I also tested this with the MSX version of Snatcher which consisted of three game disks plus a data disk and I encountered the same issue. I then pressed the space key as prompted, but instead of taking me to the Weapon Select screen, it stayed on the screen that it was currently on.

However, when the screen prompted me to switch to disk 2, I did so by pressing one of the two black buttons on the floppy emulator (the same way how you would swap disks on an internal GoTEK floppy emulator) to switch to the virtual floppy disk that I wrote disk 2 on. When I tested disk 1 of Aleste 2 on blueberryMSX, the virtual disk seemed to run perfectly. I started testing the multi-disk game Aleste 2 which came on 3 MSX floppy disks. With single disk MSX games, the floppy emulator was able to run them just fine on blueberryMSX. I typed the line sudo dd if=filename.dsk of=/dev/sdb in the terminal of my Ubuntu virtual machine to write all of my MSX floppy disks to the virtual floppy disk partitions on my formatted USB stick. The external floppy emulator works with blueberryMSX because it was made to emulate an external USB floppy drive. This means that it is not compatible with FlashFloppy since that firmware only works with internal floppy emulators such as the GoTEK SFR1M44-U100 Floppy Emulator. Keep in mind that the floppy emulator that I am using is an external floppy emulator. So, I bought a UFA1M44-100 GoTEK External USB Floppy Emulator from AliExpress so that I can be able to write my MSX floppy disk roms onto a USB stick and run them through the External USB floppy emulator. However, I wanted to test this feature with a more modern convenience so I would not have to buy some 720kb floppy disks and an external USB floppy drive. He also stated that blueberryMSX supports external USB floppy drives to run physical MSX floppy disks. According to Meeso Kim, blueberryMSX allows your Raspberry Pi to operate like an MSX computer.

It was created by Meeso Kim, with the purpose of running the blueMSX emulator on a Raspberry Pi. It is certainly doable, but the added effort and room for error might not be worth the cost of just buying a second emulator.I had recently installed a blueMSX emulator for my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B called blueberryMSX. If you use an interface program like the disk emulator, you will have to jump through the hoops of using that to manually load the files through their interface. That way you can use the selector on the front to pick what disk you want to be using and treat it like a physical disk (drag/drop files, etc). Put one in the machine and one in your computer. You could spend a while trying various bits of software to make it work, but given your comment about not being a computer person, I think you would be better off buying a pair of new ones. The manual for CNC Floppy Emulation Manager Tool that th90 mentioned says that it requires 7mb per disk and is compatible with floppy disk images. The one I linked above uses slightly more memory than the size of the disk itself because it is just writing to memory locations and ignoring all the metadata. The windows gui will only let you pick the file formats it thinks are your best options.ĭoing some more research on a variety of these emulators, there appear to be several methods in use to encode the different disks. Rufus ( Rufus - Create bootable USB drives the easy way) is a good program for testing out various formatting options on a drive. The FAT16 vs FAT32 is something that is likely to trip you up as well.

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