Any suggestions?
Naturally. I even re-linked the directory manually; still nothing.
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None yet. I’ll get you know if I have any luck. I have family here for the next couple of days so my time on the PC is limited.
I tried the “Silviana (1989)(Pack In Video)(jp)” in both cores and it ran without issues OTB.
In the case of BlueMSX I just used the folders from the current upstream.
For the second, since it works for me, I still recommend trying BIOS from an alternate source. In my experience corrupt BIOS is usually the culprit in RA.
(Or misc config issues from left-over configs. Although in this case I am using an active install, you could try installing RA from scratch.)
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Okay, some progress here, I was able to get RA to run the cores at least. However I still can’t play the game, it only gets me to the blue MSX screen.
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For fMSX you need to change the MSX video mode to PAL to get past the black screen.
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Okay so I was able to get bluemsx to run the game. Thank god for that.
However, I still have an issue with this whole situation. I can’t get RA to run the game in fullscreen properly. If ‘windowed fullscreen’ is enabled the fullscreen always switches to the smallest default window image size. If ‘windowed fullscreen’ is disabled the fullscreen never works properly with the custom width/height. So far the best option seems to be to just run the game in windowed mode which allows easy automatic scaling with correct aspect ratio. I wish RA automatically fit the image to the appropriate fullscreen like Mesen, snes9x or Kega.
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Hi, just tried Silviana and it works for me with blueMSX and also with fMSX (switching from MSX2+ to MSX). Both of them in full screen with no issues, I’m on windows 10.
Can you post a screenshot of how the game looks in fulscreen for you. And also your video and scaling settings?
fMSX - no shaders - scaling core provided, no integer scaling
BlueMSX - with HSM + Duimon’s bezel preset (scaling: full, no integer scaling)
Ah see, full screen no integer screws up the pixels. But with integer it doesn’t upscale higher than the windowed resolution.
that is not about full-screen or windowed but if you use integer scaling or not. the size (better yet, how much of the screen you can fill) of the integer scaled image depends on the resolution of your screen.
It is about integer because I hit overscale and now it’s perfect in full screen.
yes, you can use overscale or manually set 5x on both axis, luckily with msx there is some unused space so you can still see the whole playing area.
this is integer scaled x5 on my 1080 monitor
Afaik you need to use custom scaling anyway if you want somewhat accurate aspect ratios from the MSX cores, this is especially obvious for PAL. Compare MSX 1 to SG-1000 ratios (same video chip) of Genesis Plus GX for instance.
When you hit overscale then you are technically no longer using integer.
If the full screen vertical dimension is not an integer of the game resolution then integer scaling will give you a smaller screen. There is no way to use a custom ratio AND integer scaling.
If you use the Mega Bezel you have a bit more control because you can just use integer on one axis.
I recommend using a CRT shader to mask the imperfections and not worry so much about integer. The Guest ADV shader works very well in non integer.
Hi, im trying to get Lode Runner to run on my hakchi2 moded snes classic. I downloaded the fMSX core and game rom but i get an eternal black screen. I want to try your solution changing video mod to PAL but i just cant find where to do it in hakchi software.
Please some help would be much aprecciated.
Regards.
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It may be that your version of the core doesn’t have the option, but I think that would be strange. I just updated my core to see if it is gone from the options.
Still there. 
Did you add the needed MSX bios files in the RA system folder?
For MSX (Not MSX2) you can try the FB-Neo core. It is my first choice for many systems these days (Like Megadrive.)
You will need the msx roms in an msx (Needs to be lower case.) folder. (From what I can tell they are MAME SL msx1_cart files, though I don’t know where they curated the msx.zip bios file.)
I am sure an archive of the roms shouldn’t be too hard to find.
Dear Duimon,
yesterday i installed the RA bios MSX, selected DOS core and it runs!!! I cant belive it! My childhood game now playable anywhere.
Thank you so much!
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Im having trouble playing MSX. fMSX always give me the black screen and bluemsx was of no help. FB neo didn’t helped cause the roms were unknown
If you give me the name of the ROM you are using I can see if I can get it to run, and share my settings if so.
(Keep in mind that I am no MSX expert, even though I solved the last issue.)
Curate a current FBNeo romset. There are 1598 working msx roms available, if you are trying to run an MSX1 rom it is likely included.
The FBNeo roms will need to be in a “msx” folder (lower case) in order to be recognized by FBNeo.