Re: [openMSX-devel] Metal Gear JP

[Manuel B. <ma...@ms...>]

Hi,

Manuel Bilderbeek wrote:
> I found out yesterday that the Japanese version of Metal Gear (as in 
> GOODMSX2) does not run on openMSX when a European machine is used (I 
> tried NMS 8250); only on a Japanese machine. Another ROM I have lying 
> around with the European version ran on both European and Japanese MSX 
> machines.
> Can someone explain this?
> I could not test it on a real machine... (as I don't have Metal Gear 
> Japanese...)

It shouldn't work on a real European machine too. tcm1998 checked the 
code and it explicitly checks the character generator version and basic 
version on location 0x2B:
LD HL,(#2b)
LD  A,L
AND #F7
JP NZ,0
LD A,H
AND #CF
JR NZ,0
RET

> By the way, the sprites in Goemon flash a lot when using a Japanese 
> machine, but are fine on a European machine. When setting cmdtiming to 
> broken, it is fixed... Any idea?

This is still a problem, of course :)

-- 
Grtjs, Manuel

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