For the Day II crashes when I put in disk 3

Rookie (22)

26-01-2012, 18:14

Played through 5 stages and the thing just refuses to continue

I found out the game doesn't like to save CPU state during the cutscenes, but I used quicksave in the regular levels and it worked, but then I loaded a CPU state on level 5 and it then refused to load the rest of the game. Anyone have any ideas concerning better images/way to get to level 6 without having to replay the whole thing again ?

By Manuel

Ascended (19298)

26-01-2012, 18:26

What do you mean with CPU save state? Do you mean you use an emulator? Which one? If the game doesn't like it, it means it's a bug in the emulator...

By Apachacha

Rookie (22)

26-01-2012, 19:55

Using Blue.

Just wanted to ask if anyone has an idea if the fault lies in the cpu saves (I had a similar issue with Rona and had to work around it), or with a bad 3rd disk.

By Manuel

Ascended (19298)

26-01-2012, 23:19

Try it with another emulator and see if it's different. That will give an important clue.

By Apachacha

Rookie (22)

27-01-2012, 08:59

Hmm, only ever realy used Blue. I know others, but have little experience using them. Gonna try something I thought of though, and see where it goes.

By Apachacha

Rookie (22)

27-01-2012, 18:11

Okay, played the whole thing through again without CPU saves. It appears that's not what causes it to hang.

Gonna try finding another version of Disk 3 to see if that's the problem.

By Manuel

Ascended (19298)

27-01-2012, 23:45

Nag: it doesn't only save the CPU state, but the state of the whole machine

By Apachacha

Rookie (22)

28-01-2012, 10:04

Have you tried it with another emulator ? Tried RedMSX, but that sort of doesn't go anywhere, and NLMSX overtaxes my CPU.

By Manuel

Ascended (19298)

28-01-2012, 16:38

As I'm an openMSX developer, I'd use openMSX, of course. We just released 0.8.2.

However, I think you already proved that it's not the emulator's fault...

By Apachacha

Rookie (22)

28-01-2012, 17:47

I put this into FMSX and it displayed the score and lives counter which it didn't in other programs....but the thing goes too fast for me to test it on any computer I own. Never versions have some option of syncing apparently, but not this one. Tried to find a version made after 1997 that is still old enough that no one uses it anymore, but that you can slow down.

Unless there's a way to do this with this one program as well.

By Manuel

Ascended (19298)

28-01-2012, 18:34

Don't use such old emulators. openMSX and blueMSX are the most accurate, not very useful to try others, I'd say.