I’ve been piecing this together over the past few months. Finally found the keyboard for a reasonable price and didn’t feel like clearing a space in the shop to test it.

I can’t figure out if this unit is a little bit of a unicorn? It’s a CX5MU but has the SFG-05 Synthesizer, which seems like it was an upgrade vs original release?

I’ve got to hook up a few more MIDI devices still

I used to own an msx game but I forgot the name, I hope you guys can help me out. It's probably Japanese, and it's a scroller scooter, where enemies appear from the horizon and get bigget as they get closer, giving it sort of a 3D effect. I believe the first boss is was sort of a dinosaur with a long neck and another boss is a ship that shoots missles.

Cheers!

Hey all! Recently I've been on a quest to try out every version of Ys III, and I got stuck at trying to run the MSX2 version of the game. Specifically at the set user disk screen. I made an empty .dsk file to use as the user disk, but I have no idea where to put it. I'm using openMSX 20.0, btw.

What I did is that I took the scenario disk and put it in drive 1. Then I put the empty .dsk file in drive 2, and pressed enter as the game told me, only for it to give me an error. What did I do wrong?

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I'd like to share with you, something I recently posted on some MSX channels/groups about my MSX inspired game "The Stone of Wisdom".

This new version has been reimagined as an MSX2/NES concept, keeping all the retro vibes we love but with a fresh new look. It's available on Steam and https://neonbytes.itch.io/the-stone-of-wisdom

Living in the US now, but growing up I had one friend I used to hang out with who owned an Sony MSX. I know very few MSX1 games, and no MSX2 games at all. After getting a Wavy from Mercari for about $100+fees&shipping I just ordered a Mapper + Megaram from Brazil. What are your favorite MSX2 games so I can try them out? I like arcade games more than JRPGs. I have been a Commodore guy so this is relatively new to me. Thanks.

Edit: thank you all for your suggestions. Also I forgot this YT video about the Top 20 MSX2 games that came out yesterday. I think the subscribers of that channel voted on these games. https://youtu.be/2c6k8iYX0jQ?si=HNCsY-nYjraWNG1x

Hello there! I'm an old coot from Brazil who used to play the hell out of MSX games (and occasionally use it outside of games, lol) way back in the day. And of course, among those, there were local games people used to distribute on disks. There's this one adventure game that I've been wracking my brain trying to find, and only now I even found out what its name was (I'd forgotten): "Monstros da Noite". I can't seem to find anything about it anywhere though, much less a download. So I guess my question is, is there any site where I could look for it more closely? Since it's a kinda obscure Brazilian game, I imagine I'd have to look at either a rather comprehensive Brazilian MSX repository, or an insanely comprehensive international one. I know it's a longshot, but I figured asking here is about as good of a chance of finding it as I'm going to get... thanks in advance!

As the title says. Recently picked up a MSX2+ for shockingly cheap after being impressed with the system's library of games. For now I'm just looking for the best value gaming experience on original hardware, whether that's original releases or homebrew .dsk programs. Should I be looking at a Carnivore 2+, a MFROM SCC+ SD 1 Slot + 512k (a mouthful!), or something else?

I'm about to download a translated version of AshGuine Story II for emulation, but I have no idea what any of these file names mean. What are the numbers on the end, such as "3132"? What does "Trainer+6" mean? Which version should I download? (For reference, this is the site.)

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation - FM Pac] [Translated] [3132].zip

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation - FM Pac] [Translated] [4005].zip

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation - FM Pac] [Translated] [4006].zip

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation - FM Pac] [Translated] [6710].zip

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation - Trainer+6] [6772].zip

AshGuine Story II - T&ESOFT (1987) [English Translation] [Translated] [4007].zip

https://imgur.com/a/euMrRw5

These are the settings that i put, but this is me just guessing without an example.

Edit:https://imgur.com/a/WvUJqNZ Metal Gear 2 Screenshots to show what the settings do

Wanting to make a graphical hack for MG2SS but have been having trouble finding any info on how to edit an MSX games tiles, with most of my finds being for homebrew don't know if anyone here has done this before and could point me in the right direction.

I'm in a discord server with a bunch of invalids who just don't get it. So maybe the collective passion of everyone here would convince them. Why is the MSX so special to you and why is it worth a place in the hearts and minds of the youth today?

Hi there.

What I remember from the game is:

You play as a red tank that can goes around trying to clean each level and find the exit.

The tank can split in two units. One is the land tank and the other is sort of a flying ship.

The game has an ending -- you eventualy finish it.

Thanks in advance!

I have been looking into getting an msx, but have been trying to figure out which model that I would like.

I found a few newer models and then seen a lot of posts that mentioned the MSX3 models would be releasing in 2022. But I am unable to find any of these that have actually released. I would love to be able to see how these perform.

If not the MSX3, I would either get one of the MSX2 or 2+ models, or I would get one of the other modern systems. MSXVR and TRHMSX both look really cool. The VR version would feel a lot closer in design, while the TRH, you could build it yourself and do all of the work. That would be a very rewarding option if I were to go that route, but as it is, it looks more like a traditional game console than a home computer.

All I want to do is play a couple games and on my android phone.

All it says is "error loading machine files for msx2" Please check options, files, paths, bios.

Please forgive me but every other emulator has been plug and play.

Hello everyone, I want to create an account on MSX.org because I have some questions about a few MSX items I have recently picked up, I saw that you have to send an email to an admin to request an account which I did two days ago but I haven't gotten a reaction yet, does anybody know if this is normal or is there maybe an admin that is active on MSX.org and this subreddit?

This man has 444 gaming consoles and computers connected to one TV. Enough for a Guiness World Record.

He has a lot of MSX games and computers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLaTSb8k518

0mn32s and 3mn11s Panasonic TurboR GT. 2mn48s Sony 2+ and MSX games

how do y'all like to display your splay?

Hopefully some one can help me

FMSX give's me an error saying: "Failed loading state" when I want to open any *.STA file.
I was playing SD Snatcher on FMSX. And when I wanted to continue after some time, I got this error.

I tried updating FMSX to the last version.
I started another game, Made a STA file. And in loads.
I moved the folder with the working state file to another folder. But that doesn't affect it at all.

Anyone have an idea why this is not working anymore?
Even the folder with the game, fmsx and state file on my laptop has the same problem.

Hi folks. I'm trying to build an MSX Omega, and failing on smoking test 2 on MSXMaker's step-by-step guide. Test one works with flying colours.

I've wired it for PAL (although if NTSC is easier, I might change it because this obviously isn't working), and the frequencies don't seem right. SCIN on the CXA1645P encoder doesn't look right either. It's just constantly at around 2.4v, no pulse.

I've attached some screenies from when I was taking some measurements. I'm hoping someone can lead me in the right direction here. This was a fun project up to this point, and now I want to throw it out the window. I've examined every solder joint, and they seem to be fine (although admittedly I haven't gone over them with a multimeter yet). I've built a retro chip tester pro from scratch though, and recapped a few machines, so hopefully my work isn't that bad.

In case of fake chips, I've already spent an extra €80 getting a couple of replacement CPUs and V9958's from UTSource. Doesn't seem to make a difference. I've got a couple of replacement CXA's coming just in case.

Does anyone have any ideas of where I can go from here?

CSYNC on the VDP is reporting at 15.70 kHz. My oscilloscope can't seem to lock onto a frequency like it does for SYNCIN on the CXA later.

SCIN on the CXA1645P seems to be held at around 3.2v? Is this normal? I was under the impression it should be pulsing.

SYNCIN is showing at 16.235 kHz, the oscilloscope can lock in this time. But it's still not the PAL frequency. What's going on here?