. Here: https://youtu.be/ztbIKMEJ8Gc

This is a short video demonstrating the noise on Cyber Core, I don't get it when using emulation but do so on my real machines.

I have exactly the same noise, starting from LHES or from cmd

[incrediblehark]

For the Nekketsu soccer addition - I did notice a lot of it was direct romanization of the Japanese, which is odd. That's why I labeled as a partial translation. Looks like some menus etc are in English so it's not completely useless. Maybe someone out there would want to take a shot at completing it...

As for Cyber Core, I've known about this issue for a while and it's actually in my read me to fix on my todo list. Every version of the game online I've tried does this, so I'm thinking I'll eventually have to get a retail copy and install it myself. That's what I ended up doing to get a patchable file for the fantasy zone 15khz mode.

[spectreman]

@X-Col

This may seem really strange, the cause of the Cyber Core music problem, is because of too much system memory.
In switch.x try to set a lower memory, for example 8MB.

Even with the xm6 type-g v.336 emulator you can do a test, when I set a memory value higher than 8MB, the music gets distorted.

[neko68k]

I went digging for a minute because the 3D glasses came up elsewhere. If anyone has a pair (or a pair of the Famicom 3D glasses) and wants to play/add it to a future version of this disk the patches and Famicom 3D instructions are in Dennou Club 19 and 67. Games supported are Xevious, Space Harrier, Dragon Spirit, Castlevania and Fantasy Zone. There's also instructions for an adapter to use it on a Pro (no 3d port) and source code/binary for the 3d glasses driver these patches use. You need BUP to install the patches, as usual.

BUP

[incrediblehark]

@neko68k Thanks for sharing! I may take a stab at this. Its funny you bring this up because I almost added Silpheed in this last update but held off because installing a 3d game would send me down a rabbit hole of looking into the other supported games and adding them as well.

[kona333]

Hello.
Can I get to stage 2 in Space Harrier?
I'm using bluescsi2 with XVI, but it freezes as soon as I clear the stage.

I'll do some testing today and see if I experience the same issue. Are you on updated firmware for bluescsi?

EDIT: I can confirm game freezes for me after stage 1 when playing the standard audio mode. Will try to fix this asap.

Thank you for fixing Space Harrier.
Otaku Harrier in the doujin folder will also stop.
Could you please tell me how to fix it?

[spectreman]

For those interested in a working version of Otaku Harrier, you can download my version in the attachment.

For those who do not know how to transfer the files inside the HDD image, follow the instructions in my post #322, or you can use the program editdisk.exe ( in the attachment ), simple to use but sometimes the transferred files get corrupted.

Alternatively, wait for an update of incrediblehark.

Tested on XVI at the frequency of 16MHz and 10MHz with Henkan Bancho.

[Sakiko]

Awesome!

[kona333]

For those interested in a working version of Otaku Harrier, you can download my version in the attachment.

For those who do not know how to transfer the files inside the HDD image, follow the instructions in my post #322, or you can use the program editdisk.exe ( in the attachment ), simple to use but sometimes the transferred files get corrupted.

Alternatively, wait for an update of incrediblehark.

Tested on XVI at the frequency of 16MHz and 10MHz with Henkan Bancho.

It also worked with BlueSCSI V2. Thank you.

[corpsicle]

Just wanted to add some cheer to @incrediblehark for creating this. Ive been running my own altered (based on v4 and neko68ks musicdisk) image for ages until someone told me theres a new image Tried it (the 2.10 version, will upgrade soon) and its really neat! I didnt imagine anyone would still be updating this so thanks again!

[Gravedigger]

Hello and thank you for this new version!  I received some blank 5.25 floppy disks yesterday and inquired about how to use x68 to copy a game to floppy disk using "FloppyMastering".  So I came back to this forum to remember how to edit the "HDD image" image via "edit169e" and there's the surprise: a new version of the top image!


My question is: how can I "edit" the "hda" image to add the floppymastering program and the game image in XDF format to create my own floppy disk?  is this image edited in the same way as an hds image?

Can anyone help me?


EDIT :
Finally everything works except my floppy copy via "floppy mastering", I will open a new post for that.

[taarriag]

Just in case this helps anyone else: I was having some issues booting from the HDD images, because my X68000 was assigning drive letter E: to the first disk image (instead of C:)

My setup is an X68000 Expert (SASI) with an external ZuluSCSI drive.

I followed some of the advice from this thread and used the DRIVE command to switch drives E: to C: and F: to D:, which allowed me to boot correctly! But then I had some trouble doing the same for the remaining drives (Doujin and Music)

What I ended up doing is using SUSIE to assign drive letters to each SCSI drive by prepending the following commands to the AUTOXEC.BAT on HD10_512.hda (copying the file over using editdsk169)

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ECHO OFF
CLS
REM Re-assign drive letters using SUSIE and move to the root of the C: drive.
CD /D E:\TOOLS\SUSIE
SUSIE -ID1 C:
CD /D C:\TOOLS\SUSIE
SUSIE -ID2 D:
SUSIE -ID3 E:
SUSIE -ID4 F:
CD /D C:\

REM Rest of the original AUTOEXEC...

I hope it helps! This allowed me to boot into LHES and all drives are working correctly now (C, Retail, Doujin and Music)

To be honest DRIVE may have worked as well for switching all four drives. Perhaps I made a typo while editing the AUTOEXEC.BAT or I forgot to switch to Drive C: or similar, but SUSIE has been working for me.

Thank you very much for putting these HDD images together!

[aotta]

@taarriag how many sasi drive did you assign to sasi driver in switch.x config? Couldn't it be the issue in starting assigning scsi drives to letter E?

[taarriag]

IIRC it didn't let me change that option under switch.x (but I can double check when I get home).

There was an option for setting the maximum number of HDDs which I set to 0 thinking it may do the trick, but it still assigned E: to SCSI drive 1.

When I looked into the default assigned letters (using DRIVE with no arguments), it identified A: to D: as floppy drives, then E: as the first SCSI drive.

[aotta]

When I looked into the default assigned letters (using DRIVE with no arguments), it identified A: to D: as floppy drives, then E: as the first SCSI drive.

So, you have both internal and external drive mounted at bootup? so try simply removing external floppies...

[taarriag]

So, you have both internal and external drive mounted at bootup? so try simply removing external floppies...

Ohh I'm not sure where those C: and D: floppy drives come from, I only have the floppy drives at A: and B: and the external ZuluSCSI drive.

If there's an easy way of removing the "ghost floppy drives" at C: and D: happy to try that! (That way I can use the HDD image "as is" moving forward)

[sorimanis]

Please , help! how install this image SxSI-SCSI HDD Image v3.01
to x68 mini? i write in INI
[pscsi]
ID0=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk1.hds
ID1=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk2.hds
ID2=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk3.hds
ID3=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk4.hds

but it is not work.

[3rdman01]

So, you have both internal and external drive mounted at bootup? so try simply removing external floppies...

Ohh I'm not sure where those C: and D: floppy drives come from, I only have the floppy drives at A: and B: and the external ZuluSCSI drive.

If there's an easy way of removing the "ghost floppy drives" at C: and D: happy to try that! (That way I can use the HDD image "as is" moving forward)

I doubt I will be helpful but I find myself curious at your dilemma.

Do you have an internal hard drive plugged in? What happens if its left unplugged while using the external drive? Is perhaps your sram corrupted? Have you tried removing the battery and resetting the sram and then install the drive?

I have an Expert model as well and found that I had some issues that only resolved after running the master disk again. I did not have to do anything to get my SD2SCSI to work other than follow incrediblehark's guide on the first page. Switch.x is not customized beyond the original directions posted here years ago. I wonder if the fact that mine is installed internally is why I don't have issues. Best of luck...like I said, I doubt any of this is helpful.

[BlackVega]

Please , help! how install this image SxSI-SCSI HDD Image v3.01
to x68 mini? i write in INI
[pscsi]
ID0=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk1.hds
ID1=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk2.hds
ID2=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk3.hds
ID3=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk4.hds

but it is not work.

I don't have X68k mini so I'm throwing guesses- are you missing SCSI BIOS files? Is your switch.x configuration correct? Maybe it will be best if you post a screenshot of your switch.x configuration and hopefully someone will help

[sorimanis]

i use instruction from https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/sharp-x68000-z-a-decent-alternative.1244932/page-3
v.2 image is work

[spectreman]

@sorimanis

On your Zuiki X68000 Z don't change the default boot order, leave them as incrediblehark configured them.
Example:
ID1=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk1.hds
ID2=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk2.hds
ID3=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk3.hds
ID4=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk4.hds

Switch.x settings:
BOOT: SCSI1
SCSI_ID: 7
You can also try setting HD_MAX: 4

[sorimanis]

@sorimanis

On your Zuiki X68000 Z don't change the default boot order, leave them as incrediblehark configured them.
Example:
ID1=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk1.hds
ID2=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk2.hds
ID3=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk3.hds
ID4=SxSI-SCSI_v301_disk4.hds

Switch.x settings:
BOOT: SCSI1
SCSI_ID: 7
You can also try setting HD_MAX: 4

not work(

[spectreman]

There may be a possibility that Zuiki does not support multiple images.
Try with single HDD image v2.31.

[3rdman01]

I was curious so I did some digging and I do think its possible to boot multiple drives on the X68k Mini...According to their docs (https://www.zuiki.co.jp/x68000z/pdf/Emulator_ver170.pdf) there is a procedure for this on pg10. Basically it means loading the images as separate HDS files from a USB drive. This is apparently only possible if you have downloaded certain files from Zuiki's community page which is only accessible if you've registered. The file name is pscsi.ini and it directs the system to see the various SCSI devices. There is some setup that needs to be done prior to that but you'll have to look at the document for more info. I also think the first bootable drive has to be ID0.

I also stumbled onto a blog that details some of this. https://m.blog.naver.com/saebaryo/223243357931...You would need however to add the multiple drives and have them called out in pscsi.ini. According to the website, you will also need to be on the right firmware. Best of luck.

[buffi]

Next major update is to work on reintroducing X68030 support but I have no current timeframe for that right now

I would be very interested in this

[Shentok]

Thanks for the big update! Works great on my XVI with ZuluSCSI with the little testing I've done.

[Gravedigger]

Hello and thank you again for this new version!!!

I have a problem with Phalanx: it freezes at the 1st level loading screen. I tried with and without midi in 16Mhz and 10Mhz.


Edit: ok, it works. I didn't understand that you had to start the game via !start.bat and not via "Q, Q".

[kona333]

Hello.
Is it possible to play 04 correctly in Akumajou Dracura sound mode using MT-32?
It seems that there is noise mixed in with this song only.
Thank you in advance.

[kona333]

Hello.
Is it possible to play 04 correctly in Akumajou Dracura sound mode using MT-32?
It seems that there is noise mixed in with this song only.
Thank you in advance.

Sorry.
It seems to be working fine.

[tugs]

Hi there

Sorry if the question has been already asked but how to save games configuration / progression with this image ?

For instance, I'm playing Akumajo, everytime I launch the game, I need to re-enter my nickname and my progression is reseted

Thanks !

[incrediblehark]

@tugs no problem! Akumajou Dracula usually saves after a game over, and you will start back at the level right after a stage boss. I think that may be why it seems like your progress isn't saving? Please test it out and let me know.